First Day of School 2014

Jackson's first day of kindergarten! He was so excited to go, and so excited to ride the bus with his big brother. 

 Isaac's first day of second grade! 

Anna wasn't sure what to think about both of her brothers leaving her. 

 Our neighbor Annika came over and went down to the bus stop with us. 

 Riding down to the bust stop. 

 Our bus stop has tons of kids at it. 

 Waiting and waiting for the bust to come!

 We could hear it coming so everyone jumped in line.

 Anna and I followed the bus to school to be there when they got off.

 Jackson lining his backpack up on the kindergarten playground. 

 His new teacher Mrs. Cameron, we just love her. 

 Isaac's new teacher Mrs. Eval. He is really liking her so far. 

 Kids everywhere!

 Isaac's class lining up and walking in. 

 We saw Aunt Lauren, Johnny and Luke

 And off he goes. 

 Then Anna and I ran back over to the kindergarten playground to watch Jackson walk in. 

 Bye Jackson!

 I snuck in and took a few pictures of him in the classroom. 

 Then Anna and I went over to Aunt Kristi's for a minute. 

 Before we knew it, it was time for Jackson to come out. We went and made sure he got on the bus good. 

 And back to the bus stop. 

 A great first day of school!!

Last Camping Trip of the Summer!

For our last camping trip of the summer we decided to go to Navajo Lake. Bryce, Emily and Dillon and Randy and 3 of his kids came with us. 

 Me and my 3 kids and Randy and 3 of his kids all piled in his Tahoe. 

 Of course we stopped at Canyon Park in Cedar City on the way up. 

 The kids put their boats (water bottles) in the creek and chased them all the way to the end. 

 Since we had made it that far we figured we may as well go check out the park on the other side of the river. 

 Gage, Jackson, Isaac, Anna and Bailey looking down off into the river while Javen and Randy went to go get the car. 

 We made it to Navajo lake. Emily had reserved us some awesome camping spots and once we got all set up we headed to the lake to do some fishing. 

 The weather was so beautiful!

 The kids loved fishing but we didn't catch a thing!

 Anna caught a lot of rocks. She collected them all weekend and I washed them all in the washing machine after our trip. 

 Gage and Bailey getting out some bait. 

 Back at camp. We got everything set up and started on dinner. 

 Isaac was feeling a little sick again so he spent quite a bit of time in the hammock. 

 Gage was an amazing potato peeler and worked so hard on them!

 Randy and the kids gathered up some extra wood and then started chopping. 

 I LOVE this picture of Emily - she looks so great and it reminds me of our old biking days. She was awesome and did a couple trails. 

 Bryce hooked us up with some coals and lighter fluid.

 Isaac and Javen working on their lumber man skills. 

 Bailey finally got a turn on the hammock...

 ….so relaxing.

 We had to get Bryce involved on the thicker pieces of wood. 

 Jackson liked to go over to Dillons camp and play with his "equipment". They had a lot of fun digging. 

 Dutch oven chicken and  potatoes sizzling away. mmm mmm.  

 Bailey and Anna are quite the pals. 

 Isaac and Gage. 

 Javen sporting the hatchet. 

 Time for dinner!

It was nice and cool up there - we even needed little jackets in the evening. 

 Isaac chopping away. 

 The next morning we headed back out for some fishing. 

 I didn't have any more extra clothes for Anna and Jackson so they had to take of their pants to get in. 

 Dillon came and did some fishing this time!

 Bailey fished and fished.

 everybody took their turns. 

 In the end the only person who caught a fish was Gage!

 Cute little thing. 

We loved our camping trip!