8-18-08

Hello Hurdsmans! Well the big event for the week was that school started on Monday, August 11th! Reagan was so excited that she did just as her teacher said at Meet the Teacher...go to bed early the night before and get up early the day of school. And she was up early....too early! Gwen and John walked Reagan to school and she was amazed at all of the kids! She loved it and has received a green mark (a good day) every day of school. Tuesday Gwen and John waited for a candy order and then had a Webelos meeting. Wednesday night Gwen had a RS/YW class on personal safety, it was good but made for a paranoid Gwen:-) Friday morning Jim headed off to Pinedale with Jaren's family for the night. They went up to work on some things that needed to be done. Jim had fixed Reagan's bike the night before so of course she HAD to ride it to school on Friday. We'll have to get into that routine, it's still kind of hot so it will be so nice to walk/ride when it is cooler. Gwen and John ran errands and then picked Reagan up from school, with John riding his tricycle. The ride to the school went fine, but home took us what seemed like a million years. We spent some time in the pool and unfortunately the big umbrella and it's 50 lb concrete stand all blew into the pool while we were in it (this is the second umbrella we have lost this way - ugh). Gwen and Reagan were able to get the stand out of the pool and then off to Cake's house we went for a bit. That night we had a "picnic" with takeout and we tried to play around alot that day, hide and seek are one of the favorites. Oh and moving Reagan's bed and doing gymnastics on it. Saturday we hung around home since Gwen was on-call. Jim got home that afternoon and we went and played BB at the church gym. Sunday was the norm. We are all glad to have Jim back and are looking forward to all going to Pinedale next weekend for a family vacation with "Poppa" and "Ta-ma". We have all really enjoyed the Olympics this week too. Hope everyone is well. Love, Gwen Jim Reagan and John
p.s. unfortunately the Petersen kids are perfecting the art of fighting :-(