Back to School

Good bye Summer!!

I have dreaded this all summer!! Yes it is time to go back to school and back to work!!! I had a wonderful summer staying home with my kids!

We had a lot of fun, but it is time to get back to working life. Ryleigh Jo was excited to start 2nd grade!! She has two teachers this year. Mrs. Reeder and Mrs. Kirby. She had a really good first week. She had Mrs. Reeder last year for 1st grade, but I asked her how she liked her other teacher and she said, "she doesn't yell at all like I thought she would!"

Shandee is sad to have her big sis gone all day, she runs out when the bus comes home and says my favorite sister is home. She says Kara is mean to her and she really is!!

We had a few last minute fun things before school started. My friend Amy and I took our kids to Salk Lake to the Children's museum and to the gateway to play in the fountains. They had a ton of fun running around the museum it was really cool!

Ryleigh Jo loved the grocery store. Shandee loved feeding the horse and the ball thing where you shoved balls into pipes.

Kara loved it all, they had this little cute tree house!

We took the front runner from Ogden to Salt Lake, it was kind of a lot of money, but it was really fun for the kids. They definitely want to do it again! Thanks Amy, Chaz, and Jace!
Then my family went to Bear Lake! It was a ton of fun. The girls loved it. We have never taken them before, so it was great! Gary loved building castles and Kara was a great helper!! And since my sister Kresta stalks my blog and LOVES to be on it here are few pictures of her,(oh shoot I don't have any of her, I'll have to get them from my mom) and by the way I kick butt at 500!!!!
This is my "happy" sexy brother and you can see part of Kresta, man I need better pictures!!Notice the attention to detail!!Ryleigh Jo and Amanda (Sorry Ashlee, yet again no good pictures!!!)

Last, but not least the old Box Elder county fair!! We went to the parade, LAME!!!! Then we took the kids to ride rides for $1.00 we have never went on wed. night before, but Gary had the day off, so we braved the crowds. It was really not that bad! My brother Dylan and niece Ashlee's pig made it this year, so we watched them show their pigs. They both got blue ribbons. We didn't really go back that much until Saturday night we went and ate and then picked up the girls pictures. Every year Gary makes sure they enter a picture. Shandee got a purple and Ryleigh Jo got a blue.(Dang, my pictures of the kids at the fair are on my mom's camera too)

Oh yea we went to the rodeo Thursday night. It was family night my parents took us it was really fun for the girls, I'm not really in to that sort of thing,but the girls love it!

Cute cowgirls and cowboy(Just tilt the head)sorry I'm stupid!!!

Sorry this post is so long, but I guess that is what happens when you don't write forever and a lot of things happen. I will try harder to be a better blogger!! And I have tons of more cute pictures I'll have to learn how to do a slide show!! Thanks for reading!

catching up

Well I guess I need to post to tell everyone what we have been up to. I honestly thought people didn't read my blog, but I have had a few people tell me I need to update. I am really not that great at this, but here goes. We have been having a great summer!!! I'm way sad it is almost over!! We have been swimming a few times, we had a family Reunion there are a few pictures. It was a Hawaii themed party. It was a lot of fun. We also went to dinosaur park, but it was way too hot, but it was fun to be with cousins.Ryleigh Jo and Shandee got to do hi-stepper camp. Shandee just loved it. She came home and kept doing her dance over and over, she also tried to teach Kara. Ryleigh Jo just did it she said it was o.k. Then they got to be in the kid's parade for wheat and beat days.

We also did a little family vacation. We went to park city for a couple of days. We just got a hotel room and swam and shopped a little. The girls had fun swimming. It rained one day and we swam in the rain, it was fun. On the way home we stopped at the Layton Hill's mall and they had this play area and there was a channel 5 desk, they loved it. It had a camera on them so they could see themselves on t.v., it was silly!!
Well we have a few fun things planned this week, Brigham pool, Bear lake, a sleep over at grandma and grandpa Atkin's house and of course the FAIR next week.

P.S. Here is a cute pic. of Kara cleaning!!! Yes I will lend her to anyone, she also does windows!! She actually makes more of a mess than help, but she is dang cute!!!