Yes We Are Still Here!

Well we moved about a month ago and due to having no cable outlets in the house/cable lines run we have no TV or Internet....Jason is working on hooking things up so hopefully soon---the blog will be up and running and overflowing w/ lots of catch up pictures :-) Just letting anyone who actually reads this know we will be back soon !!! So keep checking back!

We are home owners!

Kristen's 1st projects

Dining room before

Kitchen before


Jason's 1st projects

Laundry room before

"Blue" bathroom before

Laundry room

Yes we finally did it--we bought a home! We found a nice home in Alcester...right close to the school, swimming pool, park- what more could you ask :-) It has become quite the project house and we are working non-stop, it seems, in order to hopefully move in soon! Here are our first projects--the before!

Hail Storm!

We had a hail storm awhile back..some hail golf ball size or larger- it was crazy...I found these pictures on my camera- not sure who took them!

Homecoming Parade 2010

Grandma Lorna w/ Preschool float

Brady

Blake (hiding in the background)

Peyton- Kindergarten float

The men watching the parade!

We celebrated Homecoming this year w/ the usual parade. We watched Peyton, Brady, Blake and Grandma Lorna all ride /walk in the parade, it turned out to be nice and the football team won!

Kindergarten Field Trip

Part of her class on their way out to the apple orchard

Their tie-dyed shirts!

The girls of the class

Kindergarten Field trip!

I got to go w/ Pey on her field trip the other day--it was fun! We went to the zoo and apple orchard. Pey has 23 kids in her class and I would say it went pretty smoothly. Pey had fun w/ her classmates - her favorite part was the apple orchard and picking apples.

Fun Around the House

Eating apples --they both love them!

Reading in this little nook

This is how Jackson tells me he's done w/ lunch

Why do kids like to do things in tight spaces--more reading!?

Just playing around!

Ears and Teeth (and Jacks game)

After the game - on the field

1st tooth lost!!

Ears pierced

Since Peyton started Kindergarten she is suddenly growing up!! A few weeks ago we got her ears pierced with these small purple earrings....now yesterday she said she had a loose tooth. We went to the SDSU game and by the end of the game it had fallen out!! For some reason these things have been "harder" for Jason too deal w/ than her starting kindergarten like she is all of the sudden growing up!! :-) Also a few pics fro the SDSU game we went to last night--one I figure out how to get them off my phone I'll put the one w/ the Jackrabbit on!

Kindergarten!!

Pey's locker

Outside of school

SO EXCITED!!!

This week Peyton started Kindergarten---I can't believe it!! She has been so excited for weeks now and was looking forward to going to school every day. The 1st morning of school she came downstairs and said "I slept in my clothes last night because I thought it would speed things up!" Now I put her to bed in her pj's--she must of changed! She has been very excited about recess, assemblies--because she is w/ the "big" kids-I try to tell her she is a big kid now but I guess she doesn't believe me. It makes me a little sad that my baby is already in kindergarten--but I'm excited for her too.. This is my 1st day of just Jackson and I --kind of strange --and he misses Pey Pey a lot..but we'll have lots of fun together.

Zoo

Looking at the fish above him

One hot....One excited! Can you guess which is which??

Posing in the jungle vines

Across the rope bridge

The long awaited train ride

Petting the goats

Cooling off in the "mister"

Look at the bear!

We liked the big grumpy gorilla

The desert

We had one last hurrah to the zoo before school starts. The Omaha Zoo is pretty big and a great zoo! We walked and walked and walked in the 90 plus weather for about 6 hours it took us to get through the zoo...so although hot we had lots of fun! Peyton and Jack loved looking at the animals, riding the train, and running through the sprinklers. It was fun to spend time as a family as we haven't been able to go on many trips this summer!

Pedal Pull 2010

Pedal Peyton Pedal!!

Once again Peyton decided to be in the Pedal Pull contest at our county fair...she placed 2nd in her age group and will be headed on to state at the Corn Palace! Her skinny little legs are pretty strong!

Butterflies!

Relaxing in the butterfly house

Its hot in here!

All of the cocoons--pretty cool

Butterflies eating the fruit

Trying to catch them (sideways!)

Trying to get the water

Hmm..I wonder what this butterfly is?

1st time eating corn on the cob--He loves it!!

We went to the butterfly house as a treat to Peyton who has wanted to go there all year...we finally made it! Sioux Falls has a great one w/ hundred's of butterflies flying all around you. Jackson was more interested in trying to climb into the water and catch the butterflies..but Pey thought they were all pretty neat!