Well, somehow a whole month has slipped by. Working and juggling home life can be pretty crazy, but here are some updates. Some of these are old pictures that I only recently downloaded to my computer, so bear with.
Obviously, school started. It was too hard to get the teenager together with the little ones, so we just have Chloe, going into 4th, and Caleb into 6th. Those Walmart fake nails of Chloe's were all off by the time she got home.
Isaac has been having an interesting cross country season. He had to sit out a couple of races, so his first race was Tiger Grizzly. Unfortunately, he had a horrible head cold. So, he had been downing cold medicine (not a good idea, just fyi), and took off running. He was in the top five most of the race, but as he rounded the home stretch, I thought, "oh no." He did not look good. Totally white faced and it looked like his muscles were cramping up, so he collapsed a few yards from the finish line. After about thirty seconds, he dragged himself across, but he was in bad shape--hallucinating, talking weird, etc. We were trying to get liquids down him and checked with some doctors to see if we needed to take him to the hospital, but he pretty much slept for two days straight and seemed to be okay. We were so relieved. It was really sad to see him like that.
The next week he ran in Missoula, and took 15th out of about 900 runners from schools in a bunch of different states. The next week he ran Blackfoot and took first. This week he went to Twin Falls and took first there. We're happy he's having a great senior year. Lots of schools are looking at him to run in college, but he's pretty set on getting out on a mission.
Caleb has been moving on up in Scouts. He will turn twelve in a couple of weeks and be passing the sacrament. He also got his camo belt in karate. Now he wants to try kung fu.
It's kind of strange having two high school students at two different high schools. Both of them had Homecoming festivities in the last little while. Phoebe's too young to go to the dance, but she did awesome in the powder puff game. In fact, one of the basketball coaches saw her and said, "You are fast. We want you to try out for the team." So, Phoebe has been having Madison help her with her shooting every night after school. She also thinks she's ready to take driver's ed, so look out world.
Isaac and Hannah went to Idaho Falls High Schools' Homecoming Dance with a bunch of friends. They had a photographer do some great group shots before. Hannah graduated in May and is working, saving money for her mission. She and Isaac will leave around the same time if all goes as planned.
This is just a random dogpile......er, shark/bear pile on a Sunday afternoon.
Obviously, school started. It was too hard to get the teenager together with the little ones, so we just have Chloe, going into 4th, and Caleb into 6th. Those Walmart fake nails of Chloe's were all off by the time she got home.
Isaac has been having an interesting cross country season. He had to sit out a couple of races, so his first race was Tiger Grizzly. Unfortunately, he had a horrible head cold. So, he had been downing cold medicine (not a good idea, just fyi), and took off running. He was in the top five most of the race, but as he rounded the home stretch, I thought, "oh no." He did not look good. Totally white faced and it looked like his muscles were cramping up, so he collapsed a few yards from the finish line. After about thirty seconds, he dragged himself across, but he was in bad shape--hallucinating, talking weird, etc. We were trying to get liquids down him and checked with some doctors to see if we needed to take him to the hospital, but he pretty much slept for two days straight and seemed to be okay. We were so relieved. It was really sad to see him like that.
The next week he ran in Missoula, and took 15th out of about 900 runners from schools in a bunch of different states. The next week he ran Blackfoot and took first. This week he went to Twin Falls and took first there. We're happy he's having a great senior year. Lots of schools are looking at him to run in college, but he's pretty set on getting out on a mission.
Caleb has been moving on up in Scouts. He will turn twelve in a couple of weeks and be passing the sacrament. He also got his camo belt in karate. Now he wants to try kung fu.
A couple of months ago, we went to dinner with some of Kory's friends who taught seminary with him in Vernal. We had a great time eating and chatting for a few hours. Great people. BJ, the baldy on the right is the one that set Kory and I up, so we are forever indebted to him.
It's kind of strange having two high school students at two different high schools. Both of them had Homecoming festivities in the last little while. Phoebe's too young to go to the dance, but she did awesome in the powder puff game. In fact, one of the basketball coaches saw her and said, "You are fast. We want you to try out for the team." So, Phoebe has been having Madison help her with her shooting every night after school. She also thinks she's ready to take driver's ed, so look out world.
Our old Toyota 4 Runner turned over to 200,000 miles, so now we hold our breath and see when it dies.
This is just a random dogpile......er, shark/bear pile on a Sunday afternoon.
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