Fair time

August: Summer is almost over! :(

My 30th birthday!!

Gosh, now I feel grown-up! I had such a good day. Mom came up and took me shopping. Thanks Mom! The kids played at my neighbor's house. My good friend took me to lunch! Awesome! And then we went jet-skiing for the evening. Jerek brought dinner up and we ate out at the lake. Such a sweet surprise! Thanks babe! What a good day to turn 30. . . .

Summer: More July

Day at the zoo. Great fun!








Week at cousin camp. We took the kids up to Ross Falls.



Did a little slip n' slide.




Almost all the cousins.


Emmalee and Blake both played soccer all summer. Just once a week, indoor. They were on the same team. It was fun to watch them play. Blake would get bored and start chasing Emmalee around instead of the ball. He'd also pull on her shirt and get her to laugh. Blake scored one goal during the season, and Emmalee scored several. At their last game, which was Wed., we told them if they played really hard we would go out for ice cream afterwords. They did so awesome! Emmalee scored twice and Blake didn't mess around and kicked the ball instead. It was the first game all season that their team won! What a way to finish it up! We went to Delsa's afterwords. It was a ball!


Addi playing in the water. "Fill bucket, dump on head." She sure enjoyed!




Addi with Makinze. They are 3 weeks apart. Their due dates were 1 day apart but Addi decided to come early and Makinze didn't want to leave the womb.


So sweet.

Summer: JuLy

Swim lessons at a neighbors home. So nice to be able to walk to lessons everyday. Blake and Emmalee both learned how to swim. They also got to jump off the diving board. Emmalee can float on her back so well! I think she gets it from her grandma S.

 

Birthday Boy!

Today is Blake's birthday. With it being Sunday and Father's Day, we decided to celebrate yesterday. He had some friends over and we went to Chuck E Cheese. And then had pizza and cake! He had a good time. He got some new books and was reading one during sacrament. He was loving the pictures of the dinosaurs and exclaimed loudly, "This is AMAZING!" and held the book up high so everyone could see it! He's now my BIG 4 year old!

   

Dinosaur Cake 

 

At Chuck E Cheese 

 

New dinosaur toy. With flashing red eyes! 

 

3D books! 

Happy Birthday buddy!! I love you!

Father & Son outing

Blake has been waiting for this weekend for SO LONG! YEAH for Father & Sons! The boys had a good time. The girls and I painted nails and went to some garage sales!  

And it wore him out! (Jerek was asleep on the other couch.) NICE!

Kindergarten Graduation

Wow! Kindergarten for Emmalee is Officially OVER! That year went by so FAST! Emma had graduation on Monday and then school got out on Thursday. Now time for bigger and better things, like 1st grade! :) Emma with her teacher, Ms. Galeone (Ms. G).  

 Graduation. They walked down the aisle to the graduation song. So cute!  

Getting her certificate from her principal. 

 

 The teacher popped balloons over each of the kids' heads. It was filled with confetti. Em didn't care for the loud sound.

   

The family

 

 

 Yeah good job Em!!! She learned so much this year! She now loves to read and write and play 'pretend school' with Blake. (Blake even learned how to write his name.) She'll be a great teacher some day!

First swim of the summer! Yeah!

"My first school lunch"

The school has a program called "my first school lunch" where the kindergarteners get to eat lunch in the school cafeteria to learn how to do it for 1st grade. Emmalee got to bring her little brother to eat lunch with her.

 

Spaghetti Night!

I think Addi had the most fun with her food.
Although, I didn't get a picture of Jerek. :)