First Day of School!

And here they are in the order of disappearance :) 

Ally headed off to the Sixth Grade at 7:05 this morning.  She is now in Intermediate School and rides the bus with the High Schoolers-yikes! I'm not too excited about that, but what do you do?  She was way excited to go and not nervous at all.  All of her classes ended up being right next to each other so she knows she won't get lost.

Her teachers are Mrs. Perea, Mrs. Neilsen, Mr. Barker and Mr. Ward.  Josh and I have known Mr. Barker our whole lives and he used to be our Bishop.  We know she's in good hands!

Logan departed for Fourth Grade at 7:20.  His teacher is Mr. Pedersen.

He was a little nervous because he doesn't know anyone in his class and he has to go to the bus stop without Ally.  He is also going to miss going to work with Dad.

Jensen arrived in style on a golf cart to First Grade at 8:35.  His teacher is Ms. Davis.  His teacher is battling cancer right now and is bald.  She has Non-Hodgekins Lymphoma and her blog address is mich-michellesblog.blogspot.com if you want to meet her.  She is super nice and the best First Grade teacher at Jensen's school.

Jensen has been pretty nervous for all day school, but he jumped off the golf cart and ran in like a champ.  He told me I didn't need to walk him to his class.  Yet another sign of my growing kids. :(

Well, now it's just me and Holden until 3:00.  What to do, what to do?  I'm a little giddy with the possibilities!

August Happpenings

There wasn't much happening in August this year.  Usually August is pretty slow at our house.  The kids spend their time bickering and complaining that they are bored and I count down the days until school starts. My kids were very uninterested in any of the things we normally do in the summer.  They are growing up. Sigh.

This is Nimbus having a turkey snack.  We are trying to teach him good manners by making him use utensils.  However, that plan backfired.  Holden decided the turkey was free game because of the fork and decided to share with Nimby. Dirt, cat germs and all. YUM! Just building up his immune system, I guess!

We had some pretty crazy storms in August.  On this particular day, I was on my third time of bailing out the basement when I looked up and saw all these new waterfalls coming down the face of the mountain-amazing!  We had a lot of rain that day!

Ally and I got crafty.  These are pocket sized Book of Mormons that we decorated.  It was fun and they turned out really cute.  We also decorated binders, mine for Young Women and hers for school.  That reminds me about my new calling!  I am now the Second Counselor in the Young Women's Presidency.  Yay for Beehives!  By the end of the year I will have 21 Beehives!!! Yikes!  One of them will be Ally, though.  I think I'm more excited about that than she is...

Ally decided to join summer band and play the oboe.  She ended up hating the cello (anyone want to buy a slightly used cello?) and researched instruments until she decided on the oboe.  Let me tell you, oboes are VERY expensive.  Thank heavens I don't have to buy one yet.  Sixth graders get to use them for free!  She was the only person in summer band who chose to play the oboe, so she got private lessons for two weeks-sweet!  She was playing songs after only three days. That's my Ally!

Last week I decided to take the kids on one last "fun day".  It took forever for them to find something that sounded fun to them, but we finally ended up at "Fat Cats".  We bowled, played mini-golf and had pizza.

This is Holden's victory dance.  He loved playing "ball".  It didn't matter if he knocked any pins down, he just liked pushing the ball off the ramp. Aren't his shoes cute?

My boys.  This is what happens when you tell Holden to smile...

Me and my girl.  We have to stick together, there are too many boys in our house!

It was a fun summer, but we are all ready for school to start again!