Here they go, for another year at school.

The first day of school!

Yesterday was Audrey and Hailey's first day of school. They are in 1st grade this year. Honestly I spent the day sad. I waited and waited for this moment and then I didn't want to let them go. They are so big and beautiful. This summer we have come so far in the chore department. They have been keeping their room clean and doing their chores everyday. They are very helpful around the house. It is sad to know they wont be helping me as much since they will be at school all day long. They were really excited to eat lunch at school. I hope they play nice at recess and I hope they can get along with their fellow classmates. So far they seem happy. They like their teachers. They are really excited to be back in school. We'll see if mom can keep up, and not miss them so very much.

Layout exchange tonight.

Tonight I have a layout exchange at LeRoyne's house. I'll update photos of the layouts I got finished. That will help me try to get them all finished.

The Bair's on a Sunday afternoon.

Here is Max reading the news paper. We take the Sunday paper because that is the day when we actually have time to read it. So on Sundays we read the paper and take a nap. We also celebrate birthdays with each of our families. This last Sunday we had my parents over for dinner. We don't have any summer birthday's on the Printy side so we don't get to see them as often in the summer as we do in the winter. My mom brought artichokes, my kids loved them. What a fun treat! This Sunday also was stake conference. I love stake conference. It is my favorite meeting of the year. We usually try to go prepared to feel the spirit. We are always uplifted. The adult meeting is even better because it comes with no distractions (children). I really love my children, but it is nice to be able to give my undivided attention to the speaker. Our conference was on strengthening the family. So I have new goals of being kind, showing love, and taking better care of my family. I want so many good things, to have scripture study and prayer and regular family home evenings. I just need to keep trying and every day I can improve. Stake conference is also nice because you have more time after church. We usually get out at 2:00 because we have 11:00 church. But today it was at 10:00 so we got up early got ready and got seats at 9:00. But we got home just after 12:00 so we had lunch and were able to spend time with the kids before we took a nap. It was really nice. Audrey and Hailey's favorite new game is UNO so we play that a lot too. Sunday's are such a wonderful day. I love Sunday's!

Guess what I'm doing tonight!

Todd and Erin's Slumber Party!!! B98.7 does a slumber party every year for ladies to come and pamper themselves. There is food, lots of different sponsors who give out tons of free stuff. I'm really excited. I've wanted to go for a couple of years now. I mentioned that I wanted to go to my friend Camille and she said, "I go every year, when is it?" I said, "tomorrow." She told me that she could get us tickets. WOHOO!! So now we are going. YEAH!! I'm so excited. I hope my poor husband is okay with the kids on our weekly date night, sorry sweetie.

Chore Presents.

Kate got her first Chore Present. A while ago I instituted a chore reward system where if the girls did a chore they would get a smiley face in a box if they filled up 36 boxes they would be able to pick a present from the present box/bowl. I went out and bought little $1, $2, or $3 toys and wrapped them up. Kate got all of her boxes filled. So here is her reward. Good job Kate.

The finished bike project.

Well here it is. It took 2 days and last night when I was riding I had two malfunctions. So the bike still needs work. But is has been fun taking the kids out to ride. Some day I'll go out and not have any troubles or delays. We'll see when that day comes. When Audrey and Hailey go to school all day I can take these 3 on a bike ride and go as fast as I want. Not too fast though.

My beautiful yellow flowered hat.

A few weeks before the tea party Grammy showed me the hats that we were going to wear. She said we could choose which hat we wanted to wear. I saw this hat with the yellow flowers and fell in love. I decided that I needed a new yellow dress to wear with it so my sweet friend Holly came with me and we found this yellow dress. I just think it went fabulous with the perfect hat. Thanks Holly and Grammy for the greatest tea party outfit.

Grammy's Tea Party!

