Back to School....Priceless!!!

High School Registration & fee's $340.00
Middle School Registration & fee's $ 72.00
School Clothes for 5 kids $$$$$$ way to much to list

First day back to School......PRICELESS!!!

It's that time of year again that mom's look forward to and kids dread! This year at school marks a couple of milestones for us! It's the last first day of high school for senior Shyanne, and the first day of middle school for Austin. Where does the time go? The kids had a great time shopping and getting ready for school, but only Shelby was glad to see it actually come, although Bubba was pretty excited getting ready this morning, he had to make sure he had his colonge on "for the girls" (yeah I'm in big trouble with this one when he gets old enough to date!) Anyways here's some pics of the dreaded great day!


Shyanne the big bad SENIOR


Austin ready for the big jump to middle school
(he was so nervous, it was cute)

Jentry is all ready for 5th grade and soccer games at recess


Shelby is in 4th grade and excited to go

Bubba ready "for the girls" in 3rd grade

Hair today gone tomorrow

In getting ready for back to school the girls decided they wanted new do's. Shelby always wants her hair short because she is so tender headed and hates to have snarls. Jentry loves to grow hers out and donate it, so she has been waiting for it to be long enough to do it again, but still have enough left for ponytails! This is the 4th time Jentry has cut and donated her hair to locks of love. So here's the results!

Shy's International Volleyball Award

As most of you know Shyanne had a once in a lifetime opportunity to go to Italy this summer to play volleyball. She had a great time, wonderful experiences and made some great new friends. She also showed her coaches and the Italian coaches what a great volleyball player she is! After playing for 4 days in a International tournament, she was selected to play on the USA all-star team against Italy's all-star team, and then was also voted by the coaches out of nearly 100 USA girls as the "Outstanding Outside Hitter! " I am so proud of her and her accomplishments! We are so grateful to all of you you helped sponsor her in any way to be able to have this opportunity!

Summer Staycation

So it's been awhile since I have posted, sorry about that, it's been hard finding time to keep up with it all. I really wanted to be able to take the kids on a real vacation this summer, but financially it just didn't happen, so we decided to do a "staycation" and try to have a little bit of fun. We started friday and spent a half day doing some school shopping. Now for those of you who have 5 kids to have to school shop for you know where I am coming from. LOL But we did survive a few hours and got most of the kids fitted for shoes and that out of the way, not to mention a date for Shy while we were at it. We then headed back home and to the lake for a few hours of boating with the fam! Thanks Tom & Jen for carting us around in the boat! Saturday morning we got up and ready and headed back to provo and did some more school shopping and then made our way to Salt Lake where we went to the Joseph Smith movie. None of us had been and needless to say it was an amazing thing for us to do as a family and to strentghen our testimonies of the Prophet. We then spent some time walking around Temple Square and went on a tour of the Conference Center. After that we went to the Mayan to eat , none of us had been there before, and although it was a different atmosphere, I don't think its something we will do again. We went to the zoo, I realized that some of my younger kids have never even been to the zoo since they were little babies, so I figured it was about time that we went to the zoo, and then we made a stop at the "This is the place monument." We then finished up school shopping at the Gateway Mall and the younger kids played in the "shooting water" they had had enough of shopping, (I didn't get any pics of them playing in the water dang it) and by the time we got back to them they didn't want to get back in the cold water. But all in all we had a fun weekend and experienced some things that we hadn't before.


At the "This is the Place monument"


At the Zoo











These two are always being silly!



On the roof of the Conference Center

Temple Square

Heading into the mall for school shopping!