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The Writer of the Month

Great job Kaitlin, we are so proud of you!

Gobble, Gobble

We are so excited to be in our new home and be able to host Thanksgiving here this year! Then I got nervous knowing that I would have to make the Turkey....Yikes!! I only hope it doesn't turn out like this one-

Happy Halloween!!

We are getting ready for a fun filled night of tricks and lots of yummy treats!

Jayden as Batman, Logan as a Baseball Player, Kaitlin as Nancy Drew and Gavin as a Scarecrow!

Gatorade...

According to Jayden it smells gooder than it tastes!! =) LOL

High School Musical 3

The day is almost here and we are sooo excited!! We downloaded the soundtrack from iTunes and have been rockin' out to it everytime we are driving!! We are so excited to be traveling to Sacramento to see the movie with Michelle and Ellie!! What a great day it will be....Ellie's birthday party in the morning and the afternoon spent with the girls and Zac Efron!! =) Yes, I am a 27 year old woman who loves and looks forward to kid/tween things!! I'll always be a kid at heart!! =)

Rub a Dub Dub....

.... Gavin is big enough for the kitchen sink tub!! Gavin is now pretty good at sitting up on his own, so he has advanced to the kitchen sink for bathtime. He was having a blast tonight splashing all over. I could hardly get a decent picture of him, because he was just watching the water go everywhere, and would not look at me!! My baby is just growing up way too fast!!

Our New Home

Well it is time to move on. We are excited about our new place, and the kids are excited to be in Dan & Lydia's ward (Jared's brother) so they can be with their cousins, and that they have such a big back yard to play in. Sometimes in life it is hard to make those big decisions for fear that it may not be the right one; however with this one everything fell into place and we just knew it was right. In fact we were a little bummed out because the kids new school did not have a pre-school for Jayden in the past and we needed to transfer Kaitlin to their first grade, when we called they told us that there was one spot left in first grade and that on September 15 they start pre-school for the first time, it happened at the perfect time!

Also Nana & Papa are excited to have us closer, and we know Grandma Janis is sad we are leaving her ward and have been so close to her for the last seven years, we love you Mom! Well I have been floating on cloud nine this week in excitement. Here is to the next steps in this life.

Also here are some pictures and details of the new place.

5 Bedrooms/3.5 Baths

18,000 sq. ft. lot

Surrounded by thirty year old redwoods.

Master suite has jacuzzi tub and fireplace

Sleepy Baby!!

Gavin is on his third day of soothing himself to sleep and it is going amazing!! Jayden and Logan from 4 months on were able to be layed in their beds for naps and bedtime and put themselves to sleep without a fuss. It was so nice!! Gavin has been the total opposite. He is 6 months old and is still wanting to nurse to go to bed and he almost always will wake up the second he leaves my arms and is in his bed. With the other kids needing my attention that was getting really hard. A couple days ago I layed him in his bed when I knew he was tired, instead of nursing him to sleep to see what he would do. He fussed for about a minute and was out!! He has done that since for all naps and bedtime! It has been heaven!! I'm crossing my fingers he keeps it up!!

P.S. This is far from an exciting post, but I it's an accomplishment for me! I thought is was definitely blogworthy!!!

First Day of School

It's here....The First Day of School!!

Kaitlin has been begging for a rolling backpack since the middle of last year and she finally got it thanks to Nana!! She has been rolling it all around the house for a couple days, so today she was thrilled to finally take it to class!

Kaitlin loves the fact that in first grade she gets her very own desk....it was one of the first things she talked about when she got in the car this afternoon. She is going to have a blast in first grade, and I'm so excited to watch her grow and learn.

Because Jayden's birthday is 10 days after the Kindergarten cut off, he is doing another year of Pre-School. It was like he had never left for the summer. He walked in, put his stuff in his cubby and went to sit down in his square...it was second nature to him! What a funny boy!

Here's Logan waiting patiently on the side as Jayden was going into class. Having all the kids home this summer he really missed out on all the alone time with mom, so it will be fun for him to just be home alone with just myself and Gavin!

Fountains

While Michelle was here visiting from Sacramento we took all the kids over to the fountains at Fashion Fair Mall. I don't know why I haven't been there before because the kids had a blast. What a fun way to cool off in this crazy heat!!

The kids had fun chasing each other through the water.

It took Logan awhile to get in on the action, but he finally did splash around.

The fountains have rotating cycles of how the water is going to come out. Jayden was looking for the water to come up and instead he got it on the back from water coming in a different direction. I thought it was pretty funny because at first he didn't know how he was getting hit because when he would look up the water would be gone!!

Kaitlin and Ellie..one of the few pictures that I could get of any of the kids holding still. I guess that means they were having a good time!!

We are so glad that Michelle and Josh have moved to Sacramento and there are so close! The kids had such a great time playing with Ellie and Olivia! We can't wait for the next visit!

I couldn't forget my Gavin boy...he was very happy just relaxing outside! Of course only until he realized that he was in his carseat, then he was not pleased! =)