Final Summer Track Meet

 The kids were excited to go to another summer track meet the second week in June. It would be our last since we would be out of town the following weeks. As luck would have it, it rained most of the day. It finally cleared up right before the scheduled time, but by then they had already canceled the meet. We had talked a few of our friends into coming- the Jensens and Vests- and since we all made it to the high school, we decided to just stay and play anyway.

Emily had a whole group of kids that followed her around and helped her run around the track. They were all so sweet to her and it was so fun to watch them. I'm impressed how many times this little 2-year old made it around the track!

The boys set up a few of their own races as well. They sprinted their little hearts out and then took a few walking laps when they couldn't run any more. That soon turned into a game of climbing up a wall near the fence and jumping off.These boys have such a good time together, they are in the same classes at church, scouts, and even some sports teams. The older boys are all very close in age, but Jacob is definitely the tallest.

It didn't take Matthew and Sarah too many laps before they headed over to play in the sand pits. There is just something about sand and kids- you can't keep them out of it! We stayed for as long as we could before we had to pack up and head to Caleb's baseball game.

Every time we go anywhere, Matthew loves to collect sticks. Whether it's the neighbor's house, the school, the park, baseball practice, etc. Matthew usually ends up with a pretty impressive stack of sticks that he begs to bring home. When we told the kids to head to the car, I glanced back to see how Matthew was coming and this is what I saw:

 I about died laughing when I saw what Matthew was carrying. Somewhere along the highschool track field he had found this giant branch- practically a small tree. He thought it was the most amazing stick ever! He came around the fence, so excited, barely able to carry the thing and asked me if he could bring this stick home with him. Sorry Matthew, the tree has to stay at the school. We got a pretty good laugh out of it. This boy is so funny.