Had a very quiet Labor Day weekend.  I pretty much just hung at home and knocked out projects.  JR was hiking in the Beartooth Mountains with a friend and Bree (pictures to follow another day).  Jacob went to the cabin with his best friend Cam.

I got a text Sunday morning from Cam's mom that Jacob had been fine all day and then threw up Saturday evening.  (She did not realize it at the time of the text, but he also threw up in the middle of the night).  We awaited for them to wake up Sunday and sure enough, he felt just fine!  (This is the second trip to the cabin where he has thrown up...not sure what is going on.)  Then Sun evening I got a call from the cabin (I have never gotten a phone call!).  They were headed into the ER with Jacob.  It seems they were off smashing big branches and somehow Jacob's hand got caught in between two big branches!  Fortunately, no fractures or stitches required.   However, a huge lesson was learned.  He wanted to finish out his weekend at the cabin, so he pushed on.  I was glad when he was finally home.

One of my projects from the long weekend was to start sorting through all of my digital pictures.  I want to get them in the correct yearly photos.  I am all the way back to 2013.  It sure is much easier to weed through and eliminate pictures that are several years old.

This is the view from my window these days!  We provide some of the only shade for the cows in our huge field, so we have been seeing a lot of them lately.

It seems like it varies from day to day, as to how bad the smoke it.  Usually the mountains are pretty clear.  Lots of wildfire smoke!  Crazy how much of the northwest is in flames.  Many having to evacuate.  Some fires will probably not burn out until the snow flies.

The other day there was a knock on the door.  Then I hear a voice, is your mom home?  It was a police officer.  One of the boys was not home and my first thought was, what did X do?  Turns out the man that owns the cows in the field called to report that the barb wire fence, behind our wooden fence had been cut, and he had just repaired it two days ago.  Not real sure what that was all about, but none of us had cut the fence.

Jacob recently bought a skim board with his own money.  What is a skim board you ask?  Why a board allows you to skim across the surface of the water.

He executed that one pretty well...this one not so much.  It seems that if your angle is wrong or the positioning of your feet, you are toast.

And that is how it is done.  Although I think once you get it down, you just sink with the board and then start all over again.

I thought about trying it, but figured I would not look nearly as graceful as they did falling/sinking.

Joseph started Hip Hop dance today.  He was really nervous that he might be the only boy, but he went anyway.  Thankfully, there were 2 other boys in his class.  The only way you can watch is in the observation room, via video camera.  That is Joseph on the mat.

The other two boys got their football pads, etc.  So crazy cool seeing them all geared up. Can't believe they are both old enough for full on football.