Orange and Blue through and through...Go BSU!

Josh and I went to Boise for parent weekend. It was the first time that we have been to see the campus and where Corey is living...it was great! Corey is in a program to be a RA so he is able to have his own room and has only 4 guys in the bottom floor of his dorm. We were able to tour the campus and see where his classes are and eat in the cafeteria-which actually has really good food. We went to the BSU football game and our last day got to walk on the blue turf...I guess guys think that is really cool:)
Overall it was a great weekend and we had such a great time seeing Corey. He is such an amazing person and is going to accomplish so much! We love you Corey!

Josh loved this helmet car

Josh, Corey and Jeff

In our seats at the game
me, Corey and Josh infront of the Bronco

random

Here are a few random pics that the kids wanted me to add...

Here is Maddie at the fair climbing a 30 foot rock wall-go Maddie!

My mom went to Texas at the end of the summer to visit my brother. She asked what they wanted her to bring them back and I said anything was good except a cheesy T-shirt...this is what they got-Cowboy boots!
Did you know you could wear boots with anything? Even Batman jammies?

Back to School

School has started again and life is busy! Maddie started 3rd grade and is loving it! She is SO smart and is actually tutoring kids for reading. She loves all of her subjects and excells at reading, spelling, math and science. Maddie is playing soccer, loves to draw and write stories along with going to AWANAS at church.

Jake is now in Pre-Kindergarten. We decided due to his birthday that we would have him stay back one more year. He is LOVING school and after getting in trouble the first few days:) has now learned the rules and is doing great! He loves riding the bus with his sister and going to a big elementry school. He attends M, W and every other Friday-ALL day! To our surprise he is starting to read and learning more each day.

Birthdays

The kids had GREAT birthdays this year! They both had fun ideas of what they wanted to do and they were a blast!

Jacob turned 5 on August 19th and he of course wanted a skateboard party. We rented out the place where he has had lessons before and I thought they would be learning how to skate...I was wrong. I misunderstood and there were no lessons just free skate-so we had 10 boys on skateboards with no idea as to what they were doing...a little CRAZY!

Maddie turned 8 on August 30th. She had a gymnastics party at the YMCA in Puyallup. They have all of the gymnastics equipment you could think of-trampoline, bars, beams, rope swings and tumbling mat. The kids has so much fun that no one wanted to leave!

I can not believe how big they have gotten and what great kids they are. They are bright, funny, loving and both have such great hearts. We are SO lucky! Happy birthday and we love you!!!