Christmas '07

We spent our Christmas this year at Nana and Grandpa's house in Utah, it was amazing as always! We all get spoiled while we are there and never want to leave! It was so fun to see all the kids opening their gifts and playing with eachother. We really are lucky to have such kind and giving parents and grandparents. Unfortunately, I didn't take very many pictures, and the ones that I did take came out blury, so here are just a few from Christmas day.

Almost everything the kids asked for this year had to do with video games, or ipod's I guess that's a sign your kids are getting older?
more video games...
Sean raided this year from Josh drawing his name, he got a whole box of Neff clothing! He has enough T-shirts to last him until next christmas, thanks Josh!
This picture pretty much sums up my previous post!

The Disco Diva and Jango Fet

We had an Awesome Halloween this year! I love it when the kids pick costumes that don't require a lot of messy make-up or black haircoloring! Here are a few pics of the kids in their costumes.Bailee and Miles at Trunk-or-Treat Jesse(cousin) and Bailee at Trunk-or-Treat
Bailee doing one of her 70's disco poses before trick-or treating
A close-up of the Diva
Jango-Fet(miles) and his friend Naruto(makhi)
The whole Trick-or-Treating gang!

We all met at a friends for Pizza before the fun began!

Fall Festival Day

Miles and his pumpkin masterpiece! He got to do a lot of fun activities during school on Halloween day, but it still didn't make up for not being able to wear his costume to school and have a parade!

Back to School...

It's hard to believe, but I am now the parent of a child in middle school, I know it's scary! I think I was more nervous than Bailee was for her first day in a big new school. It is such a change, 8 classes with 8 teachers, lockers, changing at school into P.E. clothes, Ahhh! All of these things were going through my head the night before school started, I just wanted to hold her back one more year because I didn't think she was ready, Sean had to reassure me that we have all been through it and survived and that Bailee would be just fine. She did make it through her first day with only one major mishap, losing her locker with all of her stuff locked in it the whole day and part of the next day, but other than that she was pretty happy with middle school!

Miles had his first day of First grade and loves his new teacher, the only thing that is hard for him is getting up early again! He loves to sleep in, and is not very happy in the morning if he has to get up early. The first day hit him hard, he came home had a snack and was watching tv on the floor and at about 530-600pm he was asleep, I thought for sure he would wake up in an hour and then not be able to fall asleep, but he actually stayed asleep all night until 630 the next morning! It was great, I wish he'd do that every night!

Summer '07

Wow! I can't believe it has been almost 3 months since my last blog post! I am not very good at the blogging thing I guess. It is amazing how fast time flies, it seems like just yesterday it was the last day of school and we were looking forward to a long summer full of lazy days and No homework! Well summer has come and gone already, but we did have a great summer vacation this year, most of which was spent in Utah with all of our family and friends! We did so many fun things and loved every minute of the time we got to spend with everyone, we loved it so much, it was REALLY hard to come back home! Here are just a few pics from our trip to Utah...there are a couple from Lake Powell included. 4th of July with cousins(Jax, Ellie, Olivia)
Cool glasses Livvy!
Two boys Jax and Miles at the park with Kimmie!
Jax, Miles, and Hudson staying cool in Shilah's backyard!
Bailee posing for a picture while waiting for the parade to start.

Sean helping Miles wakeboard, not a very good pic, but he did stay up longer than he has before, maybe by next year he'll have it down!

Bowling Birthday Bash!

This year both Bailee and Miles wanted to go bowling for their birthday party, so instead of having them on two different days, we decided to do it all in one night! It was a little crazy, but I think it went pretty well and everyone seemed to have fun! Miles had his party first and then when his party was over 2 hrs later, Bailee had her party! (since she is older and can stay out a little later on a Friday night now) They each got a lot of cool stuff and had a blast bowling with their friends from the neighborhood and from school. Thanks again to Nana, Grandpa, Josh, Kimmie, and Bentley for their gifts to the kids sent by mail, they loved spending their birthday money! I know the pics aren't very good, but they were the only ones that remotely turned out due to the cosmic lighting at the bowling alley.

The Last Week of School...Yeah!

Just a few pictures of Miles' field trip to Green Meadows petting farm, the billy goats loved him and wouldn't stop trying to eat the buttons off of his shorts! He also got to milk a cow, ride a pony, and hold baby chicks. Miles gave a great performance at the end of the year Kindergarten singing program, they sang some really cute and funny songs like a rap version of "Bah Bah Black Sheep" it was very entertaining! Bailee also had a fun end of the year party that was especially for 5th graders, since they are now going to middle school:(