Sunday, August 26, 2012

ROAR!!!!

I cant believe summer is over!!!! School starts for Jaden and Ella this Thursday! I had no intentions of sending Ella to school this year because so is so young, but when Jaden's preschool approached me and asked me to be one of their teachers on just the days and just during the times Jaden is in school, and that they would have a 2 year old class Ella could attend for free, I couldn't resist! I must say I am VERY excited! I have really missed teaching and its so great that this works out so well! I feel very blessed!! We ended up deciding to send Jaden Tuesdays Wednesdays and Thursdays and then I will teach just Tuesdays and Thursdays! This ended up being a great blessing to allow Ella and I to still have one day together while Jaden will still be in school.

I told Jaden he could pick any one thing to do before school started up this week and he picked the Dinosaur Park! He absolutely loves dinosaurs and loves going, so we called up some friends and off we went!
Jaden and Connor are best buddies and thought these were hilarious!
 Jaden loved this visit to the dinosaur park more than I can ever remember! He took his dinosaur encyclopedia with him and just kept saying "mom that dinosaur is here in my book" after EVERY dinosaur! :) He also wanted me to read the plaque about every dinosaur and tell him "where they lived and everything about them"


It was a great activity to end the summer! Jaden couldn't be more excited to start school, and like I said, I am too! I am sure Ella is going to love having so many friends to play with too! The other day I had to go in to work on my classroom and so I brought the kids along too! There was this cute little girl named Geraty there and she and Ella will be in the same class. They are already little buddies and Geraty just loves saying "Bye Lela" over and over and over :) The kids have great teachers this year and the curriculum rocks! I can't wait to see how much they learn and grow!

Wednesday, August 15, 2012

Splishin and a Splashin

The other day I was talking to my sister Rachel and she asked me how I often I go to the splash pad in Ogden.....
How did I have NO idea Ogden had a rockin splash pad!?!? 
Needless today the next time it was time to run some errands in Ogden I grabbed the kids swim suits and we found it! I wish we would have known about this at the beginning of the summer! The kids had a BLAST!!

Here is Ella getting used to the water!
 I love this picture because Ella is running right next to the NO RUNNING sign...haha
 Jaden has really come to love swimming this summer, he had so much fun!
 Say Cheese
 Now back to the fun
I don't think I'll be feeling to guilty the rest of the summer on the days I have to drag the kids down to Ogden to run errands, as long as we hit the splash pad at some point, I think they will be happy little campers!

Sunday, August 5, 2012

Monkey See Monkey Do!

 This last week we headed down to Salt Lake to go check out the new zoo exhibit with the cousins! 
I was so impressed and the kids had such a great time together!!

Out little monkeys!!!
 I love what great little buddies these two are!!!
Enjoying the carousel

 It was VERY hot outside so we HAD to stop for an ice cream break!!
 more monkeys




We had a great day!
We missed you Libby Hailey and Johnny, we'll catch you next time!

A camping we will go!!


This year during Shawn's week off we decided to head up to Oakley and spend some time at his family's cabin. We had so much fun we decided that we really should make a tradition of it!  We only brought up one of the kids toys and it wasn't even played with much! The kids just had a great time doing everything else up there! It was some much needed quality family time! Especially since I had just gotten back from 4 days at girls camp! As much fun as girls camp was, I missed my little family and was so glad to be home and have this time with them!

Here's a little of what we did....

We caught frogs...

 We played in the dirt and drove remote control cars!!
 
 We drove the three wheeler over and over and over again!!
This little Ella Bug would squeal with joy and jump up and down EVERY time she heard it start up!
 Jaden has always loved riding!
 We threw rocks in the river
 and played on the three wheeler some more!
 We did a lot of fishing. One day a moose even came down while were were fishing and hung out in the water for about a half hour! He was HUGE and the kids thought he was SO COOL!!!
 We played fetch in the river with Dukey
 and threw some more rocks
 We even went down to Kamas one day and went out for ice cream and....Gluten Free Pizza!!! 
I was in Heaven!!

What a great week! I love my little family!