August 2011

Back To School!

The biggest event in August was the beginning of a new school year!

24 August 2011

Kindergarten

Mrs. Coburn @ Providence Elementary

Evelyn has been looking forward to starting kindergarten for a very long time and it finally came. She had laid out her outfit the night before, and made sure her backpack was stocked and ready to go. We went to buy brand new "school sneakers" a few days before the big day and she couldn't wait to try them on. Finally, the day arrived and she was ready.

We walked into the big, brick school building together and embark on journey of the next twelve years for my little schoolgirl.  It made it easier knowing how excited she is to start learning, reading and "being smart";  but walking out and leaving her behind was harder than I expected and I couldn't stop the tears from rolling down my cheeks.

A few days later she brought home her first batch of homework and settled down to work on it.  She really is a smarty! The night before school started Uncle Max came over to give her a blessing and he blessed her, among other things, to be smart.  Well, this apparently stuck out to Ev because she came home and told me that doing homework will help her to learn how to be smart and she loves kindergarten because she learns so much.

You will do great things kid, and I'm positive that you will become smart and grow and learn and I'm so lucky to be your mommy to see you progress on this journey.

Big Day!

Evelyn's enthusiasm rubbed off on Sophia and Little Miss B was just as excited for her first day of preschool! I started working at Little Wonders Learning Center in July and the girls had been coming with me, but today was the first day that Sophie would be with Miss Mendi and Miss Amidee in the Little Learners Class!

Cookout!

Aunt Sarah and her family invited us up to Mantua for a cookout/camp out with their family. We couldn't stay the night, but we did go up to eat. While we were preparing dinner, Max was setting up the tent and the strap of the rain cover snapped back and hit Max right in the eye, he immediately thought his eye popped out, but we quickly assessed that it was still in the socket, but was filling up with blood so I drove him to the Brigham City ER.  They checked him out, gave some pain med and told him to schedule an appointment with the opthamoligist.  It all turned out just fine in the end and his eye healed.

Sophia hanging out at the campfire with her dolly

Evelyn with Uncle Adam

Pa's Birthday

My dad has been living in American Fork and so we spent the day with him for his birthday.

Happy Birthday Dad!

The County Fair

I love the fair.

It might have something to do with being a smell person. I associate memories with smell and whenever I go to the fair I am reminded of all of the twenty - or so- times I have been before. The smell of smoke, cotton candy, hot dogs and pretzles. I love being able to take my girls and people-watch, smell the smells and of course, see the animals, which is the best part, especially when you have a five year old that is convinced she is going to get a calf!  She was also convinced that she was going to ride on the ferris wheel. She had discussed it with her uncles and they had a plan, so we walked over to the midway to get tickets and stand in line. The closer the line got to the actual ferris wheel the more and more nervous she became until she looked up at me and said, quite matter-of-fact, "I think I will go when I am six". So, we went on the kiddie roller coaster and giant slide instead!

Dress-up