Last weekend of summer

So I have been wanting to post these pictures for a while, but our internet has been mostly down. It usually doesn't work, but when it does it's like dial-up speed, how did we ever live with that? Today it is moving pretty fast though.
So the last weekend of the summer we packed with some fun things from around here. On Friday Devon had a school meeting in Blanding, so the boys and I met him and we tried the Dinosaur Museum. The boys really enjoyed it. James kept saying "Wow, Wow!" Spencer was running around looking at everything- luckily we were the only ones there.




Then we went to Monticello. We really made the whole trip to meet up with Thomas and Elizabeth on their way through to Texas, but Devon's meeting got over early, so we had some time. We stopped by the county fair. It was not too exciting. They had some big bouncy things, but they were expensive to go on. Other than that is was pretty much animals. But the boys loved it, especially the pigs. And they got to meet Smoky the Bear.



We didn't get any pictures with Thomas and Elizabeth, but we met up with them and went to a yummy burger place. Elizabeth let Spencer take pictures with her digital camera. He loved it. It scared me to death, but the camera was still in one piece when they left.
The next day we went on an excursion with the Whitakers. They have been gone all summer, so we wanted to have one last party with them. We went to this campground that we had heard about with the plan of roasting hot dogs and playing in the river. First the sign that said "No fires" ruined our plans. Also the river was quite high from all of the rain, so we turned around and changed plans. We ended up cooking our hot dogs at the church and roasting marshmallows over the burners.


We did find a place to wade in the river. It was so muddy! We had a good time though. James stayed right at the edge and threw rocks in. At that age Spencer would have been heading for the middle of the river. It's nice to have different personalities.
Now school has been in session for 2 weeks. It's been a much easier adjustment this year with no new babies. Actually, by the end of the summer (but not until the last week) I was ready to return to some semblance of schedule. It was a great summer.