Fair Time & First Day of School

The kids had a fun last week of summer with lots of visits/sleep overs with friends and of course the fair! They got to see the parade Friday morning and then we went to the carnival early Friday evening. It was HOT! But I don't think they cared too much. The girls rode every scary ride they had multiple times while Colten stayed with the tamer rides.

Here's Colten on his favorite - the dragon roller coaster (not sure who the other little boy is)

Here are the three of them on the tea cups - it was very boring b/c the cup wouldn't spin and every time they came around to where we could see them, they had a different expression of boredom on their faces - no more riding that one!

Here's Ashlyn & Jayde on the orbiter (I think that's what it's called). It goes back and forth around a circle and eventually does a whole loop a few times.

Sunday, we went to the Beaver Creek with the Witt's for one last to-do before school. It was sooo hot, though and the water was almost as warm as the air, but the kids had fun of course. Colten caught lots of minnows and when one of them died, they started a game of "cooking" where they found a hole in the rocks and added dead fish, water and greenery to make some fancy looking "food." Ewwww....

Then Monday was the first day of school - Ashlyn is now an 8th grader and Colten's a 3rd grader! They both had a good first day. Colten loves his teacher and was soooo happy that his two good friends were in his class and one boy that he doesn't like wasn't. Ashlyn was sad that her friend Emmie wasn't hardly in any of her classes, but she had friends in every class so it wasn't too big of a deal. She gets to take Algebra 1 this year in a small class of 12 since she has had such good grades in math -yay Ashlyn!