i9 Flag Football

Wes had his first ever Flag Football game.

He was so excited.

He had a great game and even made a touchdown!

BCS friends!!!
Zachary, Stefan, and Sky

Medal of the week for enthusiasm

I had so much fun watching you!

Pencil Grip Drama

I used to really be laided back, and as a teacher I could handle the kids coming to me

with blood or other exciting things.

I've always gotten stressed easy but never really dealt with WORRY all the time!

That is until I became a mother. I became the BIGGEST WORRIER of a mom!

How can you not be???

One week ago today I got a call from the school. It was about 5 minutes till school got out.

They wanted to see if I could go ahead and come in early to check on Wes.

He had swallowed a pencil grip.

They thought it was a rather large thing to swallow and wanted me to check on him.

As soon as he saw me he ran to me, hugged me, and cried.

He was scared.

I am so thankful that it did not get lodged in his throat

and somehow went down without much effort!

I called the doctor's office and the nurse said just to watch him for several days. If he had acute tummy pain obviously bring him in.

Well he was complaing a ton about his stomach and some reflux-like symptons.

Talk about turning on my worry!!!

Here is a picture of the type of pencil grip.

BEFORE

AFTER

Just kidding I won't post that picture!
5 days later it did come out and we could all relax!

Wes really did learn his lesson (so far) because he hasn't put but one thing in his mouth to chew since then. Normally it would be 100 things!

Thank you God for taking care of Wes!
We LOVE him and are so blessed that you gave him to our family to borrow!

LOVE MOMMY!

The End of August

Teaching me how to make sandals out of some food. You did this in school, not even sure what lesson it went with, but you really wanted me to learn how to make them!

You are an extra, sweet teacher!

Hanging out with Kodi!

Bathtime Fun!

Celebrating Daddy's bday!

My 2nd grader!!!

Yesterday Wes started 2nd grade in April Hejl's class.

You were so excited when you found out that Mrs. Hejl was your teacher

and that Sky was in your class.

You love your Corvette notebook so we had to get it in the picture along with your school box!
After I picked you up the first day you said, "It was AWESOME and Mrs. Hejl is FUNNN!!"
It probably didn't hurt that you had a fun day with watermelons,
including a seed spitting contest!
I pray you have an amazing year and as you requested,
I pray often for you to be more and more Christ-like everyday!

This picture is the 2nd day of school. You and Presley are both wearing the new uniform shirt!
I hope you two are good friends for along time!

A Long Outdoor Weekend

Friday night started with hiking up just a bit to overlook Austin at the 360 bridge.

Hopefully I'll figure out how to add those pics from Todd's iphone.

We then ate at Mighty Fine Burgers and enjoyed the rest of our relaxing evening.

Saturday we headed to a trail that Wes and I had been to several years ago. Wes was really wanting to show Daddy and go on a hike. It was 100 degree day but this creek and trail was completely shaded so it really wasn't that bad.

Having Daddy along always add some excitement.

After our hike we braved Costco and then spent the evening with Todd's family since Tammy and the girls were in town. We ended our dinner visiting Granny at her place.

Sunday was church and that night was dinner on the grounds!

Wes brought his basketball to play with in the gym!

He had so much fun running around with all his friends.

Monday, we headed to the lake first thing in the morning!

Our plan was to just hang out for a few hours and then be in early since the first day of school was the next day.

Well we were having too much fun so we had trouble making ourselves leave.

Despite staying several extra hours we made it home in time to grill, clean up, and get Wes in bed and asleep by 8:25!!!

Here is how the guys spent the first part of the morning!

Wes caught the only fish again.

He caught 5 perch!

Wes loved jumping out of the boat.

He spent a ton of time jumping in and then climbing back in the boat.

It was so hot, I spent most of my time in the water!

Wes had lots of fun driving us around also!

It was a WONDERFUL weekend filled with family fun which was great right before school starts back!

Summer Camping

Has anyone noticed how hot it has been lately?

I wanted to do something fun, go camping, but really it's so HOT!

We set up the tent in the living room and have enjoyed a few nights of camping!

It was a lot of fun, cool, and much softer on the carpet.

Reading before bedtime.

I loved camping with you Weso!

In fact, everything with you is better!

Love you!

FAMILY

Today we spent a lot of time being reminded not to take family for granted.

We had to say good-bye to Nita (Nancy's cousin).

It was a beautiful service honoring her life.

I always LOVED seeing her and talking with her and will greatly miss her.

Todd and Wes were both named after Wilbur Kentric Stagner.

Ken Todd Tindel

Wes Kentric Tindel

It has been a long time since we have been out to the McDade cemetery to see Todd's Pappy. Wes was too little to remember being there before so it was good to be able to take him again.

Tell your family you love them!

I love you Todd and Wes!!!