Look Hailey

First I am wearing the shirt that you gave to the Hawaiian Princess, thanks I love it I love that it's from the Limited store...I miss that store in the Tacoma mall. Second Baby sissy is wearing the dress that you bought her, I got lots of compliments on it! Doesn't she look adorable in it? Thanks Hailey!

These Four Youngest....

With baby sissy being the youngest amongst these three crazy boys, she's the luckiest girl in the world. She is so loved by these boys, they stop playing or doing what they are doing just to greet her with a kiss, they litereally have to give her a kiss every time they see her. When they all wake up in the mornings and see each other for the first time, they all get so excited to see each other, even baby sissy squeels with delight to see her big brothers, it's a bond that feels like it was bonded before they came here on earth, it's so neat. 

First Day of School!

Hawaiian Princess is in the Ninth grade this year, Yicks! She was so excited to start school and start seminary!! She loves seminary and here it's an elective instead of early morning so she has it the last hour of the day and she says that she likes that because then she can end on a good note!

 Dash is in the seventh grade this year and has discovered girls well... he's always discovered girls but this year the girls are discovering him! He's lovin' school and this school is a little diverse and that's what I wanted for my kids is a little diversity. Sloane and I grew up in a diverse area and we just lived in an area where there wasn't much diversity and I originally thought that I would love everyone the same, however I discovered that it's better for everyone to be different and unique and we all are loving it!

 Violet is in the third grade this year and is excited to learn cursive, she has said that I don't know how many times in the last few weeks. She loves her new teacher and loves her class, although they are all dying in this really old school with the heat wave and there is no air conditioning in the building, poor kids!

 EB has started Kindergarten and is loving it! He even gets to take the bus which he loves! He told me that his teacher gave him a sucker the first day then it was followed by a, "I just love her!" He's so cute!

 JR started preschool today and loved it, but was very tired and was the first to bed. I think it's harder on theses little ones, esp. when they have a hard time understanding why their little bodies are so tired. He was grumpy to everyone and threw a fit, hopefully it will go better tomorrow!

Last but not least, Shell is in the fifth grade this year. I cant' believe my baby will be eleven this year, it's crazy to think about, hormones ect. She is loving school, she has a boy teacher for the first time this year but he's really nice and she likes him. I have to say one really great thing that Shell does and is consistent with since she started school is that she does her homework with out being asked and gets it done right when she gets home!

This Dog....

Has won the heart of her owner!! We love this silly, stupid, smart, annoying, lovable, cuddly(yes she thinks she's small and loves to sit on my lap and won't move!) Dog! She has become my dog because I do the training & taking her out now that the kids are back in school and she loves to run around and play with me, she's too funny! She's secretly become my ninth child...I have found myself saying things like "Come to mommy!" I then quickly catch myself and laugh, Oh well right? 

She's getting better at the potty training, and she sits for anyone now even my five year old can get her to sit! She stays and is getting better at Leave it. Now if I can just get her to drop it, things would be a whole lot better and the leash training I gave up on all together.

Yep here's to my ninth child!

Our little sissy is growing up!

I can't believe she will be nine months this week!! This bottom picture totally depicts her personality, she is a ray of sunshine, smiles at everyone every time you look at her, she's wonderful! 

She is now eating baby food. I felt impressed to wait because she had digestion issues for so long that it was a must to wait, she loves to eat that's for sure! She knows how to Crawl, sit up, and is walking along furniture, it won't be long before she can walk. She even will do things to make you laugh at her, she's so funny and all personality!! She looks a lot like my baby pictures.

Camping at Teton National Park

As you can see, this little boy was in heaven, he ate dirt and constantly had rocks in his mouth and was found playing in the dirt, but he was smiling all the time, yep this is his element! He was so dirty! He was too funny!

Dash wanted so badly to carry his little baby sister, in this picture she was crying but she was happy most of the time he was holding her, such a nice big brother!

This is called Johnny's shack, it was built by an English man who came here and built this cabin in the 1830's, it's amazing all the wood work inside and he had running electricity  by this water wheel and he had running water from this water wheel also that brought water up to a pump and then into the house. The man was a genius! Then he made everything, the trim in the house and the neat log cabin pattern on the floor out of wood, all the furniture that was amazing and could sell for big bucks in the stores, but the one thing they cannot figure out is the finish on the wood, it's amazing it still looks brand new and no one can figure out what he used to finished it with.  I guess that secret died with him.

We had such a great time going camping, Going to Yellowstone and watched Sloane's favorite, Old Faithful. Then we went to the shops and got all the kids coats for the winter. Then we took the kids to Mack's inn Play house and saw the play called "Home School Musical," it was so funny! The kids loved it! We saw the Phantom of the Grand old Opera last thursday and they run these two plays all summer long every other day and different shows every year, they have been doing this for four years now and it's too fun! It's all comedy and it's great clean fun, they director is LDS and he's super funny! He dressed up as the mother in the Home School Musical and it was so funny!

We had a great weekend with the kids, we are lovin' it here, there are so many more things to do here than in Boise area with lots of great out door stuff to do that's in expensive and fun, there are lots more things that we cannot wait to do that we have planned! This is truly a hidden treasure!:)

Mesa Falls

We had a great time going to Mesa Falls. The kids Sloane and I last weekend went to Mesa Falls, Teton National Park to camp, Yellow Stone, and Island Park to see a play we had a great time. Violet enjoyed all the bugs, she's our bug/animal girl, she was in heaven with all the different colored beautiful butterflies that she was catching.