School Picture Day!

Today was school picture day...spent all morning blow-drying, curling and brushing...even Spencer now needs a bit of gel in the hair! Anyways, everyone was happy with the final results...here are the photos before they walked out the door!

Karlee - 6th Grade - Mrs. Davis's Class

Rylee- 4th Grade - Mrs. Graves's Class

Audree- 2nd Grade - Miss Sayers's Class

Spencer - Kindergarten - Mrs. Tanner's Class

I'm a Soccer Mom!!

I LOVE soccer season...it's totally crazy and we run around like chickens with our heads cut off for 6 weeks...but I love it! This year Spencer and Rylee are both playing Rec Soccer and both of them are doing great.

Spencer scores an average of 6-8 goals a game...he's hilarious! He is fast up the field, or if someone else on his team gets the ball he runs up by the net and waits for the pass...he also plays goalie if he thinks the other team is trying to score! So funny! This year his team is the "Black Bears"!

Rylee is doing great too! She scored her first goal 3 games ago and has been on fire ever since! She is also FAST and seems to be catching on to the finer points of the game now...Jake is helping coach her team and they are both having a blast! She also came up with the team name..."Cupcake Ninjas". She was so excited about picking the name that I made her a team poster for the games and when it was her turn to bring the treats we brought...cupcakes with ninja swords!! Oh, and the 3 ponytail hair-do is her "lucky" hair-do...she INSISTS that it must be in this style every game! When they score a goal she flips the top pony in circles...oh so Rylee!

I love being a soccer mom!

Oops...the girls started school too!

I just realized that I didn't blog about the girls starting school this year...yep they are there too...in fact, all 4 of them are at the same school together for one year only! Karlee is in 6th grade, "queen of the school"...she is LOVING it! Rylee is in 4th grade and is social and smart and all that good stuff...she is excited to have her best friend in her class this year (we love Annie!). Audree is in 2nd grade with Miss Sayers...she has her 3 besties in her class with her and she comes home happy everyday! It's turning out to be a great year already!

Onion Days!!

Payson Onion Days is something we look forward to at the end of summer...it's sort of the kick-off to fall! This year we were really excited because they were having a free Mark Wills (country singer) concert! Karlee couldn't come because of cheer, but the rest of us headed out for a great show! About 2 songs into the concert it started to pour down rain...we hudled under the blanket for about 20 minutes...and then the party started back up! It was a fun evening...the music was great...Mark Wills sings the song that I call "Jake and I's song" and he sang it as the closing number! It was good times!

The next night was the carnival and fireworks...it was also Jake's birthday! He felt pretty special that we celebrated his big 36th with fireworks! Anyways, the kids LOVED going on the big rides and Jake was super excited that Karlee and Rylee wanted to go on the big rides with him! I can't believe they love those puke-inducing rides, but they sure do!