Summer is almost gone

Well folks, the girls start school tomorrow. Piper is heading into kindergarten and Eden is beginning her year as a first grader.

Griffin is mighty jealous of his sisters and routinely asks about “his school”.

Through the summer we survived the massive amounts of rain (we did have a few wet spots in the basement, but really, some people in town had 5 feet in their basement), another Ross Family Reunion in Storm Lake (with a complimentary storm of course), a change in my work schedule and the children picking on each other. Griffin has found great satisfaction in picking on his sisters lately.

Parade and Splash Pad

A few photos.

Eden was in the Rock Rapids Heritage Days parade as part of her Little Miss Boyden participation this year. Griffin and Piper had a blast catching candy during the parade.

We’ve also been enjoying quite a bit of time at the town’s splash pad since it was installed.

I have no explanation for Piper’s weird hat/dress combo. Nuthin’.

Memorial Day

For Memorial Day we went to Mill Creek State Park in Paullina for some fishing and swimming.

There were 10+ itsy bitsy bluegill caught each of which was “petted” by the kids.

The kids  had so much fun swimming they didn’t even make it to the playground area.

There are no photos of myself only because I was several hundred yards away fishing most of the time…

That also means that photo credits go to Megan.