Art Class

Kurt started an art class this fall with Teacher Deborah that he met at camp in August. He goes for 2 hours on Monday after school and is doing some fantastic work. Here are two of his paintings.

North Carolina

We journeyed to North Carolina at the end of August for a week of fun with Papa Papa. I stayed sane during the 12 hours of driving each way with the help of the DVD player and the knowledge I would not be hearing the standard week before school start mantra of "I'm bored."

We split our drive there into two days. The first day was long and mostly highway but the second day was shorter and we took the Blue Ridge Parkway. Here's one of our stops along the way.



We got to do some fun things like hiking to a waterfall, go to Tweetsie Railroad and going to Linville Caverns. The caverns we went to had trout living in some of the streams in them and we even got to see a bat fly by.









I made an unsuccessful try at taking a picture of everyone.















On our way home we stopped at the Haunted Mansion and Dinosaur Park as a break and a treat. The boys insisted that they could handle the scary tour (not!) and we took the toned-down one which I declared the "scary kid's tour. " Outside they had cut outs for pictures and what little boy could pass up a picture in a toilet.

First days of school

School started off pretty smoothly. Kurt refers to school as "terrible torturous" but that seems to be more lip service. Erich says "life was easier when I was a Bunny". He is now a Bear (4 &5 year olds) but was a Bunny (3 & 4 year olds) last year.



Erich's selected pose for the first day of school picture. What do you think this means?



Erich sending Kurt off to his first day of third grade.

Because I'm Lazy

I've decided that I'll never get pictures out on even an irregular basis so I'll attempt a blog.
I can't promise much but you'll get to see more than a couple of pics of the kids before they graduate from high school. To start off here's some pics from the weekend.


Sunday afternoon ride




Every tree house needs its own phone system (other end in playroom)