1st day of school

The first day of school. So sad for this mama every year!

 9th grade

 6th grade

 4th grade

 Em loved walking to the bus with the bigs.

It's going to be lonely at home without her little clowns around her. She is doted upon all day long! We need to get the boy home so she can have a play mate.

Yampa

I think I have a new favorite river, if that's even possible. The Yampa. We started out summer with an awesome trip with super good friends.

We saw tons of these guys!

 The canyon walls were so huge! It was incredible

 Chickie rocked the oars, and loved it.

Cute girls!

 The tiger wall.

 We nearly froze the first day. It was wicked cold.

 Our own private Maui beach. It was the best camp ever!

 Boat tradsies. They had better snacks.

 Beautiful hikes.

 Little did great on the slack line.

Dance Dance Dance

Little A dances a lot! She is at the dance studio for several hours every week. She quite loves it and is getting very good. She recently performed a Cat in the Hat piece in which she was one of the children that gets entertained by the cat. It was a cute a dance, and she did an awesome job.

second from left with Thing 1 and Thing 2

Disneyland

Disneyland is so fun, especially when you get to hang out with completely awesome people!! Like these guys-

This little chickie-

These guys-

Ummm... AWESOME HAIR!!! NO?

These guys-

And last but not least, these crazies-

Best trip ever!! Right?? 3 days of fabulous people, in the "happiest" place on earth.

California

We got to go to California for a week a couple of weeks ago. It was really great trip. I so enjoy hanging out with my little family.

Newport Beach-

still July

Creature had a wicked expensive surgery. The boy almost left her at the vet. The girls (all) would have died, so being the awesome dad that he is, paid for the dog to have a handful of gravel removed from the dog's bladder. Lesson learned - don't feed the dog human food. Ever!!

Chicky turned 9!!
We got to go swimming with cousins. It was so much fun!

July

It's a picture fest. Get ready for it. We spent the week in Moab with our awesome possum friends, hiking, rafting, swimming, eating, laughing our heads off.