My Kids (husband) showered me with gifts in the morning! It was a Friday so we got up early for school and presents:
I smoked the kids in some soccer with my new indoors and then sent them off to school 🙂
Then we opened the puzzle and got started! This year was a Disney movie collage with PLASTIC PIECES and had almost a stain glass look to it!
The littles helped me find edge pieces. Then Erica came over around 9:30 and Abbie came a little after that. Michelle came after lunch. I loved having puzzle helpers and good conversation. I just love spending my birthday at the kitchen table with lots of fam and friends 🙂
I continued to be spoiled throughout the day: queso, cookies, flowers, cupcake, a Nap from Tiago and PHONE CALLS from family! …
The big kids came home from school and helped a little. Then Ben came home and made us a fajita dinner that was delicious. After dinner we went to the Hancocks to hang out and watch BYU football.
Then LaNell and I had a soccer game at 9:55! and then we came home and finished the puzzle at 1:00am. It ended up being a pretty perfect day.
These kids were ready to Run!
I pushed Millie and Tiago and ran with Erica and Michelle.
Ray went with Matt and Ellie.
Rose and Ben went ahead of us.
Cali was with her friends.
Benji was up ahead.
And Packer was our fastest finisher up by himself.
This year they added chalk at the finish line. Our kids loved it. After the race we hung out and visited with friends and cousins and debated what food trucks to try. Our kids look forward to this every year.
Ellie and ray are pretty cool together!
The Morning Crew: It’s fun having just the little kids home. We had a picnic and stayed in our PJs too long:
Rose and Cali always pick out their clothes the night before. Rose is loving this fun SuperGirl outfit 🙂
Our raspberries are sooo good this year!
One more trip to the pond! With the Hancocks!
Babysitting Quincy. Tiago showing off and being a goof ball:
The playground at Cali’s soccer practice – Mondays and Wednesdays late afternoon.
Now that Rose is in School all day – these 2 are missing their together time:
Benji reading to Tiago – he loves books right now:
Hanging with the Hancocks again:
Millie making a new friend at Cali’s soccer game:
And that night Benji got to babysit while we went to the game! I love being at the field and I love when it is good weather
On Sunday we had our Nettesheim Fireside and then celebrated Grandpa’s 70th Birthday!!
THESE GUYS! ready for JR. HIGH? I love that they still play and have fun and don’t have to be too cool.
Ray and Rose are so excited to start school. They both have the same size shoe right now.
FHE! FINALLY
Friends over at the house on a summer day: Millie made a new friend when LaNell brought Andrew over to play.
my genius child?
working on their Dr. Mario skills and getting high scores:
I am still the Wolf Den Leader:
Kelsey and I took the kids to the pond. We stopped and got XL drinks at Maverick cause they were free so… And then Brady! showed up at the pond and surprised us!
Thursday Night I went to Ben’s soccer game! He is blurry in the pic cause he was running really fast 🙂 And right after the soccer game we picked LaNell up at the mouth of the canyon and drove to Sundance to watch Jacob and the Technicolor Dreamcoat. We met the Hancocks up there and sat through a little rain. It was a fun show!
And then the kids finished THE SUMMER CHART!! They were so happy to be done!
The youngest kids packing their picnic and taking it upstairs to eat?>>>…
I spent Monday not feeling good and Tuesday recouping and reading but I did make it to Gentrys baseball game. And Tiago just wanted to wear a diaper and crawl around like Quincy 🙂
I read The Orphan Keeper on Monday and finished Tuesday so then I took the kids to the park since they were being so good:
Bath time:
The kids all had a lot of fun. They beg for sleepovers all the time but we’ve told them no, It has to be when parents are out of town or something so… we all had a good time and played hard.
I was going to go in the Starship because Rose is supposed to have an adult with her. BUT Gentry and I chickened out at the last minute. Rose rode it 2 or 3 times! and Packer doesn’t love big rides but he loves Star Ship:
Benji and Cali went on this one!
Little kid section:
They had swings this year!
And Cali convinced me to go on the Zipper with her, neither of us liked it but Benji did.
