Hailey's first day and Hailey's first cut

Hailey had her first official full day of school on Friday the 17th. She was so excited for her first day.  She picked out her own outfit.  She got her school supplies all packed and we took her for her first day.  After the teacher read the whole class a book called "the kissing hand," the parents said their good byes and went to the boo hoo breakfast.  She was happy and excited to be there.  She also rode the bus home from school.  I had to really work her to get any information out of her.  She said that she did not miss me at all while she was at school.  I laughed a little and she seemed to be offended by that.  I don't think she really understand why I was laughing. She told me that she made 2 friends, Breeze and Deja.  She said that 2 boys sat next to her at lunch and she was kinda bothered by that.  She said she didn't have enough time to finish eating but was pretty full but was pretty sad that they made her through her drink away that she did not finish.  She is a slow eater and easily dis-tractable.  Hopefully it'll get better for her.  She also left her super cute lunch box at school because that is what other kids were doing.  I really hope we can get it back on Monday because she didn't even leave it in her classroom she just left it in a random hallway.  I'm not very excited to buy her another one, I doubt I will.  She told me that she did not learn anything on her first day.  Her teacher is Ms. Galaz and I'm so excited that we got her.  She comes highly recommended!  Also the school is a leadership school and they focus on the seven habits of highly effective kids.  They are: 1. Be Proactive, 2. Begin with the end in mind, 3. Put first things first, 4. Think Win-Win, 5. Seek first to understand than to be understood, 6.  Synergize, 7. Sharpen the saw.    I think this will be pretty cool.  I have been pretty impressed with this school.   She loved riding the bus home from school!  She though that was so neat.  She is dying to ride the bus to school on Monday morning.  My only reservation is that the bus comes at 7am so that seems a little tough but we'll try it out.  She'd get a lot more sleep if I could just drop her off like 40 minutes later.  I'm glad her first day went well.  Wow it sure is such a learning experience.  It is hard to believe I have a kindergartener!  Hopefully she will open up to me a little more in the future!  Love her to pieces!!

This is Hailey's first ever "real" hair cut.  We went to JCP because they were having a free hair cuts for kids all month special.  So we took her in and I was pretty impressed with her new cut.  She looks adorable!
Here she is before:

During:

And after:

Look who's walking now!

My cute little Alyssa is in need of an update! The biggest new development is that she is walking now! (13 and 1/2 months) She looks like a little Frankenstein because she walks everywhere with her hands out in front of her.  She is trying to walk everywhere right now, she falls down a lot but she gets right back up and keeps going.  She is very fun and bubbly.  She loves to climb stairs.  She points now all the time to anything she wants or any where she wants to go.  And she usually grunts to go along with the pointing.   She loves to play with the big kids but sometimes she gets bugged by them and has no problem showing them, she will kinda gets mad and lets out a little mad scream.   She has 4 teeth now and they are coming slowly.   She climbed into this blue basket by herself.  Just love this little girl so much!  I can't imagine my life without her!

To Utah we go!

About 2 weeks after our California Vacation we once again packed up and headed to Utah. First we went to Ogden for my cousin Travis' wedding. It was so fun to see all the Kohler family and be able to go to the wedding. We went to the wedding and then the next day we went to a awesome park for lunch and then we had a BBQ in the evening. The park was super huge with a creek, duck pond, and cool hidden passages and bridges.

We then hit the road and headed to cedar city. We stopped by Ikea on the way down, Yeah for my I'm such a fan of that place now.  Then we went to the park for a dinner with the whole Capener group.  Alyssa the night before stayed up crying for 3 hours so I thought she had an earache so I was want to get in to get her checked out.  We went to the doctor that evening after the dinner only to find out that she had hand foot and mouth diesease.  That meant no medication and really no relief.  And contagious, which had all the family kind of in freak out mode.  So after 1 day at the cabin, and me and Hailey also got sick,  we headed home.  We had a lot of fun that day.  The kids played nonstop.  In sand, volleyball court, in the forrest, near by on the porch and in the large rooms in the cabin.  It was so fun.  Sad we had to leave early.  Troy also got it a few days later so it was sure nice to be at home with all of us feeling yucky!

Summer Fun!

At the beginning of the summer Hailey was in a panic because she did not want to go to swim class.  Sh was scared that they would want to her to put her face under the water.  Well they did but it did not take long for her to warm up to it.  She loved it so much!  Before we knew it we had signed up for a second and third secession.   It was the best thing we did all summer!  Hailey went from be scared as can be to swimming all by herself.  She can even jump off the diving board with no floaties and swim back to the side all by her self.  Troy also loved swimming a ton and he learned a lot.  He's pretty confident in the pool but were still working on the capable part. He just take off swimming without a plan and then kinda be in trouble because he can't touch the bottom or isn't right by the edge.  He grew alot though, through the course of the summer.  They both moved from preschool to beginner and Hailey went from Beginner to Intermediate.
SWIMMING

Our favorite instructors below:  (Katie and Moya)

One of my favorite pictures!

GYMNASTICS

We did a week long camp at Cruces Gymnastics and we had so much fun with it!  The kids had so much fun and worked really hard every day.  One of the instructors fell in love with Troy and thought that he was adorable!  We had so much fun doing that and I think we might have some gymnastics in our future.

We Also did Vacation Bible School this summer as well as a new york camp that was a week long.  We have had a very fun and busy summer!