FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL 2009

The first day of school came so fast. It always does. We were ready and all excited. Drake has Mrs. Lawrence/Mrs. Nelson, Sierra has Mrs Buchanan, and Makenzie has Mrs. Wilson. We had a great morning and got them off to school. Drake rode the bus and we took the girls. It is always harder for me when they hit first grade because they are gone all day long. I started to get all teary eyed but luckily someone took my mind off it when they came to talk to me. They loved there first day and Makenzie said "Mom, it is just the same as kindergarten it isn' any longer! I had so much fun!" I hope it lasts all year!!

Sawyer's ALMOST Driving

We went school shopping with Sawyer and Drake. Sawyer was the big driver in the super saturn and we had some good laughs at his expense. He did great job considering how much he is able to drive the stick shift, no power steering, SUPER Saturn. I think Drake and I laughed even more sitting in the back seat than Steve and Sawyer did in the front. Drake chose to go to PF Changs for lunch and we enjoyed so good Chinese food. We had a lot of fun in a short amount of time and got most things accomplished before we had to rush back for football. Thank you for the safe trip Sawyer and Drake thank you for the good laughs. You are both great kids!

Hunting Opening Weekend

We had a great time camping on Beaver mountain with our family and friends. The kids were excited to see there cousins and spend some time with them. The kids rode the 4-wheelers and rhino until the roads just couldn't take it any more. We love dirty little faces and bodies and enjoyed meeting some new friends, making smores, camp fires all day long, bb guns, great food, rescuing lost hikers, and listening to the tall tales of hunting. Good Memories!!

California 2009

CALIFORNIA PART ONE
We always go to a MLB game. This year the girls opted out so the boys went to watch the BRAVES and the DODGERS. They had great seats behind the BRAVES dugout and enjoyed an overtime game with a home run by the BRAVES in the 10th or 11th inning. They girls and I went shopping to THE GROVE. It is an outdoor mall. All the stores were very expensive but the main reason we wanted to go was to go the the AMERICAN GIRL doll store. There are only 3 in the country. We had a lot of fun LOOKING and LOOKING at all the different outfits and dolls. We were there for 1 1/2 hours. The girls each got an outfit for their dolls and we headed out to eat and school shop. We discovered a ROSS across the street and headed there and got the girls school shopping done. The next day was the BEACH and USS MIDWAY. We loved looking at all the airplanes and listening to stories about them. Then we headed back to relax on the beach. Steve loves to get the kids out boogie boarding and I just love to sit and watch.


CALIFORNIA PART TWO
The next day we went to SEA WORLD from 9:00 a.m. to 11:00 p.m. It was fun and we only missed out on a couple things.
HIGHLIGHTS: feeding dolphins, getting soaked in the soak zone, water cannons Tyson shot to get us even more wet on shipwreck rapids, good food, and night light shows.
We had a great time and love SEA WORLD!!
The next day we headed to the BEACH for the day and enjoyed another beautiful day, boogie boarding, making sand castles, skim boarding, making sand chairs, and the seagulls stealing our food out of our backpack(ck out the picture). The thing that the kids kept wanting to do was to go swimming at the hotel. Go figure, you go to CA and the beach and they want to swim in the pool. So we headed back to the hotel POOL and went swimming before heading home. It was a great family vacation!!