Everyone was so excited for the long awaited tea party. Grammy Bair was so sweet and set up this wonderful party for us. She searched and searched for months for the perfect hats. She gave each of the girls a feather boa and sweet heart wreath. The girls also made fabulous pillows that said "Audrey is a Princess." They turned out so cute. I'll have to take photos of them to post. Grammy had Grandpa take portraits of the girls that I will post later. We also made each girl a double page 12x12 layout to put their portraits on. Each girl got to put her creative mind to work making the pages and making them their own. It was fun to watch them create. At the tea party we had so many delicious things to eat. We had, cream puffs, little quiches, tiny little pudding pies, crapes, peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, and teddy grahams, which I spilled twice. We could put 3 different beverages into our own tea pots. They were chocolate milk, lemonade, and orange juice. The table looked elegant. Everyone had a wonderful time enjoying tea with Grammy.

I did it!!!

I got the bike up and running, new straps on the bike kid seat, and I sewed new clips into the bike stroller. It took me the entire day on Friday to get that done. Then we went for a little bike ride all 5 kids and me for 5 minutes before the sun went behind the mountain. It was very satisfying. I took the bike and kids out today for a real ride around the block. Well really to Holly's house, but we made it in one piece with only one fall and 2 malfunctions. When we all got home and had lunch Chris was able to fix everything back up again. So I'll be ready for another ride on Monday and I'll take some photos this time.

My project for the day.

This is my project for the day. I got this from my sweet friend Holly. Her youngest child rides his own bike now. I'm really really excited about this. I bought a bike stroller a couple of years ago anticipating doing this. I wanted to buy a bike seat for Kate and put Max and Ruth in the bike stroller then Audrey and Hailey could ride their own bikes and we could all go on a bike ride. So maybe it is a crazy idea but it sure sounds exciting to me. I need to fix the straps on the bike seat, put in better seat clips in the stroller, I hate the ones that are in there. Also I need to fix the tires on my bike and make sure it is in working order. We'll see if I can do it. Wish me luck.

Hair do's by Desiree.

My niece Desiree came to sleep over and just had a ball doing all the girls hair. Kate got her hair done 3 times in one day, I think she loved Desiree's attention. Desiree decided to take photos of their hair dos so here they are. Now Kate only wants her hair done in a crown like Desiree did. Funny huh.

The biggest Goose egg yet!

This is a photo of her today less than 24 hours later and she looks all better just a bruise isn't it amazing how fast the little ones heal. Heavenly Father sure designed us well. One thing we noticed was she scraped her glasses on the right lense I might have to get it replaced. I'm just glad she's alright. Love you Ruthie.

Poor Ruth tripped on her flip flops coming down the stairs on grammy's porch last night. She fell on her head and has the biggest goose egg. Poor thing. Luckily Grammy makes everything better she got Ruth ice and a sippy cup and she's right as rain. Today her head is looking lots better. Here is a photo of her last night.

Max the Fireman!

What a sweet face he has here. It is such an adventure having a boy. He climbs, fights, jumps, runs, hits, kicks, and drives everything as a car, motorcycle, or truck. He is such a joy in our home, this face proves it. What pretty eyes, I wish that deep blue would last. My eyes are pretty gray now. Tamara took this photo I think she should enter it into a contest, the color is beautiful. Of course the subject is so handsome. Enjoy.

Pioneer Day

This Pioneer Day we decided to go camping. But no stitches this time, wheew. We went down past Tooele to a camp site down there. I can't remember the name of the place but it was nice with big hills we were camped in between. We had a fun time and the kids got so dirty. But what is childhood with out dirt, right? In Audrey's photo she is holding a grass hopper. The camp site was full of grass hoppers the girls were so excited!!!

Sunday Fun

Sundays are my favorite day of the week. I love going to church and feeling the spirit. I like dressing up the kids nice and having a family day. I love that Chris is home with us all day and we can take a nap and play games as a family. These are some photos that Max and I took on Sunday. Enjoy!

Thanksgiving point's Dinosaur Museum

We went to the dinosaur museum with Grammy and our cousins. It had been years since I've been to thanksgiving point. Grammy Bair has a grandparent pass, so she invited us to come with her. The kids had a lot of fun. They got to look at a lot of displays. We played on the dinosaur scale. Our favorite part was playing in the great big water sand box, there were little dinosaurs and trees. The kids were able to make little homes for the dinosaurs, and lots of mountains. Finally Max got to play with dirt. He loved it. Ruth was pretty excited too, they did have a hard time not throwing the dirt in their excitement. :) Thanks Grammy we had a fantastic time.