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!

Hurray for the Goldsworthys!!

Visiting my parents farm

The boys having a man-to-man talk

Chloe and Pey had so much fun together

Joel

Little Zach, Katie, and Jackson

The whole gang!

Jason and John reunited after 6 yrs we think??

We were so excited our good friends John, Katie, Chloe, Luke, Joel, and Zach stopped by to see us on their way home....it was been awhile since we've been able to hang out with them! Although it was a quick trip it was great to spend some time with them like the good old days in Washington (plus a few extra kids :-) We hope we get to see them again and the time in between doesn't go so long this time!

4th of July

Happy 4th!

Ooohh...snaps

Yes our crazy loot :-)

Peyton "hugging" the purple smoke

Snakes--Jason isn't impressed

Peyton's "Chloe" dress--perfect for the 4th

Fun!

We spent 4th of July first w/ a little fireworks of our own then went over to friends' house.. Jackson was so funny and opened his mouth big EVERY, I mean every, all night, time a firework went off ...it was so funny I wish I had a picture of it. Peyton of course loved the pretty fireworks in the sky. We stayed up late and the kids even were having a ball until we came home.

10 years--no way!!

A trip to the falls

Yes--he loves his picture taken

I can't believe Jason and I have been married 10 YEARS---it still seems crazy to me. We celebrated on a much needed overnight get away locally...in hopes of going on a bigger trip this fall. We had so much fun just hanging out, going out to eat, shopping around and spending time alone together. Jason is a wonderful husband and I've enjoyed every year we've had together. We've been lucky now to I believe have spent about 3 of our anniversaries together...as for awhile he was always deployed or away on them...it would be interesting to look back at how much time we've been apart ---we know it took about the first 3-4 yrs to have lived more together than apart :-) I look forward to spending the next 60 yrs together --or more--that would be crazy!! I love you honey!