We are just about to start school again for the year so here’s a little wrap up post for our summer. 

Rock took me on another great date last month.  Ice Blocking!  Believe it or not, I made it out of college without ever having gone ice blocking.  It was a lot of fun!

The kids entered their artwork in the fair again this year and some of them even won money.  This is surprising because everyone but Cade created theirs the day before.  “Quick, the deadline is tomorrow!  Let’s draw some pictures and take some photographs to enter in the fair!”  Maybe next year they will learn from Cade’s example.  He won 7.00$!

His Origami bird feeder won 1st place:

This is two hummingbirds and a squirrel on top.

Levi and Liberty entered this year as well.

Whale above his head.

Piggy above hers.

Liberty found this photo at the fair and got super excited.

I can’t wait to take her to the Statue of Liberty again someday when she’ll actually remember it.  She remembers nothing from her first trip there.

While at the fair we “ran into” Cade’s hero, Jeremy Schaffer.  He’s a guy on U-tube who makes/teaches origami and balloon animals and all kinds of crazy crafty things.  Cade adores this guy and some days all we hear out of his mouth is, “Jeremy Schaffer, this and Jeremy Schaffer that.”  So when Rock found out that he was going to be at the fair we knew we had to go that day.  We didn’t tell Cade, though, and the surprise was perfect.  I only wish I could have gotten his face on film.  But we did get this picture and a high five and Cade was thrilled to meet his idol.

Libby was also thrilled to see her favorite animal up close and personal.

Reagan picked up his new cello at the rental place a few weeks ago in anticipation of his new adventure at the middle school.  He will be taking a few classes there every afternoon, one of which is orchestra.  Thank you Piano Guys for your inspiration!  He’s so excited to start!

He will also be doing Cross Country as an after school sport and has thoroughly enjoyed his practices so far.  He comes home every day telling me how much faster his time was that day than the day before. 

And there went summer.  This was the first summer in a while without a move or big travel plans and I thought it would go by a little slower, but I was wrong. 

Goodbye Summer!  Time to hit the books!