The First Day of School

The first day of school. What can I say, summer is over and school has once again taken my little girls away from me to grow up. I really hate being away from them so much in the day but I know it is what is best for my kids.

So, Tressa stared second grade today and is feeling extra big this year because Josie is at her school now as well.

Which of course means that Josie is in Kindergarten and she couldn't be happier. She gets to have Ms. Jones who was Tressa's teacher last year so she already knows her which is a plus.

Aspen is on her own for the first time in her life and had a lot of fun doing it, but we did go to the park with her friend so not much of challenge there.

Josie's first day of school-at 8:00 AM

Got up at 6:30, got dressed, did hair, ate breakfast, and was out the door by 7:30

Hung up her backpack and said good bye to mom. Spent all day learning!


Walked in the line at the end of the day!


"Mom guess what I learned? R...E....D....spells......RED!"


Then she introduced me to her new friend Page and insisted that I take a picture of her in her backpack. All said and done the first day of school went as well as could be and not a single tear was shed.

Raging Waters

We are in our last week of summer and I was looking for something to do with my kids today so I called my friend Katie to see if she wanted to go to the park with me. She answered the phone by saying "Your coming to raging waters with me?" At first I thought she'd gone crazy then I remembered that she told me she was going before and I just forgot. So of course I went with her. It was a great deal too just $20 for 2 people.

It was sooo much fun. The kids love playing in the wave pool and went on as many slides as they could. Tressa turned out to be quite the dare devil, she went down the huge slide by the Roller Coaster called the Acapulco Cliff Dive that grown men were chickening out on. Katie took them up thinking none of them would go, but they all did (after she bribed them with a dollar). And not only did Tressa go down it but she went down it first. That's my girl-quake at the thought of speaking in front of a class but throw yourself down the steepest slide. But really I was shocked when I saw her coming down it. And of course they all begged to go again so this time Katie had to go down it too. Yeah Katie!!

Thanks again for inviting us Katie we all loved it!

Welcome home Mommy!

I only went for a bike ride but Jon had them ready to ambush me when I got home. It is moments like these that I remember all the reasons why I want to stay home with them.

Swimming MFT#7

This week we went swimming (so no pictures because I was in the water) at Cottonwood Heights pool. I haven't taken my kids swimming without Jon before so this made me a bit nervous, but by the end I was sitting to the side of the pool just watching my kids play because they were doing so well. I stayed almost till closing with Katie and her kids and then we went to her house for ice cream. Yummm

Tressa reading...

Our Tree in August

Look how it has grown! The leaves have made a great come back from the storm damage and it seems to grow a few inches every day. These pictures are 3 weeks after the last one.

The Cabin Getaway MFT#6

This week me and the girls got to host a 2-day getaway for the other families at Grandma and Grandpa Hunt's cabin (thanks again Steve and Susan).

The birds

The deer

The baby deer!





The moose





Shayden's Moose







The girls

The boys

The smiles

The tears

The Moms

Zildy (isn't the belly cute!)

Katie

Chandelle (no picture because I am behind the camera)

And of course, The View!

It was such a great time that I now want to do one with just the Moms! :)