First Day of School 2010

It is hard to believe that School has officially started.

The silence was short lived, due to Nate waking up the 4 year old this

morning but oh well.

Here are their First Day of School pictures.

Kortnee 8th grade

(sigh I am not old enough to have an 

8th grader am I )

Nic 5th grade

(I remember his first day of Kindergarten

Sigh)

Both excited to head out the door!

Our Mountain is on fire

One of my favorite things about summer is Thunderstorms, we had one roll through today with a lot of lightening.  This was the outcome of that wonderful storm.

fire/smoke

fire/smoke

helicopter landing just up the hill from us

helicopter dumping water on the fire.

Summer Pictures

Here are pictures from our summer break!

Whitnee got her casts off!!!

finally after 3 months!

We finally got to see her feet!

(sorry it is so yucky)

AWWWWW

(I can move my feet now!)

Kortnee Turned 13

favorite book

Hugo Cabre

I love that smile!

4th of July

Sparklers!

Whitnee's favorite thing to do

4wheel with daddy!

I found her splashing in puddles 

one afternoon.

Lots of giggles!

Nic started football!!!

conditioning camp

Conditioning camp

football tryouts-yep dad is helping out!

Nic hitting his dad

Nic's cheering squad!

I became a SAVVY SHOPPER!

(just a few of my deals)

paid $2.81 saved $53.67

98% savings!

paid $6.54 saved $31.12

84% savings!

YEAH!!!

We did manage to make it to Idaho (very FAST trip) and to the cabin this year and Kort got to go to Stake Girls Camp.

Pictures to follow.

Topaz Mountain

Since I am "johnny on the spot" I now finally posting pictures of our day trip to Topaz Mountain

We went about 2 months ago on a nice warm sunny day. (yes there was one in April).

It was about 1 1\2 hours south west of our home in the middle of  NO WHERE!!

 

 

It was so pretty!

 

and so quiet

 

 

and you could see for miles.

 

 

Nate and the kids digging for Topaz.

 

 

 dumping water on the dirt and digging.

 

 

Nic trying to find some Topaz

 

 

 

Kortnee trying to find some too.

 

 

Success!!! can you see the Topaz stone...

GREAT FIND KORT!

 

 

Whitnee watching and holding on to Gidget.

 

 

Second find of the day. A little LIZARD.

 

 

For those of you who don't know Whit. She is TERRIFIED of anything that crawls and flies. I think mostly because she can't move away from them on her own and because she can't swat things away.

BUT here she actually asked to TOUCH the LIZARD.  I think because DADDY was holding it tight.

 

 

 Now every trip has a little excitement right!

well, as we were trying to find the right spot to dig, we were driving around a HUGE water hole and out of NO WHERE a JEEP came flying by right through the water and this was the out come.

 

 

It was a good thing we were in the VAN as a FAMILY or I think my husband would have gone after them with out ANY hesitation.  It was a good teaching moment though about being considerate to others no matter what.  Although I did wish that they would end up on the side of the road with an empty tank of gas 

and 3 flat tires, but that did not happen. DANG IT!!! Carma will come around right.

We had a great time and are trying to decide where to go next.

Here's a good start to our STAYCATIONS this year!