School Starts!

1st day of school! Tyler-5th grade, Ryan- 3rd grade, Jacob- 1st grade

Tyler was really excited that almost ALL his friends were in his class!

Ryan was so happy to get Mrs. Telford!

Jacob was so excited to just be at school all day and that gets to eat lunch there too!!

Ok, so I wasn't here for quite a few things during August, as many of you know!! But, Jeff was super good at taking pictures for me so we would have them (and he also sent them to my phone up in Alaska!) I didn't have my camera with me in Alaska (I was a little rushed to get out the door and one of them was left in my car up the mountain at girl's camp!!) But, my brother took some pictures of Alaska one day when we took a drive that was beautiful!!! I saw moose, mountain goats, bald eagles and lots of other wildlife. I will post some when I get them from him! But, one of the big things I missed (besides 2 of my 3 boys b-days!!) was the 1st day of school!! It was 2 hours EARLIER in Alaska than here so I made sure to set the alarm and got up really early to call my boys before they headed out for school. And, I called as soon as they got home to hear all about it! Jeff took some pics at back to school night the night before school started but only got one the next morning! Oh well, at least we got 1!! I have been getting tons of questions about my dad, he is doing good considering all that happened!! He is home in California and resting and taking it easy. Thank you to everyone who helped Jeff with the boys and texted me and were always checking up on things!! 3 weeks was a long time to be gone but now I'm home and back to normal! (whatever normal is!!)

Some Warner Fun!

The boys and Jordyn

Grandma and the grandkids

Jordyn painting Uncle Jeff's toes

Uncle Matt!

Uncle Matt and Jordyn

Jacob, Ryan, Jordyn, Matt and Jeff

Jeff's brother Matt, his wife Christine and their little girl, Jordyn (my cute little niece!!) came to visit for a few days last week! We went boating with them, Christine and I got to go to lunch WITHOUT the boys and we had bar-b-ques and some fun swimming time at grandma's! Jordyn even convinced Uncle Jeff to let her paint his toes! Of course I got a pic of that, I'm sure I will never get another one!! And she picked a wonderful light pink! It was so cute!

Fun with Zack!

This was our silly family pic!

Jacob thought he could carry Zack! He almost did!

Grandma and the boys!

Grandma snuck in the pic!

Zack was 18 - and had never been snipe hunting!! Jeff and I had fun with that one!

The boys with the 16 fish they caught!

Aspen Mirror Lake - after their catch!

Zack's first fish of the trip!

Tyler the little fisherman - he takes after his dad!

Aspen Mirror Lake - it was such a pretty lake!

Tyler with Zack on his 18th

Ryan with Zack on his 18th

Jacob with Zack on his 18th

Jeff with Zack on his 18th

Erin with Zack on his 18th - Zack almost got pushed over, so tempting!

Zack

Zack

Jeff's son Zack came to visit for a few days and it just so happened he turned 18 on Friday!! I can't believe he is 18! I first met Jeff right before Zack's 3rd birthday!! We had alot of fun while he was here. We went out boating and took a good friend of ours, Jordan, who is also 18 and who Zack has known for most his life! All the boys had tons of fun! I was overruled by the 6 boys on the boat!

Zack wanted to go camping for his birthday so we packed everything back up and went again! (We had only been home 3 days from the last camping trip!) We went back to Navajo Lake but on Friday (Zack's b-day) we went up the road a little to Aspen Mirror Lake to fish. Zack kept saying he wanted to fish and boy did he get his birthday wish! After about 3 hours we had 16 fish on the stringer!! Zack was pretty excited about that! After he caught his limit he helped his little brothers, they all love it when he helps them! We headed back to camp and had fun roasting marshmallows, hanging out in the lake and enjoying the time. We headed back home a day early because of the weather, it started its normal summer monsoon and we didn't want to be caught in it. Sunday we spent time with grandma, swimming and taking all the fish the boys caught and made yummy fish tacos!! They were really good! We had alot of fun with Zack and can't wait to see him again!

Camping at Navajo Lake

Ashley with her strawberry marshmellow!

In camp

Trevor and Tyler - The pyros! haha




Ryan in camp

Our camp (the big tent is mine and Jeff's)

The boys tent in camp

Tyler, Zack, Trevor and Scott

Jacob and dad

The entrance to a cave

Ryan climbing in a cave

Reagan and the boys!

Tyler, Jeff, Ryan at the caves

Trevor and Tyler

Scott, Trevor, Ryan and Tyler

Jacob drying off

Ryan caught the most fish this trip!

Ryan after he cooled off in the lake.

Tyler being silly!

Jeff, Tyler and Ryan

Jake heading out in the lake!

Jake and me (this was after 4 days of camping!)

We had so much fun camping for 5 days at Navajo Lake! Our good friends, The Sandberg's joined us too and we have some fun memories with them. We camped right by the water, which was good since the boys were fishing, swimming and just cooling off in the water most of the trip! One of the days, all of us went to the Mammoth Caves on Cedar Mountain. After all the years I have gone past the turn off on our way to the Warner Ranch, we have never stopped there! And now that we did, I can't believe it took this long for us to go! There are caves you can walk through (with flashlights!!). Some areas of the caves you actually have to crawl!! The boys had so much fun in the caves and want to go back soon! We had such a fun time at Navajo and plan to go back, possibly this week!! We love to camp and like the time to hang out as a family without all the interruptions you get at home! However, we also realized that Tyler and Trevor might be little pyros!! haha Sorry Heather, had to say it since I have a pre-fire pic! haha Thanks for joining us Sandberg's!