Riverside Elementary

 Brooklyn's first day of kindergarten.

 She likes to pose the way Nathan does.

 She is such a brave girl and is so excited to be in school.

 2nd day of kindergarten

3rd day. I know, who takes 3rd day pics?

ColTon CoDy

I love my sweet baby boy and I will cherish these pictures forever.

Fossil Ridge

Nathan's first day of 6th grade in the new school.

Pine View High

Jacee is now a Sophmore. He has his learner's permit to drive and is attending the High School.

Jacee's first day.

Sleepy time

 Sweet baby



Agony of defoot

Ava is a climber and this time she climbed right into trouble. She was on the counter and was making her way across our flat top stove which had just been on high minutes before. She stepped with her right foot right on to the hot surface. She started to scream and I put her foot under running cold water. For 3 hours she cried, she couldn't stand to have her foot out of water. We weren't sure how bad it was burned so Marco took her to the emergency room around midnight. It ended up being a 2nd degree burn on her foot and toes. Poor baby. Burns are so painful and it was sad to see her in pain and not being able to walk. She crawled and quickly learned how to do everything she was doing before without using her foot (except walk on the stove).

Beginning to blister.

We made her a play area to crawl around in. She was so brave at the Dr. appointments, even when they cut the blister and washed her foot.

Sorry so gross.

She may be a little high from the pain medicine in this picture. She was sitting like this for a few minutes without moving.

Princess Ava..."Bear"ly 2

She loved opening her presents, digging into her cake and blowing out the candle. I am so glad for the chance to celebrate a day just for her.

CaMpiNg

 We went camping in Cedar Mountain. It was so thick and green and so many wildflowers. It was very pretty.

I got this idea from Kara and Ralaina. The lollipop tree. Marco and Coby put their own spin on it saying they found Coby's grandmothers journal in the cabin and she talked about a tree that only bloomed once a year and the grandmother tree looked after it. There was a tree up there with eyes nose and mouth so she was looking right down on the lollipop tree. The younger ones were amazed, it was so cute.

They had a lot of fun riding the 4-wheeler and playing cards.

Colton cried and slept on his first camping trip. Party pooper.