Back to School

Summer flew by and and now we are back to the daily grind.  I think we could've used one more week of summer vacation but oh well.  The kids are all doing great in spite of feeling like summer barely happened.

Henry is in 2nd grade and I'm quite proud of the fact that he didn't wear a single new thing to school on the first day--old shoes, old backpack, old hoodie.  

Henry made sure I didn't forget to make rainbow pancakes for our 1st day of school tradition.

Henry is my only bus rider and boy was he getting nervous as we waited for the bus.  The first day jitters were real.  But he did great and has a couple friends in his class.

Parker is in 7th grade and super excited to finally have a phone that has a whole lot of restrictions on it.

He bikes to school unless it rains and I'm loving the no-carpool life!

Landon is a sophomore with a drivers license.  Hooray!

Landon drives the van to school/early morning seminary.  It's almost got 200,000 miles on it and is leaking oil but still runs so hooray for that!

And three cheers for Landon for getting up at 5:35am to go to early morning seminary by himself.  Randy isn't teaching anymore so Landon being the capable boy that he is, gets up and out the door while we sleep.  It's amazing!  And what's more amazing is how quiet he is.  I almost never hear him.

The college boys are both doing amazing things their sophomore year.  Ethan (Utah State) is leaning towards dental school and works as a dental assistant.  Marcus (BYU) is leaning towards law school but still has business strategy on his mind.  He's grinding at lacrosse and seeing what a difference getting to bed on time makes for those 5am practices.  I love that both boys call me frequently.  It's so fun to hear about their lives, even though they aren't having nearly as much fun in college as I think I had! :)