#1 Nascar Fan...

So I 100% blame this on our neighbor, but Brenten has decided he's a Nascar Fan these days...he loves to watch the car races. Don't Judge us!! :) Anyway I found this fabric, and decide to try my hand at sewing (it is a New Years Resolution), I thought his pjs turned out cute, and he was WAY excited! Let's Go Racin Boys!!

So She Thinks She Can DANCE!!!

So here is my "beautiful ballerina..." Lexie has been telling me she wants to learn to be a beautiful ballerina, for quite sometime now. I have wanted to sign her up for dance since the day she was born...but decided to wait until she was ready! :) Even now I really went back and forth, part of me thought she was too little (she is only 2) but another part knew she would love it. But then also comes the question of WHERE??!!!?? My friends daughter teaches dance at the rec center, since I wasn't sure if Lexie would really love to go to dance (and stay by herself) I figured maybe that would be a good place to start. What was I worried about~that girl was born to boogie! She couldn't wait for class, and with barely a glance over her shoulder was off. For the first lesson parents could stay and watch, and can I tell you there was no prouder mom in the place...she was so focused on the teachers and trying so hard to learn what they told her. She cannot wait until next week. I love that she LOVES dance so much!

She was so excited to put on her "ballerinas clothes, and have pretty sparkly ballerina hair"

Here's my girl getting ready to go....Lovin those sparkle leg warmers!

Lazy Saturday Morning..

So this is kindof funny....Brenten being in school has kindof thrown our family for a whirl. If you know us at all you know that we are not a morning family. I hear all the time from people how their kids wake them up early...not at our house, we taught our children the value of sleeping in (basically you're on your own WE need our sleep!!) :) We have been so spoiled because our kids go to sleep around 9:30-10:00 and then sleep until 9:30-10:00...UNTIL NOW! Brenten has to be at school at 7:55am and that means everyone else has to be up too. Its been and adjustment. We've really adopted a new schedule...dinner at 6 bath at 7 and bed by 8...and really everyone's done well, but needless to say we were pretty excited for Saturday morning to get here to SLEEP IN! Yesterday we told the Brenten and Lexie they could stay up a little bit, but we were NOT getting up early...it was sleep in day for the fam. My kids take things to heart and gratefully didn't come wake us up...instead when they woke (still early maybe sleep in days really ARE over) Brenten fixed him and Lex a little breakfast and then got busy cleaning the kitchen....this is what we got up to (at 9:30am)

The Goldings came to LOGAN!!

Last weekend, Grandma and Grandpa came to visit! We had so much fun while they were here
and hope they want to come again! They came on Friday, in time to go pick Brenten up from school....Friday night we had pizza and movies. On Saturday we all got up and Grandma, Lexie and I went shopping, while the boys made a birdhouse (Brenten's request) Later that afternoon we took a beautiful drive up Smithfield Canyon and had a great picnic while the kids pretended to fish, but mostly splashed in the water..On Sunday we started off the day with Omlets ala Nick and then later went over to a park by our house...it is a beautiful park with lots of trees and play areas, there is also this place where Brenten tried his hand at fishing once again! In this picture Grandma and Grandpa are showing Lexie some fish swimming in the water...there are all kinds of fish in there, and some were HUGE! The water was clear enough you could watch them swimming. On Monday it was back to real life, Grandpa did get to walk Brenten to school, and then they packed up and headed back home (to work on Mom's table) We really were so glad they came...invitations open to come back soon!!

He's Ready, He's Ready!!!

So it is here.....Brenten's FIRST day of FIRST grade!!! AHHH!!! We went to his "Back to School" night last night and met his teacher, MRS. LLOYD, she seemed nice, and we saw his new CLASSROOM his room is lucky number 7!! Brenten was pretty excited for this morning to get here he had a hard time getting to sleep, but bright & EARLY his alarm clock rang! He looked GREAT in his new school clothes, he picked his outfit (I should have gotten him a new pair of shorts and a tee shirt~he is going to be so HOT today!) And off we went!

Walking into his school...

Are we SURE this school is READY?????

Last night for Back to School night

Miss Lex thinks she is going to SCHOOL too!! She was

a little SAD this morning when she didn't get to go in with

her BROTHER!

Congratulations Mrs. M.!!!

This post is for my mom! I could not be prouder of her if I tried....today, in a lot of ways she starts kindof a new life...one that she has been working so hard for the last
3 1/2 years to achieve, today my mom will stand in front of 30+ third graders as their TEACHER!!! I know that she is nervous, and doubts her abilities, but I also know that she will be the BEST teacher to those kids! She IS prepared, she IS ready, and I KNOW she'll do GREAT!!!! Good Luck mom!! I LOVE YOU!

Bear Lake 2008

So on August 8th we headed up to Bear Lake with my fam for our annual Bear Lake Rendevous! It was a short trip this year because Mom had to get ready for school----Yay Mrs M.!! And everyone has a lot going on, but we had a great time anyway! Here are a few pictures but more will follow!