Update in Photos

Lots has been happening. Here's an update in photos . . .

This is a photo of the awesome Costco cake we got for the boys. Last Friday, we had a pool party for them. The idea was to give them an opportunity to say good-bye to all their school chums, as well as celebrate their upcoming birthdays now since they won't be able to do that with friends when we're on the road. They agreed to our suggestion to use this as a fundraising opportunity for Sauti Moja, since we cannot take a bunch of toys and doo-dads on the road either.

Waiting for the rope swing. The boys were allowed to invite about 12 friends each. The guys (and one little girl) had a blast. We had tunes and none was more popular than Alice Cooper's "School's Out", of course. The best part was we raised several hundred dollars for Sauti Moja!

Prior to the pool party, Mitchell had his Gr. 6 graduation. When we started this blog, he was just in Gr. 4. And here we are now. Yup, time flies. He could not be happier to be graduating. You can interpret that however you wish :) Mitchell did a reading at the ceremony and did a great job!

And Jackson was only in SK . . . now he's completed Gr. 2! And he even finished the stress-inducing castle. Actually he loved building that castle and will probably play with it for a long time to come (when we get back, that is - definitely not taking that on the road). Best of all, Jackson received something called the "Christian Spirit" award during the last week of school. As best I can figure, this is the "nice kid" award. He deserves it! We'll have to get that laminated and stick it in storage with all his other treasures :)

Settling into their bunks at camp. On Saturday, the morning after the pool party, we packed up and headed down to the Adirondack Mountains of New York. Both Mitchell and Jackson are at a "sleep-away" camp for a week. The camp is a combined Ranch and Ranger camp, offered by Word of Life. We had heard great things about it. This is Jackson's first ever time away from us for this long; Mitchell's 2nd. In June, Mitchell got to attend a camp for Gr. 6 students in Orillia, so he's an old hand at sleep-away camp now. We're glad he's there to watch out for his little brother!


Beautiful Schroon Lake, NY.


Back to reality . . .we have a week to get tons done before we go back to pick up the boys next Saturday. Does this basement look finished?? Help! Just over two weeks to go now . . .