Samuel

Samuel turned 7 a few weeks ago and had a really great day. His 1st grade teacher is awesome and she makes a big deal out of their birthdays. Samuel was "king" for the day I brought treats to his class and they all stood up and sang to him. Each of them made him a card too, nothing cuter then a bunch of 1st graders cards..:)

Bath Time

These little girls LOVE bath time. I remember Lisa and I spending hours in the tub making potions, swimming, using the tub as a slide and now my little girls love to do the same thing. They say they are mermaids Savannah is the big mermaid and Kaitlen is the baby mermaid. I love listening to them play.....Pretty cute girls.

Neighborhood Animals

Samuel came home from school on Monday with this "brainstorming" paper he did. Theme "Neighborhood Animals" I love the animals he used, I think most kids would put cat, dog, maybe a rabbit but in our neighborhood you get things like antelope, deer, coyote, jack rabbits and bats. Funny thing is it's true we see all of these things in our neighborhood......except coyotes, we hear them howling at night. :) Anyway it made me laugh.



I can't get the picture to scan!!! Does anyone know how to do this?? It is so cute.

New Pics

I've wanted to have our family pictures taken at Bear Lake forever and we finally did it. Talk about a circus getting everyone ready and over to the Lake. Trying to get 4 kids to look at the camera at the same time was a trick our poor photographer had her work cut out for her. I loved how the pictures captured every ones personalities. The baby loved the rocks and water and we couldn't get her to look up.......but she's there and cute all the same. Thanks Emily for the great pictures!

We're in Training

I've always said that potty training is the all time hardest thing, thus far, for me to do as a parent. Kaitlen is 2 years and 5 months and talking quite well. She is dry when she wakes up in the morning, tells me shes wet, and when she is stinky. So now that the summer of fun is drawing to a close I feel like it is time I taught her how to put all that "junk" in the potty. If only it were an easy thing. I try to compare it to teaching them how to walk it is a totally new concept and takes time to master; walking however does not involve the "junk"

Today was our first real solid effort at it and it did not go well at all... I am pleased to report however that I kept my cool and patience with her and tried to stay positive and up beat about the whole learning processes. I am however asking you, all my friends for any advice that might help this process happen smoother and quickly.......anyone???

Kaitlen loves candy and I cut her supply off unless she goes on the potty which happened a total of 1 time today with 5 accidents (all of which were outside and on kitchen floor yeah for the carpet:). Yikes!! I'm not ready for this.

Whew!

Whoa! I'm glad to see that I'm not the only blogger who is to busy during the summer months to post very often, isn't that how it should be?? I've had a vinyl in my closet forever that says "Live every Moment" we finally got around to putting it up on our kitchen wall and it has kind of been our motto for the summer. One week left of summer and I am utterly exhausted!! Anthony spent the summer working a few days a week in Orem so that meant alot of days away from home for us, fortunetly for us however my mom has an appartment in her basement and was gracious enough to let us crash at her place. Here are a few pictures of the summer highlights.

Kaitlen riding "Captain" up at the cabin

The kids took swimming lessons with their cousins and had a great time.

Savannah turned 5 and had a fun party at the pool with all her cousins.

We visited Mesa Verde, really amazing place.

We spent a week in New Mexico visiting my sister. Here we are "down by the river" Rio Grande.

I love this picture of Savannah and Samuel playing in the water.

We stayed at Bear Lake for a few days with Anthonys family and had a great time, they are such a fun family to hang out with and we always have a lot of fun laughing whenever we are together.


I also was able to spend a lot of time on my bike this summer, which I was grateful for. It gave me time away from the kids to just have time to think.................silence. As a mother of 4 sometimes there is nothing better then just that.

Kaitlen

I have finally got to Kaitlens 2 year old pictures, we took these at my moms strawberry patch and I love how they turned out. We were able to completely capture her spunky little personality.

Grandma Liza has 10 new little kittens at her house and Kaitlen loves them to pieces!