Slugfest 2016

 The first weekend in October has become known as the Slugfest for our family. 

Sniper! 

 Chloe and Rylee just hanging out in between games.

 Nick and Cooper's teams both took 2nd place in the Pink division. Alex's team took 1st place in the Blue division. 

Sadly I don't have pictures at Nick's games since I was with Cooper and Chris was coaching Alex's team. But another great baseball weekend!

{September Shenanigans}

1- Labor Day was mostly baseball with 5 baseball games, but we did end our day swimming at Grandma's with family. 2- This girl is getting so big and so independent! 3- All About Cooper- Cooper's favorite place to be is at home with his family. Cooper's favorite subjects in school are math and science. Cooper loves to play baseball, ride his motorcycle with his friends, and spend tim with his family. He loves orange chicken from Panda Express. And he is going to try hard and get straight A's this year. 4- We went to Disneyland! 5- And the beach too! 6- Aubrey needed a picture with Dad to be put in her autograph book because Dad signed it. 7- All my kids still end of sleeping on my floor sometimes. Chloe came in because she wasn't feeling well and then Aubrey came in looking for her sister. 8- Alex taught FHE on Joseph Smith's first vision. He made a little panorama of the sacred grove and had little popsicle stick figures. 9- Aubrey looks like a cute little nerd wearing her fake glasses. 10- Cooper has been going to the doctor every couple weeks trying to get the dang warts on his arm gone. Cooper and Dr. Hailstone are becoming buddies now that they spend so much time together, he comes in saying, "what's up Coopster?". 11- Nick and Alex were able to go on a field trip for Scouts to the Las Vegas Search and Rescue Hanger. 12- Aubrey and Chloe with their unicorn ears. 13- Kenzie had a poopy diaper and Aubrey jumped in and offered to change her. 14- The girls swimming at Scarlett's birthday party. 15- Our house is FOR SALE! We had no plans to move any time soon, so this was crazy! 16- A little snapchat fun. 17- Chris and the realtor trying to figure out how deep the pool is at our new house. 18- Chloe and I at the General Women's broadcast. I love that we can do this together! 19- We got to church (late) and these three were matching. 20- Lucy and Aubrey playing together at Grandma's. 21- This is real life right here... eating dinner in the car on the way to baseball while watching a movie. 22- MMM spent the night and the kids wanted to have a picnic lunch. The sprinklers were on in the backyard so they settled for the front porch. 23-Alex and Cooper were excited to wear their pink sleeves for the breast cancer tournament and wore them to school. 24- "Marvel Monday" at school for the big kids. 25- Jenny, Scarlett, my mom, and I drove up to St. George to attend the temple with Brooke while she took out her endowments. We had an impromptu bridal shower at dinner too.

Beach Day

09.10.16

 After a day at Disneyland a relaxing day at the beach was perfect!

We headed to our usual spot at Newport, had lunch and played on the beach.

 Immediately hole digging began! I was happy to see Nick and Alex both in the water since this was our first time back at the beach since their near drowning experience back in March.  

We hung out and played all day and then  headed back to the hotel for more swimming and relaxing in the hot tub before we got ready for dinner at Cheesecake Factory. Such a fun weekend!

Disneyland

 09.09.16

 We skipped school and work and went to Disneyland for Scarlett's first birthday! 

"Making memories with the mouse" & Scarlett was the "cutest mouse ever".

Getting everyone to wear their mouse ears isn't as easy as it used to be!

Scarlett loved Toon Town.

Riding rides, waiting in line, and for the parade.

Aubrey got an autograph book and loved finding the characters.

I made aubrey ride Splash Mountain. She had her head buried in my lap the whole time.

"Back to School Brawl" [Labor Day Weekend

09.03-09.05.16

Labor Day weekend for our family has come to mean lots of baseball between the 3 boys as they play the "Back to School Brawl" tournament.

Between the 3 teams we had 17 games in 3 days! 

For pool play 10u Knights (Cooper) went 4-0 and lost their first game in bracket play.

11u Knights went 3-1 and came in 2nd place in the Silver Division.

14u Diamondbacks went 3-1 and ended up winning the championship in the Gold Division.

Cooper keeping score at BLD at Alex's game.

Aubrey getting her back scratched while Grandpa watches Nick's game.

Nick and Colton.

A BIG win calls for a team dab!

SNIPER! These boys pulled off another win.

Enjoying some cheese pie in between games.

Another win for the 10u Knights. They went 4-0 in pool play. 

They won! Dad and Alex are happy!

Getting ready for the championship game.

Cheering for our favorite Knights players!

These boys came in 2nd place. 

14u Gold Division CHAMPIONS!

Getting back into this whole school thing!

 After I drooped all the kids off for their first day of school I went to the pool at the M with friends to celebrate! After having half day school for the last 10 years straight I needed a little celebration! My day still flies by, but it is nice to have all day to get stuff done.

 I spy Cooper in the back row! I love that his teacher send me pictures.

 Multitasking at its finest: watching a show on the iPad and emptying all the trashes.

 Cute kiddos off to school early to get in some extra play time!

 Nick is the best! Without even asking he LOVES to run to the store for e to grab what I need!

 Cooper came home from baseball practice with a puffy eye. He got stung by a bee at practice and he must have rubbed his eye with the stinger still in his finger. After a quick trip to the doctor the stinger was removed and got an allergy shot in the bum he was all good to go to school.

 I have been so impressed with Aubrey and how well she likes school. Even when Cooper wasn't there to walk in with her she said, "I can go by myself and be brave."

 Aubrey is turning into a "Daddy's girl"!

 Aubrey is also LOVING homework and reading!

By the end of the first week of school it is safe to say that these kids were missing their screen time! I found all of them chilling with some sort of screen.

{Back to School} 2016

08.29.16

The first day of school for the 2016-2017 school year.

 Summer was great, but it is good to be back a routine!

This is my first year with ALL 5 kids in school ALL day!

 BIG Nick is in 8th grade this year. He is taking an early bird Spanish class so he is off to school first.

 Chloe is in 7th grade.

 Alex is in 5th grade. BIG Man on campus now!

 Cooper is in 4th grade and happy to be back at school with his friends!

Aubrey is a 1st grader now! The first day was a little rough but now she is such a big girl and just runs off with the boys in the morning to go play!

My last three in elementary school! 

08.26.16 At the Meet & Greet the Friday before school started. Aubrey was pretty hesitant, but after visiting her new classroom and  Mrs. Davis multiple times she was okay. Alex and Cooper are pros at this now. Cooper has Mrs. Berkowitz this year and Alex has Mrs. Phillips.