Trippin'

Our life is exciting. We get up, eat breakfast, shower, play, and start school days. Then we get home do "homework" (if you can call it that in kindergarten), have snacks, play, read, eat, getting ready for bed. Throw in a little groceryshopping/errand running here and there and that about tops out our days. The funny thing is, although maybe not exciting, I LOVE these days, I love the routines, and I love the little normal things I get to do with my kids. As we settle into school days, we have also tried to take advantage of the remaining good weather days, and tried to do a few things outside of the normal, every day stuff.

We picked Chloe up from school and headed for an afternoon trip to the Hill Air Force Base Museum. Although we drive by it regularly, and the kids always shout with excitement when they see the planes outside, this was our first trip to take a look up close.

Can you see Chloe and Noah in this picture? These planes are HUGE! Adam didn't like my idea for a picture
Noah could not get from plane to plane fast enough. Joe wanted to sit and read the history on each plane and watch some of the videos played with them, but being that Noah is in a definite boy phase of train/plane/car loving mixed in with a few dinosaur obsessions, getting to see these planes up close was to exciting to stand still.

Every year, about the last week of September, the kokanee fish make their way upstream. For the last few of those years Joe's family has headed up to a campground to see the fish and spend the day together as a family. With nine children, getting all of us together doesn't happen very often (we still missed two siblings with this activity), but we got close and the day trip was beautfiul.

Grandpa McBride and cousin LukeAdam, not satisfied with the huge jar of cheese balls offered to him, preferred to snack on dirt.

With many friends, cousins are still the silly favorites. Jacob, Chloe, Aubrey, Noah, Luke

The little orange fish swimming away

Noah's preschool class went on a field trip last week to Black Island farms. Having gone there twice, (here and here) before with Chloe's class, Noah was very excited to go there for HIS field trip. Even though it poured as we were leaving to start the field trip, and again about 30 minutes after we got home, the morning was beautiful and did not disappoint.

Noah and best friend Davis

Davis, Noah, and other best friend Jaygen

Searching for the perfect pumpkin

Waiting for the pig chasing oreos races