White sands and other labor day fun

For Labor Day weekend we squeezed in a lot of fun stuff! On Saturday we went to the Hakes for a swim and lunch with cousins. Troy random discovered front flips off of the diving board.  And did a whole bunch! Then that evening we went to White Sands with Papa and Grandma Robin.  The kids loved it so much and it was a full moon night.  It's a good place to get worn out and way sandy! On Sunday we went to dinner with Nana at her retirement center. (Let me just say I'm glad that is not where I'm at in life but she seems to love everything about it.) On Monday we had a BBQ at my parents house.

Saying our goodbyes...

At the end of August we said goodbye to our very most favorite S.L.P. Kim. We have loved having her come help Troy with his speech so much. She is honestly like a part of our family! We will really miss her but hopefully our paths with cross again. And we are going to keep in touch with her! We will miss you Kim!

Troy starts Pre-School

Troy started DD pre. He got into the (Developmentally delayed preschool because of his speech.) Although over the course of the summer he began speaking more and more. I'm very excited though for him to be in this preschool because I think it was be a great help to him. I honestly am loving it because he is at the same school as Hailey and they are in the same hall.  They seem to enjoy each other a little more now like Troy and Hailey are always excited to see each other after school.  They will hug when they see each other and sometimes they will hold hands walking home.  Now don't get me wrong they don't always get along but it's nice to see them excited to see each other!  He gets to ride the bus which is the most exciting part to him! He loves it.  And he has 2 great teachers so seems like we'll have a really good year.  Love my little man! He is growing up too fast!

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!