Braces!!

So here's our cute daughter with all the new "accessories" she has received in the past month. Cutie in glasses and now before and after with braces. She's a great sport because in a text to her aunt she said..."what next...hearing aids?"

McKell's School Halloween Party

McKell had her Halloween Party and it was fun...I think. I'm the room mom and was told to only put together one activity - didn't know that one activity had to entertain them for almost 1 hour!! Luckily I had two games to play and threw in a game of cherades that kept them busy until they were called to the gym to do their parade of costumes. 3rd graders are fun and Kel's class were good sports to play the games I came with. I think she was an adoreable ballerina clown and love she put that costume together herself - we think she did great!

Pirate Island

There's a new pizza place in Orem we decided to take the girls to. It's a whole "pirate" themed place and it was really cool. When you walked in it was like walking into a cave and there was pirate stuff everywhere. They even had a full size ship with cannon "shooting" smoke every so often. We tried the food and it wasn't bad - pizza was a little too cheesy - but it was much better than chucky cheese! There was an arcade the girls really liked, a room with a huge t.v. screen to watch movies or ball games and a gift shop. There wasn't much "entertainment" going on when we were there, but it was a fun place to go and the girls seemed to like it.

Thanksgiving Point

The girls had a couple of days off school this week so we went and hung out with Angie, Madi, Demetri & Sophia yesterday.

We went to Thanksgiving Point and walked around the beautiful gardens they have. It was amazing Fall weather this weekend so we enjoyed a nice time just being together and checking out all the beautiful Fall colors. We also stopped for ice cream - can't miss that.

Our Aspen is a glasses wearing gal

So our Aspen has glasses. Doesn't she look adoreable! We went in for an eye exam last Friday and after an eye exam they found she's near-sided. I have "mom guilt" for not getting her in sooner when she told me she had a hard time seeing the board at school! She was so cute when she picked up her glasses yesterday. She put her glasses on and I just thought she looked so cute and grown up. She was just thrilled for all the stuff she couldn't see clearly far away. She just loved it and I am happy because it's hard to decide which pair of glasses to get, but with all the cute styles out there now there she picked a pair that looks great!

McKell's Fieldtrip

McKell's 3rd grade class went on a field trip and I was able to go to keep 6 kids from getting lost! We went to 3 differerent museums which is an amazing thing to do with that many kids, but we did it and I think they had a great time. We started at a small dinosaur museum at BYU, then went to a really nice park where they gave us like 10 minutes to get our lunches, eat and quickly get back on the bus. We then went to a planetarium and watched a movie where one of the kids I was watching went into a dead sleep. I knew there was NO way I could even carry him because he's a big kid, so I let him sleep as long as I could then woke him so we could head off to another museum. We then went to a museum that talked about native american ruins and dolls and the kids were able to play with clay and make a small pot. That seemed to be the best part for all of them except that same kid fell dead asleep again right during the pot making! I can't believe I didn't get a photo of it because it was completely amazing the kid slept through all the noise! We woke him up again where we quickly got on the bus again and he proceeded to fall asleep until we got back to the school. I had such a fun day with McKell, she's a fun kid! The photo of her destroyed clay "pot" was a classic because she was so careful to make it and bring it back to school on the bus only to set it on the ground and her foot slipped and squished it! She's a funny kid!

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!!