A Big Day

I have SO many things to post about and I am so behind, but first things first ..... yesterday was a big day in our house!! It was Liv's first primary program and Jack's first day of nursery!! It is true that Jack didn't quite make it to nursery since it is about 2 hours after his bedtime and he turned into a little monster man the second we got to church .... but I got a picture to try and document it! AND Liv .... oh Liv .... she thought the program was ALL about her ..... seriously she put on quite the show for everyone .... it was quite the production. But at least Jack can now GO to nursery and Liv provided LOTS of comic relief .... at least that's what I am telling myself :)

The Fair

Oh how we LOVE the State Fair!! Lots of animals, The big yellow slide, FUNNEL CAKE!, all the crazy people, roller coasters, ah so much fun! Our kids just loved everything about it and made it even more fun. Liv is quite the daredevil and went on every crazy ride Matt and I wanted to take her on ... and loved every second of it!

The Big Yellow Slide

The Baby Slide

This girl's LOVES her pony rides

Lovin the carousel

And my favorite ... the treats!

And I just had to throw this in .... even tho Matt will kill me .... but seriously this kid cracks me up .... Liv runs around in dress ups about 95% of the day and he has caught on ....

I will never forget

I was sitting in AP English and will never forget a teacher running in and yelling that a plane had just hit one of the twin towers and to turn the television on. And my English teacher made us continue our work like nothing happened .... a couple minutes later another teacher ran in and turned our television on .... right as the second plane hit ..... I will never forget those horrible images I saw of people jumping out of the towers, of the towers falling, of those grieving for loved ones. I will never forget how happy I was to see my Mom that day, I will never, ever forget the faces of the children that were born that year without a father, and I will never forget the heroism of those men and women that saved lives and lost their own. I will never forget.

Wishing

So today has been a dousy .... like I am ready for bedtime and to start fresh tomorrow ..... broken furniture, coloring on walls, MANY meltdowns, Daddy home way past bedtime tonight, and to make things worse I went to lunch with one of my best friends and her adorable little girl .... and my kids turned into crazy monsters ..... no joke ..... screaming, hitting, crying, running, throwing everything ..... nightmare ..... I think we scared my friend too death .... seriously, and she is like 8 months pregnant with her second ..... So during nap time I am on the computer to try and take a breather and look at all the Fall lovelies. Have I mention how much I love the Fall ... the activities, the food, the cooler weather, and the clothes, oh the clothes! Here are some of my favorite things right now .....

- I would die for these boots in saddle, but when I saw the price tag I about died

- Cozy sweater

- Perfect bracelet

- This fun skirt

- Stripes!

- Delicate necklace

- Love these shoes too

First Day of Preschool

I have been not doing so good with this blog lately so I don't know if anyone reads this anymore and probably not, but in any case I had to document Olivia's first day of preschool!! I seriously am dying she is this old! We have had a count down going on for a month now and Liv has been beyond excited to go! She did SO good and I am really proud of my little girl!!

I love this picture of them .... Jack saw a bird .... or food and is all excited and Liv wouldn't stop smiling

Love this picture too!

Liv and I

Liv has her good friend Tanner in her class .... they are so cute!!

Getting into their classroom .... Liv was copying Tanner :)

4th of July

So our 4th of July was a little different this year ... Matt decided to skip out on us for some stupid place called Alaska .... for an entire week .... yeah I know .... and then my Mom and sister decided to skip out on us as well .... double lame .... lucky for us my cute Dad had to stay back so he took us to dinner every night, played with the kids, and gave me a little break while everyone else was gone. We didn't do our usual partying but still had a good time. We went to a fun parade and little carnival which I didn't get any pictures of ... but Liv had the best time in all the bounce houses .... then that night just us and my Dad had a BBQ, did some fireworks ... which were like way too illegal and scared the crap out of all of us :) ... and just played!

I must admit that this was the hardest time EVER having Matt gone and I seriously do not know how single parents do it. By the end of the week I was physically and emotionally done and kind of felt like such a baby that I could barely last a week! I really lucked out with my Hubs and am so grateful for what a good daddy and husband he is!!

Love them

Eat this little man up

This is my favorite picture of Liv because this sums up her personality ... I tried to get her to hold still but she wanted to jump like a crazy woman to show me "how high her pretty cowboy boots let her jump"

This little girl does rides this stick horse ALL DAY LONG .... and we've had many "owies" from tripping over the thing

Playing with Grandpa!

He did this for probably 3 hours ...

Liv's favorite place at my parent's house

And this is what the Hubs was doing ..... in Alaska ..... lame :)

The Rodeo

Oh Oakley rodeo how I love you! It is one of my most favorite things to go to and I really look forward to it all year! Liv is my little cowgirl is had been so into horses, cowboy boots, and hats for a couple of years and I just this little gal! And Matt was a trooper .... he left the next morning very early for Alaska!

The little cowgirl

Oh I love this boy

My favorite picture

Loving the "princesses"

Best picture we could get ....