Back to School

Oh wow - that summer when by quickly!  I could have sworn we were just celebrating the last day of school.  So here we are back for another 'first day'.  This year is a BIG deal.  Quinn is going to Roosevelt with the big girls.  She is going to rule all day kindergarten!

 

Meredith is headed of to Mr. Ellis in the 4th grade.

 Delaney has the fabulous Mrs. May for 1st grade.

 Bringing up the rear is Quinn who will be the 3rd Hamilton girl to have Mrs. Cadwell.  We'll see what she has to say at the end of this year!

 Super excited bunch of girls!

 We still have our trusty Papa to walk us to school.

 Feels good to be back with good friends!

Quinn thinks she is going into 4th

 Delaney all lined up and ready to go

 17 boys and 6 girls this year.  Luckily Quinn has Eva to keep her company!

 This is a HUGE change for me as well.  Time to dust off the old resume?!

CDA to McCall

I could have sworn we were just getting out of school, now we are getting ready for the new year to begin.  We wrapped up all our summer travels with our McCall/Spokane/CDA/Spokane/McCall trip. 

I found this picture of Aunt Kortney and the girls!  We got to see Kortney and Jeff at Long Lake.  The girls stayed with Mike and Kathie while Jesse and I went to spend the weekend in CDA. 

Only picture from CDA.  Me drinking a huge mimosa!

 Back to McCall where Delaney was repping the Hawks and

sporting her hillbilly tooth.

 Somehow the Dad/Kids overnight pack trip turned into a family ordeal.  We had a great time with the Brouses, their horses and AJ and Logan!

 The 5 year olds.  Both going on 14.

 Marcus and Delaney and Dolly

 It was HOT.  Straight to the water at Grassy Lakes.

 Delaney says "wait for me"!

 All swim!

 Shockingly no flies or bugs

 When asked if they were glad the moms came, the kids said "uh, meh".

Next time it's Shore Lodge for the moms then.

 Tadpole catchers

 It was hot. 

 Taelor and Meredith playing Uno.  9 years old.

 More tadpoles...

 I hiked around the lake and took a picture of our camp.

 Smores and stories

 Josh is into glamping.  He even brought a toilet.

 Upper Grassy Lake

The Skenes came to visit, we had a great time!

Ahhh, back to reality.  Not quite ready to let this one go to school.

All day kindergarten will be great for her.  I'm going to really miss my buddy during the day.  It's going to be embarrassing when I show up to eat lunch with her every day. 

Now it's August...

Somehow we are nearing the end of summer.  Every year I curse the Boise School District for having school start so early.  First day is August 24th this year.  It's coming way too fast.

 

Delaney got to pick a fun activity for her birthday celebration with

Sam and Eli.  She picked the aquarium.  The girls

spent some hard earned money on food for the birds.

 Quinn wasn't so sure about the birds...

 Delaney found something hilarious I guess

 Back in McCall!  Night time beach racing.

 Early morning ski squad

 Sandcastles are getting really elaborate!

 Lawn nap champ

 Birthday cake ice cream for the birthday girl

 And...on to Spokane.  Delaney wanted to go paint on her birthday.

 Then on to pedicures

 As usual KK threw a great party!  Seahawks theme just for Delaney

 The Lake girls came to celebrate with us

 New "old school" CD player and horses!

 Pinata time

 Next day we hit up Silverwood!  They begged me to go on this ride.  Thankfully no one barfed.

 Delaney waited over an hour for the Timber Terror!

Quinn looked scared but she loved it. 

 These two had a fun day together!