Sunday, August 31, 2008

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!

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

I had a lot of fun at gateway too. Thanks for going with us!!

The girls look SO darling in their cowgirl clothes. They'd probably look even cuter without my head tilted :)

Gary's sand castle is awesome-of course. He has so much talent.

I'm sad summer is over too, but also so happy to get to see you & all my friends again!!

Oh, & yes I did change my blog. I wanted the background to be a little more "fall"-ish.

Amy Jo said...

At least you are with Great Friends!!! You couldn't ask for better company.
Looks like a fun time at Bear Lake. We didn't even make there this year.

Kresta said...

Why am I a stalker because I check out your blog? You talk to your brother too much. I do not stalk people! Just because I am curious and very interested in other peoples lives does not make me a stalker.

Bear Lake was a blast, and yes you rock at 500 (but you are freaking MEAN). That is a very disturbing picture of me -- I am going to get even and put pics of you on MY blog.

And parades are not lame. They are FUN. You are just too grumpy to have fun. :)

Being back at work totally sucks. I think I get to come hang out with you in a couple weeks though, so that will be fun. If you are in a nice mood anyway. :)

LOVE YA!

Amanda Nielson said...

Annie your blog is so cute! Your kids are adorable! I love ya to death!!!!

Unknown said...

Your kids are getting so big. They are so cute. It looks like you did have a ton of fun this summer. How is work?? I will e-mail you Abby's e-mail address and I'm sure she will send you a invite to her blog. I love the head tilt thing, because I had the same problem the other day and then found out I have to turn them in the photo program on the computer, not in the blog. Cute blog! I went to the fair, but didn't see ya.