August is Almost Over.

I can't believe August is almost over. Where has the summer gone? I find myself a little frustrated, which makes no sense because we have had a fantastic time running all over the place, visiting, swimming and site-seeing. We had summer holidays this year, and it has been AMAZING! I guess I am not looking forward to Trevor going back to work this fall. He has been working this summer, but not in the same way. Soon he will be working 2-3 evenings a week and it just makes things different.

So, some general updates for you.

Brook: is now 10 months old and destroying the house. I use the word "No" about every two minutes. She is pretty good, but needs some reminding. She points at everything with her chubby little her index finger, and then goes for it. Today she pointed at an uncovered plug in, and I got there just before her little finger fit into the socket. That got my heart going. (That plug in is now covered). She is crawling, walking around furniture and climbing stairs. She hasn't figured out how to go down the stairs yet, other than head first. It is a lot of fun watching her figure out her suroundings and limitations. The play pen is getting well used. (Below: Brook playing with blocks that Grandma Pauls (Verna) gave her. Apparently she played with them when she was little)

Trev: Just finished a week of VBS. He was running some of the games and had a good time running around with the little kids. One game he played with a group of boys involved running as far as they could, while screaming, until they ran out of air. Sounds like fun to me. He is doing a lot of planning for the fall and looking for youth leaders. This weeekend his baseball team had their final tournament. Unfortunatly they didn't last too long, but he had fun in the two games they played. On august 15th Trev had his 28th birthday. I am glad that he gets to hit all these birthdays a few months before I do. It make it easier for me. (Below is trev balancing an egg. Ya, he is talented)

And I am doin just fine. I really enjoyed our trip down to the badlands and visiting with Matt and Coreen on the way down. I love "exploring", and right now this is the best way for me to do it. I missed camp these last few weeks. I found it hard when I realized camp was over and I hadn't been there at all. I am hoping to do a bit more riding this fall. Claris and I had a really good ride this week, and I hope we can do it again soon. There is nothing better than a good horse ride to refresh me. I am so excited for all the new babies that are going to be coming in the next 6 months. (We have a lot of friends and family that are expecting) Hopefully we will be working on our fence in the next few weeks so that can be finished before Trev starts youth. It's been a fun project to do togehter.

Anyway, that is us right now.

Below are some pictures from our "Fleming Family Camping Trip". We camped at Lake Adam for the weekend. Unfortunatly it rained most of the time we were there, but we still had a good time. We went swimming saturday afternoon in the rain. The water was so cold that the girls ended up collecting leeches instead of swimming. (That is what is in the bottle they are holding up to their faces - Olivia looks a little worried) Yuck. There are plenty of pictures of us eating. It seemed to be what we did best. It was a lot of fun.