First Day of School!

It has finally come around again. The start of the new school year. This year Dallin will be in 3rd grade and Isaac will be in kindergarten. It will be nice to have two kids in school for at least half of the day. I will love to have that little bit of time alone with Kaden, so that we can play and not get interrupted as we sometimes do. It will also be nice to have some alone time when Kaden goes down for a nap.

Here are the first day of school pictures:

Last Hike of the summer

At the end of July, I realized that our family hasn't been on a hike in almost a month so I picked a hike that I have wanted to do all summer. I thought it would be fun to hike up and tour the Mt. Timpanogos cave. Jeff and I have both done the hike and tour before, but all I could remember from the tour is that we would hurry on ahead of my parents to sit on the next bench.

So we went to Utah County and we started up the mountain. I knew that the hill was steep, but I was not really prepared for how steep it was. I was exhausted when I got up to the cave, but it was worth it. Jeff was a tropper and carried up Kaden all the way in a pack or in his arms. Isaac was my partner and stayed behind with me and we helped each other walk up the mountain. I was so proud of him for making it up.

The cave was nice and cool, and was a nice break from the heat of walking up the moutain. The kids did get a little bored in the cave, but they still had a lot of fun. The cave was beautiful and it amazes me the process in which a cave can be made and still live.

Here are the pictures:

This is the best picture of Jeff and Kaden. Kaden loves hiking for the most part.

Isaac was just so excited to finally get to the cave and be able to sit down. Every bench we came to on the hike he wanted to take a break.

We try to take a picture of the trailhead, or cave head here, to remember. Dallin was not happy when we got to the cave. Every picture that we took he was frowning

Kaden did not like me taking this picture because the light was too bright. He was also really tired he ended up falling asleep while we were on the cave tour

Here is what they call the heart of Mt. Timpanogos. It looks a lot like a real heart and I can see why they call it that. Jeff told me that he remembers them turning on a red light behind it, but our tour guide didn't this time.

Manda's wedding shower and wedding

It has a been awhile so I am going to be putting some together.

First off, my baby sister got married in August and in July all of the sisters in the family threw her a shower. The shower had a movie theme because she works at a movie theater. I helped a little with decorations and I think I went a little bit overboard making things for it. Most of the wood things that I made, she was able to take home, actually they were also used for her reception too, so she got a 2 for 1.

In August was the blessed day, and it was beautiful except I forgot my recomend so I had to wait for a little bit to get approval to enter. After the ceremony I stalked the photographer and got a couple of pictures.

For the reception all of us put up and down the decorations. It was fun to put everything together and get it all set up to how we wanted. It was fun.

So here are not all of the pictures but a few and they haven't been edited:

All of the decorations that I made.

 The kids waiting for Manna and Scott to exit the temple

 The didn't want to cooperate with pictures of all of them.

 I thought this was a cool idea it kind of gives them a red glow about them

 My sister and I wrapped the ivy and the lights on the back drop. It was hard work.

 The cake table

This was the coolest idea that my sister Debra came up with. We took a lot of photos of Scott and Manna and placed them on a string and it was the first thing that the guests could look at when they entered the cultural hall. It was fun to arrange the pictures. I edited some of these photos