Drive through the Alpine Loop!

I just love driving in the mountains when the leaves are changing. It is so pretty. We drove the Alpine Loop a couple weeks ago because it was such a beautiful day. As we were going through the mountains, EVERYONE had the same idea. I have never seen the loop so busy and I hate that the road is so narrow to begin with but when cars are trying squeeze by I get nervous.
Here are my cute kids and the pup.

Then he comes Mr. Grumpy!

I love the expressions Katelyn pulls when I try to take her picture. Here is her "Granny" smile.

At least G smiled in this one.

Fishing at The Cove!

Granny and Grandpa Ed took the kids fishing last Friday to a little lake in Herriman. We meet them up there after James got off of work. It was a fun little place and there wasn't very many people. The thing I don't like is how the sun is going down earlier. By 7:00 it was dark. They had a couple lights but not enough to see anything. So it was short and quick.

Katelyn loved feeding the ducks.


Garrett loves going fishing. He just doesn't have the patience for it. He will cast his line out and then a couple minutes later he is reeling it back in. (But I think we all did that at his age) He caught a fish but I didn't get a picture because I left to go get dinner. But Good Job Buddy for catching a fish.


Here is my handsome guy fishing. He loves fishing too. We just need to make time to go more often.


Another "Granny" smile shot. We love you Granny!


If you look real close by Katelyn's face you can see the BIG fish Grandpa Ed caught.

Field Trip!

I went with Garrett and his class to Red Butte Gardens for their field trip. It was a lot of fun because it was my first time there. The gardens were beautiful and the weather was great. The volunteer took us on a 2 mile walk up behind the gardens. It was fun but she was sure an interesting person. I love being able to go on field trips with my kids and being a volunteer at school. I also really like his teacher this year.
This is Garrett very interested in what the volunteer is talking about. She was talking about snakes living in the rock wall next to where we were standing.

Here is Garrett losing interest... She was showing us bat houses. That is Garrett's great teacher in the corner of this picture.

Here was the group who I was in charge of watching. We had a great time.

Fun times!

I know it has been a long time since I posted anything. And I would like to say that it is because I have been super busy, but that's really not the case. I just haven't been in the mood to post stuff. Here are just a couple of pictures I have taken lately. She is usually a smiley girl when it comes to taking a picture.

Check out the Tough Guy! Wow! He is strong!

Fishing up at Tibble Fort up American Fork Canyon.

Mr. Fisherman!

They both wanted to sleep in eachothers rooms for a couple nights but both times they ended up going back to their own rooms during the night.

First day of School

The kids started school at a new school this year. Garrett was up at 6:30 dressed and ready to go. He was so excited but really nervous at the same time. James took the day off so he could go with us to school since he has never done that before and Garrett really liked that his dad was there with him. We thought we would be able to walk him into his classroom but they had to line up outside and then the teachers told them to turn around and say goodbye. But he went into school and did awesome. When we went to pick Garrett up after school he came outside and we asked him how is day was and he said it was GREAT!
(We are off to a great start.)

Katelyn didn't start until Tuesday but Monday we had a meeting with her teacher and she was able to see her classroom and went on a tour of the school with her teacher.
Tuesday she was up a ready for school. She stood in line and walked right into school. I actually was a little sad when she was walking away. Not because she was starting first grade but because she is my baby. And my baby is now gone all day. But she loves school and has had a great time.

I like both of their teachers. They both seem like they are really fun and outgoing. I'm looking forward to a great year. (We need one since our school last year wasn't that great.)

Granny's birthday present!

Granny sent me and Susie an email back in March saying she wanted us to make her new placemats and a table runner for her Birthday. So we didn't say anything else about them. We went out and found material around the end of May and got started. We made 10 placemats (1 for each person) a table runner and I made her an apron.


We put everyones handprint on the back of their placemat with their names on it. (This one is Garrett's)


The boy's placemats had a green border.


The girl's placemats had a red border.


Granny was so excited when she opened these. I think they turned out pretty good. Alot of work. But it was worth it.

Awards!

Garrett and Katelyn received their Distinguished Cub Awards this year at school. They worked really hard to get these and we are really proud of them. A couple of weeks before the got their awards, Garrett's teacher called me and said that she asked Garrett if he wanted his award and he said "NO" so she didn't want to give him this award unless he wanted it (even though he earned it). Anyways, she wanted us to talk to him at home and if he wanted this award he had to go into class and tell her he wanted it. (She was a strange lady) I told her he didn't want it because she gave him an option. I told her "What 2nd grader wants to get up in front of the school and parents to receive an award?" But he got his award and He did great.
Katelyn got her award in the afternoon. There was only 2 afternoon Kindergarten classes so after they got their awards that took about 10 minutes their teacher said they wanted to let the kids sing songs to us what they have learned during the year because they had us all there. We listened to them sing for about 30 minutes. It was cute watching our little girl.