Where to begin?

Summer is going by so fast! I can’t believe my kids will start back to school in two short weeks. I love having them home all summer and LOVE the lazy days we have been having. So..what’s been going on with us all summer?

Stephen worked with a friend’s dad farming all summer. He managed to save some money but spent most of it on his trip with the youth group to Florida. This is his third year to go on this trip and he was sad because it was probably his last because next summer he will be working with my Dad. Here are some pictures from his trip.

Now Stephen has started with two a day football practices so he’s not working anymore. He hates these two a days but is trying to enjoy them because he knows it’s the last time he’ll have to do this.

Kaylyn had a short cheerleading camp this summer. She tryed out and made AllStar and will get to take a trip to Houston during Thanksgiving break and be in a parade. Her and two other girls on the squad made it. Of course the sponsor will go with them.

Here they are in their new suits. Kaylyn is in the very middle beside the tallest blond haired girl.

She went to church camp, King’s Camp, last week. Next year she will do work study after her camp session and eventually she wants to be a counselor there. She’ll be so good at that :-). Here are a few pictures I got from the camp’s site.

This is with everyone she was rooming with…she’s at the right bottom.

We haven’t gotten to take a vacation this summer but that’s nothing new. We haven’t had a vacation a few summers. Lately we just don’t have the money to do anything and can’t get everyone together at the same time. But, Kinley and Landon have had a nice summer anyway. We’ve been swimming a lot and have gotten together with my sister and her kids a couple of times. We spent a few nights at her house and she and her kids spent four nights here.

I’ve been exercising a lot this summer and have lost 12 pounds :-). I feel great! I ride my bike three miles, sometimes four, every morning before the kids get up and then ride another three miles in the evening. Every other day I work out on Stephen’s BowFlex. I love how that has firmed up my legs, arms and stomach. Now that I have gotten in the habit of doing all this I don’t feel right if I don’t. It’s going to be very hard to keep it up once school starts but somehow I will. I want to lose about 7 more pounds and I will be where I’ve wanted to be for a long time.

That’s about all we’ve had going on here this summer. Here are just a few random pictures.

Okay, I am going now to attempt to catch up on some of my favorites. So, expect some back notes :-).