Back to School!!!

So thankful for the school system who gratefully agreed to take my kids again this year. Don't know what I would have done if they had put a giant reject stamp on the registration forms.

Cried, I would have cried.

Luckily I had only tears of joy today as I watched them leave the house to goto the bus stop. Every year we take the picture of their first day of school with the kids holding up the number of fingers for which grade they are starting.

While some pictures will look like cool hand gestures, I still haven't figured out what they will do when they hit 11th and 12th grade.... maybe start adding toes!

First up is Andrew...

Then Brooke....
Followed by Anna....

And Emily......

And last but not least Ian, my baby....

Summer Fun

There is a little part of me that doesn't want summer vacation to end.

Our days have been filled with laziness and water fun and many books.

But most of all it has been filled with family and friends!

Soon school will start and we won't have as much time to hang around doing nothing

while having a ton of fun doing it!

Having lived in Southern Utah for 15 years it is crazy for me to realize

we have not seen all the local sites.

Xavier and Bruno came for vacation and we remedied this a little bit.

Parowan Gap is a literal gap in a mountain that enabled

people to cut through instead of going around.

On the rocks are ancient petroglyphs.

No one knows for sure what they mean,

for us they meant we got to climb rocks and hang out as a family!!

Bruno is getting so big and had fun climbing rocks.
Who can climb the highest??

Ian and Nathan hiding in small and big caves!

I think this one means that if you follow the railroad tracks, past the second exit you will find McDonald's... either that or these people saw a giant centipede and had to document it or no one would believe it was as big as they said. It really was ginormous!!!

And I think this proves that even people in the 1800's liked to carve their name in rocks!

Powder Puff Derby

The Achievement Day girls had a Powder Puff Pinewood Derby.

Anna and Emily were excited to design and build their cars.

Anna made a cellphone car.

And Emily made a candy bar car! (A mr. goodcar)

Good job ladies!!