It's that time of year again!

Meri, 6

 Emily, 9

 James, 3

Jacob, 10

All in all, they're mostly excited about starting school, and the first few days went good! 

Eat my Dust

One of Joe's tractor pulls from earlier this summer.  The kids ( & I) love watching him pull =)

Beach days

 ^^^^^^^We went to Coon Fork last week, awesome time as you can see =)

^^Went again this week with the cousins--awesome time again =) 

It's hard to believe summer's about over.  I guess it takes the reality of it almost being over for us to take advantage of the beach.  Well, that and this summer was a little cooler than normal. 

Lions & Tigers & Lumpies--oh my!

AKA the Zoo...

 Sea lion show

 My girl loves the "lumpies" she did NOT want to move on =)

 Jake liked pushing this little guy around. 

 A trip to the zoo would not be complete without a train ride

Call it wild

Brrrr......dip in a toe and climb back up.

Oliver (the dog) went in, I think he wanted James to go in too =)

Miss Brave

Cutie

 Trying to warm up

 My husband in one of the swimming supervisor chairs

 Two tiny back massagers

 They made the girls run =)

 S'more fun

Lots of indoor time since it was a bit chilly that week.

 Classic wood boat show

 The "big girls" as my kids refer to them =)

 James & Tabor, in the super fun toy closet cubby after mtg. Sunday

Who's missing?  Ah, must be this little boy who was "pictured" out.  Cute anyways.