Regular Saturday!

This week Mason started practice with his travel volleyball team and is excited for the season!  Anna and Olivier had what they call "band week" with practice on Tuesday, playing at back to school on Wednesday and playing at Farmers Market on Thursday.  They got a bit of a break with no football game on Friday night and no practice on Saturday!  Which meant they both got to do their regular Saturday activities!  It is nice to have a bit more space in the schedule to do the things they love!  

Enjoying an easy Sunday before another busy week arrives!  

First Football Game and Parade of the Season!

Last night we attended the first home football game of the season and thankfully this year everyone is healthy!  

After playing the anthem and Tiger Rag they headed to their section of the stands.  Anna went by us!  Excited to see our Senior!

A bit into the second quarter I went over to get photos of them in the group.  Anna was in the perfect spot!  

Olivier was a little trickier to see but thankfully he isn't interested in hiding!  

And then there was a touch down!

Needless to say it is much harder to see Olivier when they are playing than Anna!  That mellophone really does make for a good hiding spot!

Once it got close to half time the band headed down to the field to get ready to play a couple of songs.  

It was fun to see our niece Audrey on the cheer team during their halftime show!  

And today it was an early morning (before the sunrise) wake up call to get back to school, load up and head to a local parade.  The parade was celebrating their 60th anniversary (diamond jubilee) and that inspired their band director to select this Neil Diamond song for them to play!  

Olivier is fairly easy to spot!

Now the tricky one - can you spot Anna?

We had a great time and love cheering on our kids doing what they love!  So proud!  

First full week of school brought the heat!

The second half of the week had a crazy heat wave and made it more exhausting as we work to get back into the routine.  Activity schedules are still getting sorted out but we are getting better at getting them rolling.  Thankfully the large fire near us is now very controlled and almost out.  We have been very fortunate the smoke hasn't impacted our area.

This is a nice photo from this morning.  Thankful for the fog this morning and hopefully a cooler day!

School Photos!

 Check out these snazzy school photos!  

First Day of School - and the last first for Anna!

Today is the first day of school and although that is exciting, it is also a bit bittersweet in that it is Anna's last year of high school!  We won't dell on that and just focus on the exciting and very busy year ahead!  They are all challenging themselves in different ways and we are very proud!  

Okay, I have to do at least a little throwback to little Anna on her first day of kindergarten!  Wow!  

Fire!

There is a fire near us (but not really, it is still more than 10 miles away) but the visual of it today was alarming.  It is a massive fire (over 125,000 acres) but thankfully it hasn't had a huge impact because it is open land, but it has impacted air quality.  We are hoping it stays that way and is out soon!  

 

Hard to believe we are wrapping up summer!

The kids have been enjoying the last bit of summer.  Nothing really exciting to report.  Band camp starts on Wednesday for Anna and Olivier (8/6).  They get their schedules on Thursday (8/7) and it will be one week until school starts...!!!