Homecoming weekend

Alissa has a busy week for homecoming, the cheerleaders had something to do every night plus we were running around getting her things for the dance and dress fittings, etc. Anyway...we all survived and everything turned out great! Here she is cheering at the homecoming game and trying to stay warm. It ended being about 40 degrees, Brrrrr! Thank goodness their warm ups came in that same day and so they were able to wear those.
























Then Saturday was the homecoming dance. Her dress was done Saturday morning so I picked that up and went to have it steamed. Then we went to get her hair done in the afternoon. 2 other couples met at our house for pictures and then they all met up with 4 other couples at Red Robin for dinner. Then it was off to the dance. She said everything turned out great and they had a fun time.

Football games and cheerleaders

Colby and I went to the HS football games last year and enjoyed it, we watched some friends boys play football and just had fun and they are cheap date nights. Anyway, this year we are enjoying not only watching the football games again but also watching Alissa cheer. She has been having a lot of fun and working hard. She did a great job at her first game, it was so fun to watch her. This picture is actually of her 3rd game when Grandma Jill came for a quick weekend visit to watch cheer leading and soccer. I am so glad Grandma brought her camera, she got some great pictures.

Canning peaches, plum jam, peach jam, pickles, salsa, spaghetti sauce, canned tomatoes

My camera took a little swim in the river back in May, so I will just link to Ashlee's blog so you can see what we have been up to the last couple of weeks. We are looking forward to getting apples soon for apple pie filling and applesauce, we are also going to try to can an apple cinnamon syrup.

No more bootie!

HaHaHa, that is what we called Racheal's boot that she had to wear for 8 weeks, but she is officially done with her bootie! She had x-rays taken and it is looking great, she still has to wear tennis shoes all summer, no flip flops, until her next appt and then we will see how soon we can start back up with soccer. The season starts the week after her next appt, so we are hoping for good news. But for now she is just excited to be able to walk without her bootie! Yeah!

Driver's Ed is a lot like the first day of kindergarten

You drop them off at the front door, you hope they like their teacher, you hope the teacher likes them. You also hope they make new friends and pay attention when they should. You think about them all day long and wonder what they are doing now as you look at the clock for the one hundredth time. You can't believe she is old enough to be doing this. You worry about them and get so excited when it is finally time to go pick them up and then you pick them up and ask them all about their day and all you get is "it was fine". LOL

Goodbye's are hard, especially when you are 15.

Alissa's boyfriend moved to Texas a few days ago. She had a little going away party for him at our house last weekend, they sat around the fire pit and ate desserts and had fun. So anyway, here is a picture of the two of them that night of the party.

Surgery Day

Racheal's surgery went well, they decided not to put the metal rods in her bones because she is allergic to metal and they didn't want her bones to reject the rods, so she will have longer in her walking boot and a little bit longer recovery time. She had a rough few days after the surgery but is finally walking on it and starting to look more like herself. She had her follow up appointment yesterday and the Dr says it is looking ugly and that is just the way it should. LOL He's a funny guy. So he said it looks like it should and all is well. Hopefully she will be back to school on Monday. Here is a picture of her before they wheeled her away, trying to be brave.