School and stuff

Yesterday I was able to go to Provo to watch my Amazing sister Cynthia and her husband Scott come to the finish line of the Utah Half Iron Man race! I can't believe they did this! It is 2 miles swimming in Utah Lake, 53. something miles on bike, and 13.1 miles running! They did it in 7 and 1/2 hrs! I can't even imagine doing something like that for that long! I am so proud of them! I totally got tears in my eyes when I say my sister coming toward the finish line!

Doesn't she look awesome! And she's had 4 kids! I don't think I'll ever do this, but I do hope to run some small races with Cyn someday! She's an inspiration to me!

Here are some more things we've been doing.

I moved the garbage can yesterday and Jenna jumped in the cupboard. What a goof ball.

Logan and Jenna kept busy this morning for an hour or more, quietly playing car together. Jenna has some play keys and Logan would sit by her and they'd drive together. I guess they were pretending to watch movies too. I had to come down to see what was going on cause they never play this quiet together. It was cute!


This picture doesn't do it justice, but I love this new little hat I made! Jenna loves it too and wore it all day!

The first day of school!!!
Last Tuesday the 24th was the first day back to school. I was o-k with them going back, but not way excited to get rid of them like some parents. I love the help they are when their home. I love my kids! But they both were so excited! They both wanted to wear their new dresses for the first day.
We are just far enough away from the school that they ride a bus. I like it because I know the bus driver and I don't have to get the other two in the car and take them and pick them up. It's just easier. I'm glad now that they ride together to, and from school.
After school! And still excited. They couldn't wait to tell me how much fun they had, the food they ate, and how much they like their teachers! Summer's teacher told us during Relief Society today, that she is so tired! I bet! They had such a fun first week!
Here are just a few other things we've been up to.

Chillin' with Dad, listening to music and learning new hand signals ;)

She can't help but peek when I'm taking pictures.

Jenna let me do her hair last Sunday and it actually turned out cute! For those of you who don't know: I don't do hair! And she kept it in all through church!

I love this skirt too! Thank you to those of you who have so generously let me use your kids clothes! And the shoes were only $7 at Payless. And because I bought them, I got Kylee's new church shoes for 1/2 off. Only $5! I love bogo!

School haircuts!

I really needed a new haircut and my sweet neighbor and hairdresser gave me an awesome deal to get my hair highlighted and cut, and all the kids a trim. They were all so excited. Well except Jenna. She only let her do it if she sat on my lap.


I usually cut Logan's hair, cause I can't afford to have someone else do it all the time, but she did it so good and so fast, I may have to have her do it from now on. Not really, but he looks so good! I should have taken a picture of the back. I did watch her though and hopefully next time I can cut it even better.
Jenna had so many hairs that were longer than the rest. Her hair is still wispy, but at least it's now all the same length.

I had her do some side bangs for Kylee and she loves it! I think she looks so dang grown up. I cant' believe she'll be in 4th grade! I'm glad she got Mr. Craig this year. He is an awesome teacher!

Summer's hair gets so stringy when it's long, so we cut quite a bit off. Jer thinks we should have gone shorter. She loves it though, and she also got an awesome teacher! Mrs. Kelley is our Relief Society President!

I LOVE my new hair cut. I have wanted to do an A line forever and the front was finally long enough to try it. I also love the highlights! I just need a flat iron now. She used one and it only took a couple of minutes, but it looks so much better!

One more week of fun!

I can't believe that school starts again next week! I have enjoyed this summer so much! I love having my kids home! I am excited that both girls got great teachers and I know they'll have fun and do well, but I'll miss them! We decided to have a swim party in the back yard yesterday and had so much fun! Even Jenna joined in everything. She wasn't afraid to get in even when it was cold and even didn't mind getting splashed repeatedly in the face when the kids didn't aim well, trying to get me wet. We had such a fun time! I took a million pictures, but here are a few.

The swim lessons paid off! Using their new skills in the pool.

I love that no one fussed when they got splashed. It was all fun!

She decided the bigger pool was fun with no one else in it!

Not the best picture of me, but what do I expect, I'm in a swimming suit, and Kylee took the picture ;)

Jenna loves the trampoline! She likes it best when she's on by herself, of course. She was dancing in this picture.

I helped them put the pool under the slide and they loved it! We had the hose on the slide for a while. Jenna even went down a couple of times.

They realized after a while that the little pool was warm and they all took turns in it. So cute, relaxing together! We'll have to do this again, before it gets too cold!