Minnetonka September 2011

It was so beautiful that I got carried away with Nature pictures.  This was the view from our camp site.

So much rain this year that everything was still green.

Okay, I got carried away with the pictures but they are beautiful.

Every year I take a picture of the kids on this bridge. They were not too happy about it this year.

Angie loves to hike.  Nicholas finally appreciates her.

Our Home on wheels.

Great picture of Angie with her stick on her leg just in case we wanted to play fetch.

Our last camp fire of the year

Wisconsin Trip

These are a little out of order as this trip was actually in July. Never the less, I wanted to share some of the pictures. Nicholas got a whole week of nothing but trains. We took Amtrak, the metra, visited a train display at the botanical gardens and had a personal tour of an wonderful train display owned by one of Dad and Beth's friends.

Dad, Beth and Nicholas

The entire backyard was one big train display. Nicholas wanted to re-landscape our backyard. Everyone was so patient with him and he got to run all of the trains. He would have stayed ALL DAY!

GoodBye Minnetonka, Our last trip of the season

Last weekend was our last camping trip of the summer, to our favorite place, Porcipine Campground by Bear Lake in Idaho. We had 3 campsites with 9 people. Our normal hiking trail was closed because of prescribed burns (ask me about that story later) so we had decided to visit Bloomington Lake. The pictures of the lake are below.

We found a poor broken tree by the campsite and decided to have the kids decorate it. It got to spend its last days as the official camp tree before going to tree heaven.

Last day of the camping trip. What a dirty motley crew. You need a shave Donnie!

It is firefighter Pat correcting geometry homework and entertaining the dogs. Is ther a fire somewhere?

Hyrum Camping Trip

Our Labor Day adventure began with a trip to Hyrum Lake for Camping and boating. The kids were anxious to use the new float tube behind the boat. This was the trip where I tried unsuccessfully to water ski again. There sure was a difference between 18 and 43, boy I felt old the next day. Here are some pictires of the Nicholas and Jordan enjoying themselves.

Thumbs up means faster Mark. When are we going to start?

Whoo Hoo!!

Back To School

It was 7:15 am and Nicholas was ready for school. He looked so handsome in his school uniform with his new haircut.

He arrived at school on time and didn't want his Mom to even walk him in. I however insisted and took more pictures before taking him to his classroom.

There were 20 eager students in the classroom all ready to use their new pencil boxes. Notice that Nicholas gets to sit right next to the teacher. This is certain to put an end to his talking (okay maybe not).

Poor Mrs. Platz, is it recess yet?