First Day of School

Tuesday was Makenna's first day of school. Well Joy school actually. There are a bunch of girls her age in our neighborhood so we put together a group and are doing a Joy school for the kids. There are seven of them counting Makenna. We started this week and Makenna was so excited to go. I let her pick out a new shirt to wear and she wanted to take her "pack back" (backpack). She was a little confused thought because she wanted to ride a bus to school. I told her in a couple years she could but then realized that we will be walking to school. But hopefully she will get to ride a bus for field trips. She had lots of fun and can't wait to go to "goose" (school) next week!

Daily Occurances

Lately Makenna and Kason have been so funny and they have been doing the cutest things! Makenna's new word is "Really." And she doesn't use it once she repeats it about 3 or 4 times. She is always saying, "I'm really, really, really, hungry," or I'm really, really really, thirsty." It is so cute and I don't even know where she came up with it, but I love it. Also,this is what Makenna looks like every day.

She is definitely our little princess, and we sure do love her! She loves to play dress up and dance around and everyday she has on a crown. This is her second one since her birthday. The first one broke and she wanted Santa Clause to bring her a new one. But when I took her to the dentist last month they let her pick a prize from the basket for being such a brave girl and we found this crown. Now she doesn't have to wait so long for Santa to come. That is, if this one last that long!

Now as for Kason, he has become since a wiggler. I can not believe how active he is. He was so still in my stomach that I was always so nervous because he never moved. He is sure making up for it now! He rolls all over the place, and never stays where I put him. This is where I usually find him in the mornings. I leave him on his back with his head facing the other direction. He just completely turns himself around!

Isn't that the cutest thing ever!

He isn't crawling yet but he will push his feet and scoot towards a toy or he will roll over to it. Now this might not come as a surprise to most of you. That's what babies usually do. But with Makenna she was sitting like a pro by 4 months and she never rolled over and never really crawled. I put her down and she stayed there tell she was 14 months and was walking.

We have two baskets one filled with diapers and one filled with toys and he will roll over to them and dump them out. He is already getting into everything! Oh, but it is the cutest things ever! I just love this little man!

Where Did August Go?

I cannot believe that September is here in two days! Now, I love September because it cools off a little and I feel like the Holiday season starts with my birthday and then continues on with Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas. It's just the greatest time of year. But what happened with August? We were so busy and it just flew by! But we have had lots of fun. We did the Gardens at Thanksgiving Point, had our 10 year high school reunion (we are so old!!!), and we attempted to go camping. My uncle Darrell passed away and his funeral was the same weekend we were supposed to go camping so we had to compromise. We ended up roasting marshmallow's in Weston's new fire pit and making s'mores and then we pitched the tent in the backyard and slept outside. It was lots of fun and Makenna really enjoyed it.

This is Makenna, making sure that all the zippers and pockets in the tent work

Such cute kids!

Just the boys hanging around the fire

Kason and Nanna

Summer Vacation

Last week Weston and I returned from a nice summer vacation. We left both kids at grandma's house and went to California. My dad had some free tickets that were expiring and he gave them to us to use. We were also able to use some points for hotel and then spent one night at Weston's uncle Tommy's house. We had so much fun out there. The first day we went to the beach and did some shopping. Then on Friday we went to Universal Studios. That was lots of fun. Although we got stuck on the tram ride and the King Kong in 3D broke down so we didn't even get to see it. But The Mummy roller coaster was fun. I was a little disappointed because the weather wasn't that warm. The beach was 69 degrees. Not the best weather for swimming but I did get to work on my tan. And that made Universal Studios nice for standing in lines. But all in all it was a nice vacation and it was fun to get away for the weekend. Thanks to both my parents and Weston's parent's for watching the kids, Tommy and Denny for dinner and their hospitality, my dad for the tickets and hotel, and my sisters for taking Makenna to the movie. Both kids got so spoiled and didn't even miss us, they were having so much fun!

