Baby Benjamin

Yesterday we had so much fun. We went to visit our friends Josh and Terra. Tyler always loves to go and visit them. Josh loves to play with Tyler and Terra is always so nice to him. We were extra excited to go and visit them because they just had their little baby Benjamin. It was so nice to sit and hold a new baby. Scott and I both loved it. I forgot how nice it is to have a little one snuggled up against you. It seemed like Scott never wanted to put him down, but I did get some baby time for myself. Tyler got some baby time also. Tyler is going to be a great friend to Benjamin. He is adorable. He looks like both of them. I have to say that his bed room was AWESOME, all done in baseball. Tyler loved that. Josh and Terra are already great parents. Being a mom and dad seems to only get better with time!

I Love Teaching!

I really love teaching my pre-school kids. This week reminded me again of how fun it is. Every once in a while a kid in class does something so funny, and it reminds me how much fun I have with all of them. In my older classes this week I was teaching the kids about health and we were talking about germs. During circle time my student Brielle raised her hand and told me that her dad had taught her about a new kind of germ. She said that it was called a cootie, and you get it when you kiss a boy! I could totally picture, in my mind, Brielle's dad giving her and her older sister the "cootie" talk. I laughed so hard it took a few minutes before I could get on with the lesson. Then we were talking about killing germs by washing your hands and Brielle said, "You would have to take a really long shower to get the cootie germ off of you!" I just about died from laughing so hard. Thank You Brielle for making my week at school so much fun! I love you and all of my kids!

Fall Field Trip

This year at school Tyler's class got to go on a fall field trip. Tyler looks forward to the fall field trip every year. They get to go and see all of the farm animals, go through the corn maze, play on the BIG GIANT hay slide, and go on a hay ride. This year was extra special for him because his dad got to go and help with the class. When they got home from school they had traded name tags. Scott had Tyler's name tag on and had modified it to say Tyler's dad and Tyler had on the name tag that said Mr. Tyler's Dad. Tyler had a extra fun time with his dad. Scott had fun too. They both came home tired from all of the fun, with a GREEN pumpkin that they picked from the pumpkin patch. (They told them that it would turn orange by Halloween. We'll have to wait and see!)

Apple Picking

We Love it when Grandpa's apples are ready to be picked. This year there were so many apples on the tree that we had to keep picking them to thin them out. Tyler loves to go to Grandpa's to pick apples. Dad & Ty love the big red apples. Mom loves the green ones. Thank you Grandpa for all of the great apples!

Family Time

This month has been a little crazy. We have been so busy. We went to my nephew Steve's football game. He played really good even though they lost. We had a family BBQ at Grandma's and Grandpa's for Jacob's 12th birthday. (We are so excited for him to be able to recieve the priestood). We also went to the Heratige Festival were we got to cut logs, sculpt with clay and watch artists work. The hardest thing that we did this month was move Scott's bother to his new home. We are missing them already and they have only been at their new house for a week. I miss them and their kids sooo much. I miss Kaitlyn sitting on my lap, teaching Austin in school, (all of his class mates miss him also), talking with Kenz and Maddi, and hanging out with Shane and Julie. They are an important part of our lives and I love and miss them!

School Dayz!

Tyler's first day of second grade was fun for him. He was so excited to go and be with his teacher and his friends again. Tyler and his best friend Azlynn are in the same class again this year. Tyler's teacher is so cute and fun. We are excited for him!

Declaration of Indepenence and day in SLC

We were so excited to go and see the Declaration of Independence come to the Utah State Capital. We decided to go up and see it. It was really cool to be able to see that history of our nation. Tyler loved being there. We waited in line for 2 hours, but they had activities for the kids to do so it made it fun. Because we were in SLC we decided to stay and make a day of it. We took Tyler to the Bee Hive house (Brigham Young's House), he had never been there before. We went and ate at the top of the Joesph Smith Memorial building and went and watched the movie about Joseph Smith. Then we went to the temple grounds. It was nice to be able to get away for a day and just play together as a family. It felt like a mini vacation.