My kids, and all the neighborhood kids, fought over this poor frog for over an hour.
Don't let Nolan's cuteness fool you. He promptly got out of the pool, walked over to the stone wall in the backyard which backs up to a pond, and throws the frog as hard and as high as he could over the wall. 
bEN IN mRS. sETFoRD's 4tH gRAdE CLaSS
nOLAN IN mRS. dEmOSS' 1sT gRAdE CLaSS
nOALN & mATTHEW bIG 1st gRAdERS!
bEN IN 4TH gRADE....yIKES.
aNNIE, bAYLIE & dELANEY. tHE cUTiE 7TH gRAdERS
I hate that there isn't enough time - not enough hours in the day, weeks in the year, years in my life - to spend with these amazing little beings who I have the privilege of parenting. I love to watch them grow, but I hate how quickly the time passes and how these incredible days of their youth are going to be gone before I know it. For all the frustrations I have as a parent, the thing I hate the most is that there will never be enough time to love them.
With the last week of summer before the kids went back to school we visited the DFW Zoo with our neighbors the Stoltenberg's.
Ben participated in the Northern Texas PGA Ewing Automotive Junior Tour in Dallas. Since Chris was out of town, I had the privilege of being Ben's caddie. (sorry Ben!) With that fact, he pretty much golfed solo! Plus, the heat index was 111. YIKES! It was a fun day with just Ben & I, that hasn't happened much lately, so I enjoyed our hot day together! He took the bronze medal home...3rd place- yee haw!
Baylie, Maddie King, John Luke Miller, Ben & Nolan. We went to the Galleria in Dallas to ice-skate. Tons of fun!
This is how Texan's ice-skate...inside.
