Trapp Family Of Five: August 2011

Missing home now firmly behind us... I am here today to try and summon the courage to write a blog entry worth reading. It was a hard battle for me to recover the desire to go about my daily routine after having three weeks with my family. Who wants to got to work? Clean our house? Blah!!! Planning another vacation is the only thing I can think of to raise my spirits.

Here's the latest from the Trapp's... After returning from vacation, soccer was quick to start. Both boys were excited to see their soccer teammates and really returned easily to the routine of practices and games.

Rylan kicking a corner kick...

Rylan doing his best to block!

Along with soccer, another big change was in the works. The first day of school. Fourth grade for Noah. First grade for Rylan. And kindergarten for Sofia. The Crazies were all ready for school to start this year. Noah and Rylan missed their school friends. And Sofie was just excited to eat lunch at school. As of today, we are a month into the year, and it is going really well.

As summer neared it's end, we snuck in a few visits to the pool... We even spent one evening at Splash City. It is a little bit of a drive from our home, but it was a great trip. Noah and Rylan loved the Surfing attraction.

Spent a few days on a return trip to Silver Dollar City...

We watched our garden fall into the the hands of our garden friends... My favorite were the swallowtail caterpillars who ate the dill in the herb garden down to the stalks. I let them! They are beautiful caterpillars and hopefully their full bellies will help them to turn into wonderfully beautiful butterflies next summer.

We cheered on the redbirds at a game or two... This game against the Braves was my favorite. We started the evening with a few appetizers at the white tablecloth side of Mike Shannon's. Then we finished the evening with seats in the Best Buy Suite.