One last swim…

We went over to Nana and Grandpa’s house for one last swim before they closed up the pool.  After spending 10 minutes in the pool the kids hopped out because it was cold and starting to rain!  But that didn’t keep the kids from having fun!  Out came the umbrellas and the fun continued!

Boosterthon

This year, Dallin and Mandy’s school had a fun run for a fundraiser.  They were so super excited about it and they asked everyone they could think of to support them.

K-3 had the first fun run time slot and they got ready by doing a few stretches.

And then they were off.

Isn’t Mandy so cute out there?

She ran HARD.

And made it a total of 35 laps which is the maximum they allowed the kids to do.

She was super excited to get to see her cousin Chloe there too.

4th – 6th grade ran a little later that morning. 

Dallin is all set and ready to go.

Each time they passed the start/finish line the teachers would mark off a lap on the back of their shirt.

Dallin had a blast doing all the fun laps.  Like skipping,

a buddy lap,

an air guitar lap and many others.  He too made it around for all 35 laps.

The thing I noticed the most – dude, the boy needs a hair cut.  If only he would let us cut it.

Even with crazy hair and a hot sweaty red face, he is a handsome little boy.

Mandy raised a total of $190 for the school and Dallin raised a total of $185.  I think they did awesome!

Puzzle Fun

We put together a puzzle not too long ago for a family home evening activity.  And we had a blast.

It has been so long since I’ve put one together I had forgotten home much fun it is.

And I love that the kids are all old enough now to really participate.  And they were good at it too!

I think it may be time to bust out another one tonight!

Layton’s First Day Of School

Layton started school a little later than Dallin and Mandy.  This was the first year that they were doing VPK at this particular school and they had a couple of issues waiting for the state to give them approval.  That red tape can take forever!  But, we really wanted Layton to go to this school because Mandy’s pre-school teacher would be teaching there and she is fabulous!  She is worth waiting a couple weeks for :)

Layton was so excited to get there,

and to show off his new backpack.

He went right in.  Sat down and started playing.  And has been loving it everyday since! 

The Internet–the source of all knowledge….

Layton and I were having a conversation about how he was growing up and he was now a big boy.  He thought about it for a bit and then told me he was still a baby.  And so of course I took up the argument of why he wasn’t a baby anymore.  Then he had the ultimate, non-disputable answer -

“Mommy, I looked it up on the internet and it said that 4 years old is still a baby.”

How do you argue with that?

First Day of School

The day before school began we went over to the school to meet Dallin and Mandy’s teacher.

Mandy’s teacher is Ms. Ongley.  She seems like she is going to be so much fun. The very first day of class she presented them with a lab coat and Mandy has come home from school every day since then super happy and excited about school!

Dallin’s homeroom teacher is Ms. Cavins.  She teaches language arts and social studies.  Since he is starting 4th grade this year, he gets to switch classes for science and math with Ms. Breen.  I didn’t get a picture of her :(   Both of them seem so nice and so ready to push Dallin to work hard.  Which he really needs!  He told us on the second day of school that he didn’t really see the point of school anymore because he knew how to read so why did he need to learn anything else.  Gah.  We’ve got to come up with a way to inspire him to WANT to learn.  We just haven’t figured that one out yet.

They were very excited about their new outfits for the first day of school that they each got to pick out themselves.  Mandy looks beautiful in hers,

and of course Dallin had to pick out something goofy.  But at least it is a true statement – he does love bacon.  But who doesn’t?

Layton was very sad to see them go.  But he is super excited to get to start pre-k soon!

One last night of summer fun…

On the last day of “summer”, the day before school started back we decided we needed to squeeze just a little more fun in.  So we headed to the movies to see

I will be forever grateful to the guy who wrote this series of books for getting Dallin interested in reading!

Afterwards, we headed to Firehouse for subs and then for one of our favorite treats – Rita’s!

I am pretty sad to see the summer end.  It seems like it went by way too fast! 

Some days…

you just need to do a little slipping and sliding!