Beginning of the School Year Busy-ness

Eliza and Annmarie did the annual WHS cheerleading clinic.  It was Eliza's last year and I actually made her do it this one last time.  I think she still had fun.

 Westley got his driver's license.  He's official.  We even added him to the insurance!  Yikes!

I took this because dinners together get rare during the fall football season.  Plus with the kids getting older, this is a moment I want to treasure.

I took this picture of Travis with his friends at Meet the Pirate Night.

Annmarie left us a hate note on the bottom of our toilet lid in the master bathroom.  She wrote it in ballpoint pen.  It says, "Have a good life and don't!  I hate you!  by Annmarie".  The thing is, neither of us has any idea why she was upset.  We had a good laugh over it though.  Since it's written in ballpoint pen, I'm not sure how long it will be there.

First Football game!  Thursday night though.  We have quite a few Thursday games this year.  I don't like having varsity games on Thursdays.  The boys won't get home until really late (like 11:30 pm or later) and still have seminary the next morning.  We'll see.  Maybe this year we'll let them miss seminary the morning after a varsity game.  But I love going to the games to support my marching band boys and I enjoy watching high school football!

First Day of School 2019-2020 School Year!

These are the big kids.  Travis is in 7th grade and starting at a new school this year, Cooper Junior High.  Westley is in 11th grade.  Caleb is in 9th grade and starting at a new school, Wylie High School, and Eliza is in 6th grade.

Jonah and Annmarie left for school before I remembered to take a picture of them, so I got this picture when they got home.  Jonah is in 3rd grade and Annmarie is in 1st grade.

End of Summer

Well, that summer just flew by so fast! After July was over, we only had two weeks of August before school started again.  The older boys had marching band camp.  Caleb is not thrilled about marching band, but we want him to keep doing band so he has to do marching band.  On the other hand, Westley really loves marching band and worked hard to make competition band (now called Varsity Band).  He made it and had extra practices because of that.  He'll have a busy schedule during the fall with school and seminary, marching band, and work. 

Eliza had a bout with a massive stomach bug.  She was throwing up so much and in so much pain that I was worried she might have appendicitis so I took her to the emergency room.  I really don't like doing that, but I felt I had no choice in case it was appendicitis.  Of course, it wasn't and she was just really sick.  She's always kind of been like that when she starts throwing up--she just can't stop.  I remember taking her to the ER in Riverton when she was three or four years old because she couldn't stop throwing up then either and them giving her the same thing to stop it--Zofran.  It helped and she felt much better by the next day.

Nathan fell asleep on the couch in his Bumblebee costume.  I love this age and am sad that it will soon be ending as he grows up into middle childhood.

I got a Groupon for Eliza to try a  ballroom dancing class.  She really loved it and I wish we had the time and money for her to pursue it.  But the studio is quite far away in Richardson (about 35 minutes) and the only available time slots were on Wednesday nights, which is when she has mutual. 

And of course we went swimming a lot the last few weeks of summer.  We love to swim and hate it when summer ends and we don't have time for it and then the pool closes for the winter.

And here I got a great shot of the kids being silly and climbing all over Travis.

Friends and Baseball

Eliza and I went and had ice cream with my friend and her daughter.  My friend Christina is my ministering sister and her daughter Sarah is friends with Eliza.  So we had a girls night.

We used our POGO pass again, this time to see a minor league baseball game, the Frisco Roughriders.  It really was fun getting out and doing something!  The best was that in the summer on Friday night games, they do fireworks after the games, so we got to go to that game and see the fireworks.  That was nice because we didn't really see an official firework show on the 4th of July.

Six Flags!

This year, we had four kids who were able to get into Six Flags free by reading 600 minutes.  I paid for Westley to join us and we left Caleb at home babysitting Nathan.  We had a great day, although it was really hot.  I love that they have the opportunity to do this.  I wish that the ages of my kids wasn't so spread out or we would consider getting season passes but with such young ones, I don't see that we would make it often enough to make it worth it.  So we'll settle for the free tickets from reading for the younger ones.  They don't get to do it anymore after they get into junior high school though.

Hawaiian Falls and Cousin Visit

We bought POGO passes in June to use for one year. That includes entrance into a variety of venues around the Dallas/Fort Worth area. The first thing we did with the POGO pass was use our one visit to Hawaiian Falls. Corey did not come with us. But we had a great day!

Then our cousin Hannah came to town to stay with Adam and Eve for a week. We were able to see her a couple of times and play some games. The kids enjoyed getting to know their cousin a little better.

Summer Trip, King Reunion

I'm not sure why I can't find all the other pictures I took.  We had our King Family Reunion in Arizona this summer.  On the first day, we had dinner and a family meeting with talent show at Toby and Jenny's church building.  On Sunday, we went swimming at Toby and Jenny's community pool.  On Monday morning, we went to a bouncy house place.