Well, we just got home from Jack's third game. It is freeeezing. Grandma and Grandpa Fullmer came, but left when the rain started pouring down. It's going to be a long season if it doesn't warm back up. I can't imagine how miserable it must be playing in that mess. The boys kept slipping in the mud, and dropping the slippery ball.

They lost this game, but it was close, and they were pretty evenly matched. Those games are fun to watch, although we have several nightmare, screamer parents on the team. Since I know nada about the rules of football, half the time I don't even understand what they are yelling about. Something about the ref's paycheck???

Anyway, school's going good for everyone so far. Starting to plan for Halloween, Grace is going to be a vampire and Ian will some type of ghoul. We think, of course Ian has a bad habit of changing his mind on the 30th.

Jack had his first football game against Provo - they won 50 to zip. It's nice when your kid is on the winning team, but you always feel sorry for the other team for loosing so horribly. The win is not so fun as if they were evenly matched.

Jack did really well, there were lots of boys bigger than him, but he doesn't seem to let that bother him.

We are all sick right now, even Mo the dog has some kind of gooey eye thing going on. Yuck, will be glad when it goes away. I guess it's having all of us exposed to the germs at school. Come to think of it I got sick this time last year too.

It's August now and school is back in session and so is football. Things went from relaxed to crazy just like that.

Jack's in the starting lineup and is excited to start playing some games, I just hope he doesn't sustain any permanent damage. He's already hurt his thumb, foot, hand, etc. He's tough though and really loves it.

Twins are in 2nd grade and are really liking it. Ian is up to reading level and Grace seems to have matured enough to stay in her seat. So far, I haven't received any complaints about them. That's one of the bad things about working at their school, I ALWAYS hear about it when they act up.

I've got my library done up pretty cute, although as soon as the kids start coming in they will promptly destroy it. I guess as their librarian I shouldn't hope for a library free of patrons, but geeze some of those ankle biters give me a headache. I never claimed to be a kid lover, especially those kids that I didn't give birth to!

Anyway, Justin will hopefully be doing team pictures for the football league so he is excited about the money involved. We'll have to see which teams decide to use his photo service.

Ian and Grace had their birthday party 7/8/06. Five kids came and they had a fun time, we did lots of games and then decorated cupcakes. Justin and I were tired and glad when it was over!

Ian and Jack work on building their legos.