Time to start blogging again! Here's a recap of our past year ...starting in August.

In August, last year, we made another cross country trek to visit family. Since Naperville was only 24 hours from Idaho instead of 31, we decided to do a little sight seeing along the way. We stopped at a dinosaur park in North Dakota and then on to Mt. Rushmore. We did our typical drive through the night and arrived at these places still in pajamas.







Then it was off to Yellowstone National Park





We stopped for the weekend in Idaho. Never a dull moment there!

Boyd is holding the "special doll".


We had Unicorn Sister's water aerobics one morning.

Coordinated aunts and niece!



We continued our travels to the Peterson family reunion, in southern Utah, to celebrate Mom and Dad's 40th wedding anniversary.



The guys decided to have a ping-pong tournament. Whoever lost the round had to take his shirt off and stand there while everyone else tried hitting him with a ping-pong ball.



Hiking, swimming, cave-exploring, playing games and eating lots made it a really fun reunion.






















Not long after we returned from our trip Kaitlyn started kindergarten! We happened to live right by the school so it was fun to step through our back gate and be on the school's lawn. Kaitlyn was in Mrs. Messina's class. She was a great teacher that really got Kaitlyn excited about being in kindergarten.

Before school
After school


Good little helpers