Back to School

Well as usual it's been forever since my last update, but alas, I have a reason to post something again.

My boys have gotten back into the grove of things and are now back in school. Joshua is in Grade 5 this year and Jacob is in Grade 2. They both have fabulous teachers, they are happy with them and so far, they are enjoying the children in their classes too, which makes things a little better for me as well...I worry so much about that kind of stuff.

We have recently moved the boys' bedrooms around and Joshua has his own room again, he's THRILLED over that development. Jake is now sharing with Lucas and I have to say that it's working out way better than I could have imagined. Luke is thrilled to have someone else in his room and Jake is taking "ownership" of his new space. We went in to check on them the other morning and Luke was fast asleep in his brother's arms cuddling together in Jake's bed. It was so cute! Apparently Luke had woken in the night and we didn't hear him (oopps...bit of parent guilt there) and so Jake got up, took him out of the crib, put him in his bed and they both went back to sleep! What an amazing big brother Jake is being!

We had a very busy summer this year, the first half of the summer was working for and with Brooke for her wedding, that was so much fun! Lots and lots of work, but I really enjoyed doing what I was doing...so that was great. The wedding turned out great, with only a glitch here and there, which was great, nothing major. Luke looked absolutely adorable in his little tuxedo. Although he never did walk down the aisle like he was supposed to, both he and Tori stole the show!

The other half of my summer was learning how to tent camp with my boys! We took two really nice vacations...one was with a group of 6 moms and 20 children to Camper's Cove Camp Ground and that was a blast. The other was our "family" vacation and that was at Bingeman's Water/Sports Park and we camped there for 4 days 3 nights and had so much fun! Todd actually loved camping! I was so happy that he really liked it, the boys of course liked it, except for the part that we almost froze to death the first night, we fixed that fast with a quick trip to Walmart for a space heater then we didn't need it the other two nights..isn't that ironic!!! LOL

With the kids back in school again and MOPS starting up again next week, I'm sure things will fall into a "normal" pace again soon, I hope! I'm looking forward to a little more of a quiet fall season!

We'll be going to our annual Family Apple Picking next week....I'll post pics from that soon!

Anyway, hope everyone had a great summer like we did!