Beginnings of Fall

Realized I needed to get these first day of school pics up!

Handsome boys!

Not her first day of being a little stinker!

Fall is here.

Our backyard is covered in leaves!

I am ok with this, since after our scare with a snowy morning last week, we are back in the 70's and 80's!

Love this pic

Soccer Time!

We were lucky to get on great teams this year with people who attend our church and play on Saturday's.

Kason is pretty competitive and holds his own playing on a team of 3rd and 4th graders with a few of his friends.

Asher just has a grand ol time and was grinning from ear to ear the whole first game.

This Deserves a Post All of its Own

Thumb sucking is a thing of the past!!

Can I get a hallelujah?!

She loved to suck her thumb and it had become something that was happening all. the. time. day and night.

I'll admit, it was cute, and it was such a comforting thing to her.

I felt badly about that part.

But it was affecting her teeth and I wanted to stop the habit now instead of later.

We tried tape, and the supposedly gross tasting nail polish to no avail.

I was ready to buy some $30 gloves off the internet, but good thing Isaac had us think up another option.

We just cut all the fingers except for the thumb off her 0.99 gloves!

At first we had to duct tape them on at night cause she'd take them off in bed.

(I know...so mean)

After a week or two, though, the urge was gone and after wearing them for a while more, she hasn't sucked her thumb in months!

Love our girl.

I Love Summer

It was a good summer, shorter than I'd have liked, but good nonetheless!

Here are some of the fun things we did. 

Sweet Pea Parade

The kids actually ask to go to the mall, just because there is this fun mat that is interactive they can play on.

They all love it.

Lemonade Stand!

The kids were asking to do this all summer and we finally set it up. 

They were happy as could be and actually made some money because of the nice, generous neighbors we have!

Can't forget our fun neighbors that were a big part of our summer.

We had our anniversary, 9 years, woo hoo!

Isaac's anniversary present to me...right.

The Swensen's came for a weekend towards the end of summer.  We had some rainy weekends that really reminded us of Oregon, but we still had fun.

We decided to hike to a little waterfall that is up the canyon.

Emry and Brielle keeping dry.  

They giggled the whole way up.

AT our friends' carnival themed birthday party.

Growing up

Lots of bike riding

The next door neighbor's "green machine"

Emry moved into a big girl bed.  

She loves it!

 Even with the guard we still found her on the floor.

Helping Dad mow the lawn.

She can really be a great helper and this time she was determined to stick with Dad and help him until the job was done.  She walked around and held the cord the whole time.

What a great summer, I'm ready for it to start all over again!

Utah Photo Craziness

We went to my parent's house in Utah for a visit and had oh so much fun.

I didn't do very well at taking pictures, but we went to a reservoir, ninja warrior course, ice cream and so much more.

They had some fun nerf dart blow guns.  We went to the church and had a battle.

My parents watched the kids for a day while Isaac and I went to his cousins wedding.

I think they had fun.

Irrigation

Ice cream.

Emry still loves her baby tiger she got at the ice cream store.

We did some slacklining.

My chair as a little girl

We also went to the Ogden temple open house.

Love this picture of the kiddos.

Thanks for the great time, good company, good food, and warm weather!