First Day of School

My handsome boys are growing up way to fast.

Gavin, Age 8, 3rd Grade

Mason, Age 5, Kindergarten

I loved their responses to what they want to be when they grow up. 

I'm going to be the mom of a race car driver and Batman

The boys requested french toast for their back to school breakfast. I'm pretty sure it's what Gavin requested last year and the year before that.

It was chilly this morning so they wore pants and jackets on the first day this year.

Chloe wanted to tag along to all of it in her boots and pajamas. We got to the school 30 minutes early because the boys were so anxious to get there. We took their picture in front of the school and then the boys wanted to go play so I let them. Chloe and I went back to the van to wait for the bell to ring. When it did I went back to find the boys. Gavin was a little stressed out because he couldn't find his teacher. She was right in front of the line that Gavin was by, but didn't recognize her because she had straightened her hair. He was relieved. I gave him a hug and a kiss and left to go find Mason.
I found Mason and he was also worried because he couldn't see Mrs. Ball. They had another teacher taking them to meet with her. I walked with him to Mrs. Ball and then to his classroom.

Mrs. Ball had sign for the kids to get their pictures taken with, so thoughtful!

Mason wanted to sit by Maylee (a little girl in our ward) even though it required him to switch from green (his favorite color) to purple play dough. Chloe was jealous because she didn't get any and then she had to leave with me instead of staying with Mason.

 One last peek before I left. Maylee is the one with the white flower in her hair.

Mason ran to me as fast as I have ever seen him run (with a sucker in his mouth) after school. I was secretly hoping he did and would be happy to see me.

 

 We talked about their first day of school while eating warm pumpkin chocolate chip cookies. The first time I asked Mason how school was he told me he got a sucker and they had two birthday parties. 

Later when I asked him again he told me "GOOD! except we didn't get to stay at recess long and we didn't even get to eat either". He said his favorite part was "all of it". 

Gavin told me, "IT WAS AWE-SOME!!" and that his favorite part was working on his work book and he had teriyaki chicken and rice for lunch. 

Little sister had no problem joining her brother's for our cookie tradition

My 3rd grader

Mr Kindergarten

8-31-2015

Back to School Night

Gavin and Mrs. Hendry

He gets so shy when he is around people he doesn't know!

 Mason and Mrs. Ball

Mason is so excited to have the same teacher that Gavin had in Kindergarten

...Earlier that day.

I took the boys to get their hair cut and Chloe entertained herself by using the entire waiting area as her own personal stage

8*27*2015

Life of Fry

We have spent a lot of time this summer hanging out in the driveway and the cul-de-sac with the Becks. The adults usually talk while the kids ride their bikes around us and then it usually ends in popsicles.

I don't know what she is looking at or thinking about, but this picture makes me giggle.

I asked the boys to help me bring in the groceries from the van. I came out of the house to get another load and they were bouncing off of each other while holding paper towels. I let them have their fun while I finished unloading the van and then I had them take my smashed paper towels downstairs to the storage room.

Mason asked me to zip him up in the bag (don't worry it had a big air hole) and he was having a blast in it.

He was rolling all over the living room

Gavin painted this. It's just what it looks like, a pile of poop and the black lines are the "smell" coming off of it.

Mason had been into his superheroes lately. I found them all lined up on the couch and it made me smile.

This is what bedtime looks like at our house. Mason has his pants on backwards and his sock on upside down, Gavin had his shirt tied to his leg and Chloe is into showing everyone her belly button lately.

Cody sent me this while I was at work. They were swimming in the backyard.

My skinny Ethiopian son. He eats so much, I don't know where he puts it all.

Family bike ride

Mason found a new way to ride his tricycle

"Look mom no hands"

Riding with her eyes on the sky

I was showing all the neighborhood kids the "real" way to ride a bike. Standing up with no hands. This is how we did it back in the day.

Gavin and Porter being goofballs. They were singing "It's a quarter after one I'm a little drunk and I need you now" (Lady Antebellum) over and over again.

 

These two are so entertaining!

Chloe built a temple out of sugar cubes in Sunbeams. She wanted me to see it before she moved it and it fell apart.

Mason found a caterpillar at G&G Blakely's

This is super blurry, but they did this over and over again one morning. They held hands every time they jumped.

When he is reading you literally have to put something between him and his book to get him to snap out of his book reading trance

Just another one of Chloe's outfits of the day

Remember that one time that Chase beat Gavin up?

It made him so tired he ended up taking a nap with Uncle Cody

We had company for Fat FRYday.

Meeting of the minds on the trampoline

Cody fell asleep and the kids covered him up with a blanket

Chloe trying on mommy's shoes

 She got them on!

We had to go see the cows with Uncle Jeff after we left the BBB at Uncle Eugene's

Mason wanted to go the the museum to see the Pirates exhibit for his date night with daddy

This was the first picture they sent me of them in front of the pirate ship only you can't tell what it is, so they sent me the one above.

The creepy ice cream truck that plays songs like Silent Night and Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer came through the neighborhood again. It was right after dinner so we couldn't tell them No.

Gavin and Cocoa

This is my new obsession. Chloe loves it too because she gets to color with me.

We found a new favorite sno cone shack. It's a little run down, but they are cheap and always put lots of flavoring in your sno cones.  : )

This girl would play with the hose all day long if I would let her.

She greeted me in the driveway like this. Love this girl.

Mason's first attempt at a 2 wheeler

This picture makes me giggle every time I see it! I could sure learn a thing or two from Tayvri on how to eat a donut.

We visited our friends the Ackerschott's at their new house. The kids were in love with Shane's stair lift. They played on it almost the entire time we were there.

Then they convinced Shane to take them for a ride outside so they could "go really really fast". They were spinning cookies in the driveway, Mason was driving, and Gavin's flip flop got caught under a wheel and the tire spun out on the top of his foot. Gavin is a little lot dramatic when he gets hurt so it seemed a lot worse than it really was.