August Wrap Up

During our Manti Motorcycle/Camping trip, we went and found housing for Austin and got his class schedule worked out. 

Austin's Instagram Post

My darling daughters:

Alex and Brach at EFY

Dev & Rylee with a HUGE snow cone!

 

 Celebrating Kammy's birthday.....late!

New carpet and arrangement in Ry's room

Austin with a fresh crew cut and straight edge shave:

More sushi for lunch:

A little produce from our garden:

Catching Alex and Brach face timing with a girl from EFY

A Rylee Selfie

 First Night of Dance on Company!

New glasses!

Wildflower Pedalfest 75 mile Ride

 At the top of the five mile hill  climb! I lived!

Canning

Alex gets his learners permit! Yikes!!

Girls Trip to Star Valley Wyoming!

Morning Ride

Picking choke cherries

Riding ATV's

Bar J Wranglers after browsing/window shopping in Jackson Hole

Riding horses

And look at this great pants I picked up for my costume box! 

(Thrift store shopping in Jackson)

New motorcycle....#5

Being sassy....

First Toe Shoe Fitting!

Big These?

We adopted Alex at age 10 almost 11. About a year into him living with us he was observing Austin's and Jame's biceps and pointing to his biceps asked, "Mom, when I get big these?" (I think I might have blogged about it but I can't find the entry.) I told him I didn't know?  That it all depends on his genetics? Austin did nothing to get big biceps - he got them from Dad but Alex has different birth parents and I really don't know what genetics he has? We will just have to wait and see? I asked if his birth dad was big?  He told me he was "really, really big" but he was four when his birth dad died. Of course he was big - everyone is big when you're four.

Watching Alex grow is like a sweet surprise. We really have no idea what he'll be like? Not knowing anything about the physical attributes of his parents, I assumed he'd be a small guy as I was taller than his half brother? (They share a mother, not a father.) But I think I might be wrong? He is currently almost five foot eight and barely 15 and he's put on an inch in just over 2 months. Growing like a week. 

But as for the biceps? And the golden question,  "Mom, when I get big these?" Apparently the gun show begins at age 15?

Back To School 2013

 9th, 12th, 8th

Yuba Lake and Manti Motorcycle Trip!

 Kambree working at their motel:

Celebrating our THREE birthdays in six days:

Star Gazing....