We celebrated Micah's 9th birthday throughout the entire month! First ... his official birthday on August 6th; second ... his camping weekend - Whitehorse Lake with the Gravel family; third ... friend party on August 25th. Whew!
Another devastating blow of the summer, occurred during the second week of August. I decided to spend some time in the garden - catching up on weeding, pruning, etc. Our fruits & vegetables were looking great before traveling to Mexico. When I walked through the middle of the garden and then lifted some leaves (to see the cucumbers) ... there were white flies. The garden was infested. It was to the point where EVERYTHING had to be pulled and we needed to start over. It reminded me of the lice (in June) - little white bugs invading our family. Uhg!
To ease the pain (it was painful pulling up the garden) we headed to Whitehorse Lake on August 10th for the weekend. We were having our annual summer (birthday celebration) camping trip with the Gravel family. It was a beautiful location with wonderful weather. The lake was down about 4' and we were awed by the thousands of frogs that surrounded the edge all around the water.
The week of the 20th was our annual summer 'vacation' week with Alice & Charlie Rice in Flagstaff, AZ. For the past 3 years we have joined them at the Wyndham Resort to enjoy the free amenities of: swimming pools, pool tables, ping pong tables, a movie theatre (with very large beanbags), putt-putt and cheap delicious ice cream. The kids chose to not have any 'field trips' this year and only spend time at the resort's campus. For the first weekend (17-19th) Ty & Dawn Rice, and Matt joined us.The kids and I were having such a nice time in Flagstaff that we stayed until Friday morning to leave. We hit the ground running when we arrived home ... preparing for Micah's birthday party (including 22 friends) that was scheduled for Saturday morning at 9am. You can see more details about the amazing day on our school blog: www.richhomeeducationgrade3.blogspot.com
