Friday, August 31, 2018

Happy birthday Alayna and Brandon!!!

Brandon turns 25 this month (quarter of a century)and Alayna had her Sweet Sixteen!  We loved being able to celebrate them together.  We went to Osaka for lunch and amazingly the guys who ate by us paid for the bill!  AND left before we could thank them.  We were so grateful!

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The crew helped me try out our 1st breakout EDU

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Random cute pics of movie nights

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LOVED LOVED LOVED the Greatest Showman- but still mad at Infinity War

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Bonding with Grandma

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Thursday, August 30, 2018

Back to school for mom

Honestly not ready to go back.  This was a great summer for me and going back was a smack in the face.

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But it was fun coming home to a baby

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The girls had a day out to get their hair colored which was supposed to be about an hour and turned into 4 1/2 and was still a bit disastrous

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Ellie with a zucchini as big as she is

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She likes my TV area too

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Fun at Lost Island

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It was an overcast day so there werent many people there.

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I got to hold Ellie while everyone tried out the water slides

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We had a nice cabana area

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Of course we had to have the funnel cake and ellie liked the powdered sugar

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Then we were told we had to get out of the water because of the storm coming. What storm?

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So we left while it poured and went out for dinner (create our own pizza…we tried BBQ macaroni and cheese pizza!)

When we came back, amazingly the park was still open but it was almost completely all empty.  Ellie slet and everyone else basically had the park to themselves for 90 minutes. Perfect day!

Tuesday: Helping mom at the library

1st day of 6th grade orientation

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Pancheros lunch!

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My little helper

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Reading books

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Family time outside

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They finally made it!

After a VERY long 2 days of travel and a cancelled flight, they finally made it to Iowa! *Warning- most pictures are of Ellie

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Reading with Tyler

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Checking out the special new bookshelf

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Meeting fur babies

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Checking our Grandma’s house and the new high chair

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Her favorite place to be is on the table

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Night swim with pool basketball

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Utah- Part 4