Auna is a Pirate

 Auna played her first game as a Pirate today at the Red and White game, usually the 7th and 8th grade play each other but this year they had enough kids to have each class play separately.  Auna did great!  Reminds me of another volleyball player in the family...


Em's CWU roster picture for 2012

 

Auna's 1st day of school

 Auna came over this morning before her 1st day of 7th grade.  Ava and Harper were so happy to see her and happily posed for a picture with her.  After Auna left they took their bath and then Ava asked if we could make cupcakes.  She helped me stir the batter and then helped fill the baking cups.  They both helped with the frosting, every time I went to take a picture, one or the other was licking the frosting off their knife.   Ava likes a lot of frosting on her cupcakes, as well as a lot of sprink-ka-kulls, as they called them.  Harper's cupcakes didn't get much frosting because she kept eating it.  When they were finished, they took  two cupcakes over to Vera and Alan, then played in the sandbox.   

Macee's future coach

Today was an exciting day for Macee as her future Gonzaga volleyball coach Dave Gantt came to visit.  We were invited over to meet him, too.   We heard a lot about the volleyball program, his coaching style and his family.  He is a personable guy and was open and honest about what Macee can expect there.  They had pizza and he ended up staying for over 3 hours.  Macee will have her official visit at Gonzaga next month. 

James football/twins sunglasses

Wow, time goes so, so fast.  Seems like it was just yesterday that I started taking care of James...

and he was a month old,  

James rolling out for a pass

and now he is a freshman in high school, the starting quarterback on his team at Mark Morris!  They lost a tough game to Kelso tonight but James played well.  It was so fun to see him out there, even though he took some very hard hits, I don't like seeing that.  He also played linebacker and punts, too. 

 

 

It was so sunny this afternoon that Ava ran insde to get her sunglasses and brought a pair of Rielee's out for Harper to wear,  they wanted popsicles but didn't eat much of them.  After a 3 hour nap they were in great moods.

Rielee's 1st day

 Rielee stopped by this morning on the way to her first day of 2nd grade.  She loved her new back pack with the owls and wanted me to take a picture of it.  Then Ava wanted to take a picture of Rielee--

 we all got a laugh out of her headless picture.

 Fortunately, Auna came over this morning so Ava and Harper had someone to play with and they didn't miss Rielee as much.

We went for a walk later and ended up visiting Parker and his friends who had slept out in the tent, they were all just sitting around the fire talking. 

Treehouse move/girls playing school

 Sunday - Gabe, Parker and Papa moved the treehouse, a job made pretty easy with the old boom truck. 

 They loaded it on the trailer and hauled it over beside their garage so they can make a few changes to it, and then give it a new and hopefully somewhat lower to the ground home on their property. 

 Parker and Gabe got right to work on it, finishing the walls inside.  Parker has plans to put up a shelf in the corner to hold a small TV, then run cable to it, extend the roof to cover the porch, and add a deck around it. 

With all the talk of Rielee starting school on Wednesday, I suggested they play "school".  Rielee read several books to the twins, and then Harper took a turn at being the teacher.  She pointed at different animals in a book and  asked Rielee and Ava to name them.  Later in the evening, Ava and Harper were playing school again, except it was a dance school.  Ava would instruct Harper to do different dance moves and Harper would do them, it was really comical.

Luke's football

Luke in blue playing nose guard

 Luke's team beat a Battleground team today, 28-0.  They played on the new turf at McKenzie Stadium.  Luke played well and was in on some good tackles.

Assistant coach Gourde and Luke have a similar stance