Well summer vacation is officially over for the kids. Tyler starts 2nd grade tomorrow, and Anna's first day of Kindergarten is on Thursday. They are both excited. The summer sure flew by! It was pretty low key and laid back. No big trips. I didn't update here much, but I have been snapping a few pictures here and there. To see what's been keeping us busy on the weekends the past month or so, see below:
Hope everybody is well and having a great summer!

Random assortment:

2013-08-26

Tyler wanted to build a shelf (I have a small one in the basement with some old momentos on it, and he wanted one for his room). As you will see, he's still very much a Green Bay Packers fan:

2013-08-20

This was a bike-ride in Stowe a few weeks ago. We spent a lot of time on bikes this summer. Anna keeps up with the rest of us pretty good. The longest ride was just over 8 miles:

2013-08-10

The park in Essex Junction has a neat BMX track...

2013-07-30

We took a canoe ride on Lake Champlain around Button Bay...

2013-08-11

..and finally, today, the last day of vacation, Tyler wanted to go fishing. We geared up and hit Lake Iroquios in Williston, and landed 12 fish in about 2 hours. Both kids loved it.... I baited hooks and took fish off.... It was "okay" :-)

2013-08-27

2013-08-03

2013-07-14

Take me out to the ballllllllgame

Tho kids and some friends sang at the 7th inning stretch at last nights Lakemonsters game...

2013-07-05

07-02-2013

Still employed. Thanks everyone for the concern! A lot of good people are looking for jobs right now, if anyone can help or knows of any technical openings in the area, please let me know so I can pass the word.

-Chris

Tyler wanted to play with some hair gel... I like this look better than his bangs actually. I've missed his forehead :-)

 

Anna thought this flower looked like a hair ribbon and asked me to take her picture like that:

Just goofing around

  

Just random pictures of some cool flowers Anna and I were looking at

Anna ready to go to her performance...

  

Favorite quote from Anna: "If you want to know what a morning glory looks like, just go to my show, because I'll be one!"

I couldn't get any good pictures with my phone (mostly because it was against the 'rules' and nobody was taking pictures, so I didn't want to be "that guy", but there are some from back-stage that Katie took I have to get off the camera still...

  

The human highlighters...

Tyler and Katie ran in a fundraiser. Tyler did the kids 'fun run' and Then Katie ran the 5k. They both did awesome. Tyler ran the whole way with Noah and Mitchell. We're proud of them!