My Lainee is 9!

During all of this craziness, my Laines had a birthday! It was her first week at the new school, Little Valley, so she got to take treats to her class. I think it helped her adjust with getting to have a special day there. Here she is in her birthday outfit.

After school a new neighbor friend, Amanda, came over. She is a cousin to Lainee's friend Kia!

We took Amanda & Kia with the family to see the Legends of the Guardians movie in 3D instead of having a party.

We then had some family over for cake & ice cream. Megan was even in town with her boyfriend Kenny.

With all those people we had to do the spanking machine!

Of course we had to do presents! Rigby was a super big help with those!

Lainee decorated her cake all by herself!

We had a second cake for the "candles/matches"! So maybe I overlooked the whole candle issue with all that was going on! The matches worked fine!

I can't believe she is 9! They really do grow up way to fast! We love you Lainee!

We have had a super busy few weeks! And I suspect that it is going to continue for a while! So a quick catch up!

Last Tuesday we flew up for Trevor & Misty's wedding in SLC. Aren't they a beautiful couple?!

Proud father, Alan, with Tyson & Audrey hitching a ride!

Beautiful dress! Love all the ruffles! We also went to the luncheon & they had Cafe Rio cater it! Misty is an accountant for them!

Jana hooked up the whole family with tickets to Tarzan! We all loved it! Lainee wanted pictures with all the actors & was the only brave one. I forced Olivia to be in one picture with me!

In the South Pointe ward, the Primary had a talent show. It was super cute!

Rigby did a comic routine of knock knock jokes followed up with a pie in Tyson's face! DD & Rigby were so cute! And Tyson was a good sport!

Lainee played "America the Beautiful" & performed it perfectly.

Then Olivia & Lainee did a ballet dance to "Fireflies". They even had flashing ringpops on their fingers to look like fireflies!

Lainee also learned to hula dance.

And to use poi balls!

And as if that weren't enough, she also sewed a pillow case!

We made painting the new house a family affair. Everyone got to help out! Bye bye green! Hello Brook Trout gray!

We officially moved into the new house on September 17th. We followed that with a yard sale the next day! It was insanely crazy! I may have stayed up all night getting ready for it!

Do you know what this goes to?

THIS!!!

The day has finally arrived! We got the keys to our new house! We will be painting & cleaning the next few days & then move in! We are sad to leave but excited to start a new chapter in our book of life!

(hopefully soon you will see pictures of a much cuter, taken care of house! With a few more things looking better like the lawn!)

I can't believe I forgot one more 1st day of school post!

Unfortunately I didn't get a picture of it either! You wondering who? Just when we thought we were done once Trent got his MBA, he goes back to school again! He is taking accounting classes that will allow him to sit for the CPA exam! Chalk one more up to his resume! Someday we will be DONE with school!

Someday...

1st Day of Preschool 8/25/10

Wednesday started Rigby's school career! That's right preschool is now in session! Which means that I will now have 3 full hours 4 times a week to MYSELF!!

So Rigby's class starts at 8, which is pretty early for our family, but Rigby has been SO excited so he has been waking up really early & ready to go.

His sweet new backpack.

I just love the excitement on his cute little face!

He went out to the car & waited there until Dad was ready to take him!

The great part is that the preschool is close to Trent's work so he takes him to school! He even picks him up at lunch when he's done!

Now who wouldn't be excited to go to class if you had the best teacher ever! GRANDMA!!!

When he got home after the first day he crashed on the couch & had a long nap! That early morning & all the fun of the first day really wore him out!

DMB Take Two 8/17/10

So a while back we had tickets to the Dave Matthews Band concert in SLC. Days before the show, it got cancelled. That was the second year in a row for them to cancel in SLC
SoOoOo...
they put on a FREE concert!
They sent us some tickets & we were off!

We flew to SLC & Julie & her cute kids picked us up at the airport.

We stopped by Seth's work to pick him up & the kids enjoyed a break on the lawn & rocks.

We then went to dinner at the Red Iguana. We got there before 6 & it was packed! We waited outside for a half hour!

We got to the concert just as DMB was starting.

The concert was at the outdoor Usana Amphitheater & Dave really rocked the stage!

It was a lot of fun & now I can forgive DMB for cancelling before!

First Day of School! August 11, 2010

Can you believe its already here?!!! Crazy how fast the summer went!

Lainee had her outfit picked out for a while now, she has been READY & waiting for school to start! She has a new teacher Mrs. Neilsen & she is so excited!

My big 3rd grader!

The girls all ready to go!

Olivia also has a new teacher Mrs. Thomas & is very excited for her too! Liv is a bit nervous about being there all day & not knowing where to go but she has a great sister to help her out!

My 1st grader!

Have a great first day of school!