Jeep ride

One day daddy had work off on a Thursday so we went up in the mountains for a picnic in the jeep. Will & Jon had school, so it was just the four of us. (good thing since that's all that fit in the jeep.) Fun adventure for the day.

Grace likes to sing...

Grace is defiantly a girl. She loves playing with the boys; legos, balls, jumping around, hitting and throwing stuff, but she loves playing in her kitchen asking if you want "more" while nodding her head, putting her baby's to sleep, and singing.
She has been singing and talking alot now. Today I heard her singing, "no more jumping bump your head, shhhhh , SNAP monkey." Has a couple songs mixed together there. She loves I Love to see the Temple and I am a Child of God. She sings "moo, moo, moo, moo" and "Gummy Bears" that Uncle Woody's family taught her, and "Trouble, trouble, ahhhh" from Taylor Swift, but redone with a goat screaming, she loves it.
None of the boys were singers, so it is fun to listen to her as she walks around or is sitting in the car, or lately, sitting on the potty, singing to herself. She has also learned to count, "one, two, free, four, nine, ten, fourteen." Pretty much that is how she counts everything.
Sure love having our girl around!

Happy Birthday Grace

 Happy Birthday Miss Grace! You are 2! We love all the fun you bring into our lives. Can't imagine our lives without our girl!

Sunflowers

 We've had fun watching how tall these sunflowers have grown. Look how tall!

more cousins

Millie & her family came down for Allie's baptism, then drove down to AZ with our parents. We were able to spend a couple days with them. One day we went to The Wheeler Farm, we took a picinic and had fun walking around looking at the animals.

This was Owen's first day of school, so we went as soon as he got out and the older boys were still in school. It was a fun quick visit.

School begins again

Still not sure how I feel about year round school. We got out of school on July 2nd and now we're starting back again July25th. I like the routine school gives us, but I also like a summer. We are on a different track this year so we will get out the beginning of June. That should be nice.
Here is William & Jonathon on their first day of Third grade! When we went to see who their teachers were they were in the same class. They have always been separate. The boys thought it would be 'fun', which is exactly why they needed to be separated. I when to the office a few days before school started worried that it would be a problem, but it wasn't. The office secretary was and twin and she had twins, she agreed they'd have 'fun' so it was better to separate them since that was what I wanted. It all worked out just fine. Switching tracks was hard since the boys didn't really know anyone in their classes. They are making friends, and get to meet up with old friends at recess.

Owen started Kindergarten a week later. Wow! Owen is in school. He loves it! He actually knows a few of the kids in his class from church and preschool. Owen can't wait to learn to read good.

He is always the first one walking to school, I have to tell him to slow down so we all can catch up. He really doesn't want to be late and can't wait to be at school again.

Super excited after his first day!

William, Jonathon, and Owen starting another year of school.
 

Cousins

In July we had Woody's family up two weekends in a row. Jerusha had softball tournaments up here so the other kids stayed and played at the house. (We did go to a couple games, it was fun watching Jerusha, shes good!) We had lots of dress up, wrestling, and jumping on the trampoline.

Esmey and Owen played so good. They were here for church one Sunday and all weekend Esmey would say, "I hope Owen likes my dress." Even in her prayers, it was so cute.