Grandpa Woody & Grandparents Day!

Averys 2nd grade class had Grandparents day, and we were lucky enough to have Grandpa Woody come. The program was so cute, and Grandpa is the best! It's so fun to see how much he loves being with his Great Grandkids.

He went to Averys classroom and saw her desk and had some cookies with her after the performance. Grandpa Woody we love you!

A Few New Recipes to Check Out... Enjoy!

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"school" pictures

Miss Attitude...
The 5th Grader...
The Sassy 8 year old...
The Boy...

All my little Stinkers...

(thanks Cecily! :) )

Color Me Mine, Birthday

Miss Avery and Shannia at color me mine for Averys Birthday!

How perfect is that? It was so much fun, and their projects turned out adorable!!

Happy Birthday Avery!!!

My little Artist Avery is Eight!! Holy Cow! She had a lovely birthday full of all her favorites! Her daddy took her and her friend Shannia to Color Me Mine and she got to paint her own piece of pottery. (photo to follow shortly) Shannia gave her a huge tackle box full of art supplies! Heaven!

On Little Miss Averys big day she conned me into a trip to the mall, where she got an array of makeup from her Grandma Robin, and Lime Green Chuck Taylors from her Mommy and Daddy! Not to mention 84 pieces of gel pen bliss her Daddy found for her. I would say she had a great day!

Happy Birthday my little princess. I don't know where the last 8 years have gone. Really, where?

One last Hurrah before school started...

We took the kids to St. George for a few days before school started. We swam in the hotel pool, which was the big hit! Went to a few St. George "hot spots", like Jacob Hamblins home, and Brigham Youngs winter home. The kids weren't so sure it was exciting but we went all the same. We also took them to the historical Tabernacle and the BEST part.... we ate at In n Out! Oh yeah baby!! It was a fantastic way to get ready for school. We actually drove straight from St. George to the school for the "meet and greet" with their teachers the day before school started. We got home set out school supplies and first day of school outfits and here we are 3 1/2 weeks into school. Geez... it's already flown by! right?

DrOp Off IsSuEs, aGaIn!

Okay well it really wouldn't be me if I allowed the car pool situation to pass my by without unleashing me views onto you... my lovely "blog family" :)

So... new school year. New drop off / pick up lane at the elementary school. Oy...

It's a whopping 3 weeks into school and I'm already plotting the deaths of many of the carpool, suv'ers at the drop off! I HATE the drop off situation, I'm using the word hate... about morning drop off!! It's going to be a very LONG school year!

This year we do not have kindergarten, so we have sidestepped that landmine. phew... Although we have now moved onto the "big kid" side of the school and I dare say it might be worse! There are TWO lanes for drop off. TWO! Of course you don't want to actually drop kids off in the second lane because they would have to cross in front of cars to get to the school. So, it would be safe to say that the first lane if for drop off, and the second lane if for PULLING OUT OF DROP OFF AND LEAVING WHEN YOU'RE DONE! Well, that is a complicated task to pull off I guess. So instead people pull up into the first lane... drop off their kids... pull SO close to the car in front of them they can't pull out of line. So they wait, and of course the car in front is on her PHONE, and it's not the perfect spot to drop off her kids so she's sitting and waiting as well. And before you know it... everyone is WAITING and no one is actually dropping kids off anymore, and no one is getting out of the way either!!
And this is even better... then there will be a 3 or 4 car space and the next car has decided to let their kids out at the end of the line, and NO ONE has decided it's a good idea to go around that car and pull into the empty spaces!!
Seriously, it's NOT ROCKET SCIENCE HERE!!
Riddle me this Batman... Why does carpool drop off have to be so painful? And heres another question for the masses... when 75% of the Prom Queens I mean Moms are not even dressed yet WHO IN THE WORLD ARE THEY ALL TALKING TO ON THEIR CELL PHONES?!

Okay I'm done! well... for now... it is of course only the first month of school.
Heaven help us all...