First Day of School 2016

The first day of school is always an exciting event!
This year (2016) Bennett went to fifth grade and Mylie went to third. Coy started kindergarten a week after the two older kids, so he had his very own first day of school.


I like that on the first day of Kindergarten, they let the parents come in to help the kids find their desks, let us tell them goodbye, and take a picture or two. Coy was just super excited!  
Nora was a little sad to say goodbye, but she learned to love the one-on-one time she got with just mom every afternoon.

Our Garden

Russell does a great job with our garden each year. He loves to do a vegetable garden and it is so great to have fresh produce each summer and fall. Last year's garden was such a great success! We got SO MUCH yummy corn, tons of green beans (which I learned how to can last year), and we made a lot of freezer salsa!

It's crazy how every year is different, though. This year (2017), the garden has not been so prolific. Maybe it is a blessing in disguise since I don't feel much like canning and dealing with produce this year! (I am due to have our fifth baby in 2 weeks.)

Here are some pictures from last year (2016).

One morning, Bennett and I had a great time peeling tons of corn! It was so delicious!   Pretty crazy though how so many ears of corn only produce a small bag of actual corn. We did eat some of it, but  then froze what was left.

Coy's 6th Birthday~2016

Here is a look back one year ago when Coy turned Six Years Old! I wish I was caught up on here so that I didn't have to remember all of the details from a year ago...This was right before he started Kindergarten. He was very excited. Like always, Coy is our energetic boy that has a zest for life! He loves to figure out how things work, loves to help in the kitchen and with the yard work, and is super smart.

He loves Angry Birds and wanted an Angry Birds cake this year. I think he might have been even more excited about the gumballs around the perimeter of the cake!

Handsome little Six-Year-Old:
 
Morning excitement! My kids always get excited to see how their cakes turn out. Luckily this one turned out better than I hoped!  
We usually let our kids open a special present (or two) in the morning so they have something fun to play with throughout the day while they wait for their party at night when they open the rest of their presents. Coy wanted this Light Saber really badly!  
We had a fun time that day going to Classic Waterslides. I hadn't been since I was a kid! I can't believe that place is still standing. I remember it being a lot bigger....probably because I was a lot smaller! The kids (especially Russ) had a blast. (Although Nora's favorite part was when I bought her some nachos. She wasn't digging the place.)
The party table~ Always a lot of sugar to go around!  
Can't forget how darling Nora's outfit and props were that night :)

Joseph~North Ogden's First Community Play~August 2016

Last summer North Ogden put on it's first community play, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. It was so sun to be a part of. Bennett and Mylie got to be in the children's chorus, and they loved every minute of it. I was able to be one of the narrators. It was a great experience and so much fun to be in a play with my kiddos! The last play I had been in before this one was 11 years earlier when I was narrator in Joseph and was pregnant with Bennett!
These pictures were taken almost exactly a year ago on August 4, 2016. So fun to look back!
The kids are all dressed up and ready to go:  
Nora had to get in on the fun. She enjoyed coming to every performance and knew all the songs!
Waiting "backstage" for the play to start. Mylie had one of her good friends in it as well!
Me with the other narrators, getting ready to go on: