August

I love her hair in the morning after having in pigtails. 

We did some cleaning and needed to borrow neighbors garbage cans to recycle all of our boxes! Thankfully our side is after theirs so we could really fill the recycle bins up!

I love our Armenian cucumbers! 

Just watching the clouds

She found my sports bra and decided to wear it around the house

For our Make it Monday craft the kids painted fairy houses to put in their fairy gardens we were making too. 

The things this girl comes up with all on her own are pretty impressive!

Madilyn Payne, a former Laurel of mine got married and invited me to the sealing along with 3 other previous Young Women leaders. I was honored to be there and also impressed all of us leaders matched!

She loved eating corn on the cob, not so much the watermelon, but for sure the corn!

We went to the nearby splash pad with Julia and her boys

They came out to the family room laughing because Everett was wearing Variah's pajamas

I was putting clothes next to Nevaya as I shopped and looked over to see her putting them on! What a character that girl. 

Everett is the sweetest brother!

Real Salt Lake Soccer game thanks to 4Life

This boy sleeps in the weirdest positions

She must have been cheering about something in her dream

For activity days we did a back to school activity with cute wafer cookies that looked like pencils

Twins!

Picnic in the family room

Daniel took the kids to the park and they ran from him to the fence and back! 

We had a graduation/moving party for Caitlyn and Brock at his parents home. Variah asked if they had any toys to play with and Carrie got out all of these nerf guns. We had a blast running around the yard shooting them. 

Lotion and leather couches aren't the best combination

She loves wearing my shoes

Variah got this letter in the mail from her First Grade Teacher Mrs. Carroll. Not in the Spanish Immersion program. We were disappointed, but excited for her new teacher who sounded nice in the letter. 

Our Fairy gardens all ready for the fairies to visit

We sold snowcones to people in the neighborhood. We had a pretty good turn out.  

This girl loves ribs!

This is what Everett thought of the ribs...thumbs up!

I took the kids over to Farmer Luke's and they played in the corn silo

Nevaya wanted to snuggle with Everett in his bed

I got a new picture for our mantel 

I also got rid of all our tupperware and bought these round containers with lids that fit each container. No more searching for the right sized lid and no more messy storage!

Back to School blessing for Everett

And one for Variah as well

Eating our back to school dessert of Peanut Butter Bars

I can't believe she's going to be gone all day every day now that she's in first grade! She is more than ready and look at that big grin. She loves school. 

Variah's first day of First Grade

Friends from Kindergarten Jack and Finley 

Mrs Carroll greeting her class

Everett's preschool open house at Miss Andrea's

His treat from his teacher saying she's bursting with joy to teach him this year

A treat for Variah after her first day of school

A note from her teacher. Variah loves writing notes to her teachers and is so thoughtful. I loved that Mrs. Carroll took the time to write her back and make it so important that it was in an envelope!

All ready for another day of school

She loves riding on the dump truck like this. Look at her curls and baby belly

Just taking her babies for a walk...or her blankets

We sure love her!

Look at that smile. So cute

How he sleeps is beyond me!

Our ward end of summer party. We had a slip and slide, face painting, snow cones, yummy food, games and good people to chat with

All ready for church

Just looking at the clouds again

We did a group date to see Jack Johnson at Usana Amphitheater

Eating dinner outside

We grew carrots in the garden and Everett helped me with them

Just keeping their feet cool...or hot 

She loves cucumbers. I had one on the grass to bring inside and this girl picked it up and ate the whole thing!

Sisterly love

Another day of school

I bought this skeleton off amazon and played a joke on Daniel

This girl climbed up all on her own and was changing her diaper rather than taking a nap! All those white things on the floor are wipes she took out of the container. 

Variah lost her first tooth at school! She said she pulled it out while Mrs. Carroll was reading to the class. V was so excited for the special tooth holder necklace!

Owies are not fun!

Everett and Julia's boy Cody were outside by a hornets nest. Cody bugged the nest and poor Everett got stung multiple times by the hornets! 

His cheek got all swollen

He was pretty tired after all the crying he did

Our friends the Laaws came over to help us make California Spring Rolls

Tracks for the cars out of the blinds

Yogurt is the new shampoo

Snuggles because someone couldn't sleep...not that he probably does when he's actually in his bed