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Sunday, November 25, 2012

Last day of Summer

This was our last day of summer before school started!!! We tried to finish up the last of our "summer fun list"

First item of business was making a "mud hole"

Then we played with our kitties

We got dirty faces!!

gave lots of hugs

lots of smiles!

blew bubbles

Tried to blow bubbles!

Dumped out the bubble juice...:/

It was a good day with great weather!!! I miss summer!! :) But on with the now I suppose

When I was a kid, we had the COOLEST apple orchard down the road. I loved going to pick apples!! And they had an old bathtub hooked up to an underground spring that you could drink out of.....it was awesome :) One of my favorite things after we picked apples was when my mom got out the apple peeler machine to dry apples, and it would make these giant apple-skin-snakes!! For some reason they always tasted better than the rest of the apple, and they were SO FUN!

I finally bought an apple peeler machine this year, so my kids could experience the magic of apple-skin snakes. :) I don't know if they were quite as enthralled with them as I was as a kid...but it was still good times!

Lane was the only one that would actually EAT them :)

The girls had fun turning the crank to peel and slice the apples though!

Even Macy was able to do it!

Big brother Lane to the rescue! It's fun to see my kiddos working together on things....

We dried a whole box of apples, and I think it took approx 1.5 days to eat them all!!! :) Not so much worth it for the food storage, but definitely for the memories!

One more Rodeo

I can't remember which rodeo this was. I think it was the Newport Rodeo :) it's been a while!!

But regardless, it was fun! Lane got to ride a pony...

In his cowboy attire...

In the stands....waiting for the festivities!

Me and macy...

We love rodeos! Too bad they don't do mutten bustin anymore.....I think Lane would LOVE IT!! We might just have to buy our own sheep.....haha

Crazy Olympics!

For one of our youth group's activities, we put on a crazy Olympics this summer. The kiddos got to come with me and get in on the action.

Here's Lane in one of the many shaving cream events.

The girls decided to sit that one out :)

The cheeze puff-shower cap throw event!!

Lane and Lucy made a good team! Lucy covered him in cheeze puffs...

Good, messy times had by all!

Wednesday, November 21, 2012

Lost and Found!

YAAAY!!! Lane finally found my camera where he had "hidden" it weeks ago! Now I can post about the last half of SUMMER!! ha

This is a little camping trip we took with our friends the Miller's! They were super troopers and we all had fun!! We went up to MY favorite place, Metalline Falls and camped at a little spot off the highway...

We found a fun little river to camp on!! here's the boys crossing the river....which was FREEZING!!!