Friday, August 20, 2021

Alpine parade and first day of school

    We had fun celebrating Alpine Days and the parade was super fun. The boys entered their small trucks, which was super hilarious and 'white-trashy' but the best part of the parade, if you ask me. "Small Truck Nation" is where it's at!
Charlie sporting Greg's sunglasses.

Here comes "Small Truck Nation" (And what about those mountains in the background!?)


Our Bishop's son-in-law, and one of the Priest Quorum advisors, hopped in the back of the first truck and waved their "Small Truck Nation" flag for the last part of the parade.


 People were confused, ha ha!


Kayli and Charlie greeting Mark in the Pearl.


Marcus in his Mazda.


Carter in his Mazda with his buddy Tyler.


And bringing up the rear is good ol' Cole Boy and his dad, Andy in Cole's Toyota.

Fun times!


Most of the boys from the parade.

    Then we had a little visit to Instacare with McClane the day before school started. He took a spill on his long-board and thankfully he didn't break anything but because it was swollen and he couldn't put his weight on it they sent him home with a brace and crutches to help him out until he could walk properly. It's definitely made the first few days of school a little tricky but he's been a good sport and managed to get around ok. He's almost back to normal so we've put the brace and crutches away for now.
 
    And then it was the first day of school! Why can't summer last a little longer!?

Carter/11th



Brock 8th


McClane 5th


Charlie 3rd

    What a crazy thing to be back on school schedule! So far it's gone smoothly and all the kids seem happy to be back at school. It's definitely been an adjustment having the two youngest going to school much later then the rest of the kids. The older boys are out the door well before 8 A.M. and the two youngest don't have school until 9:15 but we're figuring it out. 
    We got some great rainfall this week and Greg always loves that. We're definitely on the downward slope for water stress for him. But lets not get too excited for the change in weather/seasons!

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