Moms wedding

A few weeks ago we flew out to Utah for my moms wedding. The airplane ride there was eventful-Ethan had a fever and threw-up in between flights! Poor thing wasn't feeling better so we had to take him to the doctor, turns out he had an ear infection:( This put a damper in our trip to Temple Square so I hope we can go back! All my siblings except Jim were there, including 7 nieces and nephews plus my 3! It was a packed house but everyone really got along well:)Our 3rd day there, it decided to snow on us! Kids absolutely loved it!
So did the adults!

Notice how Gage is looking up to catch a snowball (the distraction snowball)-notice the other snowball Eric threw twirling right toward his head! (the one intended for him!) Sneaky Uncle Eric!


Girls having fun!



Will up to mischief and playing with GG!;)



David playing with Sadie! (these kids really do have awesomely fun Uncles!!)



Averie not about to share her juice! lol

Everyone had a lot of fun karaoke-ing!






The wedding way was cold and wet-but it was still a beautiful day!





The reception was the next day and was lovely too!
Sadie with GG!

Peyton and GG!

My pretty Mama!


Sadies giving one of her many looks!

Silly shot of the cousins!


Nice shot of the cousins!

Guys protesting black socks!


Best little buddies-6 months apart:)


not really sure.....


Julie had one too many!

My sweet little niece, Averie, that I finally got to meet




We did our own photos-which I think turned out pretty cute!





It was a FUN and Awesomely entertaining week! It was so nice to laugh and hang out with my family and see my mom get married too! Seeing the snowy mountains was icing on the cake!

A visit from Papa John!

My dad flew down last month just to see Ethan play baseball! I had the coach put Ethan as the catcher for that game because I thought it would be entertaining for us, and fun for him....it was!
This picture shows the ball going right past Ethan-and him not moving:) It was so hard to move in all that gear but by the end he was starting to reach for the ball!




Thanks for coming to support your grandson papa! xoxo

First Day of School!!

I have been waiting ALL summer for this day! I Love Love Love my kids but I need a break! 8 plus years as a stay at home mom will take a toll on most moms! Gage started 3rd grade and has Mrs. McPeak. She seems like a sweet teacher and I feel like Gage is going to do really well with her this year! Plus I am super excited to actually be able to help out in his class. I'm not quite ready for "room mom" but helper I can do!
Ethan is in Kindergarten! He has been wanting to ride the bus ever since Gage first got on it when he started Kindergarten! He has Mrs. Gibbs and she is the sweetest nicest teacher! Just what you would expect from a Kindergarten teacher:) Ethan seems to really like her too which is great! Sadie is in pre-k and has the same teacher Ethan had last year, Mrs. Weaver. I loved her with Ethan and Sadie knew her so it worked out great! She is bummed that she can't ride the bus but can't wait until her first field trip so she can ride their pre-k school bus:)

Here's the kids before heading out to catch the bus.....




We have a huge group of kids at the bus stop this year! This picture isn't all the kids.....
Third graders!

Time to catch the bus! Notice Gage guiding Ethan with his hand:) He was instructed that he is to protect his brother at all cost in school, its our family rule:) Glad to see he was listening!


Gage let down the window so they could effectively wave goodbye;)....

Then Justin and I took Sadie on the golf cart to her school! He has the whole week off which has been nice!
Successful first day of school! And here is Sadie running to her brother who she missed so much today!


Nope, nevermind! Just rubbing her lollipop in his face...little stinker!

Last weekend of Summer break!

So, as usual, we packed in a lot of stuff to celebrate the last weekend before school starts. We headed out to Lake Wedowee with our friends the Gardners! We got there Friday with just enough day light to take the boat out for some tubing fun! I wish I had my camera because at one point Ethan and Sadie were screaming in terror but when they got on the boat they said it was sooooo much fun! lol We went out on the boat Saturday and the kids tubed and swam and Ethan even kneeboarded! I missed it because I wasn't feeling so well so I was in the house resting:( We will definitely go back again soon! (hint hint Gardners! lol) I took a few pictures with my cell but the quality wasn't so great once the sun was setting:(



We headed out Saturday after dinner....
This is Gage and Luke. Luke is Sadies age and in her pre-k class!



2 cool dudes trying to be like their Papa John:) lol



The Sunday was off to church and the kids were SOOOOOOOOOOO well behaved that morning! They did everything they were told, things that Gage would typically fight with me about he didn't! It was so super nice to have such a peaceful Sunday! Afterwards we rewarded them by taking them to the Georgia Aquarium. Jessie's mother in law hooked us up with tickets so it was FREE! You know how I like a good deal:) Kids had such a good time and it was a nice way to end the weekend.











So much fun and all ready for a new and exciting school year!