School Spirit

School has officially started here in Gooding, and all three of my daughters were glad to be going back. Once August starts they tend to get bored and are ready to see their friends again. Brooke is in the sixth grade this year and has started middle school. (I have no more elementary age kids, and it seems really weird.) After lots of patience and help from her Aunt Marcy, and several trips to the school, she finally figured out how to open her locker. Thank goodness it was before the first day! She can't wait for football and volleyball start so she can go hang out at the games. Lindsay is in the eigth grade and informs me that she is having fun being the grade that rules the school. She has gotten so grown up in the last year that I hardly recognize her. She has become a teenager which makes me a little sad. She is growing taller and although I keep telling her to stop, she hasn't. She is a chearleader this year and very excited about that.

Brittney is a Senior this year....it seems like just yesterday that she started school and now she is almost done. I am realizing that after this year our lives will never be the same. It really makes me not want to take for granted the time that we have right now to spend with her.

I came home from work the other day and this was the scene on my front lawn. Brittney and some of her friends were spray painting shirts to wear to the athletic games. They have decided that they are going all out to support their teams. After doing this they went and painted the school rock. One of the teachers called them the "Spirit Squad" and even had them make a poster for the Senior girls volleyball players to take to the first game.

Ready for the game!!

Road Trip

Saturday afternoon Marcy and Perry, Troy and Jen, and Dave and I jumped in the car and headed out on a road trip. We decided after some debate (thanks Dave and Perry...it was a good choice) to go to Mackey for some pie. We made a stop at every little town along the way, and even stopped at the historical marker! We finally made it to Mackey, but before we went to town we turned down a gravel road and stopped to dance to Bon Jovi's "You Want to Make a Memory". We also took some fun pictures while we were stopped there. This is us doing a slow motion run while Troy drove off in the vehicle!! The view was awsome with the mountains in the background. We thought it would be a beautiful place to retire to someday.

We had so much fun in the car along the way. We played the IPOD super loud and danced in our seats. On the way home the boys all fell asleep and Marcy, Jen and I sang our hearts out for the whole two hour drive. Of course Marcy "loves, loves, loves" all of her songs and begged (please, please, please) for us to listen to all of them, even the ones we didn't know and couldn't sing to!! We vetoed a few of them because we were having so much fun singing at the top of our lungs. We were sure we wouldn't have voices the next day! It must have been too much for Dave because when we looked back to the third seat he was gone...he had crawled to the very, very back to try to get away from us. This is Dave and I's conversation on the way to our house...

Dave: "You know if the girls had wanted to sleep on the way home we would have had to turn off

the radio and be really quiet."

Steph: "I know Babe, but we're girls and we want our way all the time...don't you know that by

now?"

Dave: "Yeah, I should!"

Here are a few of our car pictures....

We went into Mackey and Dave finally got fed...he had been bugging us every since we left about getting something to eat. We met a fun couple that ate dinner with us and then we all went next door to go dancing. We had a great time and can't wait to go somewhere new again.

Grain Galore

Dave has been wanting us to come to his work and see all the grain they have there, so Lindsay, Brooke and I hopped in the car and drove over there the other day. We have only been seeing him a few minutes a day, so it was nice to get to spend a little time with him. When we pulled in at 8:00 pm there was still a long line of trucks waiting to unload, and there was grain everywhere. We were amazed at how much there was. Dave drove us around to see all the grain and then the girls wanted to climb the tower. We have been up there before, and it really freaks me out because I am scared of hights.(and it is really high....over two hundred steps up...I counted!!) But it also freaks me out to let the girls go up without me so we all went up. The picture below is me hanging onto the rail for dear life!

















Of course the girls and Dave aren't scared at all so they were happy to pose for pictures and look around at the awesome view. Dave took a bunch of pictures of the grain because they have so much of it.

Dave told Brooke that if you chew on some grain for long enough it will turn into gum, so she put some in and chewed for a few minutes. She definately didn't like it and spit it out right away!

Huge, Huge Thank You

Well, I have joined the world of bloggers, and I am very excited..I have to give a huge thank you to Jennifer and Amber, because without them this blog would not exist! (They obviously know how little I know about computers so they offered to get this up and running) So ladies, I love ya and thank you, thank you, thank you.
Brooke said she is excited to see what fun, cool pictures we will have in our posts, so I will have to get going on that!