Fishing, Soakers and Banana Boats

Thing 1s first day of Pre-K - he goes 5 mornings a week and LOVES it. Hopefully he didn't make any of these faces at his teacher!

Thankfully the first day of school for T1 coincided with T2s first day back to gymnastics. T2 really enjoys having something just for him and does great at following the coach and waiting in line - most of the time. His favorite thing to do is "hang from the bar and drop into the fluffy pit".

Enjoying some sweet corn on our patio - a perfect end of summer dinner.

We enjoyed some much needed RnR this weekend after a busy few weeks of fall kick off events. Just a breather though, the fun starts up again tomorrow! We took the boys fishing today and the weather was just perfect, if not the fishing. Mostly they just threw rocks in the water - could explain the poor fishing!

I finally finished a knitting project for T3 before he grew out of it - just barely! I decided to make him some "soakers" even though we are not in a million years doing cloth diapers (sorry my Green friends - I do recycle though!). Perhaps the desire to knit soakers came from reading all those Lauraine Snelling books about Norwegians frontiering on the Dakotas...they knitted a lot of soakers back then! (great reads btw).

One of our annual kick off events in a big bonfire. This year about 60 students showed up to indulge in banana boats, smores and help work all the Things into a sugary exhausted dither. A good time was had by all. We were blessed to have a Nav alumni couple loan us the use of their 160 acre property...which allowed for a pretty big bonfire!




T3 also got his first haircut this weekend. He isn't sure what he thinks about haircuts and definitely doesn't like to sit still!

We also had our first Nav Nite of the school year last week. About 130 students attended. We are following up spiritual interest surveys this week and getting Bible studies organized.