This was our sweet rental. Wes was so bugged when he saw it. He was like this isn't a car, I rented a car! But I told him it was cool because it was red and it matched him!

Down on the Santa Monica Pier


Wes at the Pier

Both of us

Down at the cold, cold beach. Isn't California supposed to be sunny and warm?

I'm just pretending to be in England

Water World

This was when we were stuck on the tram ride just hanging out on the back lot

Out front of Universal Studios

This was the Santa Monica Pier. It was a fun beach just not very warm

Just watching the waves coming in

There was a cute couple getting married on the beach. They looked so young and happy, I just had to get a picture of there wedding

This is Weston's uncle Tommy

I always wanted one of these suckers when I was little so I had to bring Makenna one home. She loved it, but she dropped it the next day and it shattered. She was pretty sad about it.

We got Kason one too and a little stuffed animal. Isn't he the cutest little guy!

Crazy July

This summer seems to be flying past! And July has been the craziest month of all. We had two cabin trips, the Highland City splash pad and we went to the zoo all in the past couple weeks. Things aren't slowing down either. That's okay. It's been ton's of fun and I just love this warm weather! So here are just a bunch of pictures of what we have been up to. I didn't get any pictures at the splash pad but we are going again next week and I'll for sure remember to get my camera. Makenna had so much fun there. Oh and Kason got his first two teeth. He got the first one on July 3rd, and then second one about two weeks later. So now he has the two bottom teeth. Oh and he is such a wiggler! He can't sit still for two seconds and he is all over the place. He just rolls for now but it won't be long tell he's crawling!

Aren't these two so cute! They were so excited to go to the zoo

This was baby Zuri and her mom. So cute!

Makenna wanted to ride the train and we got to see a cougar!


I love giraffes! Makenna's favorite's were the monkey's and the penguins


Just walking around the zoo. They had so much fun


This was on our hike up past the fallen down cabin


Makenna and Wes down by the little stream

She had so much fun throwing rocks in the water

This was Cam falling into the water and I couldn't stop laughing. It was so funny! And he only had one arm to try and help himself back up. (It's only funny because I had just fallen in a couple minutes earlier)

Such a cute family!

This was on our way back just before I fell down. Luckily I saved Kason from getting hurt. My leg on the other hand says otherwise.

Kason loved the swing

Wes and Makenna going for a ride on Cali's motorcycle.

Caleb, Shali and Makenna just chillin in the hammock

Family Pictures

Last week we had Weston's cousin Dayna (Dayzy Photography) take our pictures. They are Kason's 6 month, Makenna's 3 year and our family pictures. She did such an amazing job! I just love these pictures. They only problem is, there are too many cute ones to choose from! And I have to say I have the two cutest kids in the world! They both cooperated and were so well behaved and they took some adorable pics. So there are tons on here but I just had to do a slide show to show them off. I can't wait to get some prints made!

Gymnastics

This summer I decided to put Makenna in gymnastics since we had the summer off from dance. Makenna just loves it, and as for me, I don't think I'm such a fan. Sure, it has been great for her, she has learned so much and has become so brave about things. Actually too brave. She is always jumping around the house, off the love sac, from couch to couch down the stairs, just about any where she can think. She also tried to do a flip in the shopping cart at Target. So now I am trying to teach her when it is appropriate to do her gymnastics. Or as she calls it "ba"nastics. She has even asked Weston for a flip bar. But any ways, today they had there pass offs at class so Weston came and watched her and we got some pictures. She did a good job and she was so excited to have us there watching her.

Practicing her handstands

Going to the next station to do a cartwheel


This is her practicing where to put her hands for her cartwheels


This is the actually cartwheel. She doesn't get her feet up over her but she is making lots of progress.

We have a video of her on the uneven bars that is really cute. So once I get Weston to post that we will get that up. But she can do the scissors with her legs and then a flip over the bar with some help. She just loves that!