August 14th E&Y Party

As I was going through my pictures on my camera to post the First Day of School Pictures, I found some others that I had taken while we were in Park City. Alan's work had a company family party and we were able to play on all the fun rides and things in Park City. Ethan loved the roller coaster and Maddie loved the trampoline. The line for the trampoline was about an hour long, and I think she went on it 3 times. Needless to say, that's about all she did there. They also had a face painter that painted all of the kids faces. I think when they first went to get their faces painted they would just get a little picture on their cheek, but by the time they were done, they were actually Spider man, and Cats.

I also found these pictures I took when I was tending Hunter and Wyatt while DJ was at Asthma Camp. They told me they were getting bored so I found them a job to do. Unfortunately this only entertained them for about 5 minutes.

P.S. Does anyone know how to rotate video so that they aren't jumping sideways?

First Day of School

The girls started their first day of school on Monday the 25th. They were so excited!! Ellie is now in the 3rd grade with Mrs. Juescke and Maddie has now entered the 1st grade where she gets to eat lunch and school and have 3 recesses! She has Mrs. Bowhuis and was so excited for school to start that she woke up at 6 a.m. and wanted to start walking over there. Poor Ethan is left as the lone soldier at home with me. I'm pretty boring! He has cried every morning when the girls leave and asks when his first day of school is. Luckily he starts next Tuesday going to Preschool. We have had a few fun moments together though while the girls have been gone. On Monday, he asked me to play a game with him so I told him to go downstairs and pick one out and I would play it with him when the dished were done. He soon came back and said "Guess what game I picked out, but don't guess Lincoln Logs." I guessed Hungry Hippos and he proudly said "Nope it's LINCOLN LOGS!!" About 10 minutes into playing Lincoln Logs our neighbor kids came over and asked him to play and he told them he couldn't because he was playing with his mom. Then he closed the door on them and they rang the door bell again and he impatiently told them "I told you I can't play right now, I'm playing with my MOM!!!" and then he slammed the door. I told him he had to be nice to them, but actually inside it made me feel like I'm a fun mom! He wanted to play with me instead of them! Yeah!