Happy Birthday to Barb!!

This weekend was Barb's birthday (August 17) so we celebrated by having a girls' weekend. Chei, Barb, Becky, and I started the weekend by staying at Chris and Jen's house and staying up till 3 in the morning taking color coding tests!! Go blue!! The next day we met Debbie, Jan, and Wendy up at Jackson Hole. Thanks to Wendy and her friend, Mark, we were able to rent a raft and go white water rafting and having a great time. The water was freezing but we couldn't resist hopping in anyway!! Barb and I showed we aren't too old to scare ourselves to death by rock jumping into the river off a high (well to me anyway) cliff that we had to do a little rock climbing just to get to. Somehow I put off my fear of heights enough to do it. The real adventure didn't really begin until we got to the end of our river run and realized that we had locked the keys in the car (we really wouldn't have known what to do without some sort of mishap...it wouldn't have been a real girls' weekend). Becky and I waited with the car until the everyone else returned from finding cell phone service to call AAA. That night we stayed at Wendy's apartment thanks to her and her roommate, Chelsea's, generosity. We started the next morning right by having birthday strawberry shortcake for breakfast and were off, returning to our everyday adventures of kids, work, and more kids!! :)

AAAH....is it that time already??

So I dropped Tristan off at the church today for...Girls' Camp!! Yes... she is old enough to start the next phase of her (and our)life! I have to admit after dropping her off and saying goodbye to her for the next 4 days I had to hold back a little tear. I can't believe the stages I am reaching...Tristan is in Young Women's, she will be starting junior high in less than 3 weeks, Jordan will be in 6th grade, Brock in 2nd grade and my babies, Brayden and Connor will be going to Kindergarten! Wow...I think the last week of August will be a bit emotional for me watching my kids move on to the next phases of independence. It really does seem like I just brought Tristan home from the hospital as a little black haired baby....oh well...at least I am still only 21...

Here is Tristan on her first day of school...where does the time go?