1st day of Kindergarten!

Well today was the day, Chloe started kindergarten!! She was SO excited this morning that she was dressed before she even came out of her room. After she was all ready and ate, she kept asking "is it time to go yet?" When we got to school we were standing outside of the door waiting for her teacher to come the kids kept trying to open the door and look inside they were all pretty excited. Her teacher, Mrs. Milner finally came and she was So sweet! She asked all the names right there in the hallway, which I think was an evil plan made with her and the principal (just kidding) because the principal started talking about an important meeting tonight and the next thing I knew all the kids were gone inside the class. I was kinda sad, I wanted to say goodbye atleast and get a few pictures of her in the class, oh well, atleast I got some before school.



Once I got home I anxiously watched the time waiting for her to get home to hear all about her first day. at 2:35 I was out with a few other mom's waiting for the bus to arrive. 3 buses passed and they finally showed up. Chloe was so cute, she was sitting right next to the window in good view with a HUGE smile on her face!! (I wish I would have gotten a picture of that but I waved back instead) She jumped right off the bus and ran up to me with a big hug! She loved it!! I asked her if she knew any kids in the class besides the neighbors and she said "no, and there's not even any mean boys like there were in preschool!" well that's good!! ;) She loved her teacher! I'm SO happy she loves school! Hopefully she'll keep up with this attitude.

After months of trying I FINALLY got Chloe into the last session of swimming lessons!!! YAY! I was nervous she wasn't going to get into anything this year! Today was her last day and boy was she sad! She LOVED it this year, she liked it last year to but was alot more confidant this year. She has this thing about getting her face wet, she HATES it!!! On the first day of lessons, she was asking for a rainbow colored sno cone, I made her a deal....If she put her face in the water everyday and jumped off the diving board by herself on the last day then I would buy her a rainbow colored sno-cone. Well after 2 weeks of getting her face wet, jumping in from the side of the pool, and then the diving board we still haven't gotten her a sno-cone, we were in line, but it was SO slow and Brayden was hungry and tired so we promised her after his nap we'd take her to the one here in Rexburg.
I was SO SO SO proud of her, she passed the class this year and she was to the point of dunking her head in the water and coming up with a smile on her face! she had a GREAT teacher! Here are the videos of last year and the huge difference of this year! **funny story...After the diving board last year she told me she couldn't jump in because she was a mermaid and couldn't stand on her fins that's why they had to drop her in. hee hee her imagination makes me laugh.

I felt so bad that she was up there screaming and yelling "I want my mommy" I was laughing and probably the only mom crying watching her up there.



This year, she walked right out there...I noticed her teacher wasn't in the middle yet waiting for her, I had to tell her to wait or she probably would have jumped off without her. =)

I really don't want summer to end!!!

YAY!!! another blog post!! maybe I'll start keeping it up again.=) A few weeks ago we met some friends at Porter Park and ate lunch and then played over at the splash park! It was so fun to see old friends again!! and Brayden FINALLY got wet! I took him over to one of the low water spouts and put my foot in it, he looked at me and did the same then got the biggest smile on his face and yelled "fwimmin" then another little boy came over to the spout next to us and sat down right on top of it! haha Brayden decided to do the same, and for the next 30 minutes or so played in the little fountain and had SO much fun! Chloe also got pretty soaked which is not normal for her either, any drop of water on her face she usually freaks out about! (yeah try washing her hair!) Brayden also has the weirdest fear ever....carousels, he thinks the horses bite! he hasn't gotten on one or touched one all summer till Auntie Jana got on with him and he was pretty happy!




We also went to the Blue Angels Air Show on the 24th! It was so fun! I've never seen the blue angles before, I wanted to watch instead of take pictures so I could really pay attention to the show. So....since Vince said he's seen them I handed the camera over to him, showed him the basics and let him at it, I thought he did pretty good!
We had a really good view for the show, we didn't get tickets to go inside and I'm so glad, I heard it was a nightmare!! We sat in a top secret parking lot by my dad's office. okay not really top secret, but secret enough, lets just say there were gaurds around the building and we couldn't even go inside to use the bathroom, so we had to drive over to my grandma's house if we needed to go. My dad brought this little grill and grilled up some burgers for lunch. YUM!! my dad is the best griller (is that a word) ever!! and not to mention the cutest show before, during and after the show ever! Chloe and Brayden played on this rock for most of the afternoon, they danced and made funny faces, jumped off pretending to be Buzz Lightyear and showed off their huge and rippling muscles! I have to say that these 2 kids are the cutest ever!!

Okay, I've been thinking about updating this for awhile now, but it's been SO long I didn't know where to start.....SO I'll just start with what's been going on recently. The 4th of July, my favorite holiday!! We started the day off with a yummy pancake breakfast over at Apex until the parade started. I forgot to bring my camera to the parade =( so no pictures. The kids loved the parade. Chloe and her friends practically stood in the road trying to get candy, the biker cops kept driving by telling them to scoot back, and as soon as he'd ride away they were right back where they were. Chloe got a load of candy that she left somewhere and couldnt' find it, so sad there was a free frosty in there. =( (and NO I did not take it or hide it.)

(taken after the Parade in front of our neighbors flag)

After the Parade, we headed down to my parents house for some yummy food and fun! They set out the bouncy house/slide and the pools they kids were having fun in those and playing some golf. Then we played a fun game of yard golf, I've never heard of the game but we had alot of fun!

(Brayden in the little pool)

(Chloe and her Cousin Emmett or Kolten {twins} playing golf)

(Chloe playing yard golf)

After some yummy food and fun, we drove to my Grandma's house and walked down to the river for some fireworks. We showed up at about 8pm which for my kids, was way to early, or maybe I should have brought more than 1 package of plain M&M's so they wouldn't have to share, Brayden had a death grip on the bag, and Chloe wasn't to happy that he'd only give her one at a time and not let her hold that bag. Then, the dreaded day of Dylan's move....yes, Chloe's little boyfriend (the one that has his mind set on marrying Chloe) moved. Chloe was so sad, she kept asking me why people can't just stay in the houses they buy, and the next day she said, "mom, when is Dylan coming back?" how sad that I had to tell her he wasn't coming back, then she asked if we could invite him over haha I wish it would be that easy. They were such good friends and we will miss them all!!!

(the fight over the M&M's, notice Brayden's grip)

(Chloe pouting)

(Brayden planted in front of the chips, he was not gonna let those get taken away)

(Last day with Dylan...I noticed they were holding hands after I printed the picture out for the kids. )

Uh-oh is right!

This little monster made a HUGE mess today at lunch! Chloe wanted tomato soup with noodles in it, Brayden who usually eats an entire bowl of this decided to throw his on the floor...

But nicely decided he better help mommy and pick it all up, but soon realized it was alot of work and smashed the noodle between his fingers

and decided to run! little monster thinks he can run so fast!!

When I first saw the mess I was kinda mad, but looked at him with his cute little tomato soup covered smile as he said "uh-oh" and realized how much fun he was probably having cause I heard him laughing from in the living room but thought he was laughing at something Chloe was doing...boy was I wrong!!

This winter has been soooooooo boring, I've had nothing to write about. I still don't have anything to write about, I'm only posting this cause I'm bored, the house is clean and the kids are in bed. So we have been.....

Playing with good friends inside....

and outside.

wresting with daddy....

and knocking him out.....

just rockin out!

and wishing we could be out doing this....

We have had some other fun days that I don't have pictures of....eating lunch with friends and playing at McDonalds...and watching movies with friends at the clubhouse. Good thing we have some good friends around here to have fun with!!!