Camping at SF Park

State Farm Park hosts an annual camping event and Grayson brought two of his friends this year (Ty and Collin).  This was the 1st year that we had a Camper as well.  We usually put up a tent but Jeff borrowed his brother's Camper for the weekend.  The boys had a BLAST!  I, of course, left at 9:30pm and went home to sleep in my own bed.  Aleigha was brave enough to stick it out all night as well for the 1st time.  She thought she was big stuff.

breakfast

  They love to play games outside - they make up games called MineCraft and Hunger Games!

Aleigha feeding the ducks

at the trailer....

they did not want to leave!!

State Farm Kid's Triathlon

Grayson and his friend, Ben, completed their 1st Kid's Triathlon in August!  They both did a great job and we're so proud of them.

SWIMMING first...

then BIKING...

Finally, RUNNING

after the race.....

this picture says it all.....  :)

YAY!  a trophy, water bottle and t-shirt to take home!

1st day of the 2012-2013 school year

 
Grayson is in 5th grade - the last year of elementary school... His teacher is Mrs. Kalina and we love her.  They have a pet gerbil, named Kesha, the he adores.  Mrs. Kalina doesn't believe in homework so we have lucked out this year.  She is very much into technology and communicating with other kids all over the world.  This is the first year that we've allowed Grayson to walk to school.  It is exactly one mile and he always walks to and from school with his friend, Collin.

Aleigha is in her last year of pre-school at Montessori and she still loves it!  She loves school and making stuff to bring home and pretending to do homework at night.  She tells me she has two boyfriends this year. (Last year she only had one boyfriend.)  These boys do not know of this situation but Aleigha loves to talk about them!

blogging... oops... (Indiana Dunes)

It is so easy to post updates on Facebook so I've neglected this blog!  :(  So here are some updates...
We went to Indiana Dunes in August.  It was such a nice beach and great trails and dunes... but very sandy as you can tell from my shoe after a hike...

at a restaurant   == of course, they had a balloon lady while we waited!

at the top of one of the biggest dunes

at an Ourdoor World store.. it was HUGE!