First day of school- ::tear::

My kids have been driving me crazy this summer.  Ok I admit it! They are always fighting and breaking things just because and complainging they are board. I can't take them to the store because it would be "the worst day of my life!" "why do we always have to go to stupid stores!".  Makes me want to rip my hair out somedays.  But here's the thing. I miss them when they are gone! Ty has been in school all day for two years now so I know what that is like.  But my little Blake being gone now too! Be still my poor mother heart! He is my little buddy! I thought it would be easier sending him after I've been through this with Ty but it's not! The good news is they both seem to have great teachers this year and Blake was at least excited. Ty wasn't as much. 

I bribed them a couple of days ago to go to the school playground for some back to school pictures. 

 These are Blake's tough and thinking faces. 

This one I almost feel off the ladder to get. 

And Stockton was stung by a bee this week and his eye was all swollen.  But he wanted a picture too even though we are just doing preschool at home this year. 

Bode and Grandpa's 89th

Bryan's sister Becca gave birth to her 4th baby this week- after three little girls she got her boy! I went up to see them in the hospital and was lucky enough to be there when her girls came to see him for the first time.  That is one of my favorite things in the world is when my kids meet a new sibling.  It makes me tear up every time. It's amazing to me the instant love they feel for a new brother.  These girls were no different.  They were so so excited to see and hold him. 

This is McCall with Bode.  She was the cutest of all.  She had him held really close and just kept kissing and hugging him. She was not willing to give up her turn holding him without a fight.

More pictures of Bode to come.  I don't have time to work on pictures and blog as much as I really need too... 

Last week was my sweet Grandpa's 89th birthday! I love my Grandpa and feel so lucky he is still around to celebrate with! His health stinks still and he seems to be going downhill even more.  I hope we can be with him for his 90th! 

We were at his cool park and there were some guys playing freebie golf. Brett thought it was fantastic.

Frogs

I really don't understand why little boys LOVE frogs.  But they do.  They really, really do.  So last Friday we took the boys out to where they like to go fishing and caught some frogs.  You know, some days I really wonder how I'm going to survive with all these boys.  I'm not into yucky frogs, or worms or spiders etc.  But they love them so I put up with them. 

This is my "look what I got mom" picture.  Right before I said "keep that thing away from me!"

Look at his face!! I love this picture! 

Now my little Stockton was the best. He was obsessed with his little frog Bryan found him.  He would put him down and chase him around then catch him again.

Stockton couldn't have been happier with his little frog friend.

Until he loved him so much he squished him trying to keep him from jumping away.  And he was devastated. 

It was about the worst day of his little life poor little guy.  On the bright side I didn't have a his little frog friend jumping around our car on the way home.  So you know, it all worked out for the best.  

Temple open house and Cache County Fair

I'm super sad that our summer vacation is coming to a end.  Don't get me wrong- somedays I can't wait until the older boys are back in school but I just love the summer.  I love going out and sitting in the yard while the kids play and it's so nice. So we are trying to enjoy every last minute we have.  Last week we did a couple of fun things.  We went to the Cache County fair and walked around.  We always have to go see the tractors.  Brett especially loved all the animals.  He really loved the chickens. My older boys wanted to ride on some of the rides this year and Bryan told them they could pick one and he would pay for them to ride it.  It's 4 dollars a kid per ride! For those crapy rides? Seriously.  But there wasn't anywhere that would take a debit card at the fair.  At least that we could find.  So I dodged a bullet there. I ended up coming back a couple of days later with Stockton, Blake and Ty and we went to the rodeo! I love the rodeo! Bryan was being a huge poo about it so he stayed home.  But don't tell him that I think Brett would have lasted for the first hour and then fallen apart so it was good that Brett wasn't with us.  My older boys loved it.  It was so fun. 

 Also last week Bryan was going with the youth from our ward to the Ogden temple open house.  So I insisted that we tag along because I knew he wouldn't want to drive there twice.  Of course it was fantastic and my boys were so good.  My little boys were positive they were going to see Jesus there.  Brett kept telling us "jesus come out!" I told Stock that you won't see Jesus but  you will get a  happy feeling inside that tells you he is close by.  So when I say you can feel him he took that literally and felt every carpet in the temple. We had to stop in every room we walked into stopping the line of people for him to feel the carpet.  So in his words "the carpet in Jesus house is really soft mom!".

 Part of our  Youth Group. 

 Tyson took this picture for me.  Why do people feel like they need to walk behind you when your taking a picture?  There were very few people on this side of the temple and a sidewalk just in front of us and they still walked behind.  We had to take like 20 picture and I still had to crop people out.