1st Day of 1st Grade!

Tonight we went to back to school night at the NCS. Mitchell was excited to bring all his things to school and to meet his new teacher and to see all of his friends he missed during the summer! I thought I'd get some pictures tonight instead of tomorrow morning so it's not so hectic in the morning.  Even though the summer went to fast, it will be nice to get into routine again! We are blessed to have a Christian school that we can send our little boy to to learn more about our loving Heavenly Father!

Slip n Slide

Last week we got to get a new slip n slide! The kids have been begging for one since they played on one at a friend's house and so I thought I'd get one to have them play with. It was well worth the $6! The kids had a blast on it and played with it for hours! Here's a short video of them having fun together!

Mitchell turns 7!

This past Sunday Mitchell celebrated his 7th Birthday! We went to mom and dad's house for a birthday pool party! The kids had a great time playing with their cousins! Mitchell wanted to have a lego theme this year, so I made a "lego" cake and then small individual "legos" for each of the kids to eat! Mitchell definitely got alot of lego's to play with, we ended up getting a bin to put them all in. He was to obsessed with putting his new lego semi together, he stayed inside while the other kids swam outside. He's been carrying around his lego semi since he got it and has been playing with lego's ever since we got home! Thanks to everyone who came and made his day special! We love you Mitchell and are blessed to have you in our family!

Colorado Vacation

Last week Elden and I were blessed to get away to Colorado for a week without kids to celebrate our 10 yr anniversary! We decided to bring our motorcycle with us and ride through the mountains looking at God's beautiful scenery. The children were fortunate enough to also go on vacation with Elden's family (a BIG THANK YOU!!) to the Ozarks during the week as well. So we were both on vacation, just at different places. Although we missed the kids dearly, we knew they were also having fun and were being well cared for or should I say spoiled?

Anyway, on Monday we rode almost to Utah border and saw some beautiful cliffs all around as we road on a windy road. That was probably one of our favorite rides, since we've never been on that road before. On Tuesday, we just went to Breckenridge for the morning and did a little shopping in the afternoon in Silverthorne. On Wednesday, we had the big day of going to Rocky Mountain National Park and when we got to the top it started to hail on us. That was nice, especially since we didn't have helmets on. I felt so bad for Elden, since his head just got sunburned the day before. Thursday we went to Vail area and started packing for home. We were thankful to have a hot tub to sit in after each day of riding in our resort at Keystone, especially after Wednesday's ride! Friday we took off early and went to Sturges on the way home. We also went to see Mount Rushmore, which was neat since neither of us have seen that before. It was a beautiful riding around the Sturges area with lakes and cliffs to look at.  We put on 1200 miles on our motorcycle, so we definitely got out use out of bringing it with us. We had lots of great memories of Colorado and we are thankful for the 10 years of marriage God has blessed us with!

Maytag Pool Fun!

After our zoo trip we went to the Maytag pool for alittle fun with some of Mitchell's classmates! As we were there, some of his classmates were jumping off the diving board. I have never let Mitchell try this yet, but thought since they were, surely Mitchell can do it too right? So I suggested that he started with the smaller one, but he wanted to go for the biggest one from the start. He tried it once and after he spitted and sputtered, he came flaling back to the side and said " I think I'll go to the little diving board till I get bored with that" . Mom's not as dumb as he thought huh? He had a great time jumping into the water and having fun with his classmates!

zoo

A few weeks ago the boys and I went to our annual zoo trip with Jody and her two boys! That day, we happened to get into the zoo for free, so that was nice! The kids loved the train the most, of course, but this year they also enjoyed looking at the dinasour display that they had too! The kids each got a hard hat when they came in because they were "digging" their new addition at the zoo. After the zoo, we went out to Carlos O'Kelley's for lunch, which was a treat and they even were nice and celebrated Mitchell's birthday 9 days early. We had a great time and always look forward to going back every year with Jody and the boys!