Summertime!

Today is the first day of summer for the kids! They both ended the year with all A's and B's and so we will have a senior and a 7th grader next year, oh boy! So far the summer will be pretty busy. Colten has basketball camp at school this week. Next weekend we're going to Austin to Emily & Scott's son,  Drew's, 4th birthday and to help them with their packing- they will be moving back to North Dakota the next week and we will sure miss them! Even though we don't see them a whole lot, it will be even harder to do now :( We do plan on visiting them some time in the next couple of years, though. Then the 16th-22nd, Colten will be at Hermann Son's Camp and after that, from June 28th-July 7th, we will be going to Colorado with Mom & Dad for some camping and hiking and who knows what else. Since that would be the week the kids would normally go with them by themselves, we will do some things separate from them so they can still have their bonding time ;) Then Ashlyn is booked to fly to North Dakota by herself to stay with Emily & Scott for 1-1/2 weeks July 31- Aug 10 to help Emily out. We're all pretty nervous about her flying by herself, but kids do that all the time and she'll be 17, so she should be fine, and it will be a good adventure for her and should give her some self confidence. Then school will start again at the end of August, whew that was a lot! In between time, the kids will be helping John around the ranch with getting rid of mesquites and other fun things like that ;) Colten is trying to save up money to buy an Xbox, so we'll see if he manages to do that.