1 cute first grader

Braden was not sure he was ready for school start but when I woke him up Monday morning he was as excited as can be, he likes his teacher and says she was very nice! He had a really good first day of school! I have been feeling really bad about letting him go all day, I thought man I will miss my little guy, he is what keeps us going in the day. I am posting this 2 weeks late so after 1 week of school poor Braden got strep throat he came home last Tuesday with a soar throat and the chills, I was working and called Jeff to come get him and take him in, once again we never get sick during Doctor offoce hours!!! They gave him a shot and a ten day prescription and a doctors notice to stay home for 2 days, I heard there were lot's of sick kids and decided to just keep him home Friday also, he had a nice 6 day break so hopefully we will just get our little sickness at the beginning build up our immune systems and be healthy for the winter!! (I hope)

Fun with Aleigha

We had a blast at the mountains!

messy Gracie

Gracie was tired after all the maountain fun

Bambi's Mom

Baby Bambi is in the tree's

This mountain was pretty steep with slick rocks, Gracie and I tried and did not make it very far

I was lucky to snap this picture, cousins are the best

Playing in the dirt

Gracie loved the brownies

Looking for something????

Peek aboo Aleigha I don't think Maylee was sitting on her lap

Gracie loved her mountain experiance

these little girls picked lots of beautiful flowers we put them in our hair

Braden loves cutting fire wood

Dress ups were a hit, they even got Braden to dress up with them

Princess cousins

My neice Aleigha came to spend the night a couple weeks ago, they all played so good together. It seemed like she was the perfect age to play with all 3 of my kids, she was so much fun to have, we decided to go to Pommerelle to have a hot dog roast and let the kids play they had a great time, come again soon Aleigha!

Packing 2 Backpacks

2 backpacks to pack, how did that happen so fast, Braden is headed to 1st grade and Maylee is going to preschool and is so excited she can't wait!

Braden lost his 2 front teeth a last week both on the same day, look at all those school supplies, you will be a busy boy!

Bear Lake in July, Thanks Aunt Cindy!

I stole this from Heathers blog it sums up all the fun we had, look how many suburbans it takes to get us places!

Gracie at the Lake

Bradens little creation

playing on the hammock

cool shades

i loved these clouds

Aleigha and Gracie in the sand pool

My favorite picture of the trip I love Gracie smileing and Maylee

look at us all set up for a day on the lake

Mady and Maylee making sand castles

Gracie loved getting dirty in the sand she liked the water also

Braden and his bucket

Maylee was excited to use her pink bucket in the sand

I guess things may be slowing down cause I am catching up on the blog, we went to Bear Lake the first week in July, My Aunt Cindy rented a house on the lake and my cousins, sisters, and sister laws, Mom and Aunt went. As you see there were no Daddy's well they all farm so the hay was down and had gotten rained on so they all stayed to finish up the hay, we had the greatest time my kids loved the "beach" as they called it! We was a fun melladrama, played games stayed up late and talked, ate good I loved every second of it!

cleaning the scrapbook room

this is from 2003 there were 4 now there is 13 grandkids look how cute they are addie and porter you were so adorable i have fun memories of you as little kids i was always so excited to come home form college to come see you guys!
here is christmas in 2002 the year jeff and i got married there were 15 now there are 26
of us
this is at the cabin in island park in 2001 we are all a little older and there are only 2 little grandkids here i love old pictures check again cause i am still cleaning!

yea it was time for this little project (cleaning of the scrapbook area i was going to take a picture but i decided not to scare you with the mess!)

but i found these 3 pics and had to come post them real quick man have we ever grown

I thought things would slow down in August

Miss Gracie is growing fast she is so much fun here she is in my sandals with fingernail polish and her Binky of coarse! Her new word is wa hoooo

Braden has got his Thomas the trains out lately, I was sad when he grew out of them so it was fun to see him playing with them again!

Maylee is watching a movie with her ear muffins (aka ear muffs!)


Yes it's true I really thought things would slow down in August I was WRONG it is still crazy maybe this is just life, I am A SLOW learner so here are some pictures of the kids I have not even had my camera out this month, now something is really wrong with that!!!
Today is a great day we have nothing planned, just stay home and hang out!