3rd trimester

HALLELUJAH!!!

2nd grade

Maelie is a 2nd grader! We missed meet the teacher night but she seems to know her teacher Mrs. Swanson and she is excited!

Jonas took Maelie to her playground and I took Kyla so this is where we said goodbye!

all ready for school~!!

cute girls had their clothes all ready the night before! Maelie is so excited to go back to school!

kindergarten

in front of her classroom, and on the playground

Kyla is at full day kindergarten!! She seemed totally fine but I am totally nervous. I will be so happy when it's time to go pick her up! Kyla has the same teacher Maelie had - Mrs. Varner - and we are so glad!

with the mascot, and at her desk

with her back pack, and ready to go to school

clothes all picked out the night before, and ready to go!

the first day of school!!!!

I could not sleep last night! I was worrying about every little silly thing possible! Today is the first day of school. We missed meet the teacher night. I am having some anxiety about Kyla going to full day kindergarten. She is a unique individual. She seems wayyyy too young to go to school all day. But she has had almost 2 years of preschool and her teachers there said she was doing great! She has been excited to go, but last night the last thing she said was, "I think it would be better if I stayed home." I kind of agree with her but of course I said, "No, school is way more fun that staying home, good night, I love you." The girls fell right to sleep but I tossed and turned. Maelie is starting 2nd grade. I'm not very worried about her at all. She will be fine. Jaxon starts preschool tomorrow at a different school with a different class and teacher. But he has been asking me everyday the past few days if he's going to preschool. I think he will be fine. There are several other worries I have going on... but it's time to make school lunches. Jonas and I had a break through over the weekend! A name we both like and we both feel really good about. Who knows if it's the real one, but for now we both like it and that's a plus!

Canyon

home sweet home

I'm not thinking we will ever do that again. Driving for 4 days and only being there for 5 was too quick and too tiring! I am so glad that we went tho. Tuesday was a busy day. All of Jonas' siblings were there, except for one who was in the middle of finals week. I'm really glad that we made the effort to go. It was worth it! The sealing was awesome! Little Elissa and Pilot got sealed to their parents Tim and Janay. It was so beautiful! I wish I had pix from that, I will definitely have to get some from someone else. The kids had so much fun getting to know all their cousins, I am sad that we only had one day together with everyone. Maelie was crying the day we left because she wanted to play with her cousins longer. We took pix of Jonas' parents with all the grandkids that I will also have to get from someone else. I was bad and didn't take any pix. There was an awesome dinner that night and the girls got their blessings. (kinda like a baby blessing) It was very cool, eventho I had to take a loud Jaxon out of the room. Anyway, then we drove home for 2 days straight! LONG!!!! We stayed at a hotel Wednesday night in Provo. The kids did so awesome! There were occasional bad moments, like when all 3 kids had to go to the bathroom bad!!! We got into the gas station bathroom and there was a LINE!! There were 2 older ladies in front of us and it was so obvious my kids had to go bad, Maelie was crying and Jaxon was yelling and holding himself. The 2 ladies behind me were like "those ladies should have let them go first!" My thought exactly but what do ya do? And then there was the time when we were an hour from home and Jaxon starts yelling "I don't wanna go this way, (he points behind him) I wanna go that way. I don't wanna go to my house, I want to go back to Grandma and Grandpa's house" But we are so thankful that our DVD players worked the whole time, for RedBox, for a working vehicle that gave us no problems, that we didn't get in any accidents, for air conditioning, and that we made it home!!

more Canada FUN

Today was warm and sunny so we headed back into Waterton! The kids sure love the tall grass!

It was a much better day for playing in the water!

There is a new park in Waterton, even with a splash pad, we were pretty surprised. The nice thing about the splash pad there is that us parents don't die of heat watching our kids. :)

We went canoeing at Cameron Lake! That snowy mountain is in the US!!

On Saturday we went to see the spill way, played in the creek a bit, got slushies, and the kids enjoyed the jet tub! Sunday we went to church, I had a huge nap after having to take 2 Benadryls (so I'm not sure what everyone else did) and then we went to the cemetery!

Family is starting to trickle in... tomorrow is the sealing day of Jonas' brother Tim's family. :)

a Waterton Birthday

I am sitting here watching Aladdin with a sick Jaxon. Poor kid!! We are hoping to go out and do some stuff today in a couple hours and see how Jaxon is doing. Yesterday was Maelie's birthday! We took her to the store to let her pick something and she also spent some money from Grandma and Grandpa. Then we went to Waterton for the day! It was gorgeous! I never get sick of seeing those sights and I am always amazed at how beautiful it is there! The air was so refreshing. We roasted hotdogs and had a picnic. The kids had fun feeding the gophers. The kids had fun seeing the deer and the waterfall and the lakes and throwing rocks in the water. Kyla was a little adventurous and got her feet wet for a bit until she got too cold. Up at Cameron Lake we found SNOW!! They loved it and had a snowball fight! We also went to the "castle" and looked around. After Waterton we had Maelie's favorite dinner - cheese crisps! And then we had birthday cheesecake. It was a great day!!!

present time :)

Maelie got her present from us today since we are leaving tomorrow. She wanted her present hidden, so she had to find them. She had 3 smaller presents wrapped up - chalk, paint, and dry erase crayons... then she found the easel!