1st GRADE!!

Today was the first day of first grade for Makenna! I had this great plan for this morning. We would walk to school I would take some cute pictures of Makenna and we would calmly walk in and find her class and I could watch her for just  a minute and then I would take the boys on a run. Well that did not happen and it wasn't even Makenna's fault!:) She was ready in no time. As we are heading out the door Chase throws up! (They always know the perfect time) So I end up hurrying to clean that up and throw the kids in the car and because its the first day of school there is no where to park! I finally find somewhere to park (it was in a fire zone) get everyone out and the first bell rings. We hurry across the lawn and I try and get one picture outside of her at school and this is what I get...

No time to try again because now the late bell has rung so we go in and find her class and I hurry and get this picture....

And she goes in to find her desk and I hurry the boys out, just in case Chase needs to throw up again and we head home. Not very smooth but we'll try again tomorrow. I did grab this cute one of her when she got home! She said she had a great day and was excited to see some of her kindergarten friends. She is going to be awesome!

 

The only good thing about Chase messing up the plan this morning was I felt too rushed so I didn't tear up after leaving Makenna. I just can't believe she is in first grade! Time goes so quickly and I just want to keep my babies close and little. It was weird not having Makenna at lunch time and on the way home from school I was giving her a hard time that she left me alone with the boys all day- I was boy trapped!! I'm glad she loves school though and doesn't have a problem going. She just walks right in and finds her spot. I love my baby girl!!

Neighborhood fun!

This past week we got together with some of our neighbors who really are some of our best friends and had a dutch oven night. Oh it was delicious- cheesy potatoes, chicken, bbq chicken, salad, rolls, peach cobbler and smores over the fire. It was so much fun!

These girls are inseparable! L-R: Makenna, Lily, Olivia, Tori

It's already under contract that Pearl and Chase will be getting married:)

Also on our very last day of summer break we finally made it to the splash pad!

 

These other two are just random of Chase. We had gone to the park one evening this week and I snapped this one of Chase.

  

 He got a Hulk mask from Mark and Steff and loves it! I love that he is wearing superman pj's and hulk attire at the same time:) That first day of having the mask and gloves he was wearing all green. He had green shorts and a green shirt that was on backwards because their were stripes on the front!:)

Chase turns 4!!

Today is my baby Chases' birthday! I can't believe he is 4 already. This guy cracks me up every day, he is just so much fun. He is really into super heroes right now and can't get enough of capt. America, Hulk, Batman, whoever. He is always wanting to play bad guys and super heroes! So you can imagine he got quite a few super hero guys and he also loves minions so those things are mixed in as well!

We celebrated with Grandmas, Grandpa and Andrea on Sunday with presents, dinner and cake and ice cream.

I love this picture- Chase so happy and Makenna's disgruntled face (life is so hard when its not your birthday!)

 Sweet Chase was kind enough to let her help open some of his presents.

 He has been wanting these Hulk hands for months (I'm not joking). He saw them in the store and wanted them, of course I said no and every time we've gone to Wal-Mart since he's asked if I'm going to get them yet. He loves them and has hardly taken them off since Sunday!

 Today, his actual birthday we took him to the fun center and played the arcades and the kids also played in the climbing cove.

He got to play with friends and tonight we went and got our birthday ice cream. I think he had a pretty good birthday!

                                                                  Love you buddy!!

Bear Lake

We have been keeping busy this summer and can't believe its almost over. My sweet Makenna deleted the pictures I have of swim lessons this summer. She did awesome and loved it and on the last day jumped off the diving board! All she keeps talking about is going back so she can jump off the diving board again. So now she is on to level 2.
She also deleted my pictures of our neighborhood 24 of July party, but hopefully I can get some of those up from the neighbors. As always we had a blast with bike parade, yummy food, great fireworks and good friends!
This past weekend we made it up to Bear Lake with my siblings. It was so much fun! Funny story though- the kids can only handle about an hour in the car and then the whining kicks in and since it takes 2 hours to get there the last hour was spent whining and crying and saying how this was such a dumb idea and they didn't want to go to the lake etc. etc. On the way home Makenna and Chase were saying how that was the BEST DAY EVER!

 This little guy loved digging in the sand but he did not like walking on it at all, he would just hold his feet up if we tried to put him down to walk, even in the water he wouldn't walk on it. So luckily we had a little tube for him and he just floated around with his feet up and loved it! He did start walking on it towards the end.

 

 I think Makenna spent most of her time out swimming with Jared- she is a fish!

 We had one sandy boy! Our bathtub was disgusting that night:)

So much FUN!