We are a proud farming family!

Madisyn was really excited to show me that we have a garden growing in our very own front yard. She wanted to show me the corn we are growing in our grass. Next season we will be growing some money trees, can I have any volunteers to come help pick the crop? This is why I love doing this blog, because I am able to easily keep a record of those times when your kids make you laugh.

Back to School Already?

Today Cayson and Braydon started back to school for the new year. It was strange sending them off to a new grade after only finishing the last one two weeks ago. Cayson is in the 5th grade now and in his own words the "Kings of the school". The majority of the kids from his 4th grade class are now in his 5th grade class unless they changed tracks over the break. He said he only has 4 new kids in his class. Braydon is now in 2nd grade and was really excited about going to school today. He will have a majority of the kids from his 1st grade class, but because there are 2 different second grade classes on his track, he will have new friends to meet. With a tear in my eye and a smile on my face I also sent off my baby to her first day of Kindergarten too. Madisyn was very excited about finally going to school and now when we drive by the elementary school she is proud to say, "Hey there is my school" not just the boys' school anymore. Justin had to laugh listening to her talk to me last night before she went to bed and picked out her outfit. She wasn't quite sure if she chose the right outfit and after trying it on and having all of us tell her how cute she looked, she then decided that was the outfit she would wear. She went on to question, "How should I wear my hair tomorrow?" and her dad's response to that was, "Boy are you a girl!" To all you mom's out there with girls HELP!!! I of course could not miss taking pictures of each of them on their way to school. Madisyn had a little different schedule today so she was not awake yet when I sent the two boys off to school. Once Braydon got on his bus and headed the 2 second drive to school, I walked Cayson and his two friends over to the school and was able to get some pictures of Braydon being taken off the bus. It was overall an uneventful day for them all! They all will be in school for the next three weeks and then off for three. We will head home to Vegas for two of the weeks. Hope we all can take the heat!?

4th of July fun

We had a nice 4th this year. There was one major difference in this one other than our usual Vegas 4th's! Notice most of us are wearing jackets!!! It really cooled down, I guess it was in the low 60's that night. It rained just before we started the bbq. It rained really hard. We had Justin's cousin and family over. They moved here almost 2 years ago. All the kids had fun lighting off their fireworks. Jacob and Cayson are commited to getting a Rolling Stone firework again next year. We did that one as the "Grand Finale" and it was really neat. At one point we thought it blew up, but it just popped off some ground blooms. My boys have been researching their firework purchases over the internet weeks before they could buy them. Cayson had made a list of what he wanted when it came time to go purchase them. BOYS!?! Kaleb wasn't in Colorado. He headed back to Vegas and now is off to EFY in Provo. Sure missed him! The night before we went to one of Justin's employee's house and watched a beautiful fireworks show. (I know fireworks on the 3rd! What will they think of next?)