Fall Photo Shoot

Today we decided to take advantage of the fact that Rich was home for a weekend and the great weather and take the opportunity to take some much needed family pictures. The kids are growing up so fast. Kenzie is quickly turning into a young woman, Kaylie and Rylie and growing up before our eyes. Wyatt is just such a silly little boy and constantly has us laughing. So anyway here is the result of our day. I am just an amature photographer but I think some of these turned out pretty good.

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Rich's Moose Hunt

So this year Rich drew a Once in a lifetime Moose tag. He's been gone the last 4 weekends scouting out this monster bull he wanted to shoot and was determined he wasn't coming home until he had this big animal in the back of his truck. He spent 4 days looking and looking and chasing this moose all over the mountainside until he finally came across him and shot him. I received a phone call bright and early at 7 am on Monday morning. He was so excited that he finally got "Jack Daniels." (This is the nickname they gave him because of the number 7 that is on the side of his horns. It's made from some of the velvet that hasn't fallen off yet.) It took him hours to get him skinned out and ready to come home. But Rich is thrilled to have this animal hanging on our wall in the future. They've scored him and think he will score somewhere between 141 and 147, which is huge for a Utah moose. Hoping that he makes it in the Boone and Crocket books.

New North Park

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At the end of our Summer vacation our long awaited new North Park finally opened. It has been about 2 years since the city demolished the old park with the news that Home Depot was coming to Spanish Fork City. Needless to say the spot where Home Depot is supposed to go is still just dirt and weeds but we are grateful that the new bigger and better park is finally done. At the end of the month they had a great "Grand Opening" Lots of fun, food, pony rides and even Smokey the Bear. I was worried Wyatt would be afraid of him, but he walked right up to him and gave him a big hug. It was adorable. His all-time favorite thing was the pony ride though. I love the smiles on my kids' faces. It's just priceless.

August in Review

Kaylie and Rylie and their 3rd grade teacher, Mr. Rigby. Rylie was very apprehensive about having a male teacher but so far so good and she is really loving school and says her teacher is very fun. Whoo, I'm so relieved.

McKenzie and her 6th grade teacher Mrs. Anderson.

All the kids together before the girls headed off to school.

The first day of school. I was so sad to realize that Summer vacation was over and school was starting. On the last day of Summer vacation I told the girls I was not ready for school to start and starting the next day I officially declared 3 more months of Summer vacation. Needless to say they were not happy. They were looking forward to seeing friends that they hadn't seen all Summer. It was heartbreaking for me to realize that this is the last year that McKenzie will be in elementary school and that next year I will have to take her to Junior High. It was heartbreaking for me to realize that this will be the last year EVER that my girls will all attend the same school. And it was even more heartbreaking to me to realize my girls are growing up and there is nothing I can do about it. I remember walking through the hallways taking McKenzie as a little first grader and seeing the big 6th grade kids walking through the halls, thinking it would be a really long time before my McKenzie would be a 6th grader and now that day is upon me. They got some really great teachers though and I am excited for the things they will learn this year.

Recently Wyatt has been big into Monster Trucks. He LOVES anything that has to do with Monster trucks. He is constantly packing around a truck or watching truck cartoons. First thing he asks for in the morning is his monster truck. He sits at my computer and asks to see monster trucks. So we have to get on you tube and google monster truck rallies. He is all boy. He loves to get dirty and play with bugs. You'll never see this kid packing a doll around. :)

The finished product. LOL!! Of course Wyatt had to color all over himself as well. He was not a very happy boy when he had to come inside for the night.

Of course Wyatt had to get in on the action to decorate his house. They spent hours in the back yard decorating and playing. Wyatt had a ball.

I can't believe I didn't blog at all the whole month of August and there was so much that went on. At the first of the month we decided that we wanted to replace our furnace and air conditioner. Of course Rich picked the hottest week of the month to turn off the air conditioner and we all roasted. Rich brought home the furnace and of course we had to turn the box into a house for Wyatt.