AUGUST

We made an outdoor chalkboard for our backyard.  Despite the looks on their faces, Chloe and Will are excited about the new edition to the backyard.

 

 

Elisha and Laurell were our overnight babysitters at the beginning of August so we could have a late 14th anniversary celebration and a good night's sleep.  Not sure they slept much but our kids had the best time spending time with them.

 

What to do when you have a few extra minutes before you need to be at school?  Stop and check out the corn, of course!  Lehi would periodically stop with Chloe and Will to measure how much the corn had grown during the summer.

 

These are the cute faces I arrived home to on a Wednesday evening.  Not sure why the winter frog hat was necessary to watch Jake and the Neverland Pirates, but it made me smile.

 

First day of school.  Chloe is officially a kindergartener and Will is in the Preschool 2 class.  Loving the arms around each other.



 

Silly monkey faces.

 

Chloe working on her homework for the evening while dinner gets made.

 

Will's version of homework...time in the sandbox so that dinner can get made.  This little guy is so good at entertaining himself.

 

Hosting COUSIN NIGHT at our house.  Elisha offered to watch all the cousins one Friday night.  It was a no brainer to accept this gracious offer!  It was such a success we decided to keep this up and rotate who hosts cousins while the other couples get a date night out for a few hours.  BEST.IDEA.EVER!!!  Our evening was one of the warmest of the month so we played outside in the water and got sticky with bubbles. 

 

Popsicles to cool everyone down.  Please excuse the house in the background.  We are finally getting around to painting the exterior this fall.