Week in Review...August 26th, 2018

Last Saturday Haley, Ashlyn and I went to the Gilbert Temple for Family Temple Day. Rick stayed home with Abby and Jacob and our neighbor Ella, whose parents went to the temple too. I did initiatories for family names and Haley and Ashlyn did baptisms for their family names. The baptistry was so crowded that we waited 2 hours just for them to get started, it was a great experience. Haley and Ashlyn were able to be baptized by a priest in our ward, it was neat to see... Abby working at her table with her friends in Kindergarten.

Abby has been missing her preschool best friend Lexi, who goes to a different school for kindergarten so we had her over to play on Monday. It was fun to see them playing again...

She's also starting to play before school starts, which is awesome!

My birthday was on Saturday, I woke up to my Garmin telling me to eat cake!

We went swimming at Skyline pool with Zach, Ethan and Austin. It was fun to get out and swim, we always forget each year that 2 pools are open on the weekends through Sept, so this year we've been taking advantage. We then went to Garcia's because I had a free birthday meal, but they ended up not letting me get the meal for free. I'm not sure if we'll return...even though it was really yummy!

Then we had the Paul's over for cake. Carrie made me this awesome cake, it says Linds! It was a great birthday, I got calls, texts and Facebook posts from almost all of my siblings!

Rick got me sparkler candles, so they were sparking-I tried to hurry them up with the singing...

And baby Lilly slept through the whole thing! What a sweetheart!

Week in Review...August 19, 2018

Last Sunday Mathias gave a talk in Church about all of the support that he receives from his family. He did a great job!

Abby is doing so much better at Kindergarten! She is participating in P.E. now and making friends. Today at church I had 4 people come up to me and tell me that Abby had given them a hug or talked about Kindergarten with them. This has never happened before, she usually just bows her head when someone talks to her, or smiles at them. She has never willingly went up to anyone and hugged them! She even participated in Primary, raised her hand to answer a question. She has grown so much this last week, all from starting Kindergarten. What a blessing! Prayers are truly answered! Here she is swinging with her friend Samantha before school started...

I didn't have a sub job on Thursday and Rick had worked last Saturday so he took Thursday off too. We went kayaking at the lake, it was fun! We did see a dead dear floating in the water and after we got home we saw on the news that another kayaker had found a dead body in the water!!! I'm so glad that we just saw the dear! Crazy!! We had a great time spending the day together, it was nice to be able to have that one on one time.

You can't see it, but on this rock mountain was a Bald Eagle!! It was so cool to see it!

We stopped at this little beach and swam for a bit, I wanted to be far away from the dead dear....little did we know there was a dead body just around the corner from this!!!

Abby with her table at Kindergarten, still doesn't like pictures but that's ok!

I got quite the workout rowing!

Our watermelon plant is taking over our lemon tree...which we think died, so now it's a trellis.

Week in Review...August 12-2018

Abby can sometimes be a daddy's girl. It's so cute when she is...

We had Mom over last Sunday for dinner with Carrie, Zach, Austin, Ethan and baby Lilly. All of the kids wanted to hold her, shes so sweet!!

First day of school! Abby's in Kindergarten with Mrs. Pena, Jacob is in 5th grade with Mrs. Pickrel, Ashlyn started middle school 7th grade at Fremont and Haley is a Junior at Red Mountain and I'm a librarian and an aide:) Kindergarten drop off was really hard. We were both in tears, and almost made the aide cry. Abby does not like being away from me, and she had a really hard time leaving me. We pretty much just had to separate at the door in order for her to go into the school. Luckily the aide was very helpful and helped. She had a good day and was smiling when I picked her up. The next day was worse, but the third day was better. Hopefully it will be ok tomorrow and not be bad again. Fingers crossed. She didn't participate in PE, so we will have to work on being excited about participating. Ashlyn got to school all on her own, riding her bike to a new school! She did great! Haley got picked up by a boy in our ward, so that was nice! Jacob and Abby before school on the first day!

Abby's very anxious face...

She refused to look at the camera before school started, I could tell it was going to be tough...

This face just makes me cry, she was so nervous!

After school smiles!!

Her aide sent me this pic on her first day...

Ashlyn's first day went great! She loves being in middle school and has great friends!

Haley is doing great in High School. She has seminary first hour this year, so that's a great start to her day...

Abby was much happier after school was done...

Second day, a little less nervous...

Even played on the playground!

Ricks mom came to help Rob as he's going through a really tough divorce....we went out to Red Robin to see her....

We've had some crazy monsoon storms pass through, wreaking havoc on our backyard....

So I got to work on Saturday trying to move the water away from the house, Rick had to work on Saturday. The mud was oddly soothing and I actually enjoyed it!

Water balloon fight from last week, the kids went kayaking in the retention basin on Saturday there was so much water!!

Here's hoping we have a better week at school!