The Falling Trees concert!

Meet The Falling Trees. These guys have been playing together all summer, thanks to the awesome efforts of Uncle Kirk. They played a concert last Saturday in Woodland Hills and sounded fantastic!

That's my guy! Shyness totally gives way when Jer is on stage with a guitar. This has been a great summer!

Check out the crowd! What a fun evening!

First Day of School!

Here we go!  :)

Wowsers!!

Tonight Mike, Jonny, AND Jess rode all the way out to Highland! Good job, guys, and especially Jess-way to go!!

Bragging rights...

Congrats to Jonathan!  It's been a big couple of days, and his hard work, determination, and lack of sleep has been paying off.  He just got his AP score back--he passed AP Human Geography with a 4!!!  He also was just notified that he won a web design contest--his site design won over 24 other pro entries (and with a substantial cash prize)!  Go Jonny!

This summer's friends

This summer, Jeremy has been watching a family of birds (nested and hatched in our upstairs dryer vent...this year we just blocked it off and let them have at it!); a family of squirrels (2 live under our front porch, and this season they had 3 little ones, one of whom Jer has already caught with a homemade trap and an apple); a bird he caught and released one morning; and several snakes (he caught 2 different kinds one day, and the neighborhood kids all came to the "zoo" to check them out!)

p.s.  Notice his "protective snake gear" (canvas jacket, gardening gloves, and a stick).  Should I, as his mother, feel better?  ;0)

Look Familiar?

Happy Father's Day, Dad!

Yellowstone!

We had a couple of days free-FINALLY!!!-this weekend, so we took the kids on a quick drive to Yellowstone National Park.  We left Friday and came back Sunday night (just in time to gather with family for dinner and load the ward girls' camp trailer!)  Here are some highlights from the trip: