Does having a son leave ever get any easier. I keep his room closed. Thinking, I need to get in there and put things away, clean the sheets and pillow cases, etc.... I just open the door look at all his pictures and get all teary eyed again. Close the door and will try another day. I miss my son. Talking to him just is not enough. I think Kenzie would have a party in his room to celebrate him leaving. I don't think I know she would. Mom and dad, if you get this before this weekend, Jordan will be calling you to see if he can come visit, work, for the holiday weekend. Give him lots of love for me.

Kenzie is still loving soccer. Ryker is keeping me busy with swim lessons. Everyone is finally back in school. Jake and Austin started this week. We are finally up and going again. The fair starts this weekend. I love going to the fair. We would go every day when we lived in town but now that we live in Pingree it is a little too far to go to the fair everyday.

Hope everyone is doing well. Love Ya.

This is Rykers latest phase in taking a bath. At first it was the goggles in the bath. Today he decided to go all out with the shower cap and goggles. He sure keeps us laughing. I did get him to take the shower cap off to wash his hair.

Things are going good. Jordan seems to be doing good in school. Every time I try talking to him he is too busy. Kenzie is keeping me running with soccer this fall. She is starting this for her first time ever. The coach tried all summer long to get her to try out because of her speed. He said that soccer is 90% speed and 10% ability. I am still waiting for the ability part to catch up. She is doing her best and I am so proud of her for sticking with it. I better go, time to get Ryker to bed. Love you all.

Our nephew Zach was married this Saturday. As stressed as I was to try to help Steph and get things done, everything turned out great. The wedding is perfect, the DJ was amazing, and everyone made it out in one piece. Poor Ryker had tripped on the sidewalk and cracked his head pretty hard right before he was to walk the rings down the isle. Oh he did not want to walk with a big goose egg on his forehead. But, he made it through it and even had a smile on his face. These are some of the pictures. All of them are posted on facebook it you really want to look at them. I loved her dress. I hope that when Kenzie gets married she will consider having it at this same place. We will just have to save money for it. It is amazing this is all in a ladies back yard and she just rents it out for $1,700 a night. It is all set up for weddings with rock fountain, waterfalls, and the river running back behing everything. AMAZING.

Everyone is busy this summer. Jordan's last day of work is tomorrow before he gets ready to go to school. Kenzie is loving her time with grandma and grandpa Nielson in Washington. It seems like every time I call her they have gone shopping that day. Troy said, "Now I know where you get it from." I have to say I am not even in the same class as my mom. The three boys, Skylar, Jake, and Austin have been able to visit quite a bit this summer. Which is great. Ryker loves having his brothers here. Troy and I are busy keeping everyone feed. I have never had this many kids at my house for so long. It really is nice. We hope you are doing well.