It's nice to be back home from my work trip, or as Kristin calls it "My Vacation".  Summer is officially over and Jake is officially a first grader.  He likes his new teacher and one of his best friends Kyle is in his class. Tyler moves up to the 4 year olds class at pre-school tomorrow.

 

Last summer swim!

 

Fresh haircuts for school.

 

Kristin invited some neighbor friends over last night for a little surprise birthday party for me.

Jake and Tyler are doing great with swim lessons. The instructors are very impressed with their natural ability and fearlessness. The boy's favorite part of swim lessons is the end when the instructors throw them in the air. The instructors like it too because you can never throw the VanSant boys to high or to far. They love it.

Grandma Gretchen is here for a couple weeks and the boys love having her here. The boys and I went camping in the back yard Thursday night which was Tyler's first time in the tent overnight. He did great but I remember why I don't sleep with Tyler, he spins like a clock all through the night. Friday night we went to Sea World and stayed to watch the fireworks. This morning we went to Home Depot to build pencil boxes for school which starts in only a couple weeks. The summer went by so fast.

I'm off to Maryland for 3 weeks for work. Kristin calls it "My Vacation".

My trip to Maryland got postponed so I get to be home for a couple more weeks. Took Jake to ride Saturday morning. He is really starting to get some air on the jumps. He actually pulls up coming off the lip of the jump to get higher now. It's only a matter of time before he starts doing tail-whips like he wants to do.

We had a few neighbor friends over Saturday night for a little get together. Ty had his 4 year check-up today. He is a 39 lbs, 41 inch tall, healthy boy. He had to get 4 shots which he was none too pleased about, but Mommy got him a milkshake afterwards. Grandma Isakson comes on Thursday and we are all exciting to have her here for a visit.

 

 Making brownies with Mommy (tasting more than he is making)

 I told him to get that "Ford" out of the driveway before it breaks down there!

 

 We've started a motorcycle gang in our neighborhood.

 

 

A lollipops for each hand after getting 4 shots at the Dr.

 

We went up to friend's, Walt and Monica, house up by Lake Arrow Head over the weekend. The boys had a blast, especially bouncing over the waves in their boat.

More summer fun.