First day of preschool! (older pictures)

Our first day of preschool! I am doing a Joy school this year. It has been fun, and gives me some of that teaching craving again. There are five kids in our preschool (not including Cole. He gets to be there when I teach obviously, and when I am the helper for another mom.) Both kids love it. It is pretty structured, and I love that. They are getting ready for kindergarten. Ambra is learning lots and she loves, loves, loves school. She is of course the most advanced in the group. I am not just saying that because I am her mom, she really is. I can tell she is our little over achiever. Of course I am very pleased with this information. All of the kids in the preschool are wonderfully behaved and they are all very bright too.

Feeding the ducks

We always get to feed the ducks at Grandmas. Huge bags of popcorn for eaching feeding member of the family. This was during our labor day stay.

Cinderella

We went to Adam's mom's for the labor day weekend. We had a fabulous time. She treated us girls to Cinderella at Tuachan. Ambra was thrilled she got to dress up in her Cinderella costume.
The show was really fun. Here is Ambra with one of the stepsisters.
We waited a very long line to get a picture with Cinderella and the prince and she wouldn't get near them. Funny girl. I snapped a shot without her.

More Birthday!!

Cole got a bike for his birthday but he was scared of it. He calls it his "scarry bike" So daddy rode around with Colie on Ambra's scooter.
The best part of a birthday party that you invite friends to is that you get oodles of presents.

Baily and Madelyn in lounging in the pool.

Cole's Third Birthday!!

Cole had a Cars birthday for his third.
We decorated the backyard with lots of balloons and racetrack stuff.
We played slip and slide and in the pool. We also set up a obstacle course that the kids pretended like they were cars and raced through. This picture is of friend Sam down the street.
It is funny because when I asked Cole who he wanted to invite to his birthday party, he said, Autumn, Bailey, Sam, Madelyn... This is funny because all these people are Ambra's friends and are Ambra's age. They come over to play alot and we have had play groups with her friends so of course Cole's friends are Ambra's friends. Unfortuneatly there aren't many boys Cole's age that are home during the day for Cole to have play dates with. This picure is of my beautiful Ambra and her (and Cole's )friend Autumn.
Blow out all the candles!!

Every thing into the mouth

These are older pictures too, but I had to post them. I have a love/hate relationship with the stage that absolutely every thing gets sucked on. If you look closely, you can see the drool stains on her shirt. She did this for like months. It has slowed down now that she has actually popped two teeth. She sure has been onry lately though. Poor girl, and poor mom. Teething is a tough one for Ariah. The other two you couldn't even tell by their attitude they were teething. They endured well. Ariah is apparently a little more sesitive.

Ariah's Blessing

What a beautiful little girl!!! We had both grandma's come and of course Uncle Ethan and Uncle Josh. Ariah was pretty noisy during the blessing. Adam was afraid she would pop her pacifier on the floor so he just went without one. One of the young women in our ward came up to me a few days later and said "She is so cute, but she was the noisest baby I have ever heard." Thanks alot! The blessing was lovely and we enjoyed our little bundle in white.
Ariah with her Grandma (Adam's mom). Sorry the pictures are sideways but I don't know how to easily turn them. If anyone knows a way that will take me like two seconds, let me know.

So, I haven't taken any new pictures lately so I will post some older ones. Isn't this picture darling! What cute girls I have. I can say girls now. It is fun.

Happy Day

The kiddies are always good for a smile! It can brighten your day even in the worst of storms.

One of the last pretty days of the season.

We had so much fun taking these pictures. It is getting too cold to be outside without a coat, but this day was like a warm spring day only in the late fall. Ariah, loves to be anywhere her brother and sister are. She is such a content and sweet baby (especially when siblings are around). We played for over and hour and then got a call from some friends to meet them at the park. What a way to spend our sunny fall day.

Isn't my little pumpkin the cutest ever!!

Happy Halloween

We had a fun halloween (although it was the first year without dad). The kids were Woody and Jesse from Toy Story. We went to a pumpkin walk (where Ambra got filmed and put on channel 5 news), a halloween carnival put on by Layton City, a trunk or treat at the church and then trick or treating on Halloween. Since Adam is out of town, my mom came to spend Halloween with us. We had a fun time, but nothing is the same without daddy.