First Day of 2nd Grade

I don't even know how it happened, but my Brady is in 2nd grade now! It just blows my mind to think about it.  He was so happy that he got to go back to the same school for 2nd grade and he even has a few friends from last year in his class. That made me really happy because changing schools when we moved from Florida was really hard for him. We are still living the hotel life so we took his first day of school pictures at a park by his school instead of our usual front porch shots. Sad, but hopefully we'll be moving in soon!

 His teacher, Mrs. Cundy, is SO nice. I am so happy he is in her class!

I Love Dillon CO

School starts next week (why so early Colorado??), so we spent our last weekend doing something fun. Guy has a friend with a place in Dillon so he let us stay there for the weekend and relax. Let me tell you it was heaven! It honestly made me want to move to the mountains, if only I wasn't so terrified about how awful the winters would be up there. Well that and bears! Anyway we relaxed, rode bikes, fished, hiked and basically just enjoyed every second of it.

View from the place we were staying

This was the best day. We just hung out by the lake and let the kids throw rocks in it and get good and dirty. They were in heaven. Our kids are really easy to please!

 Views from our hike

 Guy and Brady went on a bike ride around the lake while Ryan napped

A Daytrip to Estes Park

We decided to drive to Estes Park for the day. We still need to plan a camping trip there, but that will have to be postponed until next summer, when our camping stuff is out of storage. I love doing things like this with our boys, it just feels good to get away from claustrophobic suburbia!

 We saw the cutest little Elk family running down the street across from the visitors center in Estes Park.    A dad, mom and baby. They caused quite the commotion as everyone tried to get pictures of them...us included!

 We drove through a few campsites and scoped out future ones we wanted to try to stay at. BB spotted a deer at the one we decided was the perfect spot. It was fate. We'll be back little deer :)

 It was kind of an overcast, rainy day while we were there, but that didn't stop us from going on a little hike around the lake. It was beautiful there!

 3 boys in a tree. I love them!

August...In A Hotel

We had a rough summer. Once I got back from Utah, we were completely moved out of our old house, but we had nowhere to move into. We had a few options that fell through and basically our only choice was to stay in a hotel and figure it out. It was not the most fun way to spend the last few weeks of summer. I really didn't realize how loud and crazy my boys were until we were all stuffed in a small hotel room. They are so loud!! And eating out got really old, but we survived it! We found a place to live that was in the same area as we were before, but the drawback was that we couldn't move in until the end of the month. We were desperate so we decided to go for it. It was really important to us that we could keep Brady in the same school with his friends and we really wanted to stay in the same ward. So we felt grateful!

 Silly boys on the hotel bed. 

 Laurie Berkner concert with Ellie 8.3.13

We had fun at the Laurkie Berkner concert with our best bud Ellie. We love laurie berkner songs so it was fun that the kids all knew them. Ryan was a little grumpy since it was nap time and Ty just doesn't do well when he is really hot. But other then that, it was a blast!