Labor Day 2010

Abbey Fishing

Abbey

Abbey

Kent and Lily fishing!

First Day of School

Gracie and Mrs. Gillespie.

Lily on her first day of Kindergarten

Abbey and Mrs. Watson

The girls started their first day of school in August. Abbey is in 4th grade, Gracie is in 2nd grade and Lily started Kindergarten this year. Here's to a great year!

American Girl Doll Store GA

Lily with her new American Girl Doll -- Rebecca

Abbey with her new American Girl Doll -- Kaya

Gracie with her new American Girl Doll - Julie

We went to GA to visit Kent's twin brother and his family. The girls were especially excited to make the trip because there is an American Girl Doll Store there. They saved their Summer School Money and had enough to buy a doll each. We had a fun trip visiting family and Aunt Lori, Colby, Jake and Kayla were nice enough to take us to the store and out for dinner. We all had a great trip!

Beau, Gracie, Lucy, Abbey and Lily

Lily brushing the cow

Abbey brushing the cow

Gracie milking the cow

We went to the Shatto Dairy with Nicole and her kids. We went on the tour and watched the cows being milked and learned how they make all the different flavors of milk. We even got to sample some of the different flavors. We all had a fun day!

Annual Trip to the River

Gracie and Lily getting ready to head to the river.

Lily turns 5

Lily wanted a bike for her birthday that wasn't a hand me down from her sisters!

Abbey, Lily and Gracie sitting in front of the 3 different colored flowers we have in front of our house. We try to get their pictures here every year to see how much they grow every year.

We weren't very good but we had fun!

Logrolling 2010

Gracie

Lily

Abbey

Dave got the girls interested in "logrolling" while we were camping. Abbey and Gracie did a great job. ( I couldn't get the video of Abbey to load but got some great footage of Gracie and Kent) Kent was the best at it, however. Lily was able to"logroll" with a little help from her dad. Mom and I tried but weren't very good!

Gracie Logrolling

Cleaning the fish

Lily, Gracie and Dave cleaning the fish

Lily, Gracie and Dave

Abbey caught the fish, however, she wanted NO part in cleaning them. It didn't seem to bother Gracie and Lily, though!

Abbey Caught 4 Fish!

Lily, Abbey, the fish, and Gracie

Abbey went with Dave and Kent to catch fish this evening. She tried to fish earlier in the day but didn't catch anything because Oreo was swimming around and barking and Gracie was swimming and splashing around and everyone was being loud. We also had the paddle boat out in the water to add to the chaos. So, Mom and I took Gracie, Lily and Oreo for a walk so they could catch some fish. And did they ever... Abbey caught 4 and Kent and Dave caught 3 each!

Campfire Stew

Lily, Dave, Abbey and Gracie

Another tradition that we have developed is eating campfire stew on our camp outs. The girls LOVE Nana's campfire stew! It was delicious!

Cute Flower pics

Lily

Abbey

Gracie

Picking Wildflowers for Nana

Lily and Dave

Dave, Gracie and Abbey

Gracie

Dave and Gracie

We stopped on the way back to camp to pick wildflowers for Nana. The girls had a great time picking them and Dave made a really pretty bouquet when we got back.

The Ride Home

Abbey and Gracie getting in the truck for our ride home from our rock hunt

Little Prairie Dogs

Dave showing the girls that the hole was actually safe!

Dave came and picked us up on our way home from the rock hunt. He wanted to show us up further where a part of the road had been washed out from all the rain we have been getting. It looked really unsafe for cars but proved to be a pretty funny picture of the girls. They needed some convincing but we talked them into posing as prairie dogs in the holes. It was pretty funny!

Annual Rock Hunt 2010

Throwing rocks off the bridge

Abbey, Gracie and Oreo

Lily, Gracie, Abbey and Kent waiting for the tractor to cross the bridge so we could continue on our walk.

Lily and Gracie showing me their pretty flowers. The only vacation where you can wear your PJs the entire time.

We woke up early Saturday morning and went on a rock hunt down an old road. The girls found lots of rocks, flowers and animal tracks. We even found a bridge that was perfect for throwing rocks off of. We had a great time rock hunting this year.

Abbey's new pocket knife

Nana gave Abbey a pocket knife she found with some old keys. Abbey had a lot of fun widdling on a stick most of the weekend. She has gotten pretty good at it. We just had to keep telling her to point away from herself and not towards herself.