Preschool Here We Come!

  Keagan has been anxiously awaiting her first day of Preschool!  We went in last week to meet her teacher and see her class room and ever since she has cried every morning that she wants to go to school!  She was so excited this morning she woke up at 6:30 ready for the day!!!

Her backpack might have been bigger than her. 

 These two sure love each other!!! 

 This is her "I'm a tiger" picture!

Cleo and Kiki were sad they weren't going to be together all day

  Keagan was so excited she jumped out of the car, but then quickly said "Mommy hold you."   Once we got inside the school gates and she saw Ms. Brenda who greeted Keagan "There's my Keagan, I'm so excited to see you Keagan!" she was great!  She jumped down and started talking all excited to Ms. Brenda.  

  It was a bit of a bitter sweet day for this Mommy having her baby be old enough for preschool and the realization that for 2 hours a day it's just me!

1st Grade Here We Come!

  Kabree started 1st grade this year.  She was pretty excited about her teacher Mrs. Cranor and thought she was great when we met her at back to school night.  However, the waking up at 7:15 and the discovering all of her little girl friends from last year are in a different class......

showing off her nails

  Kabree picked out her outfit, knew how she wanted her nails painted and how she wanted her hair done for the first day of school.  Mommy and Keagan are sad to have Kabree back in school but excited for her to learn more and to make new friends this year.  Luckily she has some of her friends that are boys in her class so she has someone to talk to ; ).

Summer Crafts

  This summer has been so jammed packed with family and fun it hasn't left us much time to do our usual summer crafts and activities.  We have managed to squeeze a couple crafts in the last couple weeks as per the girls request.

First up bead making:

  This craft was way more involved then I had anticipated but the kids loved every minute of it so it was worth it in the end.  First off was the actual bead making, then the loooong wait for them to dry (3 days), then we painted them with glitter and once again had to wait for them to dry.  Then we finally got to make our bracelets and necklaces. 

Next up on was rock crystals:
  This activity turned into a disaster.  First off we got it at the dollar store soooooo lets keep that in mind.  Anyways, the mixture didn't dissolve like it was supposed to and then after 3 days nothing had changed so Heathers kids took theirs home to watch and wouldn't you know it that night I dropped a container on Kabree and Keagans making an insane mess so we tossed ours : (.  The girls were pretty  bummed but understood but then were even more bummed when a week later we saw Hanna and Justices had actually formed crystals.  So we might (very slight might) have to try this one again.

Barbie House

  So I had a friend at church ask me if we wanted her girls Barbie house.  She sent me picture on my phone and I thought sure, the girls will love it.  Little did I realize from the picture it was HUGE!!!  We got her girls bags of their favorite candy bars and they thought that was the best thing ever.  Our girls were over the moon excited about the doll house and decided who needs the fire place!?!

No More Accidents

  It's been a long, long, loooooong road of potty training.  Keagan was potty trained back in December but when our house flooded it stressed our timid little Keke and she reverted back to pull ups.  We have been trying oh so hard since but have struggled with no accidents, we tried bribing with pennies, with stickers and Dum Dums, but no luck.  Finally in July we found the perfect bribe; Barbie panties and riding the animals at the mall!  We've been accident free since the day she put on her first pair of Barbie panties!!!

Riding The Animals At The Mall

  The girls have been wanting to ride the animals at the mall for months and so we thought that was the perfect reward for no accidents.  It was a blast!!!  The kids loved it and us adults thought it was pretty fun too!

 No surprise here which animals these two picked!

 Surprise, surprise Keke picked the giraffe : )

 Justice took Heather for a wild ride!

The kids did a quick change of animals to see if they could find a faster one : )

  We are so proud of our "Big" girl Keke and she is so excited that she is now 100% ready for Preschool!

Happy Birthday Sissy!!!

The Birthday girl!!!

  We got to celebrate Heather's birthday by heading to Idaho Falls for the day!  We checked out the Museum of Idaho's Pirate exhibit.

 We had to stop and check out the train

 

   The exhibit was pretty neat, however it is a National Geographic exhibit so no pictures were allowed once you walked into the museum.  The kids favorite parts were when they got to touch the actual pirate treasure and try to tie the pirate knots.
  One thing we couldn't help but laugh at the fact we are at a pirate exhibit but the kids wanted to run through it as fast as possible to they could play in the kids discovery part of the museum.  You would think as often as we come here they would be sick of this part, but they aren't they love it.

 Justice put on a little show for me, the bear was attacking him : )

 Keagan loves the computers

  After the museum we headed over to little candy store we heard about and got some yummy treats.  The lady there was so nice!  She gave each of the kids free candy sticks and slices of fudge.  She gave Heather and I each a truffle...um I'm hooked on the cashew truffle now...yum!  After that we enjoyed some pasta and yummy drinks at Johnny Carino's!  Then we did a little shopping and headed home.  It was a fun day spent celebrating our Sissy!  We love Heather so much!  She does so much for everyone and is one of the most amazing people we know!  I couldn't ask for a better sister or best friend if I tried.  We love you Heather and Happy Birthday!!!

Twin Falls

  We decided we were way overdue for a visit to Troy and Wendy's so we packed up and headed for the weekend.  We seriously had the BEST weekend we have had in such a long time!

 Kabree wanted to try to catch one of the humming birds!

They also had a couple visitors in the corn...2 deer but we never were able to catch them on camera

  On Saturday we took Troy's fishing boat and headed up the river to see the lower falls.  It was BEAUTIFUL!  Seriously the pictures do not do the day justice.  It was the perfect temperature, the water was cool and the view was amazing!  It was a chill day spent with some of our favorite people exploring.

 My favorite thing about Twin Falls is that their are just random falls EVERYWHERE!

 Kabree was in heaven all day, outside, water, boating, fishing and swimming!

 Keagan was pretty excited she got to be between Troy and Wendy

 Time to explore and get a closer view of the falls

 There were baby ducks EVERYWHERE!

 One thing about this place is there was no shore,

you had about 2 feet to wade in before stepping off a cliff into deep water!

   I wish I wouldn't have been to scared to take my nice camera on our adventure, but me and hiking on slippery rocks....not a good combination so these had to do.  Such a pretty place and it was amazing to get up so close....and the sound...one of my favorite sounds is a water fall!

 Wendy and Troy

aka our amazing tour guides for the day

  After exploring Troy asked the girls if they wanted to swim, Kabree of coarse said yes, so he took us over to a different shore and Kabree dove in.  She was as happy as could be swimming around.  Keagan took about 15 minutes just walking in the water then she grabbed onto the boat and squats down and touches her bum to the water and yells "Wendy I did it, I did it!"  She was so proud of herself!  She did eventually sit on the rock ledge but she never wanted to "swim".  Zach decided to fish for a bit while the girls played.

 Keagan liked sitting in the water but wasn't even considering going over the edge

 Kabree tried to pull her in a few times....but Keagan wasn't having it,

she was content just sitting on the ledge!

 Luckily Wendy brought us some snacks, these kiddos were starving!

 Zach caught a fish but had to throw it back because it didn't make 12"

 Keagan caught her first fish!!!

 These two wore themselves out!

  After our river adventure we tried out a new restaurant called Culvers and we are definitely fans now!  We couldn't have asked for a better day, it was perfect weather, a beautiful place and good company!  Thanks for the great weekend Troy and Wendy!