September 2020

 The biggest change that September brought to our family was starting school with Epic Charter School. After waiting most of the summer for schools to announce how they were going to handle all of the challenges Corona Virus was throwing at them, we felt it was best to have our kids go to a school that already knew how to operate online. Our experience in the spring with "online learning" was more stressful than it needed to be. There were definitely some growing pains as we got used to the different curriculum and trying to get everything set up online but the best parts are not having to get the kids up early each morning for school and letting them have more freedom to move at their own pace. 

August 2020

We went on a river rafting trip with the Berry, Marshall and King families. We booked with the Riverside Resort in Tahlequah, OK. It had been raining most of the week before but we decided to go anyhow. The first part of the float was sunny and beautiful but as we reached the last leg, a thunderstorm came in and it was slightly terrifying. Kimball and Cameron were on other rafts, and Dale and I had the girls on a raft with Errol King. The girls were crying in my lap (and Becca fell asleep eventually) while Dale and Errol paddled furiously.