Our Summer in a Nutshell

The First Day of School

I will add Kimball's picture when I get one.
(It obviously won't be the first day of school though.)

Kimball is headed off to the high school this morning. We are hoping for a good academic year along with lots of Cross Country meets and Track meets. If you remember, right now he is 15 and doesn't have a care in the world, everything will fall into place, right!

This is Nick's first day of Junior High. I don't know who is more nervous mom or Nick. Nick gets to go to a brand new junior high and each student gets a Netbook. It should be a fun year for Nick. He refused to take a serious picture, but Nick isn't a very serious kid.

Kate is very excited this year. She got the teacher she wanted and is with two of her very best buddies, Hailee and Rylie. What more could a girl ask for.

Sophia is going all day. Yep, first grade here we come. We have heard fabulous things about her teacher, Mrs. Redd and we are excited about this year.

This is our very sad Hope that doesn't get to go to school yet. She is very unhappy that preschool doesn't start for two weeks and thinks that it might take forever. So sad :(

Murray Farmer's Market

Last Saturday after Kimball's race some of the family went down to the farmer's market in Murray. When we lived in Kearns it was a Saturday morning tradition. With the weather being so cold at the beginning of the summer it slowed down the growing season and we were kind of disappointed, but it still brought back some fun memories. We were able to get a huge watermelon, some corn on the cob, and apples. We also tasted some homemade tamales. The favorite part is playing at the Murray Park when we are done.

I really don't know how the kids ride on these crazy spinning
toys. I seriously get dizzy just watching them.

Hope and Sophia just hanging out, it was kind of a hot day.

Happy 15th Birthday Kimball

Some months around here it feels like all we do is birthdays. Well this month is one of them. Last Wednesday was Kimball's birthday, he is 15 and really wishing he was 16. All summer he has been talking about how bad it is going to stink that he is barely turning 15 this month and he has to go all year without going to a dance and driving without his parents. Oh well, life sometimes kind of stinks. But we are excited that he is growing up and we are loving life with Kimball around. This is our cute 15 year old boy at his latest race. He ran the Dart Challenge 5k at Barnes Park this last weekend. We think something is wrong with him, he can't get enough of this running stuff :)

Some things you ought to know about Kimball are:

• He is a running fool, hmmm, I think I may have already mentioned that.
• He is a good friend and brother
• He loves to go to movies
• He has a fun sense of humor
• He talks about farting nonstop (do your really blog about that, yep, especially when it is true)
• He loves Nick's hamster, Jimmer, probably as much as Nick does!
• He tries to always do his best.

We love you Kimball Roni, Happy Birthday!!!

24th of July

On the 24th of July we had a great time. Alex our niece came and stayed with us because her parents were headed on trek. The girls love it when Alex comes to play with us. We went and saw Cars 2, it was cute. Then our friends, The Grows, came up to hang out with us. My sister and her family also joined us. We ate lots of yummy food (thanks Amy for the turkey and green beans). Then we went down the street to watch the "Jackson Street of Fire". Long before we were ever around our street started a tradition of gathering everyone's fireworks and setting them off together. We each bring a treat to share and watch the fireworks on the corner. This year was a little better than in the past because of the legal aerial fireworks.

Holly enjoying the fireworks.

Hope and Brooklyn sharing a chair at the fireworks. Hope kept being afraid of the fireworks and Brooklyn kept telling her to look into her popcorn bag. So every time they let one off you would look over and Hope had her face stuffed in her popcorn bag. It was pretty funny.

Kate and Sophia watching the fireworks.



Potter and Page Family Reunions

This year the Page Family Reunion and the Potter Family Reunion ended up both being on the 4th of July weekend in Scofield, which made it very easy for us to make it to everything. Like usual we went to the cabin Friday and spent the weekend. Mark's family were all together on Saturday, it was good to see them, many of them we hadn't seen for a few years.

Paul and Misty helped keep us cool. They brought a snow cone machine with lots of flavors. They kids thought this was the best. The best part is everyone had colored teeth and lips :)

Sisterly love, Hope and Sophia

Kate is all smiles.

Of course, Kimball doesn't no how to not be goofy!

We played minute to win it games one night, thanks to Misty.
This is Liam just as his stack of 6 dice tumble.

Nick had to reconstruct a cereal box in one minute.
It turned out to be harder than it looks.

We had to get grandpa in on the fun. He had to get 3
cotton balls from the table into the bowl by putting vaseline on his nose
and getting them to stick to his nose. We pretty funny.

Kate had to blow all the balls off except the pink one.
There were lots when she started.

At the Potter reunion they had horses to ride. Nick was loving it.

Hope really wanted to ride on the horses so Mark got on with her.
He would later pay for it later, he forgot how allergic he was to horses.

Nick and his cousin Don slept outside the last night. I think that
Nick could sleep through a tornado. He was dead to
the world and it was daylight out there.

If only I had pictures to show you of our last adventure while at the cabin. Mark and Paul went on a four wheeler ride early Monday morning. Mark still thinks he is sixteen and ended up going a little to fast down the cut backs and wrecked his dad's four wheeler. He ended up in the emergency room down at Castle Valley Hospital. They did lots of x-rays and put some stitches in his upper lip. He is very blessed to have walked away with out more serious injuries.