Anna's 5th grade graduation

Anna graduated from elementary school this year.  I feel so old.

Anna and her teacher, Mr. Swartz

Custer State Park

Every year Custer state park has a free weekend.  On our way there we saw some baby foxes.

We went on a wagon ride.

And we fished.

looks like we get to have dinner

Violinists

Meg and Anna had their violin recital.  They both did really well, we are so proud of our little orchestra.

Talent Show

Anna played Minuet #1

Turkeys and Mutton bustin'

Dad went camping with his buddy and finally got his big tom.

later that day we headed to the grand opening of Runnings and Meg got to ride a sheep

this is a video of our friends Will, Alex and then Meg at the end

Dad's Birthday

Dad got a fire pit for his birthday.  What a lucky guy.  We were going to roast hot dogs, but it was too windy.

35 candles, it took his 3 tries

Utah

Our trip to Utah, luckily the kids slept well.

There was a stretch of road where we saw hundreds of deer.

Ty's finally got to ride an Arabian.

Ty and Grandpa Lex

Anna and Ross

Kylie and Ty

We had so much fun in Utah, it was fun to see our family again and also some friends.  We spent Thursday with the horses.  Friday we hung out with the Johnsons and Saturday was Chadd's wedding.  I got lazy and didn't take any pictures, but I will get some soon to add.