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Birthdays, Eclipses, and Stuff

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 past few weeks with the Eagle Rock Middle School cross-country team. His first meet was in Rexburg near Rexburg Rapids. It was a great first race and he was pretty much middle of the pack at the end. 

We had some extra fans there because my nieces Ainsley and Ellie were running for Madison, so their family was there and my parents. Kristi was helping at the finish line. Afterwards we took Caleb, Morgan, and Chloe to swim for the couple of hours at Rexburg Rapids and a few of the Andersons joined us. The day was made more interesting by a wildfire that started out near Hamer. The smoke from the fire got pretty thick at the end of the race, so I felt sorry for the runners.

Our weekend was pretty mellow. On Saturday night we spent some time at our Stake Fall Festival, which was a lot of fun with food and games. Then we hung out at a park with the little kids for awhile. Sunday we had a lot of the older kids around, and we just visited and enjoyed the great weather. Bring on Fall!


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