Birthdays, monsoons, camping, and school!

Happy Birthday Steve! The big "4-0"! The beginning of an even better decade. Enjoy it!

Monsoon season! Well its been so long since we've had the kind of rains like this I'd forgotten that Colorado typically has a "monsoon season". Wow! We've been getting out fair share of the water lately. And from what I understand we're still behind. Of course I'm having a bit of trouble believing it when I see water running through the ravine behind the house that reminds me of babbling creeks. I can just imagine what the folks at the bottom of the hill are seeing when it swoops down into the neighborhood as a torrent of water.

We're off shortly for our camping trip. So looking forward to getting to spend a couple of nights away from the house and from the looks of the weather reports we got lucky and we'll have highs in the upper 70's to lower 80's and nights in the 50's and 60's. The rain has a chance of catching us tomorrow night.

School for the kids starts Monday! Yea! They are all so ready and excited to get back into their routines. All are anxious to meet their new teachers. Olivia has the "new" teacher to the school and its a "HE!" I'm sure Mr. Stapleton is going to be great. Parker has Mrs. Webb, who Olivia had in 2nd grade. We loved her! She's a real no non-sense teacher. Hunter has Mrs. Longhenry who we've never had before. Mr. Schumacher who had all our group until Hunter retired this last year. We'll miss him but we're excited to meet Mrs. Longhenry. Jolie has Ms. McKenna who was her after school knitting instructor last year. We've always heard wonderful things about Ms. McKenna! Kristina doesn't go back until Tuesday being that she is now a Sophmore and not a lowly Freshman who do attend on Monday. She's taking 4 honors classes this year along with Latin. Wow....

Well I'm off to begin my birthday and anniversary weekend. Yipeee!