What have we been up to lately?

 The same stuff we are always up too...school, homework, chores, yard work, room mom stuff, working out, cleaning, parent teacher conferences, losing the hermit crab 'Nancy" and then finding her again a week later still alive, flying, errands, shopping, Ben prepping for Target Canada interviews, searching for hotels for a fall break (UEA) vacation and some digital scrapbooking. 

 The kids brought all of their baby books up the other day and the only one that didn't have one was Kessler:( rude mother I know. My excuse is all the other kids baby books are paper scrapbooking and I digital scrapbook and so I don't print them out like I should.

(p.s. typos in the above page that I haven't fixed yet)

So I have MANY pictures that I need to take care of and get journal-ed. Here are 'some' of the pages that have been done recently. Now off to printing them...right? 

Nana and Papa

Ben's parents came to Utah for a week and stayed with us for a few days, and stayed in Park City for a few days at their time share. They invited us up for some time, we may have over stayed our welcome:) four kids in a two bedroom can be crazy. The kids had a blast, swimming two or three times a day, a gondola and a ski lift ride over the fall colors, and the best part being out of school for three days. Here are some pics from the weekend.

Papa doing water aerobics with the kids.

The gondola ride, the kids were more nervous than I thought they would be, they love rides at amusement parks, so I thought it would be a piece of cake...not so much. They got used to it pretty fast though.

Alivia and Cooper in front of us, you can see how Cooper is holding on, he wasn't sure about being on the lift that didn't have him closed in.

Once we got to the top we hiked down about 1.5 miles and watched all the bikers going down on some bike trails, off of jumps and doing cool tricks the kids loved it!

There were a lot of pics I didn't get, Ben and Papa playing and goofing with the kids in the pool throwing them up in the air, Bauer being brave and going in the pool without his life jacket, doing flips under water.

What a fun trip I wish we could do that every year at the same time, the fall colors were amazing.

Nancy

 My Mom let Alivia borrow one of her old point and shoot camera's and these are some of the results, she took probably more than 300 pictures and some of them were funny and some were blurry. The picture of our German shepherd Lu is my favorite.

 We stopped at five guys one night for dinner, Kessler was so hungry he was eating the fry sauce before our food got there. Cooper didn't want to be left out.

 Alivia decided she wanted to do four chores a day .25 cents a piece and save up for a new pet, originally she wanted a mouse, but sorry that WAS NOT going to happen she ended up saving up 14 dollars and went and got a hermit crab, Alivia decided it was a girl and named her Nancy. For some reason that struck me funny the name anyway. She likes her new hermit crab and takes her way too many places (on the swing set, on her scooter, in her bed?...)

The boys talked Ben into getting them some lizards, (which is not hard to talk Ben into) they all got a lizard Bauer named his 'Buzzy, Cooper named his 'Speed', and Kessler names his 'Hulk'.