First Day of School 2015

After all our summer fun school started again in the middle of August.  Liam and Ashlyn were more than ready to go back, but as usual, Gavin wasn't too excited.  He will always be my homebody. :)  It has been a BIG adjustment for me to have all my kids gone all day.  I really miss them when they're gone.  The first few days went by so slow, but of course I have plenty of work and projects to do so the days are going by more quickly now.  :)

Big 6th grader.

1st grade for her!

4th grade for my class clown!

I decided to grab some pictures of my flowers out in the yard so I can look at them in the long winter months and remember the warm summer days. 

But first I had to get Spike in his favorite sunning spot on top of the grill!

My favorite! They are huge!

Here is what has occupied many of our Saturdays lately.  We have been making sauce to freeze with all the tomatoes we grew this year!

Bees Game, Day Trip, County Fair and Discovery Musuem

We really tried to pack in everything we could in the last few weeks before school started.  It was a fun few weeks of going to a Bees baseball game, riding the train down to visit my sister, the Davis County Fair, a few days spent at Seven Peaks water park and a visit to the Discovery Gateway Museum.  I am amazed we were able to do so much, and it was awesome!

Bee's baseball game with the Hess Family.

My cute nephew Richard.

Riding the train to Aunt Melanies! (and yes I made them do their workbooks) :)

Davis County Fair.  Lots of animals.  Gavin's favorite was the reptile house, of course.

We had tickets to the Discovery Gateway Museum that we needed to use so we spent a few hours exploring it.  The kids had fun, but I realized they are almost getting to old for it. So sad!

They're nuts!

This one is seriously nuts!

Sadly I never got any pictures of our outings to Seven Peaks with our friends the Rowells.  It was a great way to spend our last days of freedom!!

The rest of July...

With all our family reunions, July really flew by.  We tried to fit in as much as we could by the end of July because we knew that once August came it wouldn't be long before school started.  

I got to go to Day Camp at Camp Kiesel with the activity days girls.  I found it to be more fun than going with the cub scouts. Not sure why, but it just was.  :)  It was great weather and there were no injuries so I call that a success!!  

Here is a picture of our group.  (This is only 20 of  our 35 girls!) :)

We had a few cooler days in July so we took the opportunity to go to the zoo.  The boys really wanted to go because there is a thing called Zoorassic Park at the zoo that has a bunch of animatronics dinosaur throughout the park.  My parents and sister came along.  We had a great time and the animals were very active which made the day even better.  

Watching the seals.

Best Buddies!

We grew a few large sunflowers last year in our yard.  When winter came around I chopped off the sunflower heads and put them in brown bags to dry.  Sadly I didn't think much about them until this Spring when my kids decided to get them out and dump seeds all over our back yard.  The result was sunflowers growing all over our garden and yard.  :)  After spending a few weeks pulling sunflowers out of my garden and yard I decided to let one plant stay in my garden and grow.  Here is the result: our gigantic sunflower!