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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.

Fiesta Days 2010

Customize a photo slideshow This year we really enjoyed the Fiesta Days Celebrations which lucky for us also co-insides with the 24th of July holiday festivities. The celebrations last all week long. We attended the rodeo on Thursday night. Wyatt loved the animals but his all time favorite thing was the motorcycles. We were lucky to be entertained by the "Wild Child." He puts on quite a show. After he left the arena Wyatt spent the next five minutes saying" uh oh...a go?" He wanted to know where the motorcycle went. LOL!! We mostly took advantage of the festivities on Saturday. The day started out with the parade on Saturday morning. The parade was really good this year. I was surprised that it lasted almost 2 hours. That's great for a small town parade. The kids came home with enough candy to last them till next year. Ugh!! Later on in the afternoon we ventured down town and made our way through the booths and carnival. We came across this quaint little "Pioneer Town". You'd think that after living in Spanish Fork for over 5 years I would have known about this? We just happened upon it by accident. I love learning about Mormon or Pioneer history. That kind of stuff just fascinates me. It was very interesting walking through this little "town" that has been created by a family in our City. It's interesting to me to see how people used to live. While we were walking around we got a surprise phone call from Grandma and Grandpa Godfrey. They stayed and watched the kids ride the carnival rides and then treated us to dinner at the Amber. Poor Kaylie got sick from the carnival ride and was not able to enjoy her dinner. I think I'm pretty safe to say that she won't be riding a carnival ride like that again. Awwww, poor Kaylie!! She even lost the little bit of dinner she was able to get down. We came home and rested for a little while...surprisingly enough Kaylie put herself to bed by 7:00 that night and when I woke her up a little later to see if she wanted to go see the fireworks she opted to stay home. She really must not have felt good. On our way downtown we got to see the Mapleton City fireworks. They did an amazing show. I would almost venture to say they were just as good as the Stadium of Fire. We waited and waited for Spanish Fork City to start their firework show. By 10:45 the show still hadn't started and McKenzie and Rylie (and mom) was very tired. All in all it was a super great day. I love spending time with my kids. They are definitely THE BEST!!

Silly Wyatt

We have been doing a little rearranging in our house. We finally moved McKenzie downstairs into my scrapbook room. We repainted and made everything look so girly. Goodbye to the old ugly blue paint...hello purple paint. I was a little leary of the the color McKenzie chose but by the end of the project it looked really nice. Unfortunately I lost my scrapbook room and for now it's all in the crawlspace in boxes but some day I'll figure out where to move it. LOL!
Kaylie and Rylie were moved into McKenzie's old room. Eventually we'll paint but one project at a time right?? Wyatt is still in my room and eventually will be moved into Kaylie and Rylie's room but I want to paint there too. Right now it is just an empty room with the desk that was in Kenzie's room.
One day I thought I had lost Wyatt. I hollered and hollered his name following the sound of his voice. This is how I found him....sitting in the empty bedroom on the shelf in the desk. I just couldn't help but run to grab the camera and get a shot of that cute smile. You will probably notice the huge bruise on his forehead. Poor little kid decided to take a nose dive off his bike a few days earlier. But, look at that face!! What beautiful blue eyes. What a handsome little boy!! Sure love ya little man!!

Happy Birthday America

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This year with the 4th of July festivities lasting 3 days we had plenty of time to do all the fun things we wanted to do.
On Saturday we had a barbecue with Grandpa Connelly in his backyard. Stuffed burgers and all the delicious food to go with them. Yummy!! Afterward we went and sat down on the Provo High football field and waited to watch the all famous Stadium of Fire fireworks. Carrie Underwood sang this year. Boy would I have loved to go listen, but unfortunately I didn't make it this year. All in all the firework show was great and the kids loved it. Wyatt was in awe because this is his first firework show that he actually was old enough to enjoy. It was a hoot to listen to him and his responses and watch the joy on his face.
Sunday was just a nice day of relaxing and spending time with our little family. We did watch the neighborhood fireworks that evening. Thanks guys for the fun entertainment.
Monday we opted to not go to the parade which was ok with me. It was quite toasty. We did go to the car show with Grandma and Grandpa Godfrey. It's always great fun to spend time with grandparents. We had lunch with grandma and then walked around to see the cars and made our way into the mall and pre school shopped. Goodness I am really worried about the clothes this year. There was not much my girls liked. We just might have to take a trip to Park City and hit the Outlet Malls.

Our Trip To Cabelas

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Rich has been looking forward to a trip to Cabela's for a long time with Wyatt. He is such a boy (surprise, surprise) He loves any sort of wildlife animals or fish. He carries sticks around the house and pretends they are guns shooting animals. He loves anything with horns: deer, elk, moose etc. He will sit for hours and watch the hunting shows with daddy. It thrills Rich that Wyatt loves the outdoors as much as he does, and he is counting down the days when he gets to go hunting with his boy.

So one afternoon we loaded the kids up and took them for a little trip. Wyatt had a ball. He was so excited to see the big fish in the huge tanks, and see all the animals. Of course Rich had to take the kids upstairs and let Wyatt try his hand at shooting the guns. I don't think I've ever heard him giggle so much.

The Last Day of School

Kaylie, Rylie and Mrs. Sanders

McKenzie and Miss Wells

This year was sure was a fun, busy year. The girls learned so much. It was bitter sweet for Kenzie. She loved her teacher Miss Wells and this was her last year teaching at Spanish Oaks Elementary. Unfortunately she decided she missed her family and wanted to go back home to Virgina. She taught McKenzie so much and made school so fun for her.
Kaylie and Rylie loved, loved, loved 2nd grade. They loved their teacher Mrs. Sanders. Lucky for them their teacher is also in our Ward so they get to see her all the time. She was an awesome teacher as well. Kaylie and Rylie's favorite subject this year was writers workshop. They got to write and compose their own stories and boy I can tell you that they should had some whoppers of stories. They are great story tellers. Math came in as a close second as one of their faves. They especially liked the money and time telling units.
Thanks to some amazing teachers for making school so much fun for the girls!!!