Luke's Last First-Day-Of-School

It's only the first day of the last year of school but I take it as a milestone! The light at the end of the tunnel is getting brighter. . .Hooray!

Luke is ready for family prayer before he leaves for school and Kade is ready for holding the camera :)

Family Reunion

We spent this past weekend at the Thompson family reunion with my Mom's maternal side of the family. It was up in Idaho along the Salmon River. Kade and Luke met many of my cousins for the first time, including the Canadian side. Food, family and fun lead to a good time.

Dallas and Lindsey's boy Declan called Kade "baby" all weekend and Kade had fun following him around.

Kade was infatuated with the ramp leading to the mess hall and went up and down so many times every day.

The Sound of Music

Our wonderful friends Dave and Mary Sauer gave us their piano!!!!! We are so excited! They are moving to Manhatten because Dave will be pursuing a Masters degree in vocal performance at the Manhatten School of Music and they won't have room for it in their apartment in the city. So we are the very fortunate recipients of their piano. I'm not sure if Luke was most excited to tell me about it, I am most excited to have a piano in our home, or Kade is most excited by the giant noise-maker that appeared over night in the front room. He will sit and play the piano for ten minutes at a time, and then want to get up and play some more a few minutes later. I have been restricting his playing time to before the mortuary opens or after it closes because I don't think his banging music would be appreciated. So we are all excited, did I mention that? And a big thanks goes to Dave, Clint, Phil, Brian and Tyler for their muscle power in getting it up the stairs. . . which also led to a fun girl party inside with all the wives while the guys were working.

Save a spot for me in your piano studio Aunt Janetta!

My Green Thumb

This summer I have been growing a little boy and a garden. Kade has been my assistant gardener and has enjoyed it for the most part. His favorite thing to pick is flowers from the little flowerbed he is sitting on. Our garden has been producing vegetables like crazy and with my parents at their farm most of the time, it has been quite a bit of work taking care of everything and trying to eat everything. I offered in Relief Society but anyone is welcome to squash, spinach, cucumbers and much more if you want it :)