1st day of preschool

Sept. 7th was Londyn's 1st day of preschool. She goes to the new elementary in our neighborhood, which is great because it is so close. She goes Tuesday-Friday from 9:15-12:00. And so far really likes it.

This is her saying, "can we just go?!?!"

Se looks so tiny walking up to the big school.

This is her with her new friend Belle.

Good luck this year Londyn. We love you!

St. George/ Labor Day weekend

We left on Thursday around noon and headed to St. George! Wahoo! We hadn't been for almost a year. We stayed at the Wingate hotel and it was great. The kids liked standing in the window to look and the pool. Every morning we had breakfast at the hotel. Londyn's favorite were the waffles.

On Friday and Saturday mornings we went swimming. Londyn was a little fish as usual. Jackson liked to walk around the pool while eating an apple. The first step into the pool was great though; it was huge so it was almost like a little wadding area. Jackson liked that part. He didn't care much for his floatie.

On Saturday night my brother Caleb had a football game. This is Jackson at the tailgate party. You can tell by his rosie cheeks that it was really hot. So before the game started we went to Iceberg to cool off with a big shake. Mmmmm.

After church on Sunday (we found the coolest ward right by our hotel!) we went to Caleb and Nikki's apartment to celebrate Caleb's birthday with a Turkey dinner and cake! Then we just hung out. This is the kids on the love sac eating pirate booty with my dad.

Other highlights of the trip were shopping at the outlets, watching the U play at Iggy's, seeing Caleb recover a fumble, pizza from Hungry Howie's, Cody going mountain biking, being able to stay for 4 nights, and hiking at Zion's.

Cedar Breaks and Zion's

On one of our days in St. George Cody and my dad drove to Cedar Breaks and Zion's. Cody had never been to either of them and loved it. We all (my parents, Cody and I and the kids, and my brother and his wife) went to Zion's on Labor day. We hiked to the top of the Emerald Pools. It was really pretty. The kids did great. Londyn hiked almost the hole thing and I carried Jackson in the baby bjourn for part of the way and then Caleb wore him the rest of the time. He slept for a bout an hr of the hike. Our camera was dead so I don't have any pics from the hike, but maybe I'll post some later when my dad sends me his.

Pickle

Jackson's 1st pickle

The cupcakes

I wanted to post pictures of the pink and blue cupcakes from the kids' Pink and Blue Birthday Bash to remember how good they were!

Laondyn's were vanilla with homemade strawberry buttercream.

Jackson's were chocolate w/white chocolate chips and homemade vanilla frosting.

A few party pics

In the basement for the pinata. Jackson is ready for his turn!

Playing "pin the crown on the princess"

Singing "happy birthday" to Londyn

Jacks eating his cake. He would only eat it with a fork!

Birthday pics

A few of their Birthday pictures (taken at Garner Village)

Londyn Turns Four!

2 days after Jackson's birthday, Aug. 6th, we celebrated Londyn's 4th borthday!

She also got a special "4" shaped pancake.

She was very excited to open presents.

Lucky girl got to go to the Dr. on her birthday! At least she didn't get 3 shots like her baby bro. I told her she didn;t have to get shots until she was 5, right before kindergarten. Maybe I shouldn't have told her that. She decided she didn't want to go to kindergarten after I told her that!

We wanted to take her out to dinner for her birthday say the night before I said: (me) "Londyn, where is your favorite place to eat?"
Londyn paused to think for a few seconds. (Londyn)" The bar stool." Haha! So cute, I said, no, which restaurant? She picked the Spaghetti Factory. It was delicious as usual!
At 4 years old Londyn:
-is full of energy!
-Loves to dance
-favorite church song "Jesus Once Was a Little Child"
-loves to play in the dirt and the sand
-Only takes naps every once and a while = (
-Decided she likes "gramy's bed" (our guest room bed) better than hers
-loves to play outside
-is scared of thunder
-loves cats
-still loves princesses, but is getting more into Barbies
We love you Londyn girl! Happy Birthday!

Jackson Turns One

On August 4th our baby boy turned 1! I can't believe it has already been a year since his crazy delivery.

To celebrate his special day he got a pancake shaped like a "1" ( a tradition started with Londyn's 1st birthday)

As you can see he enjoyed it!

This is him taking his new puppy for a walk.

His birthday turned out to be a pretty rainy day. Here is the birthday boy with his daddy with the scary black clouds behind them.
At age one Jackson:
-has 8 teeth
-sleeps all night
-takes one 2-3 hr nap every day
-walks like a champ (started walking mid-July)
-Says, dada, momma, hi, hi dada, all done (all da), and everything else is "uh"!
-walks up our slide upstairs
-loves kitty cats, tries to say meow
-loves to eat chicken, any kind
-mostly done with baby food
-likes whole milk, and chocolate milk ( I didn't have to buy one can of formula for him!)
-generally just a happy kid!

We love you baby Jacks!

Condo/Swimming

We stayed at a condo for a night to make a mini vacation out of the weekend.

The kids loved the deck!

Londyn loved playing with her barbies and jenga blocks with her dad.

And to top it off we spent a couple hours soaking up the sun at the pool!

Deer Valley music Festival

On the 23rd of July we headed up to Park City to go to the Deer Valley Music Festival. It was so nice to get out of the heat and have a picnic outside.

The kids did great. Londyn especially loved it because it was all Disney music.

Jackson enjoyed the food!