California McMillans

August is coming to a close.  It was a pretty hot month with several days over 100.  With the drought governing our water rationing, we have gotten two rebates for being under the limit.   It helps that we are at the gym so much.   Kira got all dressed up for picture day and I just took her picture in the back yard.  This is how she wanted to pose. Dinner tonight was curry chicken kebabs on the barbie.  Mmm, it was tasty--worth making again. Parker is just over 5 months and is eager to crawl.  He gets up on all fours and rocks around, sometimes pulling himself like an army crawl. Mel is just as sweet as ever.  The kids fight over who gets to sleep with her. These books are pretty funny.  The boys and I biked to the Hawaiian Fest at Krey.  We got to cut across the golf course because it was in the evening.  Blake's pretty good on his bike.  Tyler usually rides his blue Schwinn but took this one that I got for free from the neighbors and refurbished it

Luke came home from his mission to Hawaii and reported to the Northgate 1st ward on Sunday.  He gave a nice talk and it was fun catching up with the peeps since we used to attend that ward when we lived in Walnut Creek.  The Bogners moved to Utah in about 2013 and came out to visit, so that was fun.  We used to spend lots of time at their home.  This is the Blodgett's back yard in Concord:  real nicely landscaped at the end of a court, backing up to Mount Diablo.  Luke used to jump Scott on the tramp when he was a baby.   Robin has always been a source of wisdom for Heidi. Scott wanted an alpinestars hat and was pretty stoked when this one arrived from ebay.

 I think I know why my parents chopped my hair as a kid. Before and After Summer Pics... Parker is soo big!

Mister is not so fussy anymore.  That has been nice.   Riding home from kindergarten on Little Bike Mel checking out my lentils Scott at the Brentwood car show Me and Scott at the car show Kira and Scott at the splash park Blakey at the Veterans building in Brentwood. Kira sampling some clothes she got from Ellie All dressed up for school!  Nice hair on Kira. Mr. T and his gap smile Fort time

Well another school year has begun.  It always amazes me how very fast summer goes.  We are on a modified year round school schedule which means we have 7 weeks off for summer, 2 weeks off in October and March. That makes going back to school a little easier because I know I have a 2 week break coming up. Also, when I start getting sad that the kids are going back, they start to fight more and I realize school, schedules and learning is actually a really good thing. Kira started Kindergarten.  We weren't sure how it was going to go since it has been a really, really hard transition for her with the new baby.  She was fearful to leave me all summer long.  Even to go to her best friends home which she usually loves.  The week before school started she said she was getting excited.  Getting her new pink and purple heart backpack and my little pony lunchbox helped.  They rode bikes the first day, she was a little shy, Danny said seemed nervous, but went into school, didn't com