Our new house

We finally moved in to our house! I love it. It's a 1970 cute old house on a corner lot, which makes the yard a bit awkward, but it's great anyway. The neighborhood is cute and quiet, and friendly.This is Casey's pool room. It's the first place he takes people when they come over. Even though it's in the basement and you have to walk through the rest of the house to get there. This is my living room, first room when you walk through the door. I love the fire place.

Kati learns about Larva

At preschool Kati learned about the life stages of butterflies. She even says Crysalys (cacoon). I was amazed. And they did this super cute activity with pasta. They used rice for the larva stage, rotini for the caterpillar, shell pasta for the cacoon, and bowtie for the butterfly. CUTE.

Drama

So Kati comes running in the house..." Mom Logi is really hurt! Come see." So, I run outside to see what's wrong. And to my great surprise Logan is standing in the middle of the grass, throwing tables and chairs as hard as he can (the kid sized ones, of course.) in the most dramatic tantrum I have ever seen. His face is all red, there are tears streaming down his cheeks and he is yelling something very angry in his caveman language. And Kati says "See Mom. He's hurt really bad!". He looked fit as a fiddle to me. I was laughing so hard.

Kati goes to preschool

Kati has been so excited to start preschool and today was the day. I dropped her off and she was so excited to get out of the car that she had to come back for her backpack. When I picked her up she stayed right in line until it was her turn and she was practically shouting when she told me about her day. She got to chase gingerbread men that had hopped out of the oven and stolen all the M&M's and stuck them all over themselves. ("They are very rude gingerbread men, Mom.") It was a very exciting chase and in the end, Kati caught two of them. ("And we ate them mom, and they didn't even know!") What a fun day. Tomorrow each kid gets to bring one apple and they are going to make applesauce.

Hunting party

Casey loves to hunt doves and pheasants, so with the opening of dove season on Monday we were hard pressed to find any time with Daddy. Well, If you can't beat 'em, join 'em. Logan got to enjoy his first dove hunting trip. He was so proud of his daddy. "My Dad shoot one bird!!!" he would say in his Logan caveman speak. (They actually got nine birds) So, we're having dove for dinner. Yay...

Logan and cousin Ben waiting to go down the river at Lava Hot Springs. Logan loved the river.
Kati caught her first fish at Woods Ranch in July this year.
Dad and Kati getting splashed by uncle Myron. I took this picture from on top of a very high cliff!
This is us hanging out at Lyman Lake in July. The storm behind us dropped more rain than I have ever seen! It rained for three hours straight. I was so glad to have our tent trailer.

Summer camping!

This summer has been super busy! Between house hunting (unsuccessful) and camping trips (2 and 1/2 weeks worth) I haven't been able to post, but life is settling down. Kati starts preschool next week, and is sooo excited. Casey is looking for a new job, and suffering through his current one. Hopefully that situation will resolve soon. We are still looking for a house, but prospects are slim, and the process is time consuming. Wish us luck on that front! But on a happier note, Logan is finally talking enough that people can understand him, and I am loving that! I'll post pictures soon.