First Day of School

Well Tyler was more than a little excited to go to school today. His school starts at 11:45 and he has been asking when school starts since he got up at 8:30. Yeah needless to say we were one of the first kids there. He also wanted his hair into a faux-hawk but mom failed so spiky is how it ended up. The boy had a very hard time picking out his clothes this morning. Yesterday there was an open house and he knew just what to wear, a Toy Story shirt that put his head on Woody's body, today it took 15 minutes for him to pick. He insisted on a Batman backpack which we searched for weeks to find, and finally as a last resort we looked at Kmart in Jackson while we were there for a funeral this weekend, and they had 1 batman backpack, so that's why it's bigger than he is.
This is what Connor did while Tyler was at school.

Connor had a TOTAL meltdown this morning when he realized he did not get to school today. To the point he ended up in his room for over half an hour screaming this morning so I told him we would do letter practice and read and he was then content to stay home and start school next week.

Baby Blessing

Well on the 25th of July, right before my Bear Lake reunion we blessed Bailey. most of my siblings were able to make it. Brian's mom and sister were there and his best friend Dallas, his wife and parents were also able to make it. This is the bet picture we got as a family that day, yeah 2 kids was hard, 3 is pretty much impossible to get good pictures of. Oh and the boys had spent the day before at the Air Show and were REALLY sun burnt.

He likes her I swear

See

He was just cute

She likes him I swear :)

Hair bow by Shannon(sister), Blanket by Jessica(SIL), Dress by Lori Ann(cousin)

My cousin made me this dress more than 10 years ago when I was still in high school. After 2 boys we were beginning to believe it may hang unused in my closet forever. Since Bailey is SO little the dress was a little big on her but still beautiful! She did well and the blessing was nice. And Brian was really glad that the microphone was missing so only our family could hear what he was saying since he hates public speaking.

Family Reunion 2010

This year we had a family reunion at Bear Lake. My dad's family has a reunion here every other year and this was the year. My siblings were all together with all our kids and it's been like 4 years since that happened last. We stayed all together in one big cabin, which we have since vowed to NEVER do again. But it went pretty well, other than ther always being someone sick so at least 1 of the 3 bathrooms was always off limits to everyone else. (38 people, 3 bathrooms total, not OK)
We did crafts played games and just sat around and talked a lot. Here are just a few pictures of some of what we did...

Danielle OcklerChristian Kidd

Just a few of the boys playing Rock BandEhren rocking it out! bow making

Kids crafting on the deck

My brother and sister-in-law doing the ironing of the crafts,

with a few kids waiting for their turn for their craft to be ironed

more bow making (we did it almost every day)

more crafting on the deck

Bailey's 1st time in the pool

more poolshe actually really liked it and I was SHOCKED

here is her very first attempt at the pool

cousins watching Bailey's 1st pool adventure

It was really fun and there were no real injuries or fights or anything. Pretty amazing I thought. The kids had a lot of fun playing with all their cousins, 22 total at the time (23 now but that's another post). There was a lot of Geo-cashing, swimming, beach going, running, screaming, laughing, and late night talking. We were glad to come home and be able to sleep and shower and do laundry whenever we want. Bailey did not enjoy the reunion for the most part. We had never given her a bottle and when it gets noisy she REFUSED to eat so I would have to shut us in a closet (the only quiet one was the one in our room that connor had also decided should be his urinal so it didn't smell so hot in there) and calm her for like 30 minutes every time she wanted to eat. Needless to say I was more than exhausted by the time we got home.