Football!!

Nik had his first football game yesterday! He is on the Eagles! They lost so it was a hard game to watch. He could be more aggressive and hustle more. He plays on defense and offense "blocking" as he calls it. I think maybe he needs some one on one caoching from his Uncle Jason and his best bud Mike Bakken. It is fun watching him play though so hopefully it will only get better!!

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He is the one with the brown shirt on under his green #78 jersey!

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Happy Anniversary!!

Adam's Dad and Mom are celebrating their 43rd anniversary today!! So amazing!! Congrats Mom and Dad! You both are amazing examples! Thank you! I love you both very much!!! 

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Congratulation!!

Soccer Season has Begun!!

Today was Ammon and Zoe's first soccer games!! They have been excited to play! Ammon and Zoe play on the same days, Wednesdays and Fridays almost always 30 minutes apart. I will have to choose which game to watch which really sucks! Ammon has the best coach, his Aunt Marci!! That helps me a ton because he will always have a ride to the game!

I watched Zoe's today! I was so proud! She ran her little heart out and it was HOT today!! Her face was all red when she was done. Her team didn't win but she played great!

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Zoe littlest fan cheered for her the whole game! Anytime there was clapping or cheering Tori would clap too!

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Pool Party

Saturday we drove to Ogden where Jason and Jaime live to celebrate Jaime and Marci's birthdays! We hung out at the swimming pool the whole afternoon. The kids were in the water for about 6 hours!! They had so much fun!

Tori loved floating around the pool splashing herself!

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Jordan is amazingly strong!

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More splashing!

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Daddy and Zoe playing around!

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Michelle and Britain. This girl loves goggles!

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I think this is one of my all time favorite pictures!!

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What's a pool party without some chicken fights!

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Happy Birthday Ladies!!! Didn't Michelle make the cutest cake?!

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Nik trying out Michelle's equipment!

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This picture is hilarious to me! I love capturing Ariana mad. She is so cute when she is mad.  First she wanted the swim cap on then she didn't then she did. She is something!!

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Jordan scaring the kids!

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Tori's turn!

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We had a great day. Thanks Jason and Jaime for having us and thanks everybody for coming!! Jaime has lots more cute pictures on her blog you can check out here!

Daddys are so Special!

We love Daddy lots!

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Life in this house

…is never boring. Whenever I talk with my Mom she asks what is new. I always say nothing and can then think of all these funny, strange, or disgusting things that have happened. Even though I feel like we do the same thing everyday is different too. Here are two examples.

This is Ariana wearing a shower cap! Sunday I put curlers in Ari's hair. She said they were too hot so I put a shower cap on her head to make her feel better. It worked like a charm. She liked it so much that she put it on after church. She also decided it was hers and no one else could wear it!

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Kalixta loves to do hair. She always brushes Jesse's (Kenny's brother) hair when he is over. She puts tons of little pigtails in too. Lately she has started doing her own hair! She will twist it and put ribbons and elastics in it. It always cracks me up. Here is one of my favorite dos!

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Apparently this in in style. I saw a teenager walking around with a similar look! 

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So my life might always be the same but it is never dull!

First Day of School

Everybody had their first day of school today!

NIk started 7th grade. He is in the same school, but he does change classes! He said it was confusing to have so many classes! I think it will get better though and he will love it! 

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Zoe is in 4th grade! She loves her teacher and came home excited for a new day!

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Ammon is in 2nd grade! He was very relieved to find lots of friends in his new class.

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Kalixta started kindergarten! She has been waiting and waiting! She has a very nice teacher and had a "great" day!

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Britain loves everything about kindergarten! She can't wait to have homework!

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I can't believe I have more kids in school than not in school! That is a first!

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My poor little Ariana! She wants to start school so bad. She cried all the way out of the school because she wanted to stay! She thinks she will start school, "the next day!" She sure was excited for everyone to come home!

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Family Night

We are still guy-less over here. They will be back (hopefully) late tonight! I wanted to do something fun with the girls. I borrowed an idea I read on a friend's blog a while ago. It was super fun. They even asked if we could do it next week!

I took them all to the store and told them they could buy anything they wanted for our treat. They just had to follow a few rules! First it had to be a dollar or less. And second there had to be enough to share with everyone. This was the best week to do this because there was tons of great deals. 

Ari and Britain found theirs right away. 

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 Britain switched halfway through the store. 

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Kalixta pick a random variety of candies! So Kalixta!

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Zoe had the hardest time. After going down every aisle in the store we went back to the candy aisle and after five minutes she finally made a choice. It was a good choice too!

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Chocolate anything is good for me!

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Yes, Zoe made me take a picture! She is getting too good at this photography thing!

4th Annual Back to School Fashion Show

School is starting this Wednesday! I am shocked! I don't know where my summer went but it is gone. Tonight we held our annual back to school fashion show! I didn't want to do it without the guys but the show must go on. In case you are new to the blog or forgot every year we have a fashion show for Zoe to show her new school clothes off to all the family. The first year we live here she was very nervous about starting school and was not excited to be wearing a uniform. We had the fashion show and she loved all the attention and all the oohs and aahs about her new clothes. We have continued the tradition every year since. This year Britain and Kalixta were able to participate and show their new clothes off too. 

Zoe was very silly this year!
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But as cute as ever!

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Kalixta was nervous! She didn't want to look at any of us. The first time she walked out and posed with her head tilted back! The second time she walked out the whole way like that!

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She relaxed after a while and had a fun time!

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Britain loves the limelight so this was perfect for her!

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She faked nerves at first and told us we could only clap. No one could say Woo Woo!

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She definitely has this posing thing down!

In the end they all had a great time showing all their clothes!

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Ariana couldn't be left out of any action! She thinks she is starting school too! It may be a hard first week or two for her!. But at least she could model her new dresses!

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Reservoir

Today we went up to the reservoir. Most of the day was overcast so it wasn't too busy or too hot! Marci and Marie went with us so it was just us girls. Adam and Ammon are in CA picking up Nik!

Tori really liked the water. She had a little seat where she could splash and play!
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Soon she scooted down into the water to enjoy it more!

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The boogie boards are best toys at the reservoir!

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Kalixta was my brave water girl. She went the deepest by far!

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Marci and Marie buried the girls and made them into mermaids!

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The view from above the reservoir! 

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Ariana will sunbath anywhere! This is in the parking lot!

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