First Day of School!

I can't believe it is already that time! I have survived my first couple of days back and am only a little tired! Morgan started 2nd grade and after her first day said "That was the best day ever!", Morgan loves school and has been looking forward to going back for about a month. Luckily today she still thought it was the best ever so we should be off to a good year (It could possibly have something to do with not only being in the same class as her cousin Hallie, but also sitting right next to her - how could life get any better?) Ashlyn had her first day of preschool today and loved it just as much as her sister. She could not tell me what they did in class, but she could tell me what everyone was wearing (should I be concerned about this?) It took us about 15 minutes tonight to pick out the right outfit for tomorrow - Hopefully at some point in her education she sees the value of the alphabet.... Maddie was sadly devastated today when she finally realized she isn't going to school yet, but she did look awfully cute with her backpack ready to go!

Last Summer Fling!!

The girls in the bobsled at the Olympic Museum! Out in the water at Bridal Veil Falls
These are our girls!!!! Don't they look great! Ashlyn fell in the water and got her bum all wet!
99 cent flip flops - I love a good deal!

We took our last summer fling a couple weekends ago before I had to go back to work. We just escaped to Park City and had a great time together. Ryan is way busy so we were just able to leave on Saturday afternoon and then woke ourselves up at 5:00 a.m. on Monday morning to get us back to work on time. (I was sitting in my faculty meeting with a Diet Coke all morning trying to stay awake!!) We did a little shopping, went to the Olympic Park, swam at the hotel (for hours), went to Bridal Veil Falls in Provo, walked around the Provo Temple, and of course watched the Olympics! It was sad to see our summer end....

8/8/08

The Olympics are here again! On Friday the Stewart's (We missed you Wilcox's!!!) got together at the Lake and had an Olympic party full of swimming, food, and Olympic games! The competitiveness came out and I think I was the only one slightly injured during my attempt to run in a pillowcase! We had a fun day and the kids were exhausted by the time we were finished. After the lake the family was kind enough to do a service project for a couple of hours on our house (helped with the siding on the porch) and then we had dinner and watched the opening ceremonies at Robyn's house. It was a fun day and we have pretty much just watched the Olympics since then - even Morgan is hooked!

Olympic Torch Relay - Ryan trying not to spill the water out of the plunger!
Morgan was on the winning torch team! Nice job Morgie!
Ashlyn throwing the javelin (or better known as an alligator pool toy)
Water Balloon Volleyball
The 100 yard dash - We did this by age groups and let's just say that the race between the 3 sisters was the most entertaining, we really missed Kristyn! Mandy won (proof from Keith's photo finish) and I ended up in a pile on the ground, for some reason I thought I could run with a pillowcase over my feet - not the smartest idea!

Maddie & Mia
Kali, Ashlyn & Tegan
Annie & Morgan

Reminising (I'm not sure that is how you spell it???)

Becky and Laura this is for you....we had Robyn's three youngest kids staying with us for a few days last week and we took all the kids to the Mayan restaurant is Salt Lake, well the entire way down and the entire way back Jarom (11 years old) was sitting next to Maddie and she had brought all of her Polly Pockets and Barbies. Well poor Jarom had to dress them all up for her and play with her. He was such a good sport and very cute with her, during this Ryan was driving and just shaking his head. I asked him why he was shaking his head and laughing and his only reply was, "I vividly remember the days that I was surround by Becky and Laura in a car and dressing Barbies also, I guess everyone has to do that at some point in time!" I thought you would get a laugh out of that!

Junior

I was having a nice quite afternoon last week. My girl's were all playing together, our van was in the shop so I had to stay home and I was really enjoying myself. My sister even called and asked if we wanted to go to the lake with her and I told her no, that we were having a great afternoon. Well, I should have gone. Maddie and Ashlyn were playing in their room while I was doing the dishes and they came running out of thier room laughing, and what I saw made me want to cry. Maddie had a mullet (and a really bad one at that). Ashlyn had chopped off almost all of Maddie's hair. It was one of the worst cuts I have seen! Hair was all over their bedroom also... I hurried and called Mindy (my niece that cuts hair) and told her we had a problem. We walked to the salon (because our car was in the shop!) and Mindy and her friend did the best that they could to salvage the rest of Maddie's hair. Well, I can laugh about it now and Maddie has a new nickname from her father, Junior, because she actually looks a lot like Ryan's three year old picture! Maddie says "I not junior, I Maddie Sue" if you call her that, but Ryan is enjoying it. I have gotten over the loss of Maddie's hair and have found some cute flower headbands to go with the new due. Maddie now says that she wants her hair to be as long as Hallie's (which is past her waist) so hopefully the next time the two girls try something they will let me now by screaming or something!!!

Junior Sue

Ryan at three years old!

The culprits!!! Luckily they are awfully cute little girls and it is hard to stay mad at them for too long. Ashlyn held my hand the entire walk to the salon that afternoon and said "Mom even though you are mad at me, you still love me!" That kind of puts everything into perspective coming from a 4 year old!!! And of course I love them both no matter what they look like!