Back to School

The last week before school starts is always super busy with open houses and such. Monday, Carson started 2-a days for football and I attended a sustitute teacher training. Tuesday was physical day for Travis and Wednesday was the Middle School open house. It's crazy to think he will be a 7th grader!

Thursday was the high school open house.

Friday we went to Powell and hung out. Saturday, it wasn't nice enough to go out in the boat, so we decided to head to Cody for a round of mini golf, lunch, Wal-Mart and home. It was fun to spend the day together before things get busy with school and sports! Travis and Landon both got hole in ones, but mom was the overall winner!! Friday night, Mikayla made back to school donuts at Grandma Asay's house. They were delicious!!

Sunday we did our annual back to school dinner. We had steaks, cheesey potatoes, fried zucchini, rolls and dessert.

Monday, we had football meetings and practices and getting everything ready to go for the next day...the first day of schoool! Today was the first day of school. It always amazes me how fast the summer goes each year and I sweat it gets faster the older my kids get! They were ready to head back to school, not so much for the school part, but for friends and sports. I can't wait to hear about their first day and know that they will have a great year!!

*Carson came home from the first day of school with a letter in academics. He lettered in Academics as a Freshman and they just now got them their awards. Not a bad way to start off the school year!!

Picking chokecherries

For family home evening tonight, we went into Dry Head with Daniel and Kasi and their kids to pick chokecherries. We weren't sure how many there would be this year because it was so dry, but there ended up being TONS of them. We picked probably 5 gallons of chokecherries for our family and Daniel and Kasi probably picked that many too.

After filling up our buckets, we drove down to the Snell cabin and had a picnic dinner and then headed back out.

I was able to can a bunch of Chokecherry jelly and some syrup for pancakes. We gave a bunch of the chokecherries to Grandma Asay for her to use.

Monk Reunion part 2

Saturday, we started with breakfast again at Grandma Asay's house and then made our way to the lake for a beach day. We were supposed to take the boat out for boating, but the water level were so low, that we didn't feel comfortable taking it out. Instead, we just did a beach day and it was quite enjoyable. We brought our kyaks and Grandma Foulger's kayaks to play on adn had a blast! Brad and Ranee provided sandwiches and all the fixings for lunch.

After spending most of the day at the lake, we went home and got ready and headed out to Dave and Sherry's for dinner. They had a taco bar for dinner.

When dinner was done, there was a bounce house, pinata for the kids and one for the adults full of candy and prizes!!

It was a great couple of days with all of the Monk family! We were only missing one of Christian's cousins (Davis) and his wife!! I am so grateful to belong to such a great family!

Monk Family Reunion

This weekend, we spent together with Christian's side of the family at the Monk Family Reunion. Grandma Asay hosted and planned the reunion. Friday started with breakfast at Grandma Asay's house with visiting, horse rides and family trivia.

Travis and Britt both won a guessing game and won treat as a prize!

After horse rides, it was scheduled to head up to 5 Springs for a picnic lunch, hiking and hanging out. We headed out around 12, got up the mountain to find that there were no open camp spots, so we drove to another spot down the mountain and it didn't have a bathroom or any shade, so after 45 minutes of driving around, we just deicded to go back to Grandma Asay's house for our picnic. We sat around and visited and played corn hole.

That evening, Grandpa Monk and Donna hosted dinner at their house. They arranged for Pat Steed to come and give wagon rides. It was fun to go for a little ride down the country roads and back again.

For dinner that night, Jared roasted a pig to eat. We had pulled pork sandwiches and salads for dinner.

After dinner, we did a white elephant gift exchange. The kids did one first and then the adults did one. We ended up getting some pretty good prizes!

The rest of the evening was spend visiting and listening to Grandpa Monk tell stories from his life.