Back to School!

Back to School was pretty exciting, and sad, at our house. The kids were all super excited about going back to school. (Bryce was excited and way nervous, he doesn't do change very well).

Here is Brayden with his new teacher Mrs. Mize, on meet the teacher night. He was really excited about having her as a teacher since he thinks she is really cute and really nice. (She really is. Mommy was super excited because she is a really sweet teacher, but suppose to be the best second grade teacher to get the kids ready for 3rd.)


Here is Bryce putting his stuff in his new desk. He was really nervous, I even had to drag him into school and into his classroom. But once school started he warmed up and was ready to go.


Bryce on his 1st day of 3rd grade! The BIG year where they learn multiplecation :( He has a really great teacher that is trying hard to make sure he is understanding what she is teaching. I really appreciate all her hard work, already, in helping Bryce succeed.



Brayden all ready for his 1st day.



Sierra on her 1st day of school. I can't believe my baby is starting school. She is so excited to go to school. And what makes it even more exciting - her best friend (our neighbor) Audrey is also in her class. So, she wasn't as nervous as mommy with her first day of school.

Her she is on her first day already busy at work.

Savanah was ready for school to start back, all summer long. She LOVES school and would go everyday if we let her. Seriously, the girl LOVES school. She does workbooks all the time. The rest of the kids love playing and Savanah loves learning.



Here she is all ready for class to start. All summer long she told us that she was getting Mrs. Ahlstedt for 1st grade. Mrs. Ahlstedt was Brayden's 1st grade teacher. Thank heaven's she actually has her as a teacher this year.

All my babies on their first day of school 2010. Can you believe I have a K, 1st, 2nd, and 3rd. I bet their aren't too many people that can say that. I am excited to see how much they learn and grow this year. I can't believe how big my babies are getting. Where does time go?


It was really hard for everyone to be in school. I really thought 5 years ago when I had so many small babies that I would look forward to this day. Boy was I wrong. I am having fun, though, volunteering at the school. I go and help in the library each week when the kids have their library time. They love it that I am in school with them. I also volunteer for Sierra's class some when they go to art. The art teacher needed some help with the kinder's.

Summer 2010

Yes, Yes I am WAY behind. So today I thought I would catch you up on our busy but fun summer. So here are some random pictures:

We got to kill 2 snakes in our neighborhood this summer. Yeah, mommy was really excited about that one. We live close to a pond that runs through our subdivision. Very beautiful, fun to walk to and feed the duck, but NOT fun that we have now seen 2 snakes. One by the water and one right in front of our house.


We did lots of swimming. Had to survive the Texas summer somehow. We even played football in the pool. Talk about fun stuff!


More swimming! This happened on most days since ALL of our summer was 100 or more. The kids got out of school June 4th and it was 100 or more every stinkin day of our summer vacation. Thank heaven for pools, although the last few weeks the water was even toooo hot to get in.


In July Brayden started football. The first week they practiced they didn't wear their pads or tackle each other, just the dummy. But after that, it was kill time. Can you believe that 7 yr. old football in Texas is the real deal. And these coaches mean business. They scream at these little boys, and expect them to play like professional football players. Never imagined what we were getting ourselves into. Practice started in July and Football doesn't end until the week before Thanksgiving. Brayden practices 3 days a week for 2 hr practices (before games started it was 4 day practices), and then has a game on Saturday which ends up taking about 3 hrs. of our day. Yeah!

Texas has lots of great parks. So we explored lots of different parks!

We went to Grami & Big Daddy's and played on their really fun water slide. This is definately a hit with all the grandkids.

And we got to play with my sweet little niece! The girls and I loved spending time with her. She is so cute and smiley all the time. Takes after her daddy, smiley!

We got a membership to the Dallas Zoo and went a few times. It was alot of fun. They have renovated the zoo and it is really cool!




Fishing! We went fishing ever chance we got. The kids love to fish. This is in Utah at Solitude. So beautiful! I love this picture where you can see their reflection in the water.

We got to go hiking and climb in the mountains at our awesome Family Reunion in Utah! We had a blast. The weather was amazing, and the scenery beautiful and the company perfect.



Sierra girl had a birthday. My baby turned 5 (and started kindergarden :( )

Bryce earned his Bear 6 months early. I am so proud of him!



We got to take our children to see the Temple. Priceless!

Here is another picture that I loved from our reunion.



We found another cool zoo. Frank Buck Zoo. The kids loved it because you got to feed a giraffe. Look at his long black tongue. Their tongue's are like 3 feet long, seriously.



We had a very busy, but very fun summer. Thought life would slow down when they were back in school, but boy was I wrong. We are enjoying our new stage of life with everyone in school & sports. Will post about that soon. (Hopefully!)