Back to School

 

The time has come!!  To head back to school

Here are John and Emma heading to the bus stop on the first day

Grant heading to the bus

And the high school kids heading to the bus

After the kids had all gone to school Scott and I went to hike Beacon Rock

It was beautiful

School sports wait for no man - and were not impacted much by the strike as the coaches are under a different contract.  So cross country, soccer and tennis were already in full swing by the time school stared.  Here is Grant at a cross country meet.

Matthew at tennis - on the left in red

Anna at soccer - nearest in white

I took John with me to girl scouts on this day - and he was grouchy about it

Emma always wants to bake

More cross country

Trying to get John accustomed to wearing a white shirt and tie to church.  He will be a deacon and can pass the sacrament in the new year.  He's not digging the white shirt thing - I've usually let him wear a polo shirt in the past and he thinks that is overly restrictive.

Another off Friday another hike with Scott.

We hiked Cape Horn - the full circle.  I think it was close to 7 or 8 miles.

Doing some puzzles!!

More soccer

John is trying to convince me all the time that he needs a new video game

More baking

A very wet cross country meet today - the kids ran almost straight to the car after finishing the run

Lots of activities that day and driving around - cross country, Emma's soccer practice, getting Anna and and Matthew from their sports, then activity girls / boys and young men / young women

So busy!!  I take my school work in the car and try to work on it while we are going all over.

Grant left his hoodie at the cross country meet so we swung back and got it after activity girls / boys.  I'm glad we found it - it was very wet.

Scott and I got to go to lunch one school day

Emma getting into the fray at soccer

Puzzles and watching general conference

Scott and I went to a jazz event in Portland

Lots of fun

Emma's tidied up bed!!

Hiking Cape Horn again

Homecoming - Matthew went out to meet his friends for dinner and then went to the dance - they went in a group

Anna and part of her homecoming group

They had fun at homecoming but were quite tired by the end of it