Thursday, October 7, 2010

Holy Crap - I'm blogging!

It seems that time has just flown by since last spring. Here it is October, and I have no idea where I have been! (That is normal for me :))

I am just going to shove a whole bunch of pictures on here. If you choose to read on, you will see what our summer consisted of.....

The Last Day of School May 28th- Dylann sang "The Sun Will Come Out Tomorrow" in front of the whole elementary (106 kids) and their parents. Now remember, Dylann will not speak out loud to anyone, but she loves her a solo. Weird-o!
We bought Lagoon passes this summer and had a blast! Spent time with friends and family riding rides that make me sick now, but loved as a teenager. Ryann was so fun to watch. She loved kiddie land. It was nice to be able to let Rylie, Dylann & Kendall go off on their own, or with friends, so I could live it up on 'PUFF'! If I never ride that dragon again it will be too soon! The only bad thing about Lagoon, was......

The freaky house of dolls and clowns! I hate, hate, hate DOLLS! I know, how can I possibly hate dolls when I have 4 daughters? Long history of evil doll nightmares. Major source of anxiety. And to add to the fear and peeing of my pants, the Lagoon people have put up freaky clown posters that look like someone shot Smiley the Clown in the forehead. New source of anxiety!
Topher made it to Lagoon a time or two with us. I made him take in his share of kiddie land. He loved the swings...
Kendall played AYSO soccer in Evanston at the beginning of summer. She was AWESOME! Lucky #7. The first night she met her team, all kids who go to school in Evanston, she kicked the ball hardcore into a boys head. I don't think he ever was on the field next to her the rest of the season.
Ryann had her first experience with T-Ball. She happily played in one game, and refused to be in the team photo. Topher and I coached Kendall & Dylann's team. I did not take any photos of our games. One game I did almost get hit by a foul ball. Lucky for me, I was able to shove Ryann in the path of the ball. So I was fine.

I was the 'Craft Specialist at YW's Camp. I made Topher be my assistant. We made the cutest clocks out of cd's. We had the opportunity to give a ride to and from camp to a super funny, super cute, super kind lady named Laurel Christensen. She is an awesome speaker! I totally felt the Spirit with every word she spoke. http://deseretbook.com/auth/15428/Laurel_Christensen

Rylie actually participated in the skit. She is the rock star with the black hair and pink guitar!

We went on the annual Russell island Park trip with my family. I forgot to pack the camera, but packed a million other things I didn't even use! When my dad gets me our pictures, I'll post a few. We had so much fun!

Next thing you know, school is back in!
Rylie started 8th grade. Her last year in Junior High! She is still a book-aholic. If there is a type of AA for this, I need her to join. Reading is her life! She tells me daily that I am killing her because everything I cook is disgusting! She wants to turn me in to DFS.
Dylann started Junior high. A big 6th grader! She is in choir and can't stop singing. Heaven help me. She is a texting fool. She texts me from the next room instead of talking to me.
K-dogg (Kendall) is in 3rd. She loves anything to do with SKULLS! She is part pirate, part crazy person! She is so funny! She loves her scars, war wounds and the stories that go with them.


Ryann is in ALL DAY KINDERGARTEN! It's super-d-duper! It is a little sad that my baby is in school. I didn't cry or anything like that. It was weird at first that I did not have a shadow following me undoing all my hard work. Her first day of school was a little traumatic. She spilled her lunch tray and got chocolate milk and sauce all over herself. I had to bring a change of clothes. After I changed her, she asked, "How many more hours do I have to do this?" The next day she hid under her desk drinking her milk because she was not ready to toss it in the trash and get back to work. Mrs. Weston had to pull her out. Then a few days later, she had two accidents 1/2 hour apart from each other. All is going well now. When I go in on Mondays to help, she is content to sit on her own chair and not on my lap. Her teacher takes a picture of all the kids to put up on the wall, this is Ryann. I could not get the marker off her face before we went for the picture.

That about sounds up our life to this point. But just for fun, here is a picture of a freaky bird that fell out of our pine tree and I chased down in the rain to get it's photo. I bet his peeps were taking photos of me chasing their friend saying, "That is one freaky looking human that came out of that BIG HUGE 12 PASSENGER VAN her husband bought even though they only have 4 kids!

3 comments:

Mindy said...

Yay. You're back. Glad you had such a fun summer.

The DeGracie's said...

I am so glad you are back! I wasn't gonna check but had a crazy thought that you just might want to fill us in on all your crazy! Which i LOVE!

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