Summer Reunions

I'm really behind with my blogging of our family reunions. This past summer we went to the Bundy Reunion and the Taylor Tentout. We stayed at the Bundy Reunion for almost a week and had such a fun time. I love going out a few days before the activities start just so we can relax and enjoy camping before there are literally over a thousand people around. This year Jared and Talen went out a few weeks before the 4th of July to do some clean up and projects around camp. They decided it would be fun to build a tree house for the kids. They also attached a pipe to it to make a slide. The tree house was a huge hit and the kids spent hours playing in it. It wasn't just our kids either, a lot of stray kids showed up to play on the "playground".
Our family had a good year with the activities this year. Ashten and I won the roping contest and both Ashten and Treyson won the BB gun shooting in their age group. The dance was also a lot of fun this year. The kids were old enough to actually stay awake for a while and enjoy dancing.
Everything about the Bundy Reunion is always so much fun for me. It is so rich with tradition and I am so excited for my kids to enjoy some of the same things I enjoyed doing as a kid.





The end of August we went to Wayne County for our annual Taylor Tent out during the Wayne County Fair. It is always a lot of fun to get together with Jared's family for the weekend. The kids run around and play together so well. This year I signed up to run in their 5K and ran my fastest time of 28:01. We love going to the parade and stocking up on our sugar for the week. I love small town parades!
Grandpa Taylor sent the kids out to collect soda cans and then set up an assembly line to smash them all. Surprisingly, they had a lot of fun working together. Our unexpected project for the weekend was digging up the sewage tank because it was blocked and causing problems. That was not so much fun, but kind of enjoyable to watch the guys work in the mess.
We had a great time hanging out with family and are so lucky to have each of them.

School Boys!

Treyson just finished his first week of Kindergarten and LOVED it. He was so excited for school to start and has been ready for months. After his first day, I was really excited and asked him to tell me everything that happened. He rolled his eyes a little and said "mom, you're embarrasing me". Since when does a five year old get embarrased by his mom? Ever since then I have tried to play it cool and not make a big deal about him going to school. I would hate to embarrase him again.

He is such a good boy and I'm sure he will have a great year in kindergarten.Treyson and Mrs. Stewart. We were very glad to get her as his teacher.

*Traxton started preschool today and he handled going off on his own a lot better than I did. I have been very anxious about him going because he is my baby, but he did just fine. He walked right in and didn't even look back.
This boy has been ready for school ever since Treyson started last week. He was very upset that he wasn't the one going to school, and super excited to finally get to go today. I hope his excitement doesn't die off after he realizes he will be going to school almost everyday.

Waiting very patiently for class to start.

Birthdays and back to school

A couple of weeks ago Ashten turned seven. I thought I wouldn't have any issues about her age this year until my dad told her that she's half way to fourteen. Now that I have issues with!

For her birthday she has been telling me for months that she wanted to go bowling. I hate the bowling alley. It just radiates germs. I tried and tried but she wouldn't be talked out of it, so we loaded up all her friends and were off. They all had such a fun time. No one really cared about the score and each of the girls helped each other out. It turned out to be a really fun time.

Ashten is such a good girl and she will always help me out with her little brother. I love spending time with her, especially when it's just the two of us. Once in a while we will go on "girls dates" and her favorite thing to do is get pedicures. I love that I have a little girl to do fun things with.Ashten left for her first day of school today. She was really excited for 2nd grade. She has a really fun teacher and a lot of friends and neighbors in her class. It should be a great year for her. It's a little bit quieter at our house now that school started. For the next three weeks each of my kids will be starting school. Ashten today, Treyson next Monday, and Traxton the following Monday. It will be really strange that in three weeks, all of my kids will be gone four days a week for two hours. I am having an inner battle with my feelings of both anxiety and excitement for the alone time. I'm nervous to send Traxton to preschool on the school bus, but I'm also making lists of the projects I could get done in that time. We'll see how it all ends up.