Life in the FAST LANES

The "Fast Lanes" describes our last back to school event, but the rest of the week was filled with Back to School events, and gearing up for the school year!   Here are the boys before Jayden's "Meet your teacher night" and football practice just happened to be right after it!

 I think Jayden is going to have a great year in the 5th grade with Mrs. Herdon!  I keep telling him that 5th grade was one of my favorite years, and so vivid in my memories!. . . Mrs. Morehead,  and some of my best grade school friends in the same class -- takes me back!

 Kyler and Evan before their "meet your teacher night" at Williams Elementary.  Evan is going to have a great Kindergarten year - we are so excited about his teacher, Mrs. Gardner!  And of course, Kyler has no worries this year .. . he is looping, which means same teacher and same classmates!  . .  just like last year!

 Jayden has been taken down with some asthma issues this week, but should be much better to start off the school year!  Plus I am loving his new poppazon!

 Evan and Briston enjoying a last sleep over as "pre-schoolers"!  They will be big ole Kindergarteners this time next week, awh!!!!

 What better way to finish off the summer on a dreary, rainy saturday before school starts than a trip to Fast Lanes. . .  along with everyone else in NWA!! I might be crazy! Especially because Kerry was out of town at Glenn's wedding!

 Some Laser Tag fun  (yes, I played too!) . .  Jayden and Kyler beat mine and Evan's team, but it was fun none the less!

Guess who won the JACKPOT??!! 1000 tickets!!! Kyler!  We need to take hime to vegas next time:)! 

It was a fun time and we are glad to finish off the summer in style!  School Year 2012/2013 here we come!

Ready or Not . .

Let the football fun begin!  We have one week until school starts and this week is crammed full!  Since Kerry is over the football progam, we (especially him!) had to hit the ground running once we returned from Vegas.  Sign ups, equipment hand outs and first practices.

  Coach Daddy getting his#1 players geared up at the house before practice.  Frist practice is helmets only, Wednesday it's full pads.  This is Kyler's first year to play Tackle and he is playing with the 4th graders. . .  he's pumped and excited to get to be a Cardinal a little early!

 I wouldn't wanna mess with the Pitts Boys!

 They got to run through the cheerleaders on the field at the High School Scrimmage game.

Evan even ran beside Kerry . .  he was so tired! That was a long way to run for a little guy and he had to keep up with all the big kids!

Guess who was BARFING through his mouth peice and new helmet before warm-ups were even over . . . Jayden!  Poor guy, he is hosting a nasty cough (prob. his asthma) and all that heat and action just got the best of him.  He kept on going though!  Took a short rest and didn't even slow him down!

It's just Monday!  I get to help with Rush at U of A tomorrow . .  really excited - talk about girl time!!  Then it's more football, 3 Meet Your Teacher Nights, Kyler starts practice for his traveling baseball team (this is a new animal for us, plus it breaks my 1 sport at a time rule - but he really wanted to do it - we shall see!) and Kerry flies to Tennessee for Glenn's wedding for the weekend, THEN  . .  SCHOOL STARTS!  Ready or not here it all comes!

A Happy Camper

From start to finish Camp Ozark lived up to it's slogan . . "Incomparible" and "premier christian sports and adventure camp" . .  yep, those all about sum it up! --- Couldn't be happier with this camper's experience! Jayden has been uplifted, had loads of fun, made friends from all over the nation, been influenced by college students from ALL over (including one of his cabin counselors from Ole Miss --haha - love it!)  and is exhausted! I wish I could have a picture of all his experiences - and I can't even begin to list them!

 

Jayden was recognized as the "Entertainer" of his cabin and got the award for self esteem... yep, that's our Jayden!

 Jayden was placed on the Osage Tribe -- so it's OSAGE from here on out for him . . wonder if Kyler will be an Osage or a Caddo next year . .?  We could have dueling tribes within the family:)

All kinds of Sports, water slides, blobs, zip lining, golf, wake boarding, video editing, guitar, theme nights, parties, fire works, compititions, singing, praising, devotions . .  I could go on and on -- just a week full of fun!

