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!

Visit to Boston

Brian and I just returned from Boston where we were able to spend several days checking the city out. We loved it!! It's beautiful, full of history and yummy, yummy food. I loved the trip and am so grateful to sweet friends and family who watched our girls while we did a "mom & dad" trip.

Fishing!

So we discovered a pond, very close to our home, that we found the kids (& moms) enjoy fishing at. You don't catch monster fish...but at least you are catching something and between our friends and our family it keeps 6 little girls busy. We do admit that after the littler kids got board the moms stepped in and had a little fishing competition ourselves and I learned that my sweet friend totally outfished me as you can almost not see the fish I caught and the huge one she caught. Great timing!! The dads have fun too although they don't get much time to just fish, they are busily baiting hooks, untangling line, and taking the fish off because the moms are completely not doing that :) I know, I know but at least we got there and actually made an attempt to fish!!! We had so much fun we even went back the next night! Thanks Jensens - that was a lot of fun!

Welcome to the world of blogging.

Okay - so it's time to get on the blogging thing. I have admired friends and family that have put them together for years, but I've never taken the time to sit down and figure one out. The time has come and I am excited to log some memories of my family. I love taking photos of my kids doing stuff - I am not the best photographer, but I love documenting what my kids do to have a memory of it. So here we go and hopefully I can keep up with this thing...I will do my best! So here's to blogging and away we go!