2nd and 4th Graders

School started the day after Labor Day and we now have a 2nd grader and a 4th grader!  They both have teachers that they already love and friends in their classes.  Here's some fun pics of their first day of school.

Boston - 2nd Grade 

Kayden - 4th Grade 

Boston is 7!

Boston was able to celebrate his birthday with a lot of family this year.  My parents were in town for the weekend, my sister and family came over, my dad's sister and brother-in-law, and Brendon and Breanna came up to all celebrate with us.

His cake was the Portal of Power from the Skylanders game.  Chad and I made it together.

For the party, we played some outdoor games, chatted and finally (he kept asking) opened his presents.

Summer 2012

Our summer was a blast and a perfect break for the kids off of school.  At the beginning of summer, we made a list of things we wanted to do together.  We changed a few as time went on, but here's our summer list and a few picture highlights.

 Getting ready to hike to Timpanogas Cave

 Camping

 Riding horses at Chad's co-worker's house

 Visiting the Davis County Fair and Utah State Fair

Open house of the Brigham City Temple 

 Water parade on 4th of July with the Sorensen's  (went to Cherry Hill with them as well)

 Movie in the park

Our backyard at sunset.  This is where most of the memories were made!

Prehistoric Mother's Day

Mother's Day weekend was our first camping trip of the summer.  We headed to Vernal, Utah - Dinosaur National Monument - for 2 nights.  The boys always sleep like angels when camping and Chad suggested that we setup a tent in the backyard on days we wanted them to sleep in.  Of course, it also may have been the numerous hikes we took and constantly keeping them busy.  

We saw a lot of dinosaur bones and loved the newly reopened quarry and visitor's center.  We also took some hikes around the area to amazing petroglyphs and a dinosaur causeway (hundreds of footprints) that was on the end of a reservoir.  It was a great weekend and everyone was in great spirits, making for a perfect Mother's Day.

 

Piano Recital

This is for both sets of grandparents. Kayden's piano recital!

Here's a video of him playing. It's starts after he's started the first song. The quality is not that great, because I wanted it to save quickly, but the sound is all there. Enjoy!

Link to video:

http://www.blogger.com/video-play.mp4?contentId=e49104152950817f&type=video/mp4

Ice Hockey is all BOY!

We won free tickets to a Grizzlies gam a while ago (ice hockey). However, the date that it fell on was right when Chad was gone overnight for training for scouts/young men. I didn't let that stop us though, we had a BLAST!!

Ice Hockey is constantly moving, so the boys were always enthralled AND they are bashing each other into the walls and getting a few jabs in whenever they can, which my boys thought was pretty awesome. We had 4th row seats right next to where the Zamboni gets to the ice, so we were set!

Random Funness

Here are just a few fun pictures to show some things we've been up to.

Kayden swimming the 100 Freestyle at a swim meet.

He improved his time SO MUCH!!

Gma and Gpa Hutchings came for a short visit and we had a great time. They took pictures, but this picture of Kayden in one of Grandma's wigs was the only one we snapped. (I was so sad when I realized that! Please send us some of your copies!)

Boston and McCoy took swim lessons for a few weeks that coincided with swim team practice. This is Boston doing backstroke.

Waiting for Kayden to finish swim practice. Azure found that he fit

perfectly in a locker and the others thought they'd try as well.

Azure and McCoy emptied both of their dressers. McCoy's side wasn't as bad when I grabbed the camera as he was quickly trying to put it all back in. Azure calls this picture, "Bad baby."