All school-aged kids finally and officially in school

Ruby, 1st day of preschool

Yuna 1st day of pre-school

Ori

Finn

Gunnar 1st day of school (August)

Gunnar started school in August, but I didn't get the pictures until now

Ollie

Ollie

School FINALLY started for my 3-5 year old grandchildren.  For pre-school and kindergarten, school didn't officially get started until the day after Labor Day.  It's so frustrating for parents of kindergartners--everyone else starts school, but because of kindergarten testing, school doesn't start for the 5 year-olds.

Little Ila reached out and grabbed the hot panini maker while Adrienne was fixing sandwiches and got a 2nd degree burn on her pinky and a 1st degree burn on her thumb.  Adrienne and AJ took another trip to the emergency room to get her checked out.  The doctor told her to make sure she uses her thumb joint and also that she doesn't get an infection.  She's naked in the picture because of a blowout that always happens when you don't have extra clothing handy.

Ila

Ila

Jennie attended a concert this past week.  She was dressed for it, too.  She said people wear lots of make-up to these things.  She made a good choice and came home early when she decided it wasn't the type of concert she should be at.  

I got this picture of Finn from Adrienne during the week.  She had to pick up the boys from school and wanted to know where I was (she was hoping not to have to wake him).  I'm ashamed to say I didn't pay enough attention to the texts to go and help her out.  I guess she'll have to pick up the phone next time.

Avie (Instagram)

Ila (Instagram)

We fit in another fun day over the weekend--this time at Bear Lake--It was Crista's idea to take the boat up Friday night and have dinner with Crista's family. Spend the night, go boating, and end the day with a play at the Pickleville Theater.  We have never been there before and it's probably been 10 years since we've had the boat on Bear Lake.  The play was called "Who Shot Juanito Bandito."  The actors were hilarious and it was a lot of fun.  It was LONG, though--it started at 4:30 and ended at about 6:45.  We think it was extra long because it was closing night and the actors got a little carried away with ad-libbing.  Crista was surprised when I told her what time it was.  She didn't realize the play went so long because she loved every minute of it.  Crista is like her dad--a cruise director.  She's good at planning things and making decisions.  We had a great time.

The air was quite cool when we got started, but by early afternoon it was 80 degrees.
Caitlyn was the only one who ventured in the water for a quick dip.

Greta and Ruby--Crista had made sandwiches
for our lunch.

Matt, Ruby, Crista and Greta

Caitlyn, Matt and Greta

I have to admit  I spent a lot of time reading.  I was into a sad, but
good book and had a hard time putting it down.
(It was called, "Before we were Yours")

Matt captured this picture, just before Ruby slid over and knocked
Greta onto the rocks below.

Matt and Ruby

Ruby and Grandpa driving the boatr

Greta and grandpa driving the boat

Crista and Greta

Dan sent me this picture of Dojin along with a video
where he was drinking the contents of the jar--Kimchi juice.
No thank you, but it looks like he enjoyed it.

Labor Day Weekend

Early this week I finished a quilt for Avie.  Apparently all the girls liked it :)

Effie, Avie and Ori enjoying the new quilt

  

We celebrated Gunnar's birthday one evening (since we are always camping on his actual birthday).  We had take-out Chinese food delivered and Roy spent some individual time with Gunnar building a steam engine and having him shoot flies and wasps with our new salt shooter gun.  I think he liked doing that.  The boys played and hopefully it was a small break for their parents.

I had many pickling cucumbers from our garden, so I made a batch of mustard pickles (I've never been successful canning regular dill pickles).  I've also made a couple of batches of spaghetti sauce for the winter.

I got abut 20 pints of mustard pickle out of the batch

Max  had an awesome opportunity this week.  He was King of the Day in kindergarten!
And his sister Beverly is almost walking. Also, lucky Elise-- Maverick is being potty trained.

Max as King

Maverick!

In keeping with our traditions, Roy and I headed up to Flaming Gorge for boating.  It's  often our last boating week of the summer, but not this time... We brought our boat back and will head to Bear Lake to boat with Crista and Matt next Saturday. Caitlyn, and Dan and Jieun and family came with us and we had a fantastic time.  Jennie was going to come but she had better offers.  As usual, we got lots of pictures.

For some reason Hyeji looks a little guilty in
this picture.

We did some tubing.  

Hyeji, Yuna and Doyeon

Hyeji, Dan and Doeyon

The water was "refreshing"! but everyone still got in.

Dojin

 Dojin got to drive the boat and get his picture taken in this coveted spot.  Every time Roy touched the wheel to get us back on track, Dojin would hit his hand off.  He was driving--that's all there was to it.

Roy and Dojin

Doyeon and Hyeji

Caitlyn, Dan and Dojin

Dan on two skis.

Dan, falling

Dan thought it would be fun to try two skis.  He did great and said it was fun to goof off with them.  Caitlyn slalomed.  She got up for a few seconds, then fell down. She blamed it on peer pressure, cold water and her bad mood because Roy woke her up to ski (the water was perfect for a few seconds).  By the time she got in, however, the wind had picked up and it wasn't good slalom conditions.  She fell after a few seconds and the ski flew up and hit her in the head.  She had a little headache for the rest of the trip.  She's a trooper, though.  She'll probably try again sometime.

Boating can be exhausting

We went to church in Dutch John and had a relaxing Sabbath the rest of the day.  We took our infamous walk down to the Gorge and got--you guessed it--more pictures.  We took turns with Dan and Jieun.  It's a one hour hike, round trip, no big deal, but sometimes the younger of Dan's girls complain, so we left them home.

We thought about boating on Monday, but it was a little chilly and most of us were ready to get home, so we packed up and left.  Later that evening we met Dan and Jieun at Ejos Restaurant that just reopened that very day.  We wanted to support Jieun's "aunt."  All in all it was another fun summer week.
More pictures:

While fishing for crawdads at the pond,
Dan and the girls were treated to
another form of wildlife.

Hyeji

Doyeon and Yuna

Dojin, like all the other grand children,
loves to climb up
and down the trailer steps.