A Little Teacher Humor

A little teacher humor for the beginning of the school year. Hopefully you get it. It was funny for us.
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Labor Day Trip

Since it was a 3-day weekend and we had a little free time, we decided we would do something we haven't normally done. We went for a road trip. So on Saturday we headed up to Couer d'Alene and took a boat ride around the lake.  We spent the night there and enjoyed the scenery and relaxation being away from home.

Sadly, about 30 minutes into the trip we realized we had forgotten the camera. That seems to happen every good trip we take. So we didn't get any pictures of the things we saw, but you can just imagine.

An interesting part of our trip was visiting Hayden, Idaho. There are definitely some interesting people in that part of the country. Bob also got to see where Silverwood was and a few other things he hasn't seen since we never seem to get out much.

We came back home through the Palouse, the bustling metropolitan areas of Moscow, Idaho and Pullman, Idaho. By Sunday afternoon we were back home and back to the daily grind of everything. It was great to get away.

News

Okay, this is really Zach updating for Bob and Audrey, but with a little help, hopefully they will begin blogging soon.

Shauna has recently come into the blogging world with her new site (a link to that is on the right) and she also had the 18th grandbaby in our growing family. She had a little boy that they named Casen Lee Hansen. Things went well and Audrey was able to spend a week with Shauna in the Logan area taking care of her 4 kids now. It was lots of fun for her and a little too peaceful for Bob at home, so he spent some free time with Michelle and ShaRae's family. All in all, spring has been fairly nice to everybody.

And only 24 more days of school says school teacher Audrey. As a student I never thought the teachers counted down days and got as excited as we did for school to be over for the summer. But now I'm seeing that this is more and more true.

Another grandchild in the family

We added grandchild number 17 to the family early Sunday morning. ShaRae had a baby boy around 1:30 in the morning. They named him Blake Howard McShane. He was a little bit early, but seems to be a healthy boy. He weighed around 8 lbs (they weighed him twice and had a difference of 2 oz, so we'll stick with 8 lbs) and was 21" long.

Family Reunion

Here we are in Pocatello. Taryn (Janelle's third) was baptized Saturday July 12th on her birthday. Jaret (Zach's third) was blessed Sunday July 13th. There are 30 of us now and one more on the way (ShaRae's). We're all here except Derek (Michelle's) husband and having a great time together. Here are some pictures to prove it.

Audrey
(That's right it's me Connie, with Zachary's help.)

And it all started here 37 years ago.


The Maughans (Michelle's family)


The McShanes (ShaRae's family)


The McMinns (Janelle's family)


The Howards (Ryan and Amber)


The Hansens (Shauna's family)


The Howards (Zachary's family)


Here's the original eight. What a scary lot.

Update

Farming is going full steam now for Bob and it keeps him busy all of the time. With balers breaking down and other things falling apart, it has been an interesting crop so far this year. Thankfully the weather has been a little bit better so Bob is almost done with the first crop..

Audrey is out of school and enjoying summer. She keeps busy with workshops and other things around town and also loves to visit her 2 favorite children occasionally. (And those 2 know who they are) :)

They are both getting excited to head up for a family get together in Idaho here in the next 3 weeks. Janelle's daughter Taryn is getting baptized and Zach is blessing his baby, Jaret, that same weekend. It should be fun for them and all of the grandkids in Idaho are excited for Grandma and Grandpa to come visit.

I'll see if I can't pry some more information out of Bob and Audrey here in the near future.

Updates

The last couple of months since our last entry have been pretty uneventful. Which is always good for us. The less stress the better. We did have a few fun things happen though.

Bob celebrated his 60th birthday on March 29th. Another year older ("and wiser" he says).

Zach and Carrie had a baby on April 16th. That makes 16 grandkids now and the boys are outnumbering the girls 9 to 7. It was hard with Zach's because they didn't find out what it was until the birth, but eventually we finally found out.

School is now even closer to being out for the summer so we can plan trips. If we can afford the gas to go anywhere. There is a family reunion on Audrey's side this July at Lehman Hot Springs though. And they have said they have cleaned it up considerably since the last time we were there.

The farm is running at full speed now too since it is spring. Hay is a hot commodity in the area and the smaller bales are always popular for those with few horses and cattle. Thank heavens for them.

Life is good and we hope all are well. We'll work on having pictures up from things we've been doing in the future.