Milestones

We recently had a big family reunion but I still have a million pictures to sift through so I'm going to come back to that post another time.  We've had a lot of other stuff going on and I don't want to get too far behind.

During the last full week of summer Britton had a soccer tournament in Layton.  His team went to the championship game and although they didn't win the final game they still got medals so the entire team was on cloud nine.  It was the first time they have gone to a championship game in a tournament so they were pretty happy about it.  Britton scored 2 goals during the tournament. Not too shabby.

 

Later that night Britton invited 20 of his closest friends to a big birthday party. We had about 18 kids show up at 7:30 p.m. The party went until 10 p.m.  It was a night games party and was a hit.  I made sure all of our cul-de-sac neighbors were cool with our plans so the boys had freedom to go into any yard (front or back) in our cul-de-sac while playing capture the flag, kick the can, and night soccer.  Add ice cream and all you can eat skittles and you have the recipe for a wildly successful shin-dig.

 

Capture the flag Team 1



Capture the flag Team 2

 Why celebrate your 12th birthday only once when you can celebrate multiple times? Here is Britton at party #2 at Grandma and Grandpa's.

 

 

Birthday celebration #3, the family party, only had limited documentation.  The camera was out of battery. Oops. But we have a lot of videos so it wasn't a total loss.

 

 

He requested his favorite dinner,  Peppered Shrimp Alfredo.  Fancy, I know. What ever happened to ordering a pizza and calling it good?  We ended up having a "Linner" around 4 p.m.  Now that he is 12 he can go to Young Men's and they just happened to be going boating on his birthday so he and Adam left around 5:30 pm for birthday party #4.  We're fun and all, but we can't compete with boating.  We were glad Taylor, Jen, Will and June were still in town to join us for the festivities. 

This was Jenna yesterday around 1 p.m.

And here she was at about 2:30 p.m.

 

 

Notice anything different? Yup, she got braces.  She has officially entered a new phase of life.  Jenna has always been great with little kids and loves to play with them.  June sure loved playing with Jenna, especially when she started pouring water on her. She couldn't get enough and was in heaven.

Good times.  Jameson liked it for awhile, but then  had enough.  June could have been there all day long.

Today was the first day of school.  Britton is now in middle school and the bus comes to get him at (gasp) 6:40 a.m.  That is super early if you ask me.  Our mornings are going to be a lot different from here on out.  The girls don't have to leave until 8:20-- that's a big gap. 

Britton, 6th grade, off to catch the bus.

It was barely daylight when Britton left and it won't last long. He'll be going out when it's still dark pretty soon.

By the time the girls left a few hours later it was starting to rain a little bit.

Jenna, 5th grade.

Korinne, 2nd grade.

Jameson didn't know what all the excitement was about, but he decided to celebrate anyway. He missed them while they were at school, but we survived.

Sibling Reunion

The first weekend in August Adam played host for his family's sibling reunion.  Adam is 1 of 10 children and 7 of them were able to come to either part or all of the reunion

Dave, Bonnie, Stephen, Jaclyn, Kirsti, Marci, Kim, Adam

Micah and Stephen

 

 



 The kids and I slept at my parents house around the corner for the weekend so that they could use all of our bedrooms.  They sure packed in a lot of activities during their weekend reunion.  They went to the outlets nearby, went hiking up our local canyon, went to Bear Lake, attended a play at the Pickleville Playhouse in Garden City and also hit the Martin Harris Pageant where I understand the acting was especially memorable.  We were able to spend a few moments with everyone between activities which the kids enjoyed.

Adam really knows how to dress for a hike!

 They were sad Loren, Josh and Bethany weren't able to make it, but I think a good time was had by all.