Cherished Blessings: End of summer, brings busy times!

We have had a busy week. Kind of a "fill everything in before school starts". On Wednesday evening we had Douglas' open house for school. He was able to see his classroom, meet his teacher and drop off his school supplies. When we got to the van I discovered that our rear passenger side tire was almost flat. James had said recently that we were going to be needing new tires anyway. So on Thursday morning James called around for tire prices and we got an appt. set for 10:30 a.m. We brought the van to the shop and took a walk over to our bowling alley because the boys each had a coupon for a free game of bowling. We had a good time. It took us about an hour to play. After bowling we went out to eat at the restaurant attached to the bowling alley. Had some good food then started heading back to pick up our van. On the way back we stopped at a pet store, (the kids really enjoy seeing the animals). So, we picked up the van and went home for naps. Later that evening we had a picnic to go to that Douglas' new teacher set up for the kids and parents to meet each other before school starts. That was a really neat thing for her to do.

On Friday my (Pam) sister came to visit for the day with my neice and nephew. We had a nice day of conversation, went for a walk and after james got home from work, my sister and I went to look at tatoo ideas. She stayed through supper. On Saturday James had to work but later in the afternoon some friends of ours called and invited us out to their place for supper of grilled salmon. So we went over there for a few hours and had a good time.

WE DID IT!!!

At the beginning of the summer we said that we would like to take a bike trip to a near by town and make a day of it. Yesterday we decided to do it. So we went on a 25+mile round-trip bike ride. We got to the town and went to a kind of fun park. It has big go carts, midget go carts, bumper boats, a powerwheel course and mini golf. I took douglas as a passenger on the big go carts, and James took Evan. Douglas went on the midget racers. Then Phillip went on the bumper boats with James (didn't get a picture of that though) and last Phillip and Evan did the powerwheels. After we got done there we went to DQ for some ice cream then we met some friends at a park for a picnic and the chance for the kids to play. We had a fun time. We started heading back home around 6:30p.m. and arrived home about 8:15. We got to the town a little faster then we got home. It was a fun trip but it was a bit tiring by the end of the day. Needless to say I am a bit sore today.