July/August Photo catch up

Here are just the random phone photos from July & August that don't have their own post.


One of the Bands on Bordeaux nights

game playing

Ah, they do like each other!

Dancing to the music

Kylie won a pair of LuLuRoe leggings. :)

The second week of my job my babysitter quit, so I had to spend an hour one morning finding someone to watch the girls. They went to a family friends house and were being watched by Kylie's  friend's grandma. Kylie puts a giant splinter in her foot while out at their house.
Had to take Kylie in to the clinic to have them cut it out. Kylie did not handle it well while it was getting cut out. But was fine once it was all over.

Mike took us out to the airport one day to see the SEAT (single engine air tanker) that is based out of our airport. It was pretty neat.

More cool clouds

Cute sleepy heads

 Kylie had her back to school eye exam...... I was a little caught off surprise when I was told she should go pick out a pair of glasses!!

  Turns out, her head is kinda little from face to back of head width....so most of the pairs had the side pieces sticking waaaay far out past her ears. She didn't have a whole lot of options to choose from. On the plus side, she will probably grow out of these in year and will need to pick out a different pair next year probably...

Her new purple glasses!

When we went to check out the county fair one night, I discovered that the teachers save some of the kids art work during the school year & put it in the fair. Kylie got 2nd place on  one of her drawings. :)

Enjoying the cotton candy!

Sunset from the fairgrounds

More cool clouds

Back yard campfire one night

 Spent one day in August out on the grasslands. Took some time to let the girls do some rock hounding. It was pretty fun and we found a couple of pretty neat rocks. Plus all the ones the girls thought were just so pretty. :)

First day of school - 2016-2017 school year

First day of school for Kylie was August 17th. Since she started that day, we figured we might as well have Sidney start going to the CDC that day too.
The CDC is not the center for disease control..... :) It is the Child Development Center that is housed with in the Chadron State College. So she goes to the CSC CDC. It's a lot of c's.....

So, Sidney goes there Mon-Fri and Kylie goes to school. They have a free after school program  Mon-Thurs at the school that she goes to, and on Fridays Kylie heads over to the CDC with a bunch of other kids and hangs out there until I get off work to pick them both up.
It is working out so far.
Kylie is loving school, per usual. Really enjoys some of the new freedoms of 2nd grade...like getting to choose where you sit at lunch! :)
Sidney is liking the CDC. She hasn't really said otherwise. We had a few days where she would be crying before we even left the house because she didn't want to go, but she got over that. She still occasionally gets clingy at morning drop off, but she always has a great day.

Here are some pictures from the 1st day of school. (un-edited, because I am going to try to catch up on posts and not editing pictures saves a whole lot of time!)


Sidney refused to let me take a picture of her out front that morning....go figure.

Kylie getting dropped off at her school

Mike was able to come with to drop off the girls the first morning.

Walking Sidney into her school yard.

Fur Trade Days

Back in July the town of Chadron had their annual Fur Trade Days. It also happened to be the weekend my parents came to visit and to deliver us the truck we bought. We finally have 2 vehicles again!
A whole went on that weekend. Here is a whole lot of photos!

Stick horse races at the court house lawn

More games at the court house

Sitting and waiting for a certain presentation, they were entertaining people with a magic show....and of course my dad gets volunteered to do something. :)

Kylie in line for her presentation

The Museum of the Fur Trade, along with Taco Johns, held a coloring contest for the kids in K - 2 in the community. Kylie entered her coloring page......and won FIRST place in her grade!
Yay!

Fur Trade Days Parade - Mike had his Soldier Creek Crew in the parade, and since Kylie was one of the winners, she got to ride in the Taco John's float & toss candy & taco tokens! :)

district fire engine

Soldier Creek Crew

Sidney's hand waving to daddy driving his crew rig

Kylie had a great time out there

 In the afternoon we headed out East of town to the Rendezvous site. We saw some of the authentic set ups/tents the fur traders used to use, saw a lot of things for sale or trade and we saw them shooting their guns.

Sidney tickling Mike with grass

The really long hill we had to climb back to the parking area

It really did in the little ones...

 We spent lots of time outside playing with water balloons that weekend as well!

And a Lot of time playing with a whole lot of legos that my parents brought us that used to be mine & my siblings..

And of course, cute cats. :)

We also spent some time weather watching.  Didn't get anything too exciting that weekend though.

It was a great weekend with my folks and as always, went by way to fast!