1st Day

School started today.

Jamie is now officially at big kid school - in kindergarten (1/2 day mornings).

Dawson is officially in all day big kid school - in 1st grade. He has a new hairdo for the occasion.

Nervously waiting to go in.

All done for the day.

America's Roller Coast

We ended up with a really, really hot day for a visit to Cedar Point last week. We had fun anyway.

There are so many things to love about Cedar Point! (Unless you don't like roller coasters. Sorry David. It is the highlight of my summer though, and the kids have a blast there.) Thanks Mom and Dad for the fun day!

Mama's takin us to the zoo tomorrow, zoo tomorrow, zoo tomorrow.

The kids were singing that song before bed last night, nonstop, in anticipation of going to the zoo with me & my friend Chris & her son Jack (who we haven't seen since he was a wee little baby!)


This is Jack. He's pretty cute.


Jamie is cute, but also pretty whiney. The only thing that shut her up was sugar. Cotton Candy was the ultimate goal today. Go figure, with the sugar problem. Sound like anyone else you know?

The Brightside of the Remodeling Chaos

The brightside of the remodeling stress is that the kids get to hang out at our super fun apartment pool, almost everyday this summer, and learn how to swim.

As many vacation pictures as I could stand to upload....

Here are some highlights from our up north vacation on Lake Mitchell. Too many pictures, as usual, but here are a few to get an idea of what we did all week. It was VERY hot, so there was a lot of time spent in the water this year!

Dawson tried to ski on his own, but didn't quite make it up...

...so, David pulled him up and around.

Lots of cousins.

Clean, dry cousins.

Taylor & David

Jack & Dawson

Jamie, Sarah, Megan & Katie

Taylor pulling Joel with a ski rope, and it wasn't even John's idea...I think it was Joel's.

Naked Baby pictures are a must at the cottage. They all had to go through it.

Serious Lydia.

Happy Lydia.

Fat Belly.

Skinny Belly.

Just the beginning of the fishing pictures. Just like last year, Dawson spend almost all of his time, other than the eating and slepping portion, fishing - with a net, with a pole, off the dock, on a boat, where-ever and however he could. He must have caught 100's of fish that week, including some really big pike and bass.

Jamie tried, but talking to the fish didn't cut it.

A quick break from fishing to shoot some guns.

and do some archery.

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It was a pretty good week. Now back to normal. Only a few more weeks until school. Dawson can't wait!

Lake Mitchell 2010

The annual week up north, with Janet's family, was last week. More pictures to come, but for now here are some group shots of everyone....