Busy, Busy, Busy

We have had a busy week this week. My doctor's appointmen went well. Nothing unusually, but I will be going to DesMoines for my next appointment on Sept. 26 for a level 2 ultrasound. Chrisopher started soccer this week and had practice on Tuesday night. He said his feet hurt alittle after practice. Last night was the youth kick off and registration for AWANA. The kids have already begun to work on sections to say for next week.
We really don't have major plans for Labor Day. Keith's brother Kevin is coming over, but I'm not sure what we'll do. The kids would like to go swimming one more time before it closes for the summer. I need to finish getting the stuff ready for the kids to start school on Tuesday. I think they may be ready, but I'm not quite there, yet.

Baby Update

I sometimes forget I'm pregnant and then someone asks me how we're doing. We are doing good. Tomorrow I'll be 18 weeks along. We have talked about names, but really can't seem to agree. I go to the doctor on Monday for a check up. At this point nothing really exciting happens there except I have to wait forever to see the Doctor. I'll be sure to bring a lot of things to do while I wait. They really should put recliners in the waiting area and then we could just take a nap.
Beth's comment of this week, "I really don't want it to be a girl because then I'll have to share my room, but I really don't want a brother since he'll be more annoying than a sister."
Thanks everyone for praying and keep on praying for us and the baby.

Back to Reality!

Ok so this week school started here in Slater on Tuesday which meant I had to have forms filled out by then about what I was going to teach my kids this year. I also had other forms to fill out as they are taking classes with the Ames Home School Assistance program. Basically I have writer's cramp!! But I'm glad to have that part done now I can finish up last minute stuff until we actually begin school after Labor Day. I also worked 4 days this week along with meetings and church on Wednesday it has been a long tiring week. I'm thankful I got unpacked from camp this past weekend or I'd been in big trouble.
This weekend Keith is going to Men's Retreat at camp and the kids and I are going to go to Lincoln Highway Days' parade in Nevada on Saturday if it doesn't rain. The college students are back in Ames so that means Pizza Fest on Sunday. It is a chance for those of us from the church to meet and make college students feel welcome.

Chris doing archery

Here is Beth going off the zip-line and Chris standing at the top. He never did go off.

Here's my dad singing!
This was bed-head Wednesday!!!
Here we are having family devotions!

Family Camp

Beth being goofy with her friend, Jenni.

Getting her face painted during the carnival.

My parents enjoying the carnival.

Chris was alittle hesitate to climb, so Mike-the guy in charge of the tower climbed along side him.
It wasn't a very busy day for archery, so Chris got to shot for about an hour.
The girl next to Beth is Kayla. She came along with us.

Family Camp

Beth and I made her a duct tape purse.
Chris loves the slip and slide
This was for the biggest splash contest.
After swimming then it is off to the carpet ball tournament.
For one of the early afternoon activites they played water balloon volleyball. It wasn't really hot, but more people showed up than I thought would.

We had a great week!!