Justin and the Yellow Dragons AYSO BU6 Team

Here's our star soccer player (#2) playing with his teammates on the yellow dragons!!

1st Day of School!

We have a new 4th grader & 1st grader in the house! Alexa picked this outfit out for her first day of school at Justice on our Reno shopping trip.

Justin, ready to try 1st grade! Emmy took Alexa back-to-school shopping and they picked this shirt out for him ;)

Alexa's class lost 2 students this year, but added a new student, so they are 7 girls, 7 boys. Here are Cole & Caleb and Alexa in front of Annabelle, Anne & Audrey (lots of "A"s!).

Justin is excited to have his good friend Marshall in his class this year-he had been homeschooled up until now. His class is 3 boys (Justin, Marshall & Canaan) and 2 girls (Emma & Sage).

Tahoe!

We headed up to Lake Tahoe this August for our annual family vacation. Doug sported a new do.

We had a great time swimming for hours in the pool, miniature golfing, rafting down the Trukee & shopping. Here are the twins-Grant & Reed, Katherine with Anders, Finn, Justin & Alexa.

The whole crew-even Katrina joined us!

Grandparents Camp

Grampa & Emmy invited Justin up to the Farm for a fun couple days with cousins Finn & Katherine this summer. Here they are playing with water guns outside.

The next day, they drove downtown to visit the Children's Museum. Justin can't wait to take Alexa!

Aunt Granny's Birthdays Party

After a day at SeaWorld, we headed over to Aunt Granny's to celebrate the August (Justin, Tyler & Nancy) & almost August (Doug-July 30) birthdays and end of chemo (me) patients. Here's Justin opening a gift with Nancy & Rob.

Lucky girl-not even part of the birthday crowd, but she got a gift, too! Here she is next to Tyler and Emmy & Grampa.

Justin's Birthday at SeaWorld

Instead of having a birthday party this year, Justin chose to go to SeaWorld for the day to celebrate his 6th birthday. Here he is with Shamu!

Brad, Loni & Siena were also at SeaWorld to celebrate Siena's 3rd birthday. Here we are singing Happy Birthday to her.

Kauai!!

Arriving in Lihue, waiting for our rental car with Justin's special friend BooBoo Bunny.

Our first day we visited Wailua Falls-seen in the opening of Fantasy Island-beautiful!!

Brad, Bart, Doug & Justin, Alexa & Riley at the overlook for the falls.

On our way to the area where they shot Jurassic Park, the bridge we needed to cross was over-run with water from the river because of all the recent rains. Doug decided not a good call for a rental car (many locals were o.k. with the cross), but the kids enjoyed playing instead.

Day 2, we went to the closest beach-Lydgate Park.

With a beautifully enclosed swimming area with loads of fish!

While Alexa went to a Laua, Doug, Justin & I visited the Hyatt hotel in Poipu Beach.

Day 3-Kauai Coffee Farm.

And Poipu Beach.

With a special visit from a surpise guest!

And of course, Papa's annual Christmas card photo shoot: Riley, Alexa, Justin, Papa & Siena.