Where's Ellie..?

This is the question I often get when I am somewhere with my kids and Ellie is missing. For example, yesterday Ellie stayed after school for some tutoring in reading. I didn't want Emersyn to walk home by herself so I walked down to the crosswalk to pick her up. I waited and waited for Emersyn to walk cross the field and get to the crosswalk. After not seeing her for a bit I decided I was going to walk across to the school and find her. Well, I didn't get very far before I came across Emersyn.

As Emersyn and I were waiting to cross the street the cross guard turns to me and asks, "Where is Ellie?"

Since yesterday I have been thinking about that question. Although, Ellie may be one of our most difficult children at home, she sure has a way with people around her. When I think about it, even my kids will ask where she is.... Ellie is the one who EVERYONE wants around. We love you Ellie!!!!

School Projects

Marc and I LOVE (with a sarcastic voice) it when school projects are sent home to do. When I graduated school those many, many years ago I never thought I would be going back. I didn't think of who would be doing the school projects. That is right, WHO would be DOING the school projects.

This is Emersyn's first school project she has had to complete at home and take back to school. Marc is actually the one in our house who is awesome at doing these!!!! He does a great job and our kids grades show for it.

Emersyn's class was building a community out in the hall in front of their classroom. Emersyn got to decide what to build. It took some time to get a final decision out of her, but she came up with doing a Hungry Howies. Have you ever had their pizza? Oh, it is so good :) You can choose what crust to have. Garlic has become our families favorite and it's so cheap. Anyway, I got a little distracted with the pizza & crust.... Emersyn was super excited to do this and she did a great job painting the box.

Funny thing about school projects, Marc and I get so excited when the grades are passed out. After being out of school for A REALLY LONG TIME....WE STILL GOT IT!!!!!!!!! (Marc still has it at least)

Happy Birthday to Marc

So yesterday was Marc's birthday. I know, kind of lame that I am JUST now writing about it. To my defense it was a busy day of celebration and taxi driving.

Marc decided to "work from home" (which means take the day off without using vacation time). He went golfing in the morning with a friend from work. They had a great time. We went to lunch with some friends who never let us down in the entertaining department. From there, I had to get home to pick up kids and get Marc's favorite cake frosted. Ending with a yummy dinner and a little peace and quiet while I took the little girls to Ellie's cheer practice.

The best part of this whole day, for me anyways...... HE FOUND 2 GRAY HAIRS!!!!!!!!!

Broken Arm Anniversary

(LOVE this picture)

Well, we had a great, relaxing Labor Day weekend this year. Both Cameron and Ellie had football games Saturday with each team winning. We had a great dinner at Denise's Sunday evening and enjoyed visiting with Grandma T. Came home to watch a movie. It sure was nice not having to get up for school the next day. I think I enjoy it as much as the kids do :) Monday we took the kids (and some of their friends) to see Shrek the Final Chapter. It was playing at the $2 movies (yes, they are not $1 anymore). We quickly figured out everyone else who didn't leave town for cooler weather had the exact same idea. I could not believe the lines. The movie was cute even though the theater was HOT. I thought it was standard for theaters to be an icebox...oh well, we enjoyed ourselves. Cameron had football practice so there really wasn't much else we could do.

Last Labor Day was a complete different story. It rained that weekend causing Cameron to have to make up his football game Monday morning. We were out at Queen Creek High School and just before the game starts Cameron takes a tackle that snapped his wrist.

Hard to believe a year has already passed. Glad this Labor Day allowed us the chance to relax and hang out with our kids.

Labor Day Weekend A Year Ago

ASU vs ISU

For the past few years things have worked out for some of the Washburn family to gather in Arizona. Usually, we all gather in Idaho once a year for the family reunion. It is so great to be together with family.

Last Labor Day weekend ISU traveled down to play ASU. We have a nephew who plays on the offense line for ISU. What a treat!!! We were going to get to see him play. Not only that, but some Washburn family came in town to enjoy as well. Dan and Hiedi brought their girls' from Texas, Andy brought some of his girls' from California and Ted brought Becky from Idaho.

The game was being played on a Sat. night. We had everyone over to our house for a little pre-game fun. Carne Asada tacos is what we served for dinner. They seemed to be a hit!!!! After we were full from dinner we traveled down to the ASU stadium. After the game was over, we found the bus that would take the ISU team back to their hotel. While we stood there and waited a Papa Johns Pizza delivery showed up with I couldn't count how many pizzas there were so many. Our inquiring minds wanted to know.... When Mitch finally came out of the locker room (although he was one of the first to come out) we asked him about the pizza. A large pizza was ordered for EVERY player. That's right, ONE WHOLE PIZZA PER PLAYER.

It was a lot of fun getting everyone together and hope to do it again sometime soon.