Back to Soccer

 Kim got more miles in this week hiking in Liberty Lake, WA

Henry is helping with scripture reading now

Here he is posing with his reading charts for the 1000 books he read

On Friday evening I took the kids swimming to the new swim area near our neighborhood. They always like a dock they can jump off

It is on a beautiful spot on the river

Just when I thought they all wanted to go home they started digging and got their second wind

A short video

The kids had soccer pictures yesterday

Here is Nixon's team

And some individual pictures of Nixon

Mason's team (the coach didn't show up for pictures)

The photographer was a little interesting but the kids loved this posing

And his individuals

And Henry's team

And his individuals

And the three boys all together

They each had games in the afternoon and it was hot (29*C)

It was too hot to take very many pictures so I only have a couple to share

They all worked really hard, Nixon especially. He had a handful of near goals while also helping his team get the win

Our family photographer from this year posted this on her Facebook page. He is the best.

Hope you have a good week. Take care.

Henry's Birthday, Tie Lake, and Back to School

 Henry had his 5th birthday two weeks ago. He had donuts for breakfast.

And a smoothie

Then he got to open up some presents

Lyza started her first day of school that morning at Coeur d'Alene Charter Academy in the 6th grade

Henry had fun using his new stuff that morning

And for lunch he chose to go to Burger King

After dinner we all went to Chuck E Cheese

This Ninja Turtles game was his favorite

Then it was time for chocolate birthday cake

He had a fun birthday

The next evening Henry fell backwards into a speaker while he and Nixon were playing and cut the back of his head open. That meant an evening visit to the pediatrician's office to glue him back together

Luckily we didn't have to go to the ER

The next evening Kim and I did a hike together at Canfield Mountain

Kim ordered a box of green beans and canned them

We have lots of apples on our trees

Lyza chose to play clarinet and has been working really hard at it

We had a fun family home evening lesson last week that turned into us trying to make a human pyramid with our family

Kim and her friend Jamie Sue have been running up a storm

These boys love playing games

For Labor Day weekend we drove to Tie Lake, B.C. (30 minutes past Cranbrook) to visit our friends' at their cabin

It is a very beautiful area and it was fun exploring with the drone

Here is some drone footage of the lake

Nixon loved riding this little motor bike

We did some swimming and Henry got to wear his swim cap because of his glued up head

We did some boating, which included Nixon learning how to wake board!

Lyza can read anywhere

Nixon had a lot of fun with his friend Westin

We also did some tubing

A couple more drone photos

I never made it into the hot tub but Mason made himself at home

Showing the boys how to fly the drone

Like I said before, these two were attached at the hip

This is Lyza with Kinley. Kinley is older than Lyza, which you wouldn't guess from the picture (the fact that she is standing in a hole doesn't help either)

Playing at the beach

What a beauty

Kim showed us how it is done on a wakeboard

Sunday morning we had a visitor

Playing some chess

And darts

The kids had lots of fun together

Here is a video of the trip

The next day was the first day of elementary school for the boys

Nixon started 4th grade

Henry started Kindergarten

And Mason started 2nd grade

Nixon started a basketball camp (of sorts) for ages 9 to 13 and he was the only 4th grader there. He will learn a lot. 

Look how big Henry's backpack is ;)

Kim is getting in as many miles hiking as she can

Yesterday we went to Silverwood as a family to use up our last passes for the season

Mason tried this ride (Krazy Koaster) for the first time and loved it

We did the big train ride and saw the bison

I always love riding the train with Henry

And riding Corkscrew with Nixon

Ice cream to finish off the day

Have a great week!