August 2016

We took care of our neighbors garden while they were on vacation.  These cucumbers got huge!  The kids were playing with them like they were their friends, Paxton even named his Todd.  Graham was biting right into his cucumber!

Swimming with cousins at Sandee's pool.

Trying to keep cool under the tramp on moving day at Grandpa and Grandma's new house.

The start of the laundry room remodel.  We tore out that closet and stacked the washer and dryer.  It's going to be quite the project, so it might be a while until we have the after picture.

Meeting my new niece for the first time.  Rem's brothers second baby, Brielle.

When Graham found this tiger stuffed animal at my grandma's it reminded me of Calvin and Hobbes.  Maybe he should be this for Halloween.

My friend and I swap kids twice a week while the other one works.  It's fun to have her cute kids over to play.  Here they are just getting home from school.

Linley, Max, Elly and Graham all in the hammock.

Balloon Festival

We use to live within walking distance of the Sandy Balloon Festival and it was tradition for us to go every year and take muffins and juice.  The boys and I missed last year since we moved, but I was sad we didn't go.  So we decided to make an effort to go this year!  And it was even more fun to pick up Paxton's best buddy, Grady and bring him with us.  We also got to see lots more neighbor friends!

Neighborhood Luau
Every summer our neighborhood has a big party.  This year it was a luau complete with a roasted pig and hula dancers!  They also had a big blow up slide and carnival games for the kids to win prizes.  It was such a fun night, we feel spoiled to have gotten all this for free.  We are so grateful to those that put this together!  The kids had a blast and were happy with their cotton candy and snow cones.

Seven Peaks
More Seven Peaks fun with cousin Jake and a friend.  Paxton was loving all the slides in the kids area.  He was going down them on his back, tummy, forwards, backwards, he was having a blast!  Graham was not a fan of the slides.

Graham's Swim Lessons

Graham took one last session at the end of the summer.  He surprised me at how well he was doing.  He was in a class that I'm pretty sure most of those kids were older than he was, then again Graham is pretty small for his age.  But even the other mom's sitting around seemed pretty surprised when they saw this tiny kid jumping off the diving board.  Graham was kicking off the wall and swimming about half the width of the pool before his teacher would help him in the middle and then he kept going to the edge.  Poor kid though is skin and bones, he was shivering pretty much the whole time.

Swimming with friends

We met up at Murray Pool with friends from our old neighborhood.  We had quite the large group there!  It was a blast getting together and the kids loved having all their friends there.

Trevor, Paxton and Grady

My little fish, he loves to swim!

We had 21 kids there!  And we survived!

Brittany, Darby, Jennie, Me and Bekah

Deer Creek Resevoir

It was fun spending part of the day at the lake with Dan & Jamie and Trevor & Sandee and all the kiddo's.  We brought lots of fun toys to float on the water.  

Paxton's first day of school

I can't believe this kid is heading off to first grade and will be gone at school for 7 hours each day!  I don't know what Graham and I will do without him!  

We walked him to school on his first day and we found some friends from last year, Henry and Eli.

Pax and his teacher Mrs. Reynolds

Wheeler Farm

My friend had just moved back from Hawaii and needed to unpack so I took her cute boys for the day.  It was a hot day, but we had fun walking around seeing all the animals.

Murray Parkway

It was fun joining up with our neighbors and friends to go for a nature walk.  I'm not sure how far we went, but it was pretty far!  The kids didn't even really seem to realize it, they were having so much fun!

Paxton found this big stick and wanted to bring it home sooo bad, but we already have so many sticks in our backyard and I didn't want him to bring that one in the car.  He was being so stubborn and wouldn't get in the car that I finally came up with the idea to take a picture of him with the stick.  It worked.