Eighth Grade Football!

Jacob is playing football this year, well, he was playing football and hopes to again soon. He has had a couple of games and while playing the Worland team he tweaked his knee. Rats. Before the injury he was looking mighty awesome and tough. He had a couple of quarter back sacks and had caught the ball for some serious yardage. Just before halftime, he was again giving the QB some serious trouble when he twisted his knee. I don't think it is too serious. It has been week since the injury and he is still using crutches. If it is not better in another week, as in no pain, we will get an MRI.

Jacob was pretty happy to get #80 for his jersey. That was Mark's number.

Labor Day Adventure

We decided to go on an adventure today. I really needed to get out of the house and go hiking so we headed up the mountain. We went about half way up Hwy 14a and pulled over. Our plan was to climb up the side of the hill, over the ridge and end up on top of the falls at five springs. We started out with a plan. The berries along the way were ripe and very tasty. The raspberries were delicious. We weren't sure what all the other kinds were so spike just got pictures of them.

The weather started to get cloudy....as in a cloud rolled in on top of us. It was beautiful but made he rock slide we were going through a bit treacherous. Molly refused to climb on the rocks so I went back across to help her and met spike and Jacob at the bottom. I took a cool picture and sent it to the 'big' kids and ended up texting with Lucas while I was waiting for spike and Jacob to reach the bottom.

This is just when the cloud moved in. I went on down the hill with Molly, Jacob and spike followed. 

After that we went to five springs to eat lunch and get a picture in the 'picture' tree. It seemed pretty lonely with just jacob there so I climbed in too. Of course, spike had to get the play by play of that not so graceful tree entry.

Help! Obviously, I need help.

Now Jacob is trying to be patient.

You want me to reach up....where??

Finally, on my feet and smiling. Jacob is getting so tall!!

Spike decided to join us. What a nice family picture!

We had a nice lunch and Molly found a squirrel! How exciting can that be? Way too exciting for a beagle. After we got back to the car I realized that I had lost my phone. We looked all over and I realized that I probably lost it while I was texting with with Lucas over on the other side of the mountain. We went back and looked everywhere. We said a prayer for help. Jacob and I went back on the side of the road where we had parked and Spike started back tracking. We caught up to Spike and I knew something was up because when I said,"Did you find it", he evaded my question with "how hard is it to find a needle in a haystack?" Yes, he actually found it after using his fantastic tracking skills. He was able to see where we had been by the rocks that had been displaced. He was looking for the rock I was sitting on when they caught up to me when the sun shone on the glass front of the camera and he saw it out of the corner of his eye. Amazing. Prayers work. Husbands are cool. It was a good day.

Do you see it? There by the dead branch? Whew!

Now we are home and life is good. Jacob starts school tomorrow and is a little nervous but I don't know why. He can't really put it into words either. May he is just excited. I will try to post a first day of school picture of him.