New School Year Goals

 So here we are at the start of another school year!  So that means a new year of new goals!

Claire is starting high school (which I cannot even believe)!

Claire

~ Go to go to school every day.

~Do well in all my classes.

Oliver started middle school (again, I cannot even believe it).

Oliver

~To not be late to my classes.

~Have a 95% average (or higher).

Mark

~Support the kids to do their best.

~To encourage my students at school to be the best that they can be.

(the kids said that Mark's goals are cringey lol)

I have an amazing team to work with this year!  I am really excited to have the kids IN school and I really look forward to working with these ladies!

Mom

~To stay positive!

~To have fun!

~To not sweat the small stuff!

Hopefully this year the world will start going back to normal more and more! I hope everyone has a great school year!!!

Middle School Locker Set Up

 Last week it was time, time to go and set up Oliver's locker for MIDDLE SCHOOL!  Yep, that's right... middle school.

He was so excited!

Even though he didn't want to make it as fancy as his sister did, he still had a blast.

Oliver wanted to write his whole schedule down on his dry erase board.  Between his schedule and his lock he was a little nervous.  But once we checked out his classes and practiced his lock, he felt much better.

My big middle schooler.  I now have no more elementary children. Oliver might be a big middle schooler but he still held my hand in the parking and told me that he had fun setting up his locker with me.  He is such a love!

We had so much fun and we loved getting some milkshakes to celebrate! He may be growing up too fast but he is growing up to be a pretty amazing kid.

August Wrap Up

 OK so the rest of August was amazing!  The weather was great and we spent as much time as we could out at the lake!

We may have missed some of beach week but we still managed to squeeze in lots of fun time with family on the beach.

So much fun with friends and family!

We FINALLY got to walk down and have a nice family dinner.  And during dinner there was a beautiful fireworks display, can't beat that!

I did a ton of reading and relaxing at the lake.  It is definitely one of my favorite places on earth.

Oliver's Birthday Party

 We finally had Oliver's birthday sleepover at the beach!

Heading to the beach!

The boys swam for hours!

Then we enjoyed some dinner!

Tetherball was big hit!

Then it was time for cake!

And singing Happy Birthday!

More tetherball!

Then it was time for some fishing! After fishing the boys went night swimming!

Then it was time for a fire and some s'mores!

Then it was "bedtime".  The boys stayed up pretty late but they were really great kids.  They had a blast and it was so nice to see them all have so much fun!

Beach Week

 We were soooo excited about Beach Week this year!  We finally had our own place and could stay the whole time!

Claire and Kathleen loved using the new margarita machine.

The kids had fun playing tetherball at K2 (which is what we name our cottage).

It was so great to see family!

Nana came up!

And Papa loved the treats! 

The kids loved their cousin time!

Kathleen loved getting her first piece of sea glass.

Oliver had to sneak away for a party with his new hockey team.  The kids had a blast. Then the next day all the fun ended.  One of the boys at the party had COVID so Oliver had to quarantine for 10 days.  It was awful.  We had to leave beach week and say good bye to our family that we only see about once a year.  We were so sad but we didn't want to spread anything around Oliver and I headed home and beach week ended a little early for us.  We are already excited for next year!

Claire's Birthday, A Night At The Rodeo

Claire has some wonderful friends and they plan each other's birthdays. This year the girls planned a night at the Rodeo for Claire and we had a blast!

The girls made Claire her own cake!

Since it was surprise Claire didn't know to wear jeans but I ran home to grab them for her and she was ready to go!

After some delicious cake and presents, we were off to the Rodeo!

The girls had a blast!

It was a great night and fun way to spend Claire's birthday.

Jellystone

We had yet another amazing year in Jellystone.  It was our 10th year and we still had a blast.

Oliver even ran into some hockey buddies while we were there!

This was our first year that we got our own golf carts and they were a huge hit.

Oliver obviously spent a lot of time fishing.

More golf cart riding.

Drinks and sun with my best girls!

Us girls master the blackstone!

Claire fixed the cottage lol

Mark took a nap!

The Nowinskis.

I went down the waterslide with buddy!

The girls did some crafts.

Delicious dinners.

We all had fun playing with Oculous.

The girls were real big shots driving the golf carts around until they got in trouble lol.

Love this guy.

The Dads had fun fishing too!

No one wanted to the fun to end!

The crew.

The girls.

My babies.

Every year I wait for the kids (especially Claire) to tell them they are sick of Jellystone and ready to try something new.  And every year I am pleasantly surprised.  My kids love Jellystone and have no desire to stop going!