11 Years Together!

Today is our 11th anniversary! I can't believe it has really been that long for us! I don't know where the time has gone. I look forward to many more years together and watching our kids grow. We have to put off celebrating till next weekend though. Jason is on call this weekend and we have some friends coming in to visit. This is how it works sometimes. We would like to go to a nice place to eat down town to celebrate!

Back to School!!

The new middle schooler!! We had to beg her to let us take a picture on the first day! Look converse are back!!

So Jason has promised Kayla that he will get her a cell phone if she makes A's all year long. It will be tough for her, she has a pretty hard schedule and some demanding teachers but we know she can do it. Then she will make her dad eat his words. It is kind of hard to believe but she is in the small minority of kids in her grade that do not have a cell phone already.

Kindergarten Rocks!!

Keaton is showing off his new what else Transformer bookbag! He was actually very excited to start and he has really enjoyed it! He loves P.E. and going to computer lab.

Kayla studying to make those A's

I had to throw in this sweet picture of Kaden blowing a kiss. He will be going to school two days a week for a couple hours but he doesn't start for a little while longer.

Keaton's 6!

We celebrated Keaton's Birthday with just family this year. It is kind of unfortunate that he has a summer birthday because at this age the friends at school don't keep in touch over the summer usually. So we had a family party and took him bowling with his cousins!

He really wanted a transformer cake! Luckily I was able to find a pan in the shape of Optimus Prime!

Kaden loves birthday parties and he is always excited to celebrate.

This was Keaton's big present for his birthday. He picked this bike out himself! Now we have to convince him to try to ride without the training wheels!

Joey is two!!

This is my nephew Joey! He is Patrick and Karen's middle son. We were out of town for his real birthday party so we threw him another one so we wouldn't miss it!

The kids had fun playing on the slip in slide at my parent's house. Kaden is 6 months older than Joey so they will be having lots of fun together being cousins!

I made these cupcakes for him and they turned out really cute! I mostly put this picture on for my sister in law that I think is having an elmo party for her son!!

I think Joey really enjoyed them!!

Cloudland Canyon

Over the summer we went to Cloudland Canyon for a picnic and some hiking. It is goregous and we would really like to do some camping there this fall.

Taking a little break on our way down to the waterfalls! All the kids did really well on the hike but we were amazed by Kaden. He kept up with us and did most of the walk himself. There were a ton of stairs down!! Some of you may recognize this because we did a family trip with Jason's side a while back.

Jason throwing rocks with the kids. Any boys favorite past time!! He was teaching Kayla how to skip the rocks across the top of the water!! We had a great family day!