First Day of School

Whitney started 2nd grade last Monday. She is loving her new teacher. I think this is going to be a much better year for her. Her teacher even called Aaron on his cell phone today to tell him how much she is enjoying Whitney in her class. I'm sure she called all the parents. It was a very nice extra touch that she didn't have to do, but did anyway. This is the only picture I took of her. She is too cool to have us walk her into school on the first day. It sure doesn't take long for them to get embarrassed by their parents.

Cassidy started kindergarten last Friday. When my sister asked her how she liked school, she said "I liked everything except one part." When asked what that one part was she said "We had to do work." Ah, Cassidy, this is going to be quite the adventure with you in school.

This is Cassidy lining up with her teacher Mrs. Kwak.

Cassidy had to bring a recent picture of her on the first day. I took this picture and thought it turned out pretty cute so I am including it with this post.

12 things I love about you

Aaron and I recently celebrated our 12 year anniversary. My wonderful husband gave me two dozen roses and tied 12 notes on the roses each with a different thing that he loved about me. I think this is one of the best presents he has ever given to me.

To celebrate our Anniversary we went out to dinner to the Cheesecake Factory. This is the first time I've eaten there, it was yum. We got two cheesecakes to go and headed up to Park City. We went to the Utah Symphony up at Deer Valley. They were playing Rhapsody in Blue, which is one of Aaron's favorite concerts. Listening to the symphony in the mountains is such a great experience. It rained during a lot of the concert, but I sure didn't complain. It is more fun snuggling up under an umbrella. We have been up there one other time and it is one of my favorite things to do. I love it. During intermission we pulled out the cheesecake, again yum.

On the farm

Our membership to Thanksgiving Point was expiring, so we made one last visit to the farm. We have loved having a membership for the past two years, but decided we needed a break for a year. You can only go there so much. I think I have decided to get a Zoo membership one year and then Thanksgiving Point membership the next. Then we don't get sick of going to the same place over and over again.

Here are a bunch of pictures. One of the problems with having 4 kids is that if you take one person's picture, then you have to take all of their pictures. I can't post just one person's picture, because there is no justice in that. So, it results in posts with lots of pictures.

This baby pony was all of the kids favorite animal there. Adorable!

I love the look on all three of their faces in these next photos. You can tell they are all thrilled to be riding a pony. I couldn't really take a picture of Grant on the pony and hold him there at the same time, so he is just going to have to deal with the injustice.

I really love this picture of Whitney. (And of course I love all the pictures of all the rest of them too. They are all cute. Just because I think this is cute of Whitney is no way means that I don't think the other ones are cute. ;)

Logan Canyon

For our final hurrah before our summer was officially over we spent the weekend camping. We went with with my sister's family, my brother and his wife and my parents. We went to a campground in Logan Canyon. Besides the heat and the campsite right next to Highway 89, it was a great place. The kids had tons of fun with their cousins. Grant was in his element being outside exploring and getting dirty. Fishing on the Logan River

Quality time with DadGrandma & Grandpa Our Campers

Cooling off with Creamies.

Podcast

Aaron created a podcast with the kids tonight. Yeah - we were that bored. It is about 8 minutes long.

http://www.box.net/shared/f2xk9gjh6n

Enjoy!

Black Ridge Reservior

We went with our cousins last week to the new lake around here. The kids had a blast. I love all the sand and that the water isn't too deep for the kids to play in. I stole all these pictures from my SIL's blog because I forgot my camera and assigned her the offical photographer. I imagine we will be coming back here for many years to come.

Lindsey's first day

Ready or not, it is time to get back into the swing of things. Summer is over - for Lindsey anyway. Cassidy and Whitney still have a few more weeks. Lindsey was very excited for her first day of preschool. This is her with her teacher Ms. Sheila. I really hope I don't forget to go pick her up. I'm not used to this yet.

Elmo

All of my kids have gone through their Elmo phase. I was beginning to think that Grant wasn't going to ever like Elmo, until now. He has become as obsessed as all my other kids did. This Elmo toy has been around since Whitney's first birthday. It no longer talks (so sad!), but Grant carries him around everwhere with him. I often find Elmo sleeping in Grant's bed with him. He can spot Elmo anywhere we go. It is one of the few words that he can say - and it is so cute to hear him say Elmo. I sure love my happy guy.

Swimming Party

Each of the girls invited a friend over to swim in our backyard. They all had a blast outside. Whitney and Cassidy were out there for more than 4 hours - they got their first official major sunburn. I wasn't a very good mom - I forgot to reapply.

My kids are always asking me to take a picture of them flying through the air. If I had a faster camera maybe I would get better shots - this is the best I had.

Sorry for all the pictures, but it is hard to choose which ones to post.

Boating

We went boating on Utah Lake with some of our friends. I had about an hour's notice to get my kids fed dinner and out the door ready to go. I ran Grant to my sister's house (Grant+Boat=Trouble) and then we took off. I really didn't think the girls would get out on the tube, but they loved it. Lindsey now wants us to get a boat - yeah right! We all had a great time.