Ellie's 1st day of Kindergarten

Ellie was so excited for her 1st day of school. She had to pose. (Of Course)
Strike a pose.
Outside her school
Trevor was so sad. He wanted to go to school with Ellie. It was so sad. He kept saying "I wanna go to school".
She had to be the first in line. Of course.
She got to choose where she sat. She was so independant. I love it
In the car after school.

Cute questions that her teacher sent home. I recorded her answering them. She is adorable.
I tried to put a video of her answering the questions, but it wouldn't work. It tried for over 2 hours. I wish I could have gotten it on here. It was really cute. If you want to hear her answers just let me know and I will email you the video.

Dance Dance Revolution

We had some friends (Karyn and Richard) over to play DDR last night. It was so flippin' funny.Brian and Richard Karyn, me and Brian
I think Brian is trying to take me down. Never gonna happen.
Trevor and Micah trying to play. haha.

Mountain Biking at Sundance

We went moutain biking in sundance on Saturday. It was way fun. I didn't do very well. I think I would have except the tires on my bike weren't very good for mtn. biking. Everyone went down the mountain twice. I only went once. I was slipping all over the place and I really didn't want to die. ha.

Brians dad, Gary, was in the chair lift with my kids and was able to catch some pictures of us coming down the mountain.

Brian, Chelsy, Kevin, Me, Amelia, and Rand (Chelsy's husband)
My cute family after Brian came down the second time.
Brian and Kevin
Trevor was so tired. He wanted to go home. He is such a mama's boy. I love it.
Brian's parents (Gary and Debbie)
Ellie posing as usual.
Playing by the water while we waited for the others to come down.
Feeding bread to the fish!

Rock Climbing

Me, Brian, Kevin (Brian's little bro), Amelia (Kevin's girlfriend), and Chelsy (Brian's sister) went to the quarry in Provo on Thursday. We had a blast. It was my first time climbing. It was so much fun. I totally kicked trash, especially Brian's. haha. I want to go again. Me and Amelia wearing the same outfit. (No it wasn't planned).
Brian and I getting ready to climb. Wahoo!
Me kicking Amelia's trash.

Brian climbing the wall. What a stud!

Chelsy getting pushed back to the wall by Amelia

Kevin Showing off.

Brian Regan Concert

Brian and I at Brian Regan. Love it.
Steve and Deelisa Panton. Awesome friends.

Laurel and David Lowe. Some of my best friends from high school.

The Girls. Me trying to be sexy. haha. Never gonna happen.

Brian Regan. He is so stinkin' funny!

Fun Weekend

Thursday Night, Emily and I went with Laurel and David Lowe to see Brian Regan at Thanksgiving Point....FUNNY!!!! We also hung out with Steve and Deelisa Panton there, while running into Becky and Greg Johnson...long time no see!

Friday and Saturday were spent camping up at Current Creek with the Pantons and the Willes's. Pretty uneventful and relaxing...with the exception of Coco (our beagle) taking off in the woods for two hours, Emily and Ellie worrying themselves sick as a result, and then Coco returning covered in fresh cow poop! UGGHH!

Em and the kids are awesome!

Day 2 of Emily at Girls Camp

Well, today was a little more normal for me in that I worked for most of the day at the office. Maggie was nice enough to watch the kids from about 9:30 until 4:20. The kids and I had some dinner and then we drove up to Mutual Dell and took an extra blanket, batteries for the camera, and a Cherry Limeade from Sonic to Emily. We miss her tons and she misses us, but she is having a blast with the girls and leaders up there. The kids and I are excited to hear her camp stories when she gets back! (We heard a couple, but we'll let her fill the world in on it)

Day one of Emily at Girl's Camp

I helped Emily get off to Girl's Camp for our stake today. It's weird being on the "staying" end. I'm usually heading off on a business trip or to some camping trip with the scouts. I have to say...no fun. I'm busy, of course!

1. Got the kids up and dressed
2. Fed them breakfast
3. Did laundry and cleaned up the house (in case anyone came to see it)
4. Took Ellie to swim lessons...Trevor and I played with cars while we waited for her.
5. Dropped the kids off at Emily's sister Maggie's house
6. Went to work (realized I forgot my computer and had to go back home to get it...ended up working from home)
7. Picked up the kids and took them to Bajio for dinner...then picked up some milk at Macey's
8. Mowed the lawn
9. Bathed the kids and watched the movie Cars with them
10. Did some work to clean up our hard drive on the laptop and now I'm on the blog.

Most of this is all in a day's work for Emily...who is the most amazing woman that I could ever have hoped to marry. Which brings me back to the fact that it's only been 15 hours and I miss her like crazy.

Camping with the Family (End of July)

We spent 3 days camping up near Strawberry Reservoir with Chris and Shelly Willes and their kids, Steve and Deelisa Panton and their children, Harold and Melanie Becht and crew....and, of course, Keira!. Tent Trailer, Crayfish fishing, kayaking, swimming, campfires, log teeter-totters, strange animal noises and a very funny snipe hunt. All-in-all it was awesome and we're ready to go again...after Young Women's Camp!