Grant Football

Grant sent me a tease text about football teams. He really wanted to be A, and is!!

Crown

Compare the right side to the left! What a difference.

GGG Fell

GGG had a bad fall. The Dr. stopped counting at 60 stitches in her head.

She is the sweetest most positive person. Everyone adores her, doctors, nurses, care takers.

Grandpa's Car

Grandpa was driving and his tire came off!! Scary!

Lydia's Darling Teacher

Lydia's Work

Good-bye Skull

Grandma and Grandpa sent Trent a new shifter top, Good-bye Skull. We gave it back to Sam Biggs!

Impetigo

In Nauvoo Blake had a sore nostril. I put bacitracin on it. Once home I thought he was trying to pop zits on his face as I noticed little sores. So the first and second day of school he had spots on his face and a sore nose (he was embarrassed, but ok.)  Saturday I looked at him and thought, "his nose looks no better and this is weird, Julie, you are treating this wrong." (Thank you to the spirit.)  It hit me, it may be impetigo!!  Josh took him to HEB RediClinic Sunday.  We had a couple days home together:-)

Impetigo, bacterial infection

Busy Saturday

Trent had open gym at 10am, Lydia and I went to Marguerite's Baptism 11am, Josh and I went to Grandma B's funeral at 2:30pm. (Michelle Hollingsworth's mother.) We went to the graveside and dinner after. I was gone the whole day.

New Crown

Our cabinets were driving Josh crazy. We didn't pick the crown in the first place. Josh ordered new and was putting it up! (Turns out AWESOME!)

Coral Snake

There was a scorpion on my bathroom floor this morning and a snake under Josh’s truck. The poisonous  snake did not have a head. We think an animal carried it to our driveway. With all the construction in Travisso there are more animals and (I am sure) more snakes! 

Red touch yellow - kills a fellow

Red touch black  - venom lack

Yellow touches red - soon you'll be dead

Red touches black - friend of Jack

1st Day of SCHOOL

Lydia 3rd, Blake 4th

Lydia and Miss Blissit

Blake and Mrs. Garland

Trent 10th

Driving himself to 10th grade (with me in the car:-)

Grant 7th 

Grant's athletic locker combo

Trent's schedule

Today was crazy! To take the little kids to school they wanted to scan everyone’s drivers licenses but no one had received an email saying it would be so. (I ended up finding one from the district from weeks before. Still terrible and not clear.) The line was insane. Finally after the bell rang and I was leaving in the car with Grant so we could get Trent to school, Josh went with the little kids and called me and said they’re letting everyone in (b/c everyone was so mad) so we flipped around and went back. Barely got Trent to school barely got Grant to school. Our tradition is to go to the Olive Garden on the first day of school, when the waitress moved the drink menu there was a baby lizard and it ran down and got by my seat and my purse. We were in a booth, it ran down by our feet we think. It mostly freaked out Grant, Lydia and me. Grant could not eat and struggled to sit down. Lydia did not want to eat. Josh‘s food did not come and then there was a hair in Blake's meal. The manager compted Josh’s meal and then  I had a very calm nice talk with him in front of the kids, because I wanted to show them how it was done nicely. I wanted him to know that all the kids wished we had gone to Texas Roadhouse and that this was our tradition and in the future a lizard is a bigger deal than a missed meal and more should be done. He compted the whole meal and gave us a gift card (said he was following some good advice🤪) which I was thrilled about.

Our mornings are going to be a little crazy this year. Grant will have football at 6:45am, (after a few weeks it will only be Monday, Thursday, Friday.) We will have to see who will bring the seminary kids home if Josh has to go straight to work.  I will be back from taking Grant in time to have a few minutes with the little kids before driving them to Mason. Then I’ll be back with maybe a minute to spare to get Trent to school by 8. (he was late the 2nd day, first time ever late to practice because he misjudged the time of how long it takes to get there, and I didn’t know when he really needed to be there. I felt bad.) 

Blake and Lyd did not get the teachers I requested but it looks like they have young, sweet teachers and hopefully it will be great. 

It sounds a little negative, really it has been fine just a little crazy. Blake gave his first day at 10 Grant a 9 Lydia an 8 and Trent a 7.9. Each one before they responded made it clear "I am not rating a fun day I am rating just a day of school."

Grant's Schedule

Nauvoo

Flew into Kansas City Thursday, August 9th

Sky Pictures by: Lydia

Ate at Red Robin and headed for . . .

Independence Visitor's Center

Amazing Joseph Smith timeline.

Liberty Jail

When we came out of Liberty Jail, there was a cloud on the ground, Lydia has always wanted to go in one, so they ran over!

We got yogurt and a hotel room! The kids swam, very fun!

Far West temple site Friday, August 10th

Adam-Ondi-Ahman

Friday late afternoon we arrived at Camp Nauvoo, ate pizza and went to the Trail of Hope.

Saturday, August 11

Plays and wagon rides and Historic Nauvoo.

Blake split his head on the van.

Savanna, Abby, Lyd, Millie, Emmaline

Olivia, Mikaylee, John, Trent, Grant

Children's Parade

Frozen Custard

Sunday, August 12

Pictures by the temple after church.

Shannon Cox

Carthage Jail

Monday, August 13th

We took these cuties to do baptisms after doing a session ourselves.

Samuel, Blake, Grant, Chase

Bowen, Samuel, Thomas, Grandma, Grant, John, Chase

Tuesday, August 14th

Our tiny house.

We drove back to Kansas City and flew out that afternoon.