School Days!

I guess I should post our back-to-school pictures...since it's almost Halloween! We LOVE the kids school and are so sad that, most likely, this will be their last school year at Ott. My kids LOVE everyone from the PE teachers to the crossing guards and have been given so much support and love.

Anyways, as usual for me...I love school but it's never easy to send them on that first day. I am such a wimp. We made it through the day and boy did those kids get BIG hugs & kisses when they got home!

Here they are...Miaja, Ayden (He anted to hold something so he got his tithing bag...silly boy) Thomas (He too wanted something so he got his scriptures and is "reading them") then Chase...I LOVE these cuties!

Chase was so excited to have his picture taken. Little stinker. He loves to pose if he can be silly.

My Miaja...I'm so excited for her third grade year! She is such a great little student and she has an awesome teacher.

Ayden and Thomas are doing homeschool preschool with mommy and we LOVE that. We have school here at home Monday and Wednesday then a coop with three other good friends on Tuesday. The favorite is Friday Field trip day! So far we've been to the fire station,
Chick-a-Fila and the local children's theater! I don't want to think about hte fact that Ayden goes to school next year! Oh dear!


Love this picture of these two..they are so hilarious!! I love how Thomas is actually serious. This was on green day...just in case you were wondering...you should have seen my outfit:)

Spelling names with the play dough they made. Thomas mostly wanted to eat the play dough.

Ayden...He is always so careful and is very "detail oriented". He is such a good balance for Thomas!


I love the strangle hug:) Ayden and Thomas could have spent ALL DAY at the fore station. We were the very last to leave.


Ayden and Thomas with their little friend Kyle. One fire fighter told me, "Don't worry about them up there...there's rally only one button that could hurt anything." Inside I was thinking..."oh great, Thomas will find it!" ...but he didn't. Thankfully!

My Big Brother

I know that I already posted about our visit from my brother Keith but I wanted to add a few pictures that I just downloaded. We had such a great time with Keith. I'm am so grateful for such a great family.

Headed down to the Riverwalk

Taking a lovely river tour via the "luxurious" river boats:)

Thomas couldn't get enough of Uncle Keith


This is a wonderful Mexican Restaurant that has such a great atmosphere! I feel like I'm in Mexico...in a good way!

Anyone Feeling Chapped?!?!

It is way too common in our house to hear this...

"Wow...it's pretty quite...WHERE'S THOMAS!"
Well, the other day I was getting dinner ready with the kids and Miaja said, "Mom, it's really quite. I wonder where Thomas is?" So I asked her to go check on him for me. All she did was walk around the corner and I heard her say,
"Oh no Thomas..that's for your bum!"

I so wish I ha dtaken a picture of his whole body. Honestly inside I was thinking, "He's probably thinking this must be a good thing...their taking my picture and everything"...oh dear!

There Thomas was COVERED from head-to-pinky toe (literally) in his white elephant gift from his cousin..."Butt Cream". I don't know if you've ever tried washing diaper cream out of hair (you wouldn't think), but I'll just tell you, it doesn't come out easily. It took atleast a good two to three days of baths to get rid of all of it! Oh Thomas, you keep things exciting! Atlleast it wasn't the nail polish...this time:)

What a Great Weekend!

GO COUGARS!!!

We had such a GREAT weekend here at our house! Actually, we had a three day weekend! Thursday my brother Keith came from Utah to visit for a couple of days and my kids were SOOOOO excited! Keith was great with all of the attention. From reading stories to the kids at bedtime to playing crack-the-egg on the trampoline the kids thought that Uncle Keith was the best!!!

Friday we headed to the fabulous San Antonio Zoo and enjoyed one of the kids favorite spots before the sun came-out too much and we all melted away!
After the zoo my brother and I got to have a little brother/sister time which I always love. I have always felt like the luckiest girl around. I have the greatest siblings and I look-up to each of them so very much. Getting to sit back and just visit with Keith was priceless. He is such a good brother and person.
That night we all headed downtown and took the "luxurious" river tour seeing the beautiful sights of San Antonio via boat! It was actually really fun and of course the kids loved it! Then we took Keith to our favorite Mexican restaurant in San Antonio...Mi Tierra! This place is so fantastic! Full of color and lights and live music...it's a true fiesta every time we go!
If you know my family......at all you know what Saturday was all about...BYU football! The kids woke to the ceremonial hanging of our BYU flag, (of course our neighbors, who happen to be Utes fans hung theirs at the same time)!
Jaron & I, Keith and our good friends Julie & Micah Bahr all headed to Austin fully decked-out in our "BYU blue"!
The game was amazing. The UT stadium was so impressive and we were SUPER close so it was great! Both Jaron and I nearly lost our voices! The UT fans were really great to watch a game with so it was a success, (well...for me who isn't as concerned as to whether or not BYU actually won or not...I hate that someone has to lose:))
All-in-all, we had such a great time! The entire weekend was just so fun and I can't say enough how grateful I was for my brothers visit. I am so grateful for family. As we all get older and see each other less I think that I appreciate even more my amazing family!
I haven't downloaded even half of my pictures but here's a few from the game.



The Hanging of our flag...I wonder sometimes if Thomas EVER wears clothing!


Jaron worked for literally three-four HOURS on this sign! He's too funny! I gotta give it to him, we got LOTs of comments PLUS the BYU team gave us the thumbs-up when they left the field at half-time!


Micah, Julie, myself and my brother Keith...couldn't have asked for better company (and Jaron of course, he was taking the picture)! Like Julie and I matching hats...BYU twinners and we both went to UVSC but I did grow-up loving going to the games:)

There he is...the artist! I love going to the games with Jaron...he still has to explain the rules to me and he doesn't even seem to mind!