Summer 2010

What an adventuresome summer we've had this year. Alison and Martin are at a great age to go explore and see what fun there is to be had out there. They are game for most stuff and getting more brave all the time!

We did some swimming lessons for Alison and spent a great deal of time at the pool with friends and just swimming! Some big swimming milestones have been met. The kids now go down all the water slides in the different pools. We've even at the very end of summer added jumping off of diving boards. So much clean fun to be had around our community.

We spent three weeks in Reno with some side trips to San Francisco and Grover Hot Springs and a trip back to Roseville to see a couple of my Sierra College girlfriends. It was an action packed 3 weeks. We did the 4th of July up in Virginia City.

The Broncos season has started and the kids are enjoying the games! We'll be going to many, so that's a good thing. They do really well!

We capped off this summer with a trip up to Glenwood Springs and took a 4 wheel drive (poor Expedition doesn't have very high clearance!) to Crystal City and then to the Adventure Park where we zipped and zoomed down the mountain at blazing speeds on the Alpine Coaster! It was a whirlwind weekend, but very fun!

Crystal City proved a very good place for Jim to practice using his fancy camera! The pics at the top of the blog are also the Glenwood Trip.

The biggest milestone we crossed this summer was Alison and Martin starting Kindergarten. They are in the same class with Mrs. Christensen and Mrs. Alexander (student teacher). They like their class and are slowly learning more of the kids' names. Martin has a built in buddy in the other morning K class in family friend (pre-school counterpart) Carter. He's the 3rd kid in the Bronco picture above. So they play together at recess. We have a few girls on our street in their class as well. So far, Ali's not copping to having any friends. I'm sure that will all change as they get going.