I wasn't feeling bad about sending everyone to school all day until I heard this:

Tessa to me as we are walking home from school today: "Mom, I like first grade, but I miss spending time with you and cuddling with you. I only get to see you after school and on Saturday and Sunday now."

Back to School!

Well, the summer zipped by incredibly fast. I don't think we did everything we wanted to and here we are back to school again. The kids have GREAT teachers this year. I am hoping they will progress much. The first day of school they were all ready more than an hour before school started so we walked but even then we were there a half hour before school started. Yeaterday was the same thing--everyone up early and ready to go an hour before school. But on day three. Today, Kielle woke up in a bad mood 5 minutes before they would have had to leave if they walked and Tessa woke up saying that she felt too sick to go to school. I think with Tessa, she just isn't used to having to wake up so early every day and with Kielle she just didn't want to walk. she got out of it today but next time she might not be so lucky....

Here are the kids right before we left the house on the first day of school:



As for me, since I am not working right now, I am trying to catch up on housework and get a schedule in place where I can be as productive as possible. So far this week I have been catching up on laundry. I am almost there. I have to do 3 loads a day on a regular basis to stay caught up so right now I have been doing 6 or 7! I find that if I throw in a load 1st thing in the morning I get more done than if I wait til later. Funny how that works.

I am excited to have the whole day to accomplish things. I can even go all the way to SLC if I want to during the school day and still get back in time for school to be out! Crazy!

Ada's New "do"

Ada turned nine in July and for her birthday she really wanted a perm. She had to wait about a week after her birthday to get one so we could get past softball season, but she was patient. And I think her new curls/waves suit her well....

State Champs

I can't lie and say this baseball season was all flowers and roses or rather home runs and hot dogs? Nathan was so eager to play baseball this year. I was a little surprised because this is my child who is more into exercising his mind than his body. I made sure over and over that this was what he really wanted to do before I signed him up and he assured me he would to stick it out. He came home after his first practice thrilled and excited and thinking this was going to be a fun season--but something changed between the first and 2nd practice. I was a few minutes late picking him up, it was overcast and I found him starting to walk home crying. His coach had been really tough on them and it was just not fun anymore. I told him to stick it out. Gave him the best support I could, because they were tough and kind of old school and I didn't think Nathan got to learn as much as he could've perhaps on a different team, but I think Nathan thinks it might've been worth it to stay on since his team came in 1st in the city league and went on to win the "State Championship" (I'm not sure how that really works since they only played teams from our area, but...) I would have liked to see him have more playing time during those playoff games, but I think I was more upset than he was. look at this smile:

And THEN after all the team photos were done I figured out how to take night photos with my new camera...durh!



I don't think Nathan will be playing again next year. He'd really like to go back to fencing (the expensive sport! gah! He might need to get a job first! :)) But I'm glad he tried out baseball and I'm proud of him for sticking with it to the end even though it was a rough season for him. Way to go Nathan!

101 Dalmatians Kids

Ryan has been very busy all summer long rehearsing for his role as an ensemble puppy in Springville Playhouse's children theatre production 101 Dalmatians Kids. And now after 6 weeks of practice they are finally performing. There are some really talented kids involved. They did a fabulous job on opening night which was Monday. He still has 5 more shows to go if anyone is interested...The dates are August 7,8,10,14, & 15 at 7:30pm. Tickets are $6 general admission, $5 students and $30 for a family of 6. They perform in the theatre under the Springville Library and you can buy tickets at the door starting at 7pm. Ryan would love to see any family and friends there.

See? He's begging for you to come!

Movie and More with Grandma May

I am going to attempt to catch up on all the "fun" things we have done this summer. Unfortunately we haven't done as many fun things as I had wanted-in fact someone asked Tessa a couple of weeks ago what she'd done this summer--Her reply? "Cleaning." Yes her room looks a touch better but it still needs work. I have tried to throw a few fun things in too so and I have pictures to prove it! So I'll be sorting through those over the next few weeks.

The kids (minus Kielle) went to see G-Force today with Grandma May. They thought it was pretty cool to see it in 3-D. She also took them to lunch and then Grandma and the girls went for a walk by Provo River while the boys played video games at their cousin, Kevin's house.

Grandma sent me a photo of Tessa on the trail. Such a cutie!