Thursday, August 29, 2024

A new school year! Jackson goes to Kindergarten!

Very exciting year this year with all the kids in all day school. A new phase of life for me! I'm loving it!

Mckinley is in 9th grade at Lakeridge. Doing NJHS again and trying out cross country for the first time. She's rocking it!

Tyler and Kallie got Mrs. Riley this year. She gives a lot of homework which they hate but they are surviving. Tyler lucked out with all his friends in his class.

Kallie got split apart from her very best friends but still has some friends in her class. 

Ava got Mrs. Hill and thinks she is the nicest teacher ever! She's loving school. Such a breath of fresh air after her rough start to 1st grade last year.

Jackson surprised us big time and is adjusting to all day school better than pretty much all of his siblings did. And we were worried the most about him. He loves Mrs. Brown and hasn't complained at all about school. He's easy to wake up in the morning and just gets going and it makes me so happy! This is the first year that Vineyard switched to all day Kindergarten. I feel very lucky. It's so nice to have plenty of time during the day to get stuff done. It does go by fast though and I feel like I could use double the time that I have ha ha.



Maddie, Sienna, Weslie, Kallie


Nico, Tyler, Merrick, Blake Nixon, Andrew?

Harper, Claire, Ava, Emily, Walker

Tyler and Cade. Tyler, Cade, and Kai are all in the same class together. So nice for him to start out with two of his play group friends from last year!



I went to the school to help Jackson with lunch the first time he got school lunch and boy am I glad I did. I ended up helping a bunch of kids and can I just say, lunch time is absolutely crazy!

Kallie is playing Vineyard Rec soccer and is on the same team with Navy and Sophie. It's combined boys/girls 5th/6th grade this year. Brandon is coaching them. They are so fun to watch!

Tyler is hating soccer and wishing we would let him quit. He didn't even want to go to try outs. We were going to have him play district and then we decided he should do state. He first made the B team and then they switched him to the A team so he's with all the boys he played with last year. I'm happy about it. He's not so much. They moved to 11 on the field this year instead of 9 and the fields are waaaay bigger! It's so different!

More fun afternoons at the Hive!


Little cutie in her new school clothes reading Sophie Mouse books which she loves.

We went to the Thompson Orthodontic swimming party at Lindon pool and froze to death. I swear they always get bad weather for this party.



More of the Hive. Love that place.


 

Tuesday, August 6, 2024

Hurricane trip, Sand Hollow

We planned a trip to Hurricane for a summer vacation and boy was it amazing.

We hit up Sand Hollow for the first time ever because the pool at the house was closed the first day we were there. We had so much fun! It was the most amazing day. It was a little overcast which made the sand less hot and we just had such a fun time swimming.  


After we swam we went on a little walk to go cliff jumping. Brandon had heard about it.

We had the absolute best time! It was so much fun.







Love love love being together in Hurricane.

The pool opened up and had fresh new water the second day and we sure enjoyed all the time we got to spend in the pool.



Made a yummy candy salad, ha ha.


We loved Sand Hollow so much that the kids asked to go back again so we went and had another day of cliff jumping. Super super fun!





Played at Grandpa's Pond one day.

We drove back on Tuesday before school started and got home just a couple hours before back to school night. Jackson is in Kindergarten now and loving it!!

The day before school we headed back to the Hive for one last day of summer fun. This summer definitely started out rough for me but ended up being so great and we made so many amazing memories together.





Randomly ran into Merrick and Copelyn at the Hive. So much fun to play with them!

Ava's rock climbing skills really improved with all the visits we had there! She can now climb to the very top.