Park Days

Anna stared walking on the day of her birthday.  She was been trying our different walkin adventures since.   At the park she love to climb the stairs and to go down the slides.  She is not afraid of much.  She is getting more and more advanced in her skills.  Her new way to go up the stairs is to walk with the support of the rail.

I had the most trying time trying to get Anna to wear her shoes.  She finally understands, maybe because its cold,  that if she wants to go outside she has to wear shoes.  She will now bring me her shoes and have me put them on.

 Trying out his new scooter.

Kindergarten---

Lydia started school on the 2 of September 2014!!  She has great teachers, Mrs Hallock and Mrs.Owen. They team teach 36 kids.  She also mingles with the other kindergartners for gym, music, art and library. She loves it.  She never complains about long days or about the school work.  She has an air of maturity about her.
At recess she has become quite a monkey. She can swing from rung to rung the whole of the monkey bars. She also learning her cart wheels and back bends.
On The first day Dad took the morning off and we all went to the classroom together.  He was able to leave on his four hour journey to South Dakota right after we dropped her off. Mrs Owen read the story the kissing hand and then each child gave their parent a kiss on their hand and then each parent gave their child a kiss on their hand.  This kiss was meant to last a day and whenever parent and child got lonely they could hold their hand to their check for a kiss.

Walking into school together

Sitting at her desk.

After a long day of the first day of school.  Each  child released a balloon into the air. It as quiet a spectacular.

Eli's Birthday

Eli was so excited to have a birthday!!  In our family we have a tradition to let the child choose his or her favorite food for all the meals.  Eli wanted Hamburgers for dinner and he wanted to play baseball for lunch.  I guess food wasn't on his mind cause  I don't even think he choose a breakfast.
It was so fun to me to have him choose an activity for his special day.

He got some great gifts for his birthday!! He rants about his fishing pole.  Ben took him the day after his birthday and he caught eight fish.   All small sun fish but..  He loved it.

Birthday morning Eli opened a few presents!!  He got some awesome church pants

Anna is 1 !!!!!

Nice Jamas

We left for a trip to Idaho Falls and Star Valley.  It was a long seven hour drive with just mom and the kids.   The kids traveled well.   We absolutely loved spending the first two nights with  Lauren. We had great cousins time and she was so  nice to host us.

We went to the park with all the kids.  Logan was unsure about the slide but after few times Anna really loved it.  She  like to go down the slide all by herslef now.

 In Star Valley it rained and rained!!  The kids got a chance to go outside and feed animals with Grandpa.   We did spend a lot of time inside!

 Happy Birthday Anna!!

She absolutely loves these headbands.  Even now we put them on and she will pull them off and on.

Birthday Bannana Cake.  If you flip through the really fast if almost creates a movie...