1st day & 1st day back!

It's amazing what a new pair of shoes and freshly painted nails will do for a little girl who REFUSED to go to preschool this year. As much as I hesitated buying these LOUD, OBNOXIOUS, NOT CHEAP shoes, they made her day, and she was SO happy to go to school today!

Calvyn is going to the same preshcool with Halle. It was raining like crazy today, but I was able to get this quick picture in front of the "yellow door".

This was taken while we were waiting in the car...hoping the rain would let up!

If you notice she has a band-aid on her chin. She missed the last step coming out of the house, and fell HARD! This next picture is her taking her time walking down the stairs...and with a little photo editing, it is a pretty cute picture!

Skyler's first day back to school was in her words, "THE BEST DAY EVER!!" (I've been waiting to hear that out of her mouth for 5 yrs now!). She got the BEST teacher in her opinion. I can't believe she is in 4th grade...time flies!

She's the tallest girl in her class again. She's just about taller then the boys too!

If you can't tell by the expression on her face in this last picture...she is DONE with me taking pictures of her!

Now let the fun begin of:
fighting them to get up in the morning, doing homework, going to bed on time, doing hair, packing lunches, and so on...

Nants ingonyama bagithi Baba, Sithi uhm ingonyama

Just try saying the title of this post.....

I've been chanting this from the top of my lungs, ever since we got back from the play "The Lion King" this weekend. Except mine sounds more like, "Bah-bod-de-ya, baba-de-babah....boom-bah-dah!" It was AMAZING! Trevor's mom took Me and Skyler, and we had a great time. Skyler had the isle seat, so she was right next to all of the characters as they sang and ran through the isles. Both of us agree that "Rafiki" the baboon was our favorite character. We had such a great time, and can't wait for "Mary Poppins" next year!!

 Thanks Pat for an awesome memory!

Water Park FUN!

What a fun time we had at the Roy water park last week! It's always so fun to see all of these kids get together and play.

Here we are...minus two! Kaitlyn and Aiden had to leave before we remembered to pull out the camera and capture this moment!

(Ledger, Calvyn, Rylan, Brinlee, Skyler, Olivia, Paiton, Abell, Bentley, Kaydence, Hagen, Breeley, Kalon, Addison, and Halle). We were sad that some of the other cousins weren't able to make it. It's sure hard trying to find a time that works best for everyone!

You should have heard all of us mom's trying to get all of these kids to look at the camera and smile! We were the center of attention...

So fun....Let's get together again soon!