 We all went to the closing ceremony on Saturday and got to see Ezra and Silas . .  who I haven't seen seen since they were babies!  It was good to see the kids together!  Ezra and Jayden were in the same cabin and hopefully Kyler and Silas can be cabin mates next year!

 Kerry and Matthew.

 Jayden and one of his cabin counselors.

Jayden telling his brothers all about camp!  I feel confident that these boys all have future experiences ahead of them at Camp Ozark.  There is lots of fun to be had and great experiences that I can't wait for them enounter!  Til next year Camp Ozark!

Vegas Baby!

Celebrating 13 lucky years of marriage!  Our official anniversary isn't until October - but this seems to be the best time to celebrate!  We had a fabulous time!  I got very few pictures, actually all but one picture was taken on our first day, on the way from the airport to the hotel!  Oh well!

 We usually take a cab - but went in style this time!  Cracks me up - I took all these pictures because I kept thinking how cool the boys would think this was!

 It was a great way to start our vacay and oh so vegas-y:)!  Good Job KP -- limo, champaign and a rose, awh!

 I couldn't help but imagine carpooling in this thing - with gatorades and cheez-its filling the bar!  How cool a Mom would I be:)!

Enough about our ride!  We ate LOTS and LOTS of fab food, lounged by the pools and shopped and Kerry did a bit of gambeling- I gave my yearly donation to the slot machine too:)!.  It's always nice to get away from the day to day and vegas style chillax!  I hate that I didn't get more pics - but I was relaxin'!  Happy early anniversary to us!!!

 Before we headed out on Saturday - we met Mom and Dad to drop off Camper#1 and #2 (aka - Kyler and Evan) and then headed to Camp Ozark to drop off Jayden.  Here is Jayden the night before - loading up his trunk.

 Even the arrival was exciting!  Kids hanging out of sunroofs (incluidng Jayden) with announcements of arrival . . "Jayden Pitts from Fayetteville, Arkansas  . . "  so cool!  Kinda red carpet like:)!  I will have to remember next year to decorate our car with his tribe and stuff - we are newby campers!

 I can't wait to hear all about it and see my oldest baby!  We haven't been able to talk to him since Saturday when we left him in the sweltering heat! I know he's having a blast and I scour the pics online everyday to see a glimpse of his smiling face!

We all head out tomorrow morning bright and early for the closing ceremony, lunch and to return to a party of five!

Summer Lovin'

 Oh yes, we are a lovin' us some summer and havin' a blast!

 It rained. . . only briefly, but we hung out in it!

 Rub a dub dub three Pitts boys in a tub!

 Some condo livin'!

 This storm cleared out the pool and the lake . . . it blew in, then blew out!

 Just our version of the Olympics . . . boogie board racing!

 Syncrenized Quadruple Cannonballing?  Yes Please! 

 A quick escape to Arkadoo . . .

 Three brothers sitting on the dock . . . (like for over 30 minutes!)  If only those ducks could talk:)

 The triple boogie!

 Then back to NWA for some Tennis Camp for Kyler.

 A tennis huddle.

Our tennis pro:)!  Award for "Best Aim" too! 

Kerry and Evan just took off for a spur of the moment work trip to Oklahoma City.  The rest of us are gearing up for our next week of events!  As usual this summer, we have one week at home between our weeks away!  Just enough time to get laundry done and packed for the next!  What in the world are the Pitts' up to next week??? . . . .
Jayden --- CAMP OZARK here he comes!  He's super excited and Kerry and I both are wishing we could go too!
Kyler and Evan ---- CAMP CICI/POP - fun times ahead in Arkadoo for these two!
Kerry and Melissa ---- "CAMP" VEGAS - a little lucky #13 anniversary celebrating! ( a bit early, but the time was right!)