What's better than a s'more?

 

A BIG MAC S'MORE!

 

Off to school part 2

 Parker is off to college, yikes.  Photos below

Greg and Parker took off early on Wednesday, I stayed home to make sure the younger kiddos went to school and stuff.  Every year since he was 3 Parker has been totally ready for school, running off to the door without even looking back.  College made him pretty nervous and that felt out of character.  But he slowly warmed up to college as he was able to make a schedule and book a dorm room, he felt better and more excited. 

Parker moved in and hasn't seen much of his roommate.  He seems nice and laid back, which will be good, since Parker has already locked himself out of his room twice. 

He attended all the new student orientation meetings and met people.  The new parent meetings made us feel better, but we still felt a little like this...

They said, we work for you, contact us.  They also said, when they look at applications they look to see if the student will be a good fit, and then they consider grades to make sure they won't drown once they get there. In other words, your student belongs here. 

Greg spent time visiting with family and hiking.  Their last morning they hiked to the Y together. 

We did tons of prep before they left, and I'm so glad we did.  We missed a few things and it would have been a pain to have a million things to track down, instead of just a couple things.  Next time (hopefully there will be 2 next times!) we will shop earlier, and make sure the bed is as comfortable as possible.  And also bring quarters for laundry because of the coin shortage, ugh.  

Everyone will miss him, he's so nice to have around. 

First day 2021

School starts this week and I'll post photos soon...

First off, Mimi went to her first day of 10th grade.  Officially the first day at the main high school is just for Freshmen, but her little high school has their scheduling day the first day. 

Fall 2021

Parker isn't off to school just yet, but he did heroically wake up early just to drive Mimi to school.  Such a nice brother.  We then spent the day fighting the crowds of parents and college students buying stuff at Target. 

Yoda wasn't even awake before they left.  Middle school is the last of the schools to start their day.  He's pumped to take the bus with a few of our neighbors and friends. 

Some D&D

The plan was to take a few days off to go backpacking, but too many things got in the way.  Greg still took some time off, but they played many, many hours of Dungeons and Dragons!

Did I show off my custom Dungeon Master screen?  I could use some work, but it gets the job done :)

Using up some sparklers

 We didn't use all the sparklers and pop-its so we pulled them out one nice night ...

Then Yoda showed us his trick of slapping a pop-it mid-air.