First

First Day of High School

First day of Middle School

First day of First grade

First Day at a new School

First Day of the last year in Elementary school

first day of....."What the crap did I do?"

He watched as they all got on and this is how they found him coming home.

first football game. He is #30

do I even need to say anything?

first day of LAX

Another first not pictured is the youngest had her first piano lesson this week. Tomorrow is the first day of Early Morning Seminary. Let the fun begin.

Happy Birthday Coop

His Birthday fell on Labor Day again this year. The day before school starts. The day parents are running around trying to get things ready for school. He had a great day in spite of all the above. He had had a sleep over the week before with his best friend. I took him to get his birthday present...Donkey Kong for the Wii and he sat around and played it all afternoon. We took him to Sticky Lips for dinner and cake for dessert. I can't believe he is 12!! We love you Coop.

E turns 10

August 27th, E turned 10. I remember it like it was yesterday. My mom was here, Chris was about to go out of town, and the world was about to change. She was my smallest baby.

She loved all her presents.

She always has a sleep over with her two best friends.
Cam had to leave before I got the camera out.

Thanks to a fabulous friend and a fun trade we scored tickets to SeaBreeze Amusement Park. We spent the entire day there and the kids were so sad when we finally said it was time to go. We stopped at Wegmans for pizza and ice cream cake. I only found two candles, but she didn't care. What a fun day we had together as a family. We are so blessed to have E in our family. She is fun, kind, smart, loving, dependable, rotten, spiritual, tender hearted, talented and a bunch of other things. We love you E!

Amish Trail

This was my favorite part of our vacation

The Amish trail was so beautiful

We stopped at so many cool places and bought so many amazing treats

This was from our last stop.
I was in her store alone when she walked in with these.

FRESH and OH SO AMAZING!!!
Seriously the best donut I have ever had in my life.

Bear Caves

Another stop was the bear caves

It was a 4 mile hike. We started at the end and only hiked maybe a mile
or less to get to the caves.

another fun stop

Science Lake

Another stop was Science Lake

It was so quiet and peaceful there...until we got out of the car. :)

we went behind the dam and looked for crayfish.

Chris was trying to get it to hold the leaves

I wish you could hear Chris pretending he is the crayfish in this picture.

Thunder Rocks

Breakfast after showers. (they LOVED taking showers here)

hot cereal is always an easy camping breakfast

Our first stop of the morning was Thunder Rocks

They loved it here. There were so many cool HUGE rocks to climb

Abby McPhee

We kept telling her she looked like Nanny McPhee with that tooth of hers!

She was doing this all weekend.

Allegany State Park

This is how we spent our first day of vacation.

playing at the beach

they could have spent every day at the beach.