Summer...First Days of School

We had a busy a summer as you can already tell. New movies came out, boys had vacations at Nana and Papa's. I got to be down there with them too. Michael & Ammon went to Washington DC. I will let him post some pictures so you can see. For the most part I think we were all glad when school started. Except Ammon missed the first 2 days of school because he had pneumonia in August for crying out loud!!
Talmage was pretty excited about his class. All his best buddies and girls are there. I was glad to see him happy!

































Ammon started the following Monday. His new teacher was someone that I had heard some negative things about her teaching style, so I did everything I could to get him switched out. The principal told me to please give it a couple of weeks. During those weeks Ammon missed more school because of being sick, really had an attitude about going back to school, was not being a happy 3rd grade kid. There seems to be so much pressure on these kids in school that they don't always get to really be kids. Needless to say, I did get the teacher that we wanted and Ammon is more than happy to go to school.































Finally, Garrett got to go his preschool class. He had been waiting and waiting happily but when the day came it took a little bit to get him on the bus. He did great and now he justs runs to the bus.

Ammon's Baptism Day

Can I just say that I made some unique invites to Ammon's baptism. You know the frames and pictures that define Family, Sister, Brothers, etc. Well Ammon's invitation defineds Baptism and Gift of the Holy Ghost. They turned out really nice I thought.
The day came together really nicely. There were 3 children from our ward, plus 2 of Ammon's best friends from other wards were being baptised the same day. Ammon got to see them get baptized too.


My handsome men Michael & Ammon in white














Ammon & Caden




Ammon & Easten


















Ammon, Caden & Easten

Ammon's Day

For Ammon's actual birthday we went to the park and played. Then we went to McDonalds and played. Then home and waited for Dad before going to Galaxy Diner for dinner. They have yummy desserts. It was a hot play filled day!!

This is the new outfit that he got from Aunt Carol.





Ammon's birthday sundae

Ammon's 8th birthday party

We had a lot of fun at Ammon's birthday party. We had to move it from a Saturday afternoon, Everyone had sports they were doing, to a Monday afternoon. I had the pleasure of hosting all on my own. Michael couldn't even come home for a lunch. The boys were great and we survived it all. After Goggling for Party games, I found tons to do with 8 rowdy boys. We had lots of games to play like trying to see just how many socks they could get on one foot, popping balloons and doing what it said inside ie. hopping on one foot for 30 seconds and singing Happy Birthday. Enjoy the pictures from the Ben 10: Alien Force party.

Transformers!!

I promised the boys that we would go see the new Transformers on opening day. I held true to my word and we stayed extra time in the valley just so we could see it at the CiniCapri. My dad went along with us and we all really liked it.

Talmage graduatesfrom Kindergarden

It's a big day in the life of a kindergardener when they get to put on the big black hat and get your dipolma from kindergarden. Here is my very cute Talmage on his big day! What a little stud!

Talmage has a Luau.

Talmage was so cute at his Luau. He wanted to wear his Hawaii shirt and his shark swim trunks. Really didn't match, but you know, I didn't really care. It was his fun day. They had Pizza at the Tree park and Garrett, Spencer and I headed over to join him. It was getting cloudier by the minute. We really hoped that it wouldn't rain on them. Sure enough, just before they started to do their little program, the rain started to come. It was just like being in Hawaii. It rained softly, then a bit harder. Luckily for all of the parents we were covered by big trees so we didn't feel the rain too much. And just like Hawaii the rain stopped. It was great. And Talmage had a great time.