A cool, rainy day...perfect for a few projects!  Finally got the pictures off my phone!

The summer marches on for another week!!  Then it will be 6th, 9th and 12th.  Two in high school!  Crazy.

Benjamin has finally gotten on the line in the kitchen cooking.  He is doing saute and his sandwich shop job has taken back seat.  Still getting about 40 hours a week, not sure what the school year work schedule will look like.  His current class schedule Sports Medicine II, Welding III, English, Strength and Conditioning and currently CAD.  He thinks he needs an art of some kind to graduate, so hopefully he can get it sorted out.  I have always been amazed at the high school senior guys and how they just look so old and like men.  Well, that has been Benjamin this summer.  He has transformed into a man!  He is hoping to get his braces off soon and finally close the chapter on his jaw surgery almost a year ago.

Jacob has started football two a days.  That kid is rocking it.  He gets himself up by himself every morning at 5:30.  He is still slotted for QB.  I guess there are currently three QB options on the Froshmore team.  Will be fun to see how things shake out.  He will also be playing linebacker.  He has been lifting weights all summer and starting to fill out.  Jacob has recently dropped to PT once a week and has things scheduled through early October...so he plugs along.  It was exactly 6 months ago today!  We have purchased his ski pass for this coming year, so hoping for no drama this time around!!

Joseph still hangs out at the skate park and with neighbor friends.  He is doing another refresher 'summer school' right now, before things kick off next week.  His first year in middle school was last year, in 5th, but with Covid, it was anything but normal.  Excited for him to have a 'normal' year, switching classes, being able to roam outside during lunch and recess.

JR plugs along with all kinds of special projects.  He is going on his annual hiking trip to the Wind River Range, going with a friend, in early September.  Then he is hoping to do some Texas hog hunting later in September.

Benjamin, Jacob and I are headed to Seattle in a few days.  We are going to watch an NFL preseason game between Seahawks and Broncos.  We are staying in downtown and will hit all the popular spots.  A very short trip, just on the ground about 2 1/2 days!

Here are photos from camping trip last month.  It was just Jacob and I, along with a few other friends.

Below is a picture of bearproof box, that all food must be stored in!

The really really cold river....that's Jacob with the water splashing up his back.

I recently took Jacob and Joseph, and a friend each to a neighboring town an hour a way.  We made a day of it and went to a water park (every time I type that I have to remind myself that these water parks are nothing compared to what we have in Texas, but the kids here have no idea what they are missing).  We went to the skate park, a favorite local pizza buffet that the boys love, played at an amazing park and then finished the day off with a drive in movie!!

I am always amazed how much fun everyone seems to have when they put their devices down and go play.  So fun to watch the big kid game of tag.  I think there was a part of them that would have missed the drive in to keep playing!!

How smart is this?.....put workout equipment around the play equipment.  Parents can get a workout in while they are able to watch their kids.

The boys all sat in the back with the back opened up.  I managed to sit up front and found an amazing view through the side mirror.  (It was one of those action films, so not anything I was super interested in watching.)