Well....
2 weekends ago R's sister and family came to visit from North Dakota. She was in the Air Force for 6 years, and was stationed there, met her husband (who is still in the Air Force and still stationed there) and now has a sweet little, almost 2 year old boy. We have only been able to see him a few times in his life. They are going to be moving to England early next year...big bummer. It means we'll get to see them even less. But, I am planning a trip to England sometime in the next 4 years (R, take note please). Anyways. We had them come up camping with us. We took up the Green Goblin (aka our WT boat) and the rest of the fam came up and spent Saturday on the lake with us. It was great to visit so much with Jill and Alex and M. The weather was great and it felt WONDERFUL to be on the lake again. Both M and S tried skiing. M got up for a total of 9 seconds, (5 the first try and 4 the second). S was having a hard time keeping his feet in the boots, so he didn't really officially get up. I think we need new training skis.
While Jill was in town, we had 2 sets of family pictures taken. And two sets of family parties. Fun times!
It's too bad these pictures turned out so cute without K in them. R just snapped them while I was feeding K, trying to get the kids warmed up for the "pro". I didn't realize he had taken these until we got home. I think we're going to have to go back and try again with K in them!
Last weekend we were going to stay home and do yard work, and then we were tempted and gave into temptation, and we went camping again. It was a great relaxing weekend. We did a little fishing (I actually didn't fish but R and the kids did). We did a little swimming. We did a little reading. The kids did a lot of playing. While fishing, M cast her line and on the very first cast she caught a fish. As R was trying to take the hook out of the fish, he thought he could feel something tugging..he pulled the fish up out of the water and sure enough, another fish was tangled with the line. It appears the 2nd fish was caught, swallowed the hook too deep, so the fisherman just threw it back, line and hook and all, so it became tangled with M's line. So her first fish was a two-fer. How cool is that! 
Between soccer for everyone, dance, and church duties this has been an insane week. R has been working his fanny off all summer, but especially these last few weeks trying to finish up the yard. It looks so great! I am loving our back yard. It's going to be so much fun to have it finished. We're blessing K on Sunday, so hopefully he'll be able to relax a little after that. I'll post pictures of the yard in a while.Hopefully things will calm down a little. I doubt it, but I guess that's what life with kids is all about. Run Run Run!
Sorry for the super huge long post and the tons of pictures. Now you're up to date with our crazy life. I hope everyone is doing well.
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