Third Grade

Tuesday, Sept. 3 was Matt's first day of third grade. He was excited to get back to school.

Angelina and Matt. They were in K, 1 and now 3 grades together.

Mason and Matt. They've been in every grade together and are super good buddies. Mason's mom takes care of Matt 2 days a week in the summer - so he get's to experience the lazy days of summer that he misses out on since both of us work.

Matt, Abby and Mason. I think Abby and Mason have a crush on each other!

Daddo and Matto!

Mommo and Matto.

I got off work early so that Kyra could ride her bike to Matt's school to pick him up.

Then we had Matt and 3 of his buddies come over for a play date epic hike along the river. Kyra brought an umbrella, just in case we needed it. Watch out for poison ivy - it's all over the place down there!

Bugs

Curt bought some seasoned bugs to eat. The kids liked them. Matt preferred grubs, Kyra crickets.Good source of protein. And I think they ate them all up.

Monster Veggie Garden

We haven't been able to tend to our garden as much as we'd like. So, this year, we have a monster garden. You can barely walk through and harvest it's so over grown. At least the monster veggies are yummy.

Munching their way through the garden.

Monster cherry tomato plant with monster Matt.

Crazy tomatilla plant with krazy Kyra.

Lego-man

Matthew has had a passion for legos for the past 7+ years. With the America's Cup happening this summer, he's been building all sorts of sailing vessels. He even tests some of the smaller vessels out in water to see how stable they are in strong wind.

AC72

AC72 racing a monohull and winning.

Here's the monohull.

Sailing the last week of August

 We took the last week of August off of work to go sailing in Pend Orille.

Kyra swimming in Beaver Bay.

A butterfly in Buttonhook Bay kept landing on Matt.

Kyra really wanted the butterfly to land on her, but it just didn't happen.

But Curt found a garter snake for the kids to investigate.

Matthew caught enough fish for our dinner one evening. Kyra caught a bunch too.

On our way to Whiskey Rock - beautiful shoreline.

She finally has a name on her hull. It's the same name for the last 40 years. We tried to come up with a new name, but nothing sounded right. Since Miss Noel has been on the lake for the past 30+ years, we've run into many sailors that have sailed her, and loved her. We thought it would be best to keep the name.

Miss Noel, Kent Ranger 24 all ready to sail to Whiskey Rock.

On our way to Whiskey Rock. Light winds, slow sailing and great views. On our way back to Bayview a few days later we had 2-3 foot waves, strong winds and slow motoring. The winds were too strong for novice sailors like us.

A sun fish.

Sunset from the boat at Whiskey Rock.

Matt found a new fishing buddy.

Kyra met a new hiking buddy.

Summer Collection

It's been a busy summer. Here's a collection of fun photos.

One thing the kids like to do when sailing is go for a mornring PJ hike.

Henry, Kyra and Joey at a soccer tourney for their older brothers.

Kyra's doing soccer tots. She's in the purple pants and yellow top.

Here are grandmas glasses!

Matt and a fish. The kids are fishing fools. Kyra caught her first few fish, but were too small to keep.

Good old Ginger.

Kids on the bow of Miss Noel.

On our way to a wedding.