Now that Casey is past his busy busy beginning of the school year he is enjoying teaching. He still does a lot, but he finally has some moments to relax and enjoy himself. Casey's classes are going well, i hear good reports on most accounts (minus his talkative eighth graders). He's also been put over the freshman as an academic advisor which seems more like mediator / referee / help out at events person. He's also excited because he just got a new classroom set of Kindle Fire HD's to monkey around with / figure out for his tech hour.
This past Sunday we spoke in our ward. Our topic was Tender Mercies of the Lord. (I always feel that i'm given talks that i'm personally supposed to be inspired by and learn from, and i definitely was.) We were promised a youth speaker to fill some time, but they were a no show. Luckily Casey is a teacher and a champ at stretching things and filling in time. Kendal is definitely the loudest child in our new ward. We can keep her well occupied during sacrament it's just hard to keep her voice level down. Whispering doesn't seem to register with her most days and her voice tends to carry. This week our ward had a picnic in the park. We met more of our ward members and ate some great pie. Our ward is small, but very friendly.
This week was homecoming at Challis High. Casey's week was interesting with odd dress up days every day, and a whole day devoted to decorating class floats then a parade at the end. Casey took Kendal to the parade. It had about eight floats and a couple of small emergency vehicles in it; Kendal didn't care how short it was because it had Candy! We took the kids to the homecoming football game. Kendal quickly found a "friend" to play with and they spent the whole time following each other, holding hands, and mooching food off of each other. We found out the little girl is just a month older than Kendal, and later there was another little girl just a month younger than Kendal. (I just wish these families were in our ward, or live close : / ) Casey said we better go to more events so Kendal can find her friends and play. Kendal didn't watch the game whatsoever, and wandered around the whole time; so we'll see how she does come basketball season when i have her and Pete while Casey is busy coaching.
Pete decided to roll over this week. : ) I've taken video and tired to upload it here and on facebook, but it hasn't worked. Kendal will be three two months from today. She thinks she's ready to be three, because it means she's older and can do more things. We still have the smoke around, however we've seen a couple of blue Sky's this past week. We even tried to fly a kite for FHE; the wind wasn't consistant enough, but Kendal had fun chasing Casey all over the field. We also explored the local fishing pond. Kendal was pretty loud so we had to take her farther away from the people fishing. She also thought that the pond was dirty becasue of all the weeds in it. Thanks to our generous ward we got some free wood so i can start heating the house (it's getting pretty chilly in the mornings). It'll be interesting to have to use a wood stove to heat the house. We'll see how well i manage, and how well i can keep the kids away from it this winter.
Now to the important part; pictures -
Also Happy 4th Birthday to Campbell! We love you loads!
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