We ended the summer with an amazingly fun day!  Everyone on our street pitched in and rented a huge bouncy slide. We spent the entire day outsdide with friends and neighbors. 



The kids had tons of fun on the slide, and got really tired by the end of the day. Isaac was very brave this year, going down doing tricks and playing "King of the Hill" with the big boys!

We got pizzas for lunch, had popsicles, snacks and then our friend made cotton candy. It was really a great way to end the summer!!

The power was out in our neighborhood for 11 hours on Monday. Luckily Grandma Shields never looses power, shes on a different power source. So we ran a long extension cord from her house to the bouncy slide.

Lizzie was being goofy this day afer getting a snow cone at the shiver shack.
She looked at this dollar bill and yelled "Grandpa!"
It was so funny...I wonder which grandpa she was referring to.

School started bright and early Wednesday morning.
Isaac will have afternoon Kindergarten so normally he will go to school from 12-3,  and then walk home with the kids.
He was up and ready to go the first day so we could get pictures and walk all the kids to school. 

Here's my cute kids ready to go!
Taylor 5th grade
Emily 2nd grade
Isaac kindergarten
Lizzie home school with mom!
She was totally in school mode, and made us get a backpack out for her.  She kept waving her hand at me saying
"Bye, mom. I going to school, See you later!"
It was really cute, but she was pretty sad when she realized she doesn't go to school yet.

It was hard to get up on time. Everyone had been sleeping in until 8ish or later.  School starts at 8:25, so I was dragging them out of bed around 7:40.



Here's the group of kids who walk to Uintah from our street. It's a good bunch of kid and all different ages too.




The night before school started I was tucking Isaac into bed and he got a panicked look on his face.
He grabbed my arm and said
" I don't even know any math! Will they teach me math in school?"
It was so funny. He had been thinking about all the things he does know, and realized he didn't know enough math.
I thought it was super cute!



Back to School is bittersweet. In some ways it will be nice to have a schedule but it's been really great to have fun, relaxed care free days all summer. I am not looking forward to homework, colder weather and just more business!



The kids all came home from schoo happy.
Taylor reported it was long and boring.
Emily said it was good and she liked her teacher.
Isaac seemed happy and told me
"Mom, you know I'm the ONLY good one in my class?!"
I laughed out loud as he described how everyone else was talking, crying and not listening to their teacher. It was hilarious!




Thursday after school we headed to Springville to celebrate Goofy grandpa Wall's 65th Birthday! It was a surprise bday party, and Danny was in charge of getting him to the party around 6:45.
Monica had the "Waffle Love" truck come to their backyard and provide all the food.  The waffles were loaded with fruits, whipped cream, nutella etc... They were delicious!



The kids had a fun night, running around and eating their yummy waffle.
We love Goofy Grandpa and hope he had a fun birthday party!

Isaac and I went on a little date to Yogurtland, he was thrilled with his  yogurt covered in gummy worms. 
I love his smile, cutest 5 year old around!