Playing catch-up.... again

I just can't seem to stay on top of all the stuff going on! Life is busy. It's good, but definitely busy. Going back a couple of weeks:

We went camping with my family up above Ephraim August 13-15. It was a fun weekend. The highlight for Faith was Averie's jeep.Dad helped Michael learn to skip rocks.
It was fun to hang out with family. The following Monday, Michael started kindergarten. I know, slacker mom who waits 2 1/2 weeks to post about his first day of kindergarten. We are sending him to Ogden Preparatory Academy, which is a charter school here. Kindergarten is half-day, and he goes in the afternoon. His teacher is Mrs. Thayne, and his friend Jacie from our ward is in his class. Michael loves, loves, loves kindergarten. He told me that he likes it SOOOOO much better than pre-school. He has homework almost every day (simple stuff like writing his name or sorting things in the kitchen), and so far he has been more than willing to do his homework. One day we did it in the morning before school. When he got home from school that afternoon, he asked me if he could do homework two times in a day. I didn't know whether to encourage his nerdiness or tell him that his friends will make fun of him for being such a nerd. In the end, I let him do homework again and made no mention of nerds or nerdiness.

I do have a photo of him on the first day of school, but Jeff took it with our other camera, and I can't find it right now.

The following weekend, we went to Elk Meadows, which is a ski resort above Beaver. We stayed in some condos with Jeff's family for the weekend. Michael and Faith thought it was cool that they got to sleep on a pull-out couch.I thought these mushrooms were cool.
We decided that condos are definitely preferable to tents. Temperature controls, TV, stoves and refrigerators, and no tents to wrestle with when it's time to pack up.