First day of school!

Yesterday was the first day of school. It was also Logan's first day of Kindergarten! He was excited and a little nervous, but he did so good. I took them to school for their first day, but this morning was Logan's first time on the school bus. He was so excited to ride on the bus with Easton. When the bus pulled up to our house, he ran out to get on. He sat next to Easton right on the front row. I told Easton to make sure he helped him find his classroom when they got off the bus. He made it home okay so I guess everything went well. So far he loves kindergarten, it's just a little hard to wake up at 6:45 in the morning to be ready by the time the bus comes. We are excited for him to learn and make new friends at school. Luke just wanted to be a part of the picture so he could look at himself.

Crazy, busy fun summer!

This summer has been crazy and busy and I am so far behind on blogging. Here is a quick wrap up of what we've been doing. I didn't take enough pics with my camera. I took lots of pics with my camera on my phone so I could send pics to Tyrel, but I don't have a smart phone so I can't put those pics on here. Anyway here is what we've been up to.

We went to Shoshone Falls at the end of May and the water level was so high. The falls were just gushing water. It was pretty spectacular and very intimidating!

Then we headed up to North Dakota for 4 weeks. I think the boys had a good time up there, but they were glad to come home to all their toys they hadn't seen in a month.

We went to City of Rocks over the 4th of July weekend. We just stayed one night. The boys had a blast climbing all over the rocks. We tried to get the boys to do a little repelling, but I think they are still a little too young and need to get a little bigger. It was too scary for them.

We had a heck of a time finding a camping spot. It was already filling up for the holiday. We got lucky though, and ended up with a pretty sweet spot. We had like a little cave there behid Tyrel and it made for good shade and playing for the boys.

Making yummy smores!

Stuffing his face with a marshmallow!

Luke keeping his feet toasty warm by the fire! It was pretty windy that night and made it hard to get good sleep.

I spent the first 2 weeks of July down in Utah to just hang out and be with family and to be there when my sister had her baby. It was lots of fun. We went to the Living Planet Aquarium. It was way cool. The kids got to see all kinds of sea life and other animals and reptiles from around the world. They even had a place to pet the stingrays.

We even got to go to Lagoon with my Mom. It is Lagoon's 125th anniversary this year, so they had a deal going on that week, so we couldn't pass it up. Thanks Mom for going with us and going on the rides with my boys. It was a blast!

We spent the 4th of July over at my sister's house and watched street fireworks and the kids did sparklers. I also burned the crap out of the bottom of my foot, chasing after Easton in the street. I accidentally stepped on some hot embers from his sparkler. The rest of the time there we spent just visiting and eating and the kids played on the slip n slide and played with the neighbor kids a lot. It was a fun 2 weeks!

After we got home from Utah we just hung out at home for 2 weeks and the last weekend in July was the Gierisch family reunion, which I didn't take any pics of, but it was fun and everyone in my family stayed at our house, except for Tia's family, they had a hotel room. Tyrel came home the next week and we went to Lagoon again so we could something fun while he was home and before school started. Then, 2 weeks later, it was fair week, so my brother Shane and his family came down to join in the festivities. Lame me didn't take pics again. The kids had soooo much fun jumping on our new tramp with the hose spraying. Easton and Sam played pretend Harry Potter and even created a new character for the movie. His name was Eric and Easton played his part.:) They played the Wii plenty also. Logan & Katie enjoyed dressing up as superman and a pretty princess and played "save". Luke mostly just followed whoever around and did what they were doing or just did his own thing in his own world. Of course we went to the fair and rode the carnival rides and got us a maple bar. Yummy! It was fun, fun, fun! It was a crazy, fun filled summer and went by soooo fast. Now I am ready for school to start and get back into a routine and early bedtime! Logan will be starting Kindergarten this year so we are excited for that, and Tyrel will be homein about a week and a half! Yay! We are not moving to N. Dakota beacuse it's too expensive, but more importantly, we are expecting baby #4! I want to be closer to home for lots of help! Not to mention the frigid winters up there. I am 14 weeks and have a due date of Feb. 20th. We'll post more about baby when we find out what we're having! Hoping for a girl, but planning on boy! We find out in about 2 1/2 weeks!