Soccer time and Halle's 8th Birthday and Emery first day of preschool

I love August and fall sports. This year Emery is finally old enough to play cub soccer with her nieghborhood friends. Stephanie and Liz are coaching this year and it is the first time in a long time I am not coaching someone or helping coach. With Ryan doing tackle football and all 4 kids in sports this will make running around a little easier. Emery was so excited to play soccer and she couldn't wait for her first game. She had a lot of fun and a lot of fun looking around and doing cartwheels! But hey she may not be scoring goals but she is having fun. Go Maniac Monkey's!

Halle turned 8 this month and of course this is a big birthday year, since she will also be getting baptized. Her birthday fell on a Friday and she got her breakfast in bed and our wonderful singing to help wake her up. Her breakfast in bed was a little small since our neighbor Liz was doing her bus stop breakfast and we can't miss that! All the kids love having breakfast together and Halle even got sung too. Halle got her new set of scriptures along with some fun make up from all of us. Since Halle already got her real present a little early this year, um girls trip to ST. George and getting her ears pierced, she only had one gift from us. She was all smiles during the day and loved all the attention. Later we took her out along with Janette out to eat for her birthday dinner. We didn't do cake and ice cream since the next week she would be having all the family over for her baptism.

Saturday we did Halle's and Kamry's birthday party together. They are two peas in a pod and were even going to be baptized on the same day! We were supposed to have a big water slide party but the weather was playing tricks on us. So Marla and I did plan B and we took 14 kids to the movies and then back to our house to do cupcake wars. The kids had a blast getting sticky from the frosting and being oh so creative! We did one game were they had to close their eyes and then their partner had to be their hands. Let me say they had some pretty awesome cupcakes made! After the cupcakes there was awards and then time for presents. The kids did great and the girls had a great party!

Finally the day came and it was time for Emery to go to school! She was so excited and couldn't wait to go to Mrs. Cindee's.

First Day of School 2014 to 2015 school year

Time for school to start again and this year Tyler is a 9th grader, Treven is in 5th Grade, Halle is in 2nd grade, and Emery will be going to her last year of preschool.  Emery was sad to see everyone go on August 19th, but she was excited that next week would start her first day of preschool. The first week went fast with Tyler getting use to the new Jr. high, Treven still having football practices, Halle starting her soccer games along with her birthday coming up and Tyler after working out so hard all sumer to have his first Freshman football game against Mapleton.

 Tyler was pumped and ready for his first game, which sadly turned out to be his last. Tyler decided he wanted another broken arm. It had only been six months since he broke his arm the last time. During a tackle in the game, which he was having an awesome game, he hurt his arm, went out for two more plays and then finally came and got me and told me he thinks he broke his arm. Well off to Art city Medical to get the xray that confirmed he did indeed break his arm. The sam arm same place just the other bone! I think I need a two for one card or something! To say the least Tyler wasn't a happy camper but atleast he could stay on helping out the football team as a manger.