School

Just a few things to share from the school year so far.

Here are their amazing school pictures. Cheesy grins and all. 

Rylee 

Haylee

Haylee had her first school performance at the morning assembly. The kindergarten class all sang a song.

Rylee had to make a sentance using her spelling words for homework and this is what she came up with. I am pretty sure one of those words is NOT a spelling word. :)

Both girls were awarded the Director's Honer Roll Award for having all A's! I was especially proud of Haylee for getting all A's. She struggles a little bit with her letters and will most likely need a little help from a speech class so this award just confirmed that she is doing just fine despite those facts!

The school also had the fun run again this year and they both completed all of their laps (2 miles)!

Zach's 3rd Birthday

Our baby boy turned 3 this year. We are still in denial that he is already 3!!

Pre-party nap.

Uncle Jeff came over early and surprised him with his first birthday gift.

We just had a "small" family get together that shaped out to be a lot of fun! Those Nave's are entertaining.

Zach was spoiled with presents, which included mostly power ranger toys.

The cake I made and Scott decorated.

Rylee cutting the cake with a sword.

These bouncy balloons were a complete hit.

I don't have pictures, but we took the party outside because the weather was absolutely perfect. It was the first day of fall and fall got the memo. The kids (and the adult male kids) played with the new remote control cars and rode bikes. It was such a great evening together! Happy Birthday Zach!!

Last Cabin Trip of the Summer

I was lucky over labor day weekend, and actually got Sunday off! So we took advantage of that rare event and headed up to the cabin! Such a relaxing weekend with beautiful, sometimes chilly rainy weather! 

A boy and his gun, it seriously just comes naturally to him.

Ahh my husband and his cigars.

My uncle surprised us and joined us too. The kids and him spent most of the day playing legos.

Balance beam on the fence around the yard.

The brave ones jumped to Daddy at the end.

First Day of School

This year I now have 2 kids in school! Haylee started school this year and Rylee is now in 2nd grade. It was so strange thinking about dropping my little Haylee off too, all day, and just having one at home! What freedom!! Haylee was a tad reluctant to go but was excited. Plus she had big sister to show her the ropes. Here they are all ready to go! 

Haylee- Kindergarten

Rylee- 2nd Grade

Once we got to school, Haylee gave us each a hug and headed to her class line. Scott was walking with her and she stopped him and said I don't need you! :( Such a brave tough girl. Rylee was very sad about going back to school. She didn't get the teacher she wanted so that didn't help. She did ok until Scott hugged her one last goodbye in her class line, then she started crying. Poor thing, at least one of them needed us! We had fun waving goodbye to them as they walked to class, Scott had a little too much fun embarrassing the kids we know by yelling out their names.

They both had a great first day. Turns out Rylee loved her teacher and Haylee came home with this new found confidence!

Zach and I enjoyed the last summer movie at the theater together with Holly and Elliott. Then later in the week we went with some friends to the aquarium and had a great day together! Having only one kid is such a breeze ;)

July

This month, Scott turned the big 3-0! I absolutely love teasing him, especially since I am still in my 20's. How fast a decade has gone by! We're getting old, I mean he's getting old.

His whole family joined us at his favorite restaurant, Pappadeux, to celebrate. He took a panoramic of all of us and all I see is my mother-in-law with her amazing wave and my giant man arm since I moved while he was taking the picture. This picture is priceless. I still laugh.

The birthday boy.

On 4th of July we went to Scott's parents house for food and then went to see fireworks. Scott's brothers joined us and I just loved it. Each one had one of the kids on their shoulders watching the show.

The kids completed another summer of swim lessons. Rylee and Haylee can almost swim now. Rylee is doing really well and knows how to swim, she is just scared to actually go for it. Haylee is brave and will jump right in but hasn't quite figured it out yet. And Zach. He loves jumping in but hates going under water. Ahh my children.

I turned 29. My last year in my 20's! I had a great birthday, a huge storm blew in that afternoon and cooled it down to the 70's. It was perfect.

We headed up to the cabin again! The first night there we did s'mores because they just lifted the no burn rule. Just after we started though we got stormed out! A huge storm blew in with crazy thunder and it down poured. It was wonderful.

We went to the lake again.

And then Scott, Haylee, Zach, Cruiser and I headed to the creek to look for crawdads. We didn't find any but we had a great time hiking around. It was beautiful.

Rylee had stayed back with Grammie and Denise and they treated us to icecream when we got back. Zach was a mess and Cruiser was right by his side catching it all...

Love my sweet boy.

Posing on the cabin tree

June

One evening in June, Haylee came up to me and as she was talking to me I was thinking "what is different about her, something is different!". Then it hit me, she cut her own hair! The most damage was up front so I tried to cut the shortest part into a side swept bang. Our first experience with a child cutting her hair...it was such a Haylee thing to do.

Scott was out of town often this past month, and during one of those times I took the kids back to the farm to pick more peaches and pick some fresh veggies too. Such a good time!

We finally made it back up to the cabin, we hadn't been since January. It was so nice to escape the heat and getaway for free. Just had to bring groceries!

The kids spent a lot of time painting on the front porch. It's where we spend the majority of our time.

Scott spends his time in the hammock. Sleeping buddies...

We all went to the lake on a mission to catch crawdads. We were not successful the first day but still had a great time at the lake.

Cruiser was in absolute heaven. He lives for water.

The cabin family!

Scott and I took the kids to a different lake the next day and we caught 2 crawdads. Rylee caught a tiny fish, she was so determined and she succeeded at the last attempt. Too bad the crawdads ate the fish on the way home... We also stopped at the rim to enjoy the view.

That evening we cooked up those crawdads and had ourselves a fine feast.

When we got back from the cabin, we celebrated father's day. I made my first from scratch cheesecake for him.

A few months ago we took all the kids to the dentist and I figured I would have Zach get checked out for the first time just to get him used to it. He was my best brusher so I was totally not expecting the dentist to tell us he had cavities and would need to be put under to have them filled. We debated for a long time if it was necessary since his baby teeth would fall out anyway but we decided since he was so young, it was best to correct it now. So he was our first baby to need anesthesia. He did so good and was so cute when he got home. 

Here he is trying to show me his teeth.

This is how we spent a lot of our summer days, good cheap backyard fun!

And this is how we spent many summer evenings, fort movie nights!

My Dad and husband share the same birthday, and this year was my Dad's big 6-0! (Scott is turning the big 3-0!) We drove up to Payson to celebrate my Dad's birthday. We had our own private dinner room at the restaurant which was so nice to just hang out.

And finally, one Sunday morning, Scott felt lead to be baptized again! The Sunday started off crazy. I had gone to church before Scott and I accidentally had his only truck key in my purse. A friend offered to run the key out to him since I was busy serving in the nursery and couldn't get it to him in time. He was late but made it. And thank God he did, God had plans for him that morning! It was baptism Sunday, and although people had already signed up to be baptized it was offered that if you felt led to do so, to stand on the count of 3 and go for it! Scott handed me his phone and wallet and it instantly brought tears to my eyes. He had been talking about possibly doing it again. He was baptized when he was younger but now, he has a relationship with God and his walk with the Lord took on a new meaning. Rylee even got to watch, it was such a great morning. I am so proud of my husband and so thankful to be his wife.