First Day of School

August 27,2013

My Boys just started a new year of school!

After a summer of fun: camping, water skiing, and lots of time swimming at Roaring Springs water park, it's time to get back to life in school. 

I'm grateful they heave each other at school. It will be hard when Chase gets to middle school and won't have his big brother to look out for him. But I guess He'll have to step up and watch out for his little sister when she is old enough to get there!                                                                                                     

                                                                                                                                         Chase is 9 years old and in the 4th grade.

Chase is excited to be in the same class as one of his

Best friends: Trumen! They were in the same class in 

kindergarten but haven't been together since. So He is

Looking forward to that. The playground is split because of the building design, so now Chase is on the "other side" of the playground. He seemed disappointing that he wouldn't be with his brother during recess!

Tyler is 7 a
nd starting 2nd grade! He never ceases to surprise me.
I usually expect changes in his routine to upset him, but he was excited to go back to school. He has a lot of support at school and gets to be in the same classroom that he was in last year. There is also a teachers aid that looks after him and helps him get where he need to be throughout his day and I'm grateful for her.


It warms my heart to see Chase being such a protective big brother! I dropped them off this morning and watched as Chase put his arm around Ty and lovingly took him to his class room!


I love my boys and hope they have a wonderful year!

Summer of 2013!

 We started what feels like summer in April....
Chase had his 3rd year of soccer.
Practices twice a week, and Games every weekend
for about 6 weeks.

 Then we had 2 Birthdays in May. Zackery turned 2 on May 10th. The loves cars and trucks of all shapes and sizes.

He always plays with hot wheels, so for this birthday we focused on big trucks...


I found a really big fire truck and he loved it.
I think is is actually bigger than he is. And of course what would a 2 year old party be without a first tricycle!

Tyler turned 7 two days after Zackery's birthday!
And true to his personality he still loves Mario!

So I made Mario cupcakes for his class at school
and then we went to play at planet kid.

When He got home I had a Mario Kart cake ready for him!

Mostly he got plush Mario characters! You might be thinking that is a little over kill on "Mario" but he loves them. But I had to plan months in advance and order all of them off of ebay from China. They are hard to find for a reasonable price in the Sates.


If I had to do it all over again I would do the same thing.

 Then on June 7th Tory's niece Aspen graduated from High School.  So naturally we took a trip to Elko, Nevada to support her, but this trip we decided to leave the kids!

 I was a nice break. There wouldn't be much for them to do in Elko and sitting through a graduation ceremony outside in 90 degree weather wouldn't work well either.

Tory took me around to some hiking areas he liked when he lived there.

 It was nice to be with the Hebdon family again. We don't get to see them as much since we are all about 3-4 hours away from each other.

One are still had snow!

 I am only into the first month and a half of summer and have already spent over an hour on this blog post and Camrey and Zack are crying at me! No wonder I haven't blogged in a year.


This was our Vacation to Willawa Lake in Oregon.

 I have over a hundred pictures but this will have to do for a preview since my kids have run out of patients!

We had a lot of fun but the details will have to wait for another post. To all those who have missed my updates over the last year, it is my goal to keep up my blog this year so keep watching!