2nd Grade Trip to the Zoo

Sierra's 2nd grade class had a field trip to Hogle Zoo!

I volunteered to be a chaperone.  Which was pretty fun to

see Sierra with all her friends!  She can be pretty high energy!

Soccer

Soccer started again for this season and Sierra and 

Paige both have the same color jersey and number!  

That makes it tricky when doing laundry.  Now I have

 to look at the size to know who's is who's!  

Paige got to be the keeper which she is good at!

12th Anniversary

 For our 12th Anniversary Brandon and

I headed down to SLC for dinner at

the Cheesecake Factory.  It happened

to be comic con  that weekend so

we had a lot of people walking by in 

costumes!  Iron man walked by and

I said, Nice costume!  And then we

ended up getting a picture to show

the kids.  After dinner we headed to

a movie.

After we got home and got the kids to 

bed we realized we had not taken a

picture and so we tried to take

some selfies and after taking maybe

8 we got one that looked decent! 

Funny moment! 

First Day of Preschool

Owen started his first day of Preschool!  He was so excited

to go to school like his big sisters! 

  He loved having his cousin, Emery in his class.

He absolutely loved his teacher Mrs. Sarah! 

For the first day of school the kids were suppose to bring

a paper with their name on it with things that start with each 

letter in their name.  So now Owen is called, "Oreo Owen"!

Which Grandpa Gardner started! 

Bear Lake week end

The first day we went to the pools at sweet water,

and Riley and Brandon did some underwater

racing.

The next day we went up to the ice caves.

And on Monday the 1st of September

on our way home down Logan canyon we stopped 

at Tony Grove to hang out and play. 

The water was very cold but the kids dipped

their feet in to test it out anyway.  Brandon and 

the girls tried fishing with no luck.

Brandon took my dare and walked out into the

middle of the pond on a long fallen tree.  We

all took a walk around Tony Grove before we

headed home. 

Ice Caves 

Tony Grove  

Sierra's 7th Birthday

Sierra wanted to hand out store brownies in school

for her birthday treat! 

Saturday the 23rd on her birthday Sierra helped me

put together party favors for her party that night!

It was marshmallows, stick pretzels and an orange

mike and ike for a Olaf kit.  

Sierra wanted a Frozen party.  So that is what we did.

Before the party we went as a family to the Pizza 

Pie Cafe for Sierra's birthday dinner.  Her choice!

After dinner the family came over for her party. 

Sierra was so cute and was excited with each gift she

got.  

Bear Lake with Friends

We took our friends the Roush's and Rowell's to Bear Lake

for the weekend.  It's always a good time with good friends!

Owen loves Max and Max is so cute with Owen.  They rode 

tubes together and had a ton of fun! 

Sunday we took a hike to Bloomington Lake.  My kids

wanted to do the rope swing but I was not quite sure I wanted

them to since we were in clothes and it was Sunday.

The Rowell and Roush kids went for it in their clothes

so I gave in and let my kids who dared too.  Paige did

it a couple of times and Sierra went for it when I was

on the other side of the lake watching.  She scared us

pretty bad when she was swinging and did not let go

until the last minute and almost landed on the rocks. 

She said she wanted to land closer to the edge so she did

not have to swim back very far.  But it made us so nervous!

The water was freezing so Paige and Sierra were pretty cold.

Riley was not quite brave enough to swing on the rope.

I think she was the smart one.  She got to stay dry and warm. 

Crossing the big log was a bit tricky for some of us.  Poor 

Andrew while crossing dropped his phone in the water and did

not know it for a few minutes.  Luckily it was just fine. 

More Cousin Time

We had another get together at Grandma's with all the 

cousins!  All of Grandma and Grandpa's cousins!

The kids had to get a funny picture too!  

Promitory Point

We got to go to Promitory Point with cousins and

Grandpa and Grandma and my niece Emery! 

I was watching Emery all day for Kami.

I have never been there and my kids thought it was 

pretty fun!  It was on the free day which was nice! 

They got to see how the trains work and use wood to fuel

the engine.  Grandpa showed the kids the middle rail road

track, which they called the spike. 

The kids got to try old fashion trains that you have to pump

with a partner to move.  They also got to pretend to put

logs in the train fire.  They got to play games with 

cow pies, like the kids did long ago.  They all loved it and

did not want to leave when the time came. 

Ogden Temple

Our family and my sister and Emery went

to the Ogden temple open house! 

The Ogden temple is so beautiful inside!  

Beautiful lighting and colors!  Brandon and I

are so happy to have our temple back!