Rochester summer

So, I had big plans for our summer, but with trying to get settled after moving, our long road trip, and pregnancy, not a whole lot panned out. Here are a few things we did get to do:

After Chris' parents helped us get settled in the new house, we did get to do some fun things. The second picture is after our picnic at Silver Lake.

We also got to go to a Honkers game, then the next night we celebrated the 4th of July with a few fireworks in the driveway. The next day Grandma and Grandpa left for their LONG drive back to Utah. Thank you Thank you for all your hard work in helping us get moved in!

The next week our friends from the "Village" the Goates came to visit. They live in Pennsylvania, where Nathan is a professor. Since he had most of the summer off, they were just getting started on a 5 week road trip to see the country and their family and friends. We had such a great time catching up, and we wish we could do it more often.

Annie was in a play put on by the Prairie Fire Children's Theater company. They did their own version of Sleeping Beauty. Annie and Noah were also in swimming, and Noah and Brig were in T-ball, but I guess this is the only picture I got of all the activities they were in for the summer. *Sigh*

Picking raspberries at Sterling Fruit farm. They had the biggest, sweetest raspberries I have ever seen! Great for berries and cream, on top of cereal, and pie - YUM!

Hudson liked to wear Chris' head lamp during much of the summer. What a cute boy!

One afternoon, the boys announced that they were going to play in the sprinkler. A little while later I looked out the window, and this is what I saw. My first inclination was to holler at them to clean up, but I (for once) stopped myself and just grabbed the camera. Getting muddy - one of the joys of a summer afternoon outdoors.

We ended our summer by shooting off Noah's rocket (from his birthday) on Labor day. We were all surprised with how well it worked - we guesstimate that it went up around 400-500 feet. We got a number of extra engines so we got to shoot it off a couple of times.

Goodbye summer!