September 2020

 

First day of school for these kiddos.  Maden is in 5th grade, Clark in Kindergarten and Annie in 2nd grade at Summit Hills Elementary.  Molly started Kindergarten at Discovery Elementary.  

We took Ryder to see a Model Home, he loved the little playhouse under the stairs, and I love the look of the outside of this house!

September 5 - Blake and Jared went hunting in the river bottoms in Firth, Blake made friends with some horses.  Then we went to the Eastern Idaho State Fair - really just to the fairgrounds. It was eerily empty, and the food that was there wasn't our favorite. Such a strange year! Hallie loves to do whatever Grandpa is doing, and we got a good laugh at Molly's new mask.

September 7 - Labor Day - We started out the day going to Yellowstone Bear World.  It's always fun to see the bears and other animals.

We had fun taking photos with the bears, and some of us had fun on the rides! We went to Texas Roadhouse after Bear World.

Then, this is what we came home to! The wind had started while we were at Texas Roadhouse, and had caused havoc.  The north wind blew a lot of trees over all over the area, but these branches came down on a power line. most people in the area was without power over night, but ours was out for 3 days! 

September 8 - Some of the damage to the trees.

September 9 - And the clean up begins.  We really appreciate all of Randy's hard work!

September 10 - Still working! It was a huge job, and we didn't have as much damage as a lot of people.  There were many loads of trees taken to the dump!

September 11 & 12 - We went to the Parade of Homes in Idaho Falls.  There was a lot of houses, some great and some weird.  Look at the floor that Molly and Ryder were standing on, that was a weird one!

September 16 - We've had a lot of smoke in the air, coming from the fires in California, Oregon and Washington.  It turned the sun red!

September 19 - Everyone came down to celebrate Blake, and to clean up the shed, there was four wheeler rides, painting, "holding Hallie" and games.

We had Ice Cream Sandwich Cake and sang "popcorn popping", oh I mean "happy birthday" to Blake.

September 21 - Ryder came to celebrate on Blake's actual birthday and sang again on the rest of the Ice Cream Sandwich cake.

September 22 - Blake and I took a drive up past Palisades to see the fall colors, it was awesome!

September 23 - Yay! They're working on Randy's house!  Hallie kept begging to have this mask on, which I think is so funny, because she wouldn't have anything to do with a mask in April.

September 26 - Everyone is helping put things away in Brian's garage after he and Randy got home from their big hunting trip.

In the basement of their new house!

September 28, 29 & 30 - Spud harvest! Jared drove truck for Bart again this year. It's always fun to go see the harvest. Courtney and Ryder were there at the same time as Grandpa, Grandma and Michelle and her boys.  They hadn't seen each other
since March! Then Nikelle and Molly and Hallie came too! Thanks for the spuds, Bart! They are so good!