Aspen in Jr. High!!

I realized when I was writing about school - I didn't get a photo of Aspen's 1st day of Jr. High!! It was a crazy morning because she has to be to school 1 1/2 hours earlier than last year and technically it was still summer and I wasn't thrilled for the girls be starting in the middle of August!! So here is our Aspen in a cute fishing shot a week before. This is the sweetest little girl and she has such a caring heart. Most people think she's shy, maybe at first, but you get to know her and she's funny, happy and just a good kid. She's grown up right before out eyes and we can't believe she's in Jr. High already, but she's doing great and we are so proud of her!! It seems her favorite classes are English and CTE - which is like child development back in the day. She also decided to try out the violin in orchestra and it's been fun listening to her learn that instrument - we LOVE squeaky music :) Good luck this year sis...we know you will do great!!

McKell's 1st Day of School

McKell is in 3rd grade this year and her teacher is Mr. Clark. This is the first time she's had a man for her teacher. She was a little nervous about having a man teacher, but really seems to enjoy having him as her teacher. We just found out she will only have him until the end of October when he is retiring! So we will have to report on the new teacher when that change happens. We sure love McKell she is the sweetest kid and very funny. She's quite a ham and loves to tease her sister, play jokes and just keeps us laughing with all her sillyness!! I love that's she's not too big to hug and kiss her parents, help out with whatever we need help with and really does love to spend time with her older sister! Kelly is a really great student, she loves to draw, read, and even likes math!! But probably her favorite is recess when she can play outside. Her new favorite thing to do is jump rope and she is learning how to double dutch. We sure love you sis - have a great year at school!

Brian's Birthday!!

So my sweetheart celebrated his birthday this past week! We had a mellow Saturday of cleaning, yard work, watched a couple of softball games and to top the day off with the best part...a BYU football game! The game was the part he was looking forward to all day and for BYU to beat #3 Oklahoma was the BEST! He yelled so much he lost his voice. We never thought they would play so well or even beat them - what a game! Happy Birthday Bri - we sure love you and appreciate all the wonderful things you do for us...your girls.

Fenway

Brian and I love going to pro baseball games when we visit different states - if the state has one :) Great thing about Boston - the Red Soxs!! So we were able to see them play the Yankees and the White Sox while we were out there. We couldn't believe we got into the Yankee's game...we didn't have tickets but were able to get them just a few minutes before the game started! The stadium is probably the oldest one in the US, we love how they still have a scoreboard they change the score by hand and of course the wonderful, wonderful ballpark food! In the 7th it's always fun to sing along to "Take me out to the ball game" and at Fenway they also sing "Sweet Caroline" in the 8th inning. So it was quite a memory and chance of a lifetime to see the Yankees play the Sox! We had so much fun!