Let School Begin

The summer break flew by for me. We kept busy and here are a few highlights.

Charlie's sister, Kalo, returned from her mission

Charlie's other sister, Saane, came out for a visit with her kids and we did a lot of fun things including a Disney trip.

Saane also took Hailey back with her for a week so she could hang out with her cousins and we all enjoyed the break.

We did a little bit of the beach

And a lot of swimming

Which brings us up to this point....kindergarten

Here is Hailey on her first day of school

So far things are going well and she enjoys it; here's the start to a long road of schooling.

Utah Trip 2009

Last month we went to Utah and visited my family. We did a lot of things and had a lot of fun. I will spare you all the details and post a few pictures more for my memoirs sake than anything. Here's the Children's Museum in SLC, it is actually fun and worth the money if you have kids

We had a picnic and went to a swim park

We kind of had a BYU day visiting the bookstore and bowling and the Bean Museum

We celebrated my Dad's birthday while we were there and went to the petting farm at Thanksgiving Point

Art City Days was going on in Springville (which is where my parents live) so we tried to take advantage of the free events going on around town. It rained a lot when we were there so a lot of the events got rained out but we made it to the carnival for a while before we got soaked.

Hailey got REALLY sick while we were there and spent about 4 days laying around the house so we had to take turns babysitting and she missed out on a lot of things.

Here are all of my parents grandchildren

We can't wait for our next trip!!!

Hailey the Graduate

So, this is old news but here is a picture of Hailey's preschool graduation from back in May.
We are proud of her doing such a good job and now we are enjoying some summer fun!

Summer

Summer is here, let the swimming and bar-b-que-ing begin!

Charlie's Birthday

Charlie's birthday was at the beginning of May but I've been having problems with posting so that is the reason for the delay. He was actually out of town on his birthday so the girls and I threw him a little surprise party the night before he left for just the four of us. We ended up having a lot of fun and he was surprised.

Here are the girls helping me prepare for the party by making signs for decorating.

After we chowed down on party food we played some games. The first game we played was pin the tail on the donkey.
The birthday boy won despite his rough start, as you can see he is no where near the donkey.

The next game was musical chairs

We also played several balloon games.

Then we had cake balls and presents

Good Times!!

no luck

I've been trying all afternoon to post pictures but my computer is being dumb...hopefully I can figure it out soon but we are alive and doing well.

Who me...Trouble?

As you all know Hailey has always been a well mannered child and because of this I always kinda knew that my second child would be more wild and alas it has come true. She's at that age where she is so darn cute but is constantly doing something she shouldn't be. She is the reason I do not have time on the computer anymore. She is either whining at me or so quiet that she is definitely doing something she shouldn't. Last week I left for Young Women's so she was with Charlie for about an hour before bedtime. Within that hour she became covered in oatmeal and needed a bath, took her diaper off and peed on the carpet, and climbed up on the table and got oatmeal all over her again therefore needing to be changed again. (I had already been through two changes of clothes with her during the day) I never heard of him putting a child to bed so on time before. Despite all of this it makes me chuckle and I know it will make all of you chuckle because everyone was waiting for our turn to have a child that keeps us on our toes.

I remembered this photo while I was writing, this was literally 5 minutes after she woke up one morning.

Here she is dishing up every one's dinner, ha ha...such a stinker!