Labor Day

Yesterday the boys had no school and Aaron had no work because it was Labor Day. We took the boys to one of their favorite places....Obstacle Warriors first thing when it opened. This place is so much fun for them and they get a lot of exercise. Dylan was very sweaty at the end.

These kids were all on one side and Aaron was on the other...by himself...playing dodgeball.

Then the boys all played with Aaron against the other kids.

Blake mastered getting up the warped ramp.

Blake thought he would try to help Dylan get up.

But Dylan didn't need Blake's help....he can do it all by himself now.

Our ramp experts. They both went and tried the harder one and Blake was soooo close. Maybe next time.

Afterwards, we went to Sonic because the boys earned a free slush from their library readying program. They both got blue raspberry...can you tell by their tongues?  We came home. ate lunch, watched a movie and went swimming.

For those who are wondering how their first week of school went...it was great! They both love their teachers. Sometimes kinder kids are super tired especially by Friday, but Dylan was not. He earned enough tokens by Tuesday so he was able to pick something out of the treasure chest...that made him think school was pretty awesome. Then he earned enough to pick another prize on Friday...the little things that make him happy. Dylan played with his soccer buddy Truett the first day of school and then he made friends with kids in his class so he has been playing with them. He doesn't have much trouble making friends. The second day of school I rode bikes with them to school, but said bye to them at the bike racks. I asked Dylan if he was fine walking into school with Blake and he said, "Of course!". Blake took him to the kinder hallway and asked him if he was fine to walk down the hall and into his classroom...he told Blake that he was...he knew already how to get there. Hehe...hr is growing up. I love though that Blake was a good big brother. It was fun last week to hear  them talk about school...about PE, music and art, since they have the same teachers for  those. 

Blake was very excited to see Kenny again at recess and to play with his other friends. It seems like once again he got a great teacher! They are doing great finding each other after school and riding their bikes home. Blake had cub scouts last week, soccer practice and got his spacers in for his braces. It has begun. Blake is very responsible so I know he will take good care of his teeth and braces. In about 2 weeks he will have the braces on...just in time for school pictures. 

We had tickets to the BYU vs. LSU football game. We were going to meet up with some friends who live there and go to a children's museum and then see my Aunt and Uncle who live in Louisiana at the game....they are LSU fans. When they switched the game to New Orleans, my Aunt was super sweet and offered for us to stay at her house, but after much debate, we decided not to go. It was an 8 hour drive. But we did let the boys watch the game. They made it until halftime. Since we weren't  traveling, we were able to finish the rock climbing wall that Aaron and the boys have been working on. We attached it to the play set and tested it out. They love it...and Aaron wants to do another one since we have holds left over. 

I suppose I should say our friends who our actually in Kingwood are safe--their house is fine. They haven't started school yet and there were 20 families in their ward whose houses were flooded so they are gone all  day helping out. Aaron's aunt who lives in Spring is fine too. Blake's soccer coaches are from Spring as well and a lot of their family lives in Spring and almost all of  their houses were flooded. This storm was crazy. I'm not sure what is being said in the media outside of Texas, but I will tell you that it has been so neat to see how much people are helping. People from all over the state drove down with their boats to help rescue people. People are there volunteering at the shelters. In Dallas they are collecting so many donations that there are traffic jams at the drop off spots because the workers can't go as fast as all the donations coming in. Our school is doing stuff to help out, there are donations around our city..our church is organizing efforts...although most of that right now is helping evacuees who are coming to Dallas (I know the church has sent 7 truck loads of stuff and have massive efforts in Houston too). Someone was saying they were so sick of the media and all the negativity from it so it was refreshing to hear the goodness that has come from Harvey. I noticed it when we moved hear to Texas, but I see it even more now...the people of Texas are just really nice people! Side note: I've talked to and listened to a lot of people's stories about their family or friends in Houston. So many of the people who had a decent food storage had their homes spared...they were the ones who were then able to feed their neighborhood with their food storage. 

Sunday at church we walked into church and there was a young man who came visiting. To make a long story short, he was looking for my parents. My parents taught him seminary when  they were on their mission in Ohio. We actually went out to visit them at the end of  their mission and I think it was his mom who bore her testimony the week we were there and said that my folks were sent to that mission for her kids. I believe they also home taught them. Anyway, his dad had told him (Alec) that my parents lived there...because they did last year for a little bit and what ward  they were in. So, I met him and told him  that they actually live in CA, but that they would be out in October. I gave my dad Alec's contact info and they spoke. He plans on coming to visit them when they are out here next month. Small world huh? I'm guessing he must like my folks enough to come down and see them.