Thanks Amber!

My friend Amber is taking a Photography class and she needed some "practice", so what do I do...offer my boys as models. It was way fun to go around Richmond today and take some pics of the boys, mostly Brandon, Tyler wasn't really up to it. She is really good and has a lot of fun taking them. If anyone needs pics taken you should go to her. Thanks again Amber!

P.S. If anyone wants to see some of them go to her blog page (www.ambersphotoplace.blogspot.com) or you can wait until I get the CD from her and I will post some here too.

1st Day of School=1st Grade?

Normally the first day of school does not equal 1st grade, but I guess when the school tells you that your kid will not learn anything in Kindergarten then you bump him up. I think I was more worried about it than he is. He at first was not excited to not be going to Kindergarten, since that is what we had been counting down for the last 3 months, but he got over it when he found out he was going to eat lunch there.
The school called me yesterday and said that he more than passed his Kindergarten assesment and we should seriously consider moving him to 1st grade. Well, after about an hour of Andy and I talking on phone, we came to the conclussion that moving him up was the best option for him. Especially since the principle suggested it, we figured she knows best what is taught in each classroom. So yesterday I spent the day convienceing him that he was going to school today even though it wasn't the 31st today. I was able to get him to believe me when I took him to the school to meet his teacher. After that he didn't stop talking about it, he also wanted me to go buy every single thing that was on the teachers list for us to get. We got about half and he reminded me this morning that we didn't have it all. It was really cute, he didn't think he could go if he didn't have it all. I hope we made the right choice for him.

Good Job Buddy! Mom and Dad Love You! Have fun in the 1st grade!

The big boy waiting so "paitently" for us to leave.

The cool Transformer backpack.

We walked in the front door without any hesitation, he was more like running.

He walked right in and sat down, what a big boy I have!

I have to admit...I got a little teary eyed when I got back to car, but not the wave of tears I thought would come. I am proud of myself. He wanted to ride the bus to school, but I told him that I was taking him. He gets to ride the bus home.

What A Mess!

Today was a good day for Tyler....he was given some watermelon to munch on. Of course he had crackers to go along with that. Usually I just give him one at a time but this time I decided to load up the tray and let him go at it. He LOVED it! (As you can see) We have now entered the "remove clothes before eating" phase of life.

This was round one outfit. We took that one off and then we did it again for dinner. Oh well, it is a good thing he is cute!

Ogden Dinosaur Park

Lisa and I decided to take her brothers, her niece, and my boys to the dinosaur park in Ogden. Neither of us had ever been there. It was cool to see some dinos made from bones and to let Brandon dig in the dirt for fossils. I told Brandon it was like the movie "Night at the Museum". That was a bad idea, he thought the dinosaur was going to come to life and start chasing us. I put him at ease though once we got there.

County Fair

We took the opportunity to go to the fair this year. I have never been to a County Fair before, been to State fair, but of course when Brandon saw the rides being put up he just HAD to go. I figured if we were there we might as well go see the animals too. We ran into our old neighbors, Lance and his parents. I had tried to call them before we went and didn't get a hold of them so I was glad when we saw them. Brandon and Lance had fun ridding a few rides together and looking at the animals.

The boy with the cows.

Don't fall in boys! They loved "tormenting" the poor little lambs.

Tyler just chillin' in the stroller while Brandon rode the rides. Some day buddy, some day.

Smile boys! Lance and Brandon always have fun when they are together.

What are boys made of?

I was mowing the lawn this morning and out came this snake. As you can see from picture it was a pretty big one. It scurried across my sidewalk into my "flower garden AKA weed patch" in front of my house. I left it alone for a while but then I decided to catch it and show it to Brandon who was across the street playing. I gathered it up in his bucket and took it over, the snake kept trying to jump out of bucket which made the two boys scream like girls, but as you can see Brandon became very comfortable with it in no time. I had to grab the camera to catch this occasion. He decided to bring it home and keep it in his bucket with a piece of cardboard over the top with holes in it. I highly doubt it will last long, because he played with it for like an hour and when we put it on ground it didn't even try to leave. Poor snake! My neightbor informed me that I shouldn't be too upset about it, I guess she has plenty in her yard so it isn't a big loss.

Brandon's T-ball Picture.....Finally

I finally got picture scanned into computer. I blew it up so it looks a little distorted, but you get the idea.

LAGOON!

This weekend we went to Lagoon for my dad (and Andy) work day. It was really fun! Brandon was sooooo excited that he grew up to 46" so he was able to ride all of the big rides. He was barely 46" so on the Spider the worker said he wasn't tall enough and couldn't ride, funny since he had just gotten off of the Colossus. Oh well, next time he will be plenty tall. He decided his favorite ride was the Wild Mouse which he went on with his dad. I will have to say that the new ride for this year was way lame. It is called the Jumping Dragon and it is just like the Musical Express, except it goes backwards too. I was hoping it would be another roller coaster, maybe next time. The Wicked of course is awesome! For those of you who haven't been on it yet, the line is long but it is definitely worth the wait. We also went to Lagoon-A-Beach, I haven't been in there for a few years, it was pretty cool, it was extra nice to cool off on a hot day. Thanks again dad for buying our tickets to get in. It was fun to get the fam together to do something fun.