My pictures

I am so excited! It's been a little while since we went to Utah to get our pics done and it was so worth the wait cause they are awesome. I was so anti Sears, kiddie kandids,etc... no offense if you use them. I have before too, but it's so random on whether they turn out cute or with any creativity. This time I wanted something way different. Skye Johansen is her name and she rocks! Thanks to Chira for turning me on to her. She has more pics of my cuties at http://skyejohansen.com/blog. Go check em out!

Gonna need some braces!

Brody's teeth have sprung up overnight! Oh no wait, just our fist bite of cottage cheese silly Mommy!

It's official!

We have a kindergartener in the house!! Katelyn started school on Thursday. My little girl is growing up and I have such mixed feelings about this. On the one hand, I have great memories of kindergarten myself and I know she is going to really enjoy the interaction with kids her age and she needs the challenges she'll be given. The thought of her out of my control for 4+ hours a day kinda scares me though. And I just want the other kids to be nice, cuz we know they can not be and she hopefully isn't one of those ones. The other hand is way excited to have 4+ hours to do what I want to do and only one child to have to do it with! I'm not even sure what to do with that time, I just know the possibilities are exciting. Nap? time with Dave? shopping without someone asking for everything they see? who knows... So the other bit of drama with the school thing is she has a "boy teacher" and she's not too sure about that. The first day when she got home I asked her how she liked school and her response was " I don't like it at all, it's boring!" and "all the other kids had fun but it's just boring". I hope that was only because they couldn't play on the playground because of the heat advisory, poor Mr. M he's got his work cut out for him! He said she did much better on Friday so maybe there is hope . I'm crossing my fingers!!!!!!

Another quick trip

Monday I came back into town from working and had Dave meet me with the kids so we could catch a quick flight up to Salt Lake before I passed out- I was scheduled to be at work before 5am every morning which I can't function well at that hour. We made the flight fine and dandy, kids were great. Rental car whole other story... 1 1/2 hours and 3 cars later we were off to my family's place in Salem. We went up to have some family pictures taken hopefully I'll have some to post in about another week. The kiddos were much more aggreable than I expected so I'm hoping Skye got some good shots

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We also went up to my cousin's in-laws property in the mountains and went 4 wheelin' for the afternoon. It rained on and off thruout the day, we had planned on swimming in the pond but it wasn't really warm enough, that did not stop my cousin Todd from jumping in! Katelyn tried too but decided it was much too chilly for her =0 (that's the pond way down there in 2nd pic)

We picked up some fireworks at the grocery store, must've been left over from the 4th. If you know Katelyn at all, you know she was in hog heaven. She lives for the 4th of July and the entire month of October too since Schnepf Farms has fireworks for the pumpkin and chili party every thurs-sun evening. Her birthday being October 30th she always assumes the fireworks are for HER since after her birthday they stop. I know crazy, huh?

The last day we ventured over to Park City for a drive and they have some summer activities on the mountain which were alot of fun. Katelyn was too little/light for alot of the things like the bungee trampoline or the zip line but she did go on the arctic slide. You take the ski lift up and then bobsled down. Too bad it was like 96 degrees out!

We were seriously baking at that altitude so we went and had some Gelato to cool down and then raced off to the airport to head home.

Short but sweet trip and as always a lot of fun.

We're in trouble now!

Brody has gotten really mobile the last week or so, first it was rolling from one end of the room to the other . He next discovered how to use his blanket to pull himself along , and now that has turned into an army crawl of sorts. Mixed with a little bit of rolling... =) No person,plant, dog/cat or toy is safe in our house any longer!

Family Fun

We had lots of fun getting out of the heat and playing with the Wilkins side of the family last week. My Aunt Annette & Uncle Orton and all their kids and grandkids and greatgrandkids met up in Pinetop for the weekend. We hung out, ate lots of fattening food , shot guns (those without babies) rode suped up golf carts and went fishing. Most of the pics had to be taken by others(those without babies) so this is what I got! It was a great way to spend Father's Day and wouldn't you know the fish really weren't biting but those that did ended up on Katelyn and Dave's rods! I swear my hubby never gets skunked , thank goodness cause at least I know we won't starve to death if the poop ever hits the fan. But now it seems my dear sweet little girl is going to follow in her Daddy's foot prints. She caught the very first fish on her own little rod! She was sooo excited until it came onto shore belly up basically and when Daddy put it on the stringer she cried cause she wanted to bring it home and put it in our fish tank. Then she needed to know if it was a boy fish or a girl fish. There was a little fibbing going on for that one but it seemed to appease her until Dave caught the next fish which happened to be whatever sex the first one wasn't! How lucky are we?

Busy Bees!

Well May was filled with lots for us to do and celebrate. We had Mother's Day which was also our 9th wedding anniversary. Wow, time really does fly. Dave had to go out on a fire so we still have to celebrate sometime soon, I hope. I mean every day is a celebration of course (eye roll) but it would be nice to go out for an evening where we can finish a sentence without interruption, ya know? So looking forward to that.

Katelyn had her end of year pool party at the dance studio followed by the annual dance recital. They did 2 numbers, 1 tap and 1 ballet and she did an awesome job, such a little ham!

That was followed by our Disneyland trip- so much fun but so exhausting there and back in the same day. She is still talking about that and already planning her next visit.

The following week was the graduation ceremony at Katelyn's preschool. They sang songs and gave each of the kids a book "all about me" with great pictures from throughout the year along with a special ribbon and certificate. We really lucked out in finding Ms. Amy and we all are going to miss her next year.

So all of our activities have ended and we've been trying to think of what we'd like to try next. Playdates anyone? We have swimming lessons starting next week and we are doing the summer movie program every Monday morning. I think Katelyn mentioned something about horses so I think I'm calling the Reed's to see what's up with the riding lessons they've started.

The other exciting/scary news is we just found out Kate gets to start Kindergarten this year!!! She missed the cut off date by just 2 months so we had her tested to see if she was ready and she did really well. The semester starts July 31st so that is just around the corner, I'm not sure if I'M ready but........ so I guess we need to squeeze in another vacation quick before we only travel with the masses on weekends and holidays, yuck!!! Maybe we should wait one more year???