August!

School starts in three weeks.  That is crazy!  The summer has gone by pretty quickly.  Maddie starts 4th grade on the 23rd, Cami and Brie start Kindergarten on the 29th.  They're all excited about the new school year. 

Last weekend the girls and I went up to Boise with my parents for my great- aunt and uncle's homecoming.  The girls were so excited to do something different and really enjoyed the time with Grandma, Grandpa, Chelsey and Andrew.  It was fun to see extended family we don't see very often.  On the way back home, we were talking about the girls' favorite memories.  Brie said hers was Disney World, and Cami told my mom "every memory I have with my family is my favorite."

Aaron started his classes through the University of Texas last month.  He's doing their online RN-BSN program and is scheduled to be done next August.  He's finished with his first class this weekend.  It's nice because they are all only 5 weeks long, but the coursework and material covered is what would typically be done in a 16 week semester so it's intense.  He is thinking about grad school to become a family nurse practitioner.  The BSN will allow him more opportunities and options, I'm glad he's getting it done. 

We took the girls to see Harry Potter 7.2 the other day.  I hesitated taking the twins, but we started watching all of the movies at home to get ready for the new one, and they begged to go.  We went to the first show of the day hoping for less people to disturb if we had to take them out, and there was only three other people there.  The girls did great and they loved it.  Right before it started I told Cami and Brie the secret: "I know this movie is going to be scary, but the good guys win in the end." They asked how I knew that and I told them it was because I'd read the book.  They thought it was awesome to have that kind of information.  Funny girls!

Yesterday we celebrated Pam's birthday by making a couple of her recipes.  The girls had looked through the book a few days earlier and picked hobo sandwiches and apple pudding.  I had suggested sending balloons up into the sky, but I worked Saturday and knew the helium in balloons probably wouldn't last for 24 hours.  The girls loved dinner and we talked about Grandma Pam for a while.  Maddie turned on the Wizard of Oz after dinner.  At the end of the night, Brie said "I was wondering if tomorrow we could go see Grandma Pam's gravy?" I had to hide my smile, it was so cute.