First Day of School(Brinkworth)

Hip Hip Hooray, school finally started. This year I got to put three in school, Braxton in third grade Carsten in first and a very excited Ardynn started kindergarten, poor little Kalli has to stay home with Dawson and me. We started back on the 11 of August, so we have a pretty short summer so they punish us with 3 weeks at Christmas and alot of little made up holidays. So far we have had no big problems with school other than getting up early, the bus leaves at 7:30 sharp, and Ardynn is too cute, the boys keep pulling her hair ribbons.

Mike left us on Friday the 19 of August for Montana to fight fires. We miss him but are so excited that he is back to flying and doing what he loves(we really like him better when he is happy). His helitack crew has worked on two fires rescued 7 dirt bikers and learned to herd cattle in the helicopter. The best part for us was that Mike was able to land in Driggs and deliver brownies to Grandpa Ron(the government paid $12,000.00 for that delivery). Now those are good brownies. Mike has had a few job offers while up there so we are going up for Thanksgiving to look around.

Dusty