The Ockerman Family

The Ockerman Family
School has started and I think it's more work for me then the children! With homework and flute practice, I have yet to see the trumpet and Ryan assures me I won't either, piano practice and soccer two days a week, I haven't had time to think!
We had our first soccer games last Friday - "under the lights" and the rain clouds! It was so cold and wet! Joslyn's team lost, but played pretty good, now I can see who to play what position and who not to play what position! Courtney's team won! She played GREAT! Joslyn did good, she just doesn't have her mother's (and father's) competitive spirit!
Ryan went paintballing with the teachers and priests quorum last week - lots of fun! He only had 3 or 4 welts!
We have been showing our house a ton! But only 2 very low offers! What's wrong with people?!?!
We had a great time in Boise rocking out at the concert! People watching was a whole lot more fun then seeing 50 year old guys trying to move like they did 20 years ago!

I was rear-ended in Smithfield 2 weeks ago, that poor van is just going to roll over and die one day - I just hope it's not too soon!

Chad McKay turned the big 5 on the 5th of September! He's waited his whole life to be 5! As soon as he could talk (granted it wasn't until he was 3) he's told people he's 5. And he had been telling us for the last year or so he was going to change his name because, Chad McKay, doesn't sound good! (What does he know?) So it was going to be Harry Potter, which I could live with, but that morning, he informed me he was now Godzilla. It's hard to call your kid, Godzilla, in Wal-mart, but I did it! But it got me to thinking, I HATE hearing "MOM!" yelled through the house, it drives me crazy! So I've changed my name to "Princess". I think it sounds just right!

We won a free NEW video rental at the Duck Race at last week's high school game. We raced the ducks in the canal - can you say hick? But hey we won!

The Ockerman Family

The Ockerman Family
School starts on the 23rd! YEAH! I can hardly wait! Ryan is going into high school! He is a freshman at West Side H.S. Courtney will be in Harold B. Lee M.S.'s 6th grade. Joslyn is entering into the 2nd grade and Chad McKay will be in his 2nd year of Mrs. Rosaline's preschool. Craig has been gone to Cody, Wyoming for 4 days and now he's gone to Boise for overnight then back on Sunday, overnight again. We are going to Boise for Labor Day weekend to go to the Def Leppard/Journey concert with Craig's brothers and sister-in-laws. Ryan is getting his braces put on the 20th of September. Chad just had 4 cavities filled and Courtney had 3 filled. We've attended 3 weekends of reunions - American Falls, Idaho Falls and Pleasant Grove. Lots of fun!
Craig and I will celebrate our 15 1/2 year wedding anniversary on the 23rd.

The Ockerman Family

The Ockerman Family
We had a busy couple of days with Ryan's birthday - the 19th - the plan was to borrow the lightbox projector (?) from the Guard and show a movie outside on a king size sheet, but the weather decided to not cooperate and it rained cats and dogs about 20 minutes before the party was suppossed to start (9:30 p.m.). So we moved it inside and stripped one wall of any curtains or decorations and hung the sheet up there. 75% of the people invited, showed up and with my kids and 2 cousins we had 33 people in my dinigroom and frontroom to watch "Suits on the Loose"! We had a great time and lots of fun! We received a call that night in the middle of the movie from Craig's brother, teeling us that he was a grandpa! His daughter, Rachelle, had just delivered a healthy, but small, 5 lbs. 14 ozs. 19" long baby boy, Kameron Michael McKay. The next day we went to help with the library program in town and then swimming at Downata Hot Springs, then home to turn on the irrigation in the pasture. Friday we went to Idaho Falls arounf 11:30 a.m. to help Craig's brother, Kevin, unload a trailer, because they are moving there and I had 2 of his kids. Then we went over to see the new baby and then down to Tremonton, to deliver Dean's boys and Michelle's son, Alex to her for a weeek or two. We got home that night around 11:30 p.m.! Saturday wasn't too busy, we went to Logan to see "Pirates of the Caribbean 2", it was okay, not as great as we thought it would be though. Ryan was ordained a teacher today - Sunday. My mom made the 7 hour trip up to see it. He was immediately invited to go on a teacher's camping trip in Wyoming! And if he goes to his cousin's for a week right after that, he will be busy until school starts!

The Ockerman Family

The Ockerman Family
Well Ryan's off to scout camp, and it's amazing how quiet the house is! He also received his "mission call" from the stake. They are training to be missionaries for 3 monthes! He was called to Seoul, South Korea! He has to learn some Korean and things about his country! We're lucky though, his Aunt Benn, has a friend over there serving in the Air Force that we can contact. It was so exciting and nerve-racking! I don't know what I'm going to do in 5 years when the real thing comes along!
Our garden is starting to blossom! Big yellow ones on the squash and dainty white ones on the peas. I wish I was a better gardener, but I just don't love the digging around in the dirt that much!

We had a fabulous trip - lots of fun for Craig in Keystone, CO, Jessica in Las Vegas and the kids in St. George and then Pine Valley! Grandma's Camp was amazing! They went to a charity that a lady runs in Pine Valley - minature ponies that are trained for special needs children and the elderly. The kids all had a ball!
Our garden is coming along, although I've learned I grow weeds a whole bunch better then I do vegetables or flowers!

Summer is getting pretty hot, but will get even hotter when we travel next week to St. George and Las Vegas!

we are planting the rest of our garden today and a sunflower house!

Well here is the first page of our family's blog! Look forward to more as we learn how to post pictures and stories!