First day of 2nd grade!!!

WOW!!! Where have the last 7 years gone. i can not believe my girls are in 2nd grade.

They were so excited that they had a REALLY hard time falling to sleep the night before. Sunday night the girls got to choose what they wanted for dinner, Shepard's pie it was. Then daddy gave the kids wonderful blessings before their big first day of school.

Tayler and Megan got Mrs. Hancock & Mrs. Wilkinson, they are team teachers and i have heard nothing but the best about them both. Tayler loves that they base everything on sports, they have them in groups and each group is a sports team. They have a MVP each week, so excited to see all the fun things the girls do & learn this year.


I think this is the only school outfit they got that are the same lol.

The teacher gifts!!

Tayler at her table

Megan at her table

Tayler & Megan i love you so much, i know you will both do your best!!

Busy but fun weekend!!

This weekend went by so fast, it's true time flies when your having fun. On Friday we were lucky and got to Park city and spend the day with Dustin's boss his wife & a few other people. Dustin's boss is moving to Seattle so it was kinda like a goodbye gift. We started off by eating lunch at This YUMMY restaurant called Zoom. Apparently Robert Redford owns the joint. It was so nice, we just sat on the back patio and ate our lunch.
We all shared 3 different appetizers but this was my favorite.
Spicy Buffalo Onion Rings

I got the Santa Fe Salad

And Dustin got the ribs

After that we headed up to ride the Alpine slide, Alpine Coaster and zip line. We had to head over to the outlets to get some school shopping in for the kids before it was time to get home to the kids so me and Dustin didn't get to ride the zip line.

Dustin getting ready to ride down the alpine coaster. I was in front of him going down and told him not to ride to close behind me cause i thought i was going to be a scardy cat but it was a blast and i only braked once going around a corner. That is one fun ride!!

Dustin going up

Zip line

Later that night my brother and sister in law invited us up for a movie under the stars. It was so fun, they had invited some friends & neighbors so there were a ton of kids my kids ages. The kids jumped on the trampoline, kicked the ball, and we all watched Rio.

We of course had tons of yummy treats, Popsicles, licorice, muddy buddy, etc. and i made this popcorn. Pink = Strawberry and Blue= coconut

Jace made a friend right away, they were both 3 and both were total Blondie's.

The next day was our annual Kelson family reunion.

Brileigh, lexi, Sage, Madi & Jace

Meg magoo

Ellie, Jace & Madi

My grandma made a game for the kids. You were timed and had to see who could get the all the gumballs down to the bottom. Jake got the fastest time 12 sec. and Jace got the slowest over a minute something.

I love these two kiddos. Ellie loves bubba she follows him everywhere. They totally look like siblings:)

Only One more week til school starts, hopefully we can get a few more fun things fit in this week.

Prayer

I had to write this down before i forgot.

We teach our kids about prayer, how to pray, when to pray and where to pray. I am so thankful for the power of prayer. Last week as we were getting ready for church i told Megan to go get her shoes on, well she kept saying she could only find one shoe. I just kept saying " keep looking"

She left the room and i kept getting the other kids and myself ready, when it was time to leave and we were walking out the door she said " i still can't find my shoe mom" so i got a little mad but went to help look for it. Couldn't find it anywhere, i know i should have had her put some other shoes on but lets face it she's a girl and those shoes matched that exact outfit. So Dustin said "I'm taking tayler and jace and I'll meet you there". (We have to drive separately anyways due to his calling)

So me and meg kept looking, shortly after she came out of her room and said " i found it mom" i said " where was it" it was in a place her and i swore we had already looked. Well we got into the car and were driving to church and meg says " mom when i couldn't find my shoe i went in my room and said a prayer that i would find my shoe, and i did" I got a little teary eyed and she just smiled. I love when heavenly father answers prayers, even little ones about a little lost shoe.

Family Hike

Dustin & i thought it would be fun to take the kids on a hike last Saturday, we headed up to a place in Kaysville that dustin runs about twice a week. I'm not going to lie my kids thought they were going to die half way up to the top. I sorta don't blame them cause it was like 95 degrees and it was all up hill, we were sweating like crazy & every one's water bottle was about gone between me pouring it on the kids heads and drinking it. Dustin was laughing at us because we were complaining, he said "i run this thing".

Once we got to the top they were excited and proud of themselves. Then we started to hike a little bit further to the waterfall (that's what dustin said we were walking towards anyways)

Our photos at the top

And this was the waterfall, it's a bridge with water running under it lol. I was picturing water coming off the mountain, maybe something we could get in. After we hung out at the " waterfall" for a bit we headed back down, everyone wanted a turn on daddy's shoulders. As you can tell by megans butt you can tell she fell down a couple of times.

We encountered a few snakes & lizards, but eventually made it back down to the car.

The first picture is of the kids at end of the hike, the sign says Wilderness park and my girls said"mom that was not a park" they crack me up!!