IT"S WAY PAST TIME FOR AN UPDATE!

In September, Kevin, Mattew and I went to McCall to Liz's wedding reception. Sorry for the bad picture, Liz and Margene both looked beautiful! I don't have any pictures of Kevin & Margene together. I thought this one turned out pretty good.

TIME OUT FOR WOMEN

In September I went to Time out for Women, in Logan, with my mom, Cindy, Becky and Teresa. While we were there we ran into Patty and Kathy. It was a really great week end. We had a great time eating, learning, eating, shopping and did I mention eating? Thanks for a fun time!

A New School Year

Kelsi and her best friends!

Matt & Kelsi started a new school year on Monday. They both were experiencing "firsts". Kelsi-middle school; Matt-high school. We are looking forward to a good year!

Summer Fun

We had a really fun and busy summer.

Here are some of the highlights.

Kartchner Family Reunion

Steve and Matt at Herrick "pond"

Kelsi, Matt & Steve playing cards at our friend's cabin

Look at those River Rafters! Grandma's first white water at 74 years young!

Danielle was with us, she was taking the picture.

Kevin & Michelle on the Halker's dock in McCall, Idaho.

It was great having Danielle & Steve come and spend some time with us. Michelle didn't do the cabin and white water trip with us, but it was great having her home last week for camping, boating and Starlight.

Kelsi's Work is Done

For quite a while (at least a year) Kelsi has wanted to re-do her pink room. It has been a slow process. Gradually getting bedding and other things. Well we finally did something! When we remodeled our bathroom, we had our friend who did our closet also do closet organizers for Matt & Kelsi's rooms. (Sorry I don't have a picture). Well that got me going on getting Kelsi's room painted, since I had her closet cleaned out, I decided I might as well get it painted. Well you know, one thing leads to another and we did get her room done. She helped with "cutting in" all of the corners and the baseboards. She really worked hard. The reason this post is titled "Kelsi's work is done" is because of a telephone conversation she had with her dad the day we painted her room. It went something like this:

dad: Hi Kelsi

kelsi: Hi dad!

dad: tell mom I'm done with work and I'm on my way home.

kelsi: well, I'm done with my work too!

So here are the results of Kelsi's work

Nice job of cutting in
Well you can't do this standing up!
Working hard
The finished product!

Matt is 14

He has wanted a suit for about 2 years!
My two handsome boys
A new set of golf clubs
Need I say more?
Blowing out the birthday candles on a Cookies & Cream ice cream cake. YUM!!!

I am a little late on the birthday post.
Matthew wasnt't the only one with a birthday in June. Michelle & I also celebrated, but with no pictures to show for it!

PAINTING GRANDMA'S HOUSE

We went last saturday and painted Grandma Munro's house. It was going to be just Kevin, Matt, Kelsi & me. But during the week I had talked to Danielle and she said her and Steve would love to come and help. Then I talked to Michelle, and she was feeling a little home sick and wanted to come home. I told her we weren't going to be there, but would be painting grandmas! Michelle (I loved the saying on the shirt, so true!)
Just getting started. Everyone helping.
Matt, Steve, Michelle
Matthew
Of course, there had to be a little down time too!

With everyone helping the work went quite quickly. We finished in about 4 hours. The saying "Many hands make light work" was really proven.

Thanks everyone for your help!

All Done with Elementary!!!

On June 1st Kelsi had her 5th grade performance and Promotion. They did awards such as perfect attendance, academics and such. Well we were a liitle surprized when they called Kelsi's name for the American Citizenship Award. We didn't know she was going to be getting any awards. We were very proud of her and she was very excited. After thinking about it for a while I remembered a conversation I had had with her teacher about a month before. In the elementary they have "Awesome Ambassadors" which are awards that the kids can work towards in any area they choose, art, science, math, citizenship, etc. Well Kelsi had worked hard and recieved an "Awesome Ambassador" earlier in the year but was under the impression (as was her teacher) that you could earn more than one. So, as most of you know she wanted to help raise money for the International Children's Surgical Foundation and did it at school and was working on a second "A.A." in citizenship. Well the conversation I had with her teacher went something like this.

Mr. Williams: Kelsi is a little upset today.

Me: Why, what is going on.

Mr. Williams: Well, she found out she wouldn't get the narrator part for the 5th grade program, and also, she can't get two "Awesome Ambassador" awards.

Me: Really?

Mr. Williams: Yeah. I feel really bad about that because I know she worked very hard to raise the money. I really want to do something to recognize her.

Me: That would be great. Thanks.

Well, Mr. Williams came through. He was such a great teacher and really looked for the kids strenghths.

Way to go Kelsi!!!