Adam taking on a couple of greyhounds in the game last night. We won 3 to 1! Adam is a good leader on the team. 

We're starting soccer season around here! The Bears won their season opener against the Greyhounds last night! Adam played a great game! He is one of the captains this year.  

Adam pitching with Adrian in the backyard. 

Adam gets ready to head out the door at about 6:00am for early morning Seminary and then his first day of school for his senior year.  

Logan gets ready for his first day of 8th grade. 

The Weekend

This is part of my e-mail to Ethan today...thought it might make a good post...

We went to church in Dobson, then to Mount Airy...Cortney Brown Guerro asked Adrian to bless her baby today, so that's why we went to Sacrament Meeting in Mount Airy. Cute baby.

Adam was asked to serve on the Stake Youth Council, so he went to a meeting at the stake center this afternoon prior to the youth fireside. Logan has gone to the fireside now, too. Adrian has been to Winston today, too, for a high council meeting right after Sacrament meeting. Poor little red car barely got back to Mount Airy and had to turn around and head back to Winston again!

Logan and I worked on some of his scout stuff today and he also worked on Duty to God. Adam finished a book for English class - school starts on Tuesday and Seminary starts tomorrow. Adam has decided to go to Mount Airy to Seminary this year. It will work out better transportation-wise we think.

Cory has been on a scout trip. Kristen is doing well with her pregnancy. Elise and Ian are cute as ever. We sure had fun with them and everyone last weekend on the innertubing trip!

On Saturday - yesterday, we (Adrian) canned peaches, and they worked on lawnmowers, trying to get them running, which they did, and the guys all mowed. We got some housework done and I worked on my pictures a little. Yesterday was our week to clean the Dobson building, so we did that last night, then did a little school shopping. Hard to believe it's time for school to start. I'm trying to get back in the routine. Things are busy at SCC... Classes start there on Aug. 18.

Guess I'd better go...say hello to Wayne, Nancy, Lisa, Shawn...everyone out there. When do Nate and Alayna leave?

This is Adam's girlfriend Kim. Just thought you all might want to see what a cute girl she is - inside and out. 

The Jarrell Family Goes Down the River

We all had a lot of fun together floating down the Dan River last Saturday!

Adam and all of us head down to the river ready for a great innertubing trip! 

Putting on... 

Ian sleeps on his tube. Now that is really relaxed! 

Picnic time on the river! Gather round and pass the chips! 

Logan and Adam go through some fast moving water on the Dan River. 

Adam floats by the rock cliffs. 

A great family of tubers! 

Logan doing a disappearing act! 

Shooting the rapids! 

Logan going down some rapids on his barely still inflated tube. 

Cory, Elise, Ian, and Kristen almost ready to float to the side at the end of the trip. 

Logan going off the rope into the river at the end of the trip. 

River Trip

We had a great river trip down the Dan River last Saturday. Grandma Jarrell wanted a river trip for her birthday, so that's what we did! About halfway down, we sang Happy Birthday to Grandma J. and Cory, whose b-day was Aug. 2. We took snacks and got to the part of the river that is deep and slow and circled our tubes around for a little picnic as we floated along. Ian was so cute as he slept for about the first 45 minutes to an hour in his tube. He had gone to sleep just before we put on, but he stayed asleep as we put on his life jacket and tied his tube to Kristen's. One of my favorite parts was when we were all tied together and got stuck trying to go between some rocks and dammed up the river! :0 It was all a lot of fun!!

Kristen, Ian and Elise on their way down the hill to the creek. 

Logan enjoying some quiet time on the raft at our creek. 

Ethan 

Adam 

Logan 

Logan making a splash at the creek! 

Logan doing a flip off the diving board.