Fallen Officer Memorial

Today Izabelle and I went with Becca, Bridger, Maverick, and My Mom to go watch Bill stand in the place of a fallen officer at the state capital. It was really neat. Becca and I were able to meet Gov. Huntsmen and he talked to Izabelle for quite awhile about how kindergarten was going. He also mentioned how much he loved my nephew's name Maverick. We then meet Sheriff Winder of the Salt Lake County Sheriff Department, who will hopefully be Bill's boss soon if the rest of his interviews go well. Then they will be able to move back to Salt Lake.

Daddy Daughter River Trip

Every summer the men on my side of the family go on a father son trip. The last two they have gone on a canoe trip down the Green River. The girls always stay at home with me and Noah goes with Alex. The girls kept asking their dad to take them on a Daddy Daughter trip so he took them on their own trip down the green this last weekend. They drove down to Moab on Friday night and spent the night at Aunt Becca's House. They got up early the next morning and had Uncle Bill drop them off on the river.They were on the river for the next three days. I think they make some pretty cute river rats with their long sleeve shirts, life jackets, and keens. Alex said they had a lot of fun except the first night it rained pretty hard. And when they got home I had a nice new car for them.

Our New Armada

While Alex was gone with the girls this last weekend, he told me to go buy us a new car. And that is what I did. We had been looking for the perfect car for months and months and I finally found it. We decided months ago we wanted a Nissan Armada LE because it has 8 seats, so we can space the kids out, a big engine that can tow easily and they just look cool. I really wanted the navigation system because it includes the backup camera which has made the transition to a bigger car very easy. I got everything I wanted on my long list ( leather, power lift gate, AUX for my ipod, one handed fold up seats and tons of space) except a dvd player (weird huh it has the nav but not the dvd) but I really want the dvd system to have the screens in the head rests so all the kids have their own screens so it wasn't that big of a deal that we didn't get it. I have been procrastinating getting a new car because I didn't want to have a car payment and I have just loved my Grand Cherokee but it was time and the jeep is 10 years old. Alex got his truck a couple years ago (that is what the canoe is sitting on behind the Armada) but I haven't had a new car for a long time so this is pretty darn exciting to me. And now when my sister comes to town we can all go together places in the same car and that is super sweet.

The First Day of School

Yesterday was the First Day of School. Oakleigh is now in the 5th grade and would not let me take any good pictures of her.Oakleigh's schedule is still pretty much the same. She has A & B days, just like a high school student, P.E., Math, English and History one day. Then Music, Spanish, Science and Art the next day.

Noah is now in 3rd grade. His schedule is not quite as hard as Oakleigh's he has the same classes, but stays with the same teacher for three or four of his major classes and then switches for the rest. Oakleigh was not that lucky in 3rd grade, she is in what I like to call the Guinea pig class where they see if it works on them and if it doesn't they switch it, Oakleigh had the A-B schedule in 3rd. When Noah walked into his new class room yesterday a group of girls started shouting in excitement that Noah was in there class. It was pretty funny. When I was at the school later that day I found Noah in the lunch room with a group of girls around him. ( See picture above) I guess he his still a ladies man.

Izabelle started Kindergarten, she was so excited. She wanted to be in the P.M., so she could sleep in. She is such a cutie in that uniform.

Classic Skating

We went to Classic Skating yesterday with my sister Harmonie and her kids. Classic had a huge blow up toy area where the kids spent most of there time playing. Harmonie and I just sat and talked the whole time, while the kids ran wild. ( My camera was low on juice so all my pics turned out pretty horrible.)

The Bees Game Continued

Aunt Breana and her boyfriend Tanner
Noah bugging Aunt Breana with his foam finger.
Tanner giving it right back to him.
Tanner taking it to the face
Tanner shaking it off and Noah thinking he is pretty funny
Noah really wanted me to post these pictures of the "FOAM FINGER FIGHT" He thought they were pretty darn funny. I'm amazed Tanner is still sticking around after the abuse he gets from these kids.

The Salt Lake Bees Game

Oakleigh, Noah and Izabelle
Alex and Me ( with Deanna and Judy in the Back)
Brent (Dad),Belle, Aunt Breana, Me and Oakleigh


Alex's folks took the whole family to see the Bees play tonight. It was fun. We had great seats, we were right behind home plate. The kids didn't even ask how much longer until the bottom of the 8th. WOW! Grandpa of course bought them everything they wanted ice cream, foam fingers and little souvenir bats (which of coarse they hit each other with.)