Hey all,
Last weekend Colleen and Silas and myself drove to Craters of the Moon and met dad for the day. Our friends Mike and Lindsey met us there, too. Silas has been obsessed with caves ever since I let him watch the Planet Earth episode about them. He had been wanting to go to Craters of the Moon for a long time, so we decided we should go before it got too hot. We all had so much fun. We were in one of the caves and Silas says, "Wow dad, this cave is awesome!" It was pretty funny. Went in all the caves that we could, then stopped and had lunch and drove around to a couple other spots and got out and walked. After lunch the wind really picked up and by the time we were ready to go, it was really starting to get intense.
Things are going pretty good here, I just finished up my summer class, so I have a couple months off before I have to go back towards the end of August. We got a new car, a Subaru Forester, we bought it from our friends Ben and Christy. They have a boy that's just two weeks younger than Silas and they get along really well. It's my car, and I love it. Now we have a rig that's big enough to take us all camping so Silas and I are going to head out in a couple weeks and give it a shot. We'll see how he does. Tim came over a couple weeks ago for memorial weekend and we had a good time. Went fishing for a little bit with Silas, which went pretty much as I expected; but we still had a lot of fun. Silas just adores Tim.
I only have 3 semesters left in school and then I'll be all done-with my undergrad, at least. I do want to go to grad school but I can't decide what for yet. I still have time to decide though. My (sort of) new job is still going good. I love working days. It's an amazing thing not having to sleep all day anymore. I love waking up early and getting a fresh start to the day. Colleen and I have definitely seen a big change in all of our attitudes since I've started. I go to work early in the morning so then I am able tog et off work around 4 each day. Some days I pick Silas up early from daycare and some days I just come home and start making dinner. I love to cook, and when I was working nights I didn't cook very much cause I was never really that hungry when Colleen and Silas were ready for dinner.
We got Silas in a new daycare, which is 1000 times better than his other one. He loves it. They play outside every day unless there's lightning. It could be rain or snow and they play outside regardless. Every Friday is water day so they spend most of the day outside playing in the water. Then every wednesday the Magic Tumble Bus comes and they do gymnastics for a couple hours. It's a bus that some people bought and put in pads and a trampoline and they drive around to all the day-cares in the area and do gymnastics lessons. They work on a new skill each week then send home a piece of paper saying what they practiced so we can do it at home as well. It's been a lot of fun. Well, this has turned longer than I expected, and the season finale of Game of Thrones is calling my name. Hope everyone's doing well. Enjoy the photos!
