THE FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL

This was Max's first day of school.  He started second grade and so far he's only had a few "boring days".  We drove him to school and walked him in (because that's what Mom's like to do on the first day of school). Max would have rather taken the bus, but he's learning to indulge me on some things. Unfortunately letting me pick out his outfits is not one of those things. I've decided that instead of fighting Max on what he wears, I just let him wear what he wants and know that I don't have to look at it all day.

This was Payton and Ellie's first day of school.  They started preschool today and go twice a week.  They love it of course and kept singing their new songs all day! 

Although Payton is a little taller than Ellie, she's not this much...Payton is standing a little in front and they are on a hill...Do they look like twins? 

SUMMER

Once again, a whole summer has passed and I haven't documented anything!  Here is the quick recap...

We went to Spokane for Andrew and Tiera's wedding. We drove the whole 16 hours in one day straight! It's so nice that the kids are getting older and able to do things like this without us wanting to throw them out the window or jump out the window ourselves!

We had a great time staying with Marty, Lexi, Hunter and Annie! There was lots of four wheeling and we even got to go to Silverwood amusement park this year.

On the way home we stopped in Utah. The girls and I stayed for almost a week to play, while Neil and Max flew home for the last week of school and some fun Father/Son time.

When we got back our good friends, the Salos, were moving to California.  So we spent some fun time together staying and swimming at the MGM.  It was very sad to see them go and we miss them lots!

We celebrated Father's Day together

In July we went back to Utah and celebrated the Independence Day, went to the races, spent lots of time with cousins, and got to go to Lagoon!

Then in August the Salos came back to visit for a few days and the week after we went to California to visit them! Did I mention they're really great friends and we like them a lot?!?

We went to the beach and the kids loved it this time!!!
They played in the sand and jump and jumped and jumped in the waves.
The girls couldn't stop giggling! 

We had a really fun summer and I can't believe how fast it went!  This post really doesn't do it justice and I wish I had more time and patience to write about everything and show more pictures...but I guess this is better than nothing!