Back to School for Eddy

I made these cute apple cupcakes to give to friends and the kids. It's our yearly tradition for the first week of school.

Johanna had some friends over for her 14th birthday. We BBQd and they watched movies

Kindergarten Eddy! He was pretty excited for the first day of school. It was just last Monday since Kindergarten starts a week after everyone else here. It's been a little hard for him to get up in the morning, but I think he's been enjoying it. He's in a conjoined classroom-two classrooms headed by one teacher with a conjoining door. Eddy's group is "the blue dolphins".

Eddy's new school, new backpack, and new shoes. With 2 older brothers, Eddy hardly ever gets new clothes, so this outfit is a handmedown. Not that he cares!

Tons of Fun=tons of pictures!

Johanna and Logan ready for their first day at Scenic Middle

Cam at his desk at Jewett Elementary

Eddy earned this "super singer" badge at primary last Sunday-he was Super proud of it and wore it all day

Our church has a huge pear farm here and we have all been asked to work in it to bring in the prolific pear harvest. Blake, Johanna, Logan and I all went last Friday. Hot, dusty work!

Logan with his pear basket. He is so thrilled! He came back with us on Labo day for 3 hours!!

an Andrea in a pear tree

After our planned swimming trip to the Kroc center didn't pan out (it was closed), the kids had a fun afternoon jumping over the sprinklers under Grandma and Grandpa's trampoline.

Logan!

Camden!

Johanna!

We had a great time at the Oregon State Fair. We ended our trip with cotton candy in the shuttle to our car.

Boys in the bumper cars. Poor Cam couldn't figure out how to get his car moving, so was pinned in the corner the whole time.

Johanna and Logan enjoyed the swings. This used to be a favorite ride of mine. Now, being old, it just makes me sick...

The last Blackberry Pie......oh so good!!!

I wish I could say our whole summer went like this-siblings having fun together, doing something creative and constructive....At least I captured this one moment of doing that!