Wednesday, August 24, 2011

First day of school: August 24, 2011

Jaylee and Bretten lookin' good!


Bretten: Sooo excited!


Jaylee: Looking sooo cute with her new back-to-school hair-do!


Bretten sitting by his best buddy Jaxson! Bretten is in Mrs. Buelte's 1'st Grade Class this year!


Jaylee is so glad she is in the same class as her best buddies Lorelei and Kortlyn! Jaylee is in Mrs. Rasmussen's 3'rd Grade Class this year!


***Kaysen starts pre-school this year too, but not until a few weeks after Jaylee and Bretten start school....in September! This works out great since we will be having the baby on Monday, August 29th! It will give us a few weeks to adjust to life with a baby, before we have to juggle even more schedules!

Sunday, September 5, 2010

Another School Year!!! 2010


Ready to take on the 2nd Grade!!! Jaylee's teacher this year is Mrs. Nelson and we've heard wonderful things about her, so Jaylee can't wait!


Our little princess is starting to grow up!


Bretten ready for his very first official day of school!!!


The kindergarteners started a week after the regular kids started, so here is Jaylee (the pro) and Bretten on Bretten's first day of school! Jaylee was trying to be so helpful and making sure Bretten wasn't scared and that he felt comfortable. She is so sweet!


Bretten hanging up his awesome Star Wars backpack in Mrs. Hadlock's Kindergarten class!


Bretten's been waiting for this moment! Bretten has been asking and asking about when he will get to ride the bus! He was sooo excited. When it was time to go to school he was so mad that I had to drive him for his first day because he wanted to ride the bus. I reassured him that he'd get to ride the bus home from school and that he'd be riding the bus every day for the rest of the school year!!! haha


Kaysen's very first day of pre-school. He wasn't too sure about this pre-school stuff yet, but now he loves it! His teachers are Ms. Janell and Ms. Rita


Ready to take on the world...or at least trying to be brave enough to act like it!


Kaysen warming up to his classroom!

Monday, August 30, 2010

Summer Vacation to Oceanside California!

I'll warn you right now that this post is picture overload, but we had an amazing summer vacation and I had to document all of our favorite parts of the trip, so enjoy!!!


The Amazing view from our room at the Wyndam Oceanside Pier Resort! Probably the nicest place we've ever stayed on vacation! Thanks to my Grandpa Dean and Grandma Jackie! My awesome grandparents paid for EVERYBODY's rooms (all of my Mom's sisters and brother and their families). There were tons of us and it was quite the family reunion! Oceanside is a perfect location because it's close to all the cool theme parks and to tons of outdoor stuff to do too. Our resort is literally right across the street from the beach and an amazing Pier that goes quite far out into the ocean. There is a lot of great shopping around and soo much to do. We could definitely live here....if we were millionaires! haha!


Jason with the kids on our way to eat at Joe's Crabshack! Bretten and Jason got to go on a pretty fun fishing excursion on one of those boats!


Jason enjoying the relaxing view!


And of course, I enjoyed the relaxing view too!


The kids on the awesome bike we rented. Rylan had enough by this point! haha


Jaylee is a total fish when she is around the water. She could spend hours and hours and hours playing in the water! She couldn't get enough of the ocean and the pool at our resort!


Kaysen loved the Ocean, but he was a little bit fearless, so I was so scared he was going to get swept out to sea by a big wave. Luckily, he survived the rough sea!


Bretten holding up some cool seaweed he found!


Rylan trying to get as dirty as he possibly can! He loved playing on the beach!


Jaylee was so excited to spend a week with her best cousins Brooke and Brinly!


My Mom and Dad taking a stroll on the Pier!


The kids eating breakfast in our amazing room!


Our family on the Oceanside Pier!


Jason and Rylan walking on the Pier! Rylan loved it and couldn't get enough of looking down at the Ocean. He wanted to jump in, so we had to watch him close!


Bretten, Jaylee and Kaysen looking in the buckets for fish that people had caught! This pier was so much fun to walk up and down because there are so many people fishing and you get quite an eye full. There are sting rays, sharks, and all sorts of fun things to see!


Our Family Bike Ride! The beach was right across the street from our resort and they had all sorts of neat things there. We chose to rent one of these bikes and went for a cruise up and down the beach. It was quite the workout! The kids thought it was soo cool!


Disneyland! The Happiest place on Earth!!!


Rylan loved the Merry Go Round. He cried and cried when we finally were to dizzy to keep taking him on it!


On the Tower of Terror ride in California Adventureland! I couldn't believe I talked Jaylee and Bretten into going on this with me. It was a pretty scary ride for them. It was funny because while we were waiting in line, there were all the teenagers and adults who were freaking out about it, and then they would look at Jaylee and Bretten and say "I can't believe I'm scared to go on this. There are 5 year olds doing this!" haha. They were definitely brave! We are in the bottom right hand corner!


The kids with Goofy! Rylan of course wasn't too crazy about getting his picture with such a goofball!


Taking a relaxing ride on the train at Disneyland!


The kids and I posing for a picture right before somebody came and yelled at us for letting our kids climb up there for a picture! haha


My boys and me on Pirate Island (or something like that) at Disneyland!


Bretten and Kaysen at Legoland!


Jaylee got chosen to go up on stage and do an Egyptian dance for one of the performances we attended at Legoland. She did awesome!


The kids and Mom at Legoland!


Rylan and Mommy looking at all the cool things along the ride!


Jason and Kaysen on a ride at Legoland!


Jaylee and Bretten on a fun ride!


Jaylee, Bretten and Kaysen ready to go have some fun in Legoland!

Summer Fun Catch Up!!!

I was terrible at updating my blog this summer, so here are a lot of the random summer happenings in pictures!


My 3 little boys all ready for bed with one of their favorite characters, Spongebob!


All I can say is Chubby+Rylan=CUTE!!!


Jason turned 32 in June!!! He had to work that day, so it wasn't too eventful, but we had a cake and went out to dinner that night to celebrate!


Jaylee is doing awesome in piano. She just started lessons last September and had her first piano recital!!!


Rylan ready to cruise!!!


Playing in the sprinklers!


Rylan and Kaysen loved playing in their pool....only problem is....they prefer to swim in the nude! I had the hardest time keeping swimsuits on these boys! Hope the neighbors didn't mind the show!


Bretten, Jaylee and Kaysen having some fun!


Jaylee on her motor scooter, that she absolutely loves, but I hate! It's just too much work! For some reason the tires keep popping. I mean within 5 minutes of putting on a new tube (which isn't easy...you have to take it into a car tire shop) it has gone flat again. I've given up on it and don't reccomend these pricey pieces of junk! There has got to be something defective!


Favorite activity of the summer, hands down.....Riding bikes outside with the neighbor kids!!! Here is Bretten and one of his very best buddies Kaden.


Rylan and Kaysen enjoying the hot summer day! Not too long ago it was Bretten giving Kaysen a ride in the back of the tractor. Where does the time go?


Bretten stopping for a picture while out playing some soccer!


Every summer the Vernal Mom's Group does a junior summer olympics. The kids always love it!


Rylan all dressed to go on our evening walk. Since I was pregnant, I was trying to do less intense exercise and started walking our neighborhood at nights. Jason even started going with me! The only bad part was that the mosquitos were terrible this year, so we had to make sure we were dressed in long sleeved shirts and light pants so that we didn't get eaten alive! Jaylee, Bretten and Kaysen all tagged along on their bikes and scooters too, so it was a fun family event every night!