Kunz Krazies

Mom's birthday was the day after the eclipse, but since everyone was around for the eclipse, we did a birthday party with cake and ice cream on Sunday night. On her actual birthday she, dad, Kristi, Terry, Kory and I went to lunch at Jakers. She's looking pretty awesome for 71. The eclipse was pretty mellow for us. The kids were at their mom's, so Kory and I just parked ourselves on our front driveway and watched. It was amazing. Back-to-school started this week with our oldest daughter McKenzie heading back to school. So proud of her for doing this. It's hard to go back to school as a single mom, but she'll be awesome. She's going to ISU at the center in Idaho Falls. We got some traditional back-to-school pics with some extra squeezes from her son Ryker, and niece Morgan. We kind of insisted that Caleb try cross-country this year, because we thought it would be a good experience for him. He's been running for the...

Every year I have these dreams of taking a nice long trip with Kory and each year it sort of slips away. So this year we settled for three days in Montana and northern Idaho. Kory is the king of cleaning the windshield. He can get every last bug-speck off of that thing. Armed with our Gatorade, dill flavor sunflower seed (don't knock it until you've tried it), and my infinite playlist we headed north. We worried as the skies seemed to get smokier and smokier the further we got into Montana but it wasn't too bad where we stopped. We took the exit for Anaconda and headed to the Old Works golf course. Kory always raves about this course because it was designed by Jack Nicklaus and has black sand in the sand traps. It seems like a weird place for a high-quality golf course, but we think the mine next to it is owned by a British company that is somehow connected with the golf courses in England. Anyway, we hopped in a cart and did 18-holes. I was the cart driver. ...

Summer is winding down. I know because we actually bought school supplies!! We enjoyed watching Ryker one day and took him on a walk down to a new little park in our neighborhood.  Because I don't like three kids talking to me at once, asking me if they can have things, I took them one at a time to Walmart to buy school supplies. When they asked why, I just said, "So I don't get irritated." Worked like a charm.  Summer means swimming, so we tried to fit in a few water days. I took the kids to the Aquatic Center one day. On Friday, we got Kory and Austin's little family to come to Rexburg Rapids. Because it was a little cooler than it has been, it wasn't too crowded. The kids had so much fun we stayed until it closed at 8:00 p.m. It was a fun day and we took baby Andy into the lazy river and she liked it. Different parts of the park were closed three times because of fecal matter in the pool. OOoooh! It was kind of funny but I could tell the...