Back to School

Well it is official our summer is over ): Luke taught a summer class for most of the summer and was working on his graduate classes - so our summer consisted of about the past 3 weeks. We made the most of it and did lots of fun things (And celebrated our 7th Wedding Anniversary, yay us!) but the girls and I really enjoyed having Luke home! He actually started back last Wednesday with his prep days so we used Monday and Tuesday to go swimming, out to eat, the temple, and run errands. It was great and a good way to end the summer! When Luke asked Gabrie if she was sad because he was going to start work again she said she was sad but "it's ok, I'll see you again next summer!" That's kind of how I feel too ): New school year means long work days and nights for him. But we have had a few days now and it is nice to have some structure and be able to clean our house and catch up on everything we didn't do while having a fun time together.

Here is Luke with his back to school haircut, I was really proud of it because I actually tried to do something different and give it some style, after 8 years of cutting hair

Here is Gabrie on her first day back to preschool, we were both very ready and excited!

I had to include this picture because as I hard as tried to keep her out, Livvy managed to get in and pose and say "eez!" I bought Gabrie that shirt because it was so cute but I had something else picked out for her to wear for the first day but I let her choose and that is what she wanted to wear.Gabrie really wanted to take a picture by the tree because "I love the tree!" she said.

Soccer Season Starts

Gabrie started playing soccer for the first time this past week! We went to get her some good shoes for running (I figured she doesn't need cleats yet) and of course she chose the princess ones that light up! And I had picked some black athletic shorts for her which she was fine with until she saw that there were pink ones, which we had to get of course! Here she is before practice.

Action shot, kinda...

Listening to the coach, I love how her and her friend Chloe are holding hands!Game Day! We were all excited for her first game! She chose jersey #5!
She is the one NOT running toward the ball!

Getting loves from her coach ( : I'm not sure why she was sad?
Her first kick-off! I don't know why these next pictures are blurry? Their coach had just asked "Which goal are we kicking to!?"
I think the yellow team has it!
Over all she did pretty good for her first game. She got a little tired at first and didn't want to play much the first half but then she stayed in the entire second half. She touched the ball a few times but wasn't about to jump in the mass of kids to fight for the ball, if it came by her she went for it!

Family "Camp" Out

We have had two fun and busy weeks to end the summer! The first week Jeni and some of her kids came to visit - we missed Scott and Brandon : ( Then Miriam and Mamie came down (we missed Wade too!). And during the brief overlap we tried to have a family campout. Things didn't work out as planned so we spent the day at a fun picnic site then went to Grandma and Grandpa's to camp. Both Gabrie and Livvy were asleep by the time we got back there so we opted to sleep in the basement. Which was a good choice since Livvy woke up throwing up at 3 am. So her and I spent the night trying to find somewhere in the packed house (others opted to sleep inside too) to try to be comfortable in between throwing up! I felt really bad for her but it was fun cuddling with her all night, well until she started to feel better around 6 and just wanted to play by pointing to all the parts of my face and saying "no, eye, eo"!
Here are some pictures from our day in the mountains!

Gabrie loves her cousin Mamie, a little too much sometimes (:
Elizabeth, Christian and Livvy, Sydney and Mamie. The little cousins are so lucky to have the biggers ones to help and play with them.
I don't think you can actually tell how DIRTY she was from this picture, if you can, try to zoom in!
Cousins walking hand-in-hand
Cool poses by Christian and Sydney in the back.
And Ben
Sisters
Miriam and Mamie
Whee!

Cute Girls

Just some fun pictures of our cute girls!


Gabrie and Daddy made these hats one Sunday morning.

Livvy loves anything electronic!

VACATION

Luke's parents took us all to a huge cabin for the weekend of the 24th for a fun family vacation! We hung out, played games, ate lots of food, soaked in the hot tub, it was great! We also went shopping, to lunch, bowling, hiking and Lagoon! The cabin had a big room with 3 sets of bunk beds and Gabrie loved sleeping there with her cousins. Actually all of the kids loved climbing on them, even Livvy, unfortunately I didn't get any pictures of them.

The girls on one of the many staircases!



The girls in their new pajamas from the Disney Store!


While Livvy slept at the cabin with Grandma and Grandpa some of us hiked to Stuart Falls. Gabrie talked the entire way down with out taking a break, not sure how she did it!


Dianne, Kellie and Stefanie

Parker and David
Corbin and AshlynGabrie and Luke


Lagoon
Sam and Gabrie on the boats
Waiting in line for Puff- Livvy, Luke, Parker and Dianne
Gabrie and Ashlyn
Grandma and Sam
Mommy and Livvy- Livvy held on very tight to my arm but never made a peep or a smile.
Grandpa and Gabrie coming out of the Haunted House, not sure she liked it...
Gabrie picked this lollipop as her treat before we left, it was a very tough choice for to make.
The next few pictures are all in the correct order...
This is her 15 minutes later in the car, asleepStill asleep and eating her lollipop
Finally gave all the way in and I managed to pull the lollipop from her tight grip!
We had tons of fun but were very worn out!
We missed Spencer and Mayra's family (who just moved across the country) and Justus and Kyrsten's family (who had a baby, Jake, while we were vacationing!).

18 months old

Olivia turned 18 months old and the best thing about that is she gets to go to NURSERY! Here she is, showing her many faces, before her first day. She walked right in, started playing, and never looked back.

She has started saying a lot more things like...

E-I-E-I-O- usually when she sees Luke or his computer because he will play the video for her
nahnah-blanket
boble-bottle
mok- milk
uh too- I want one too! usually when someone has something she wants
ababab tet-tup- I want ketchup! -after Gabrie says "I want ketchup"
wove,wove- love,love (after family prayer when we give "loves"- hugs and kiss)
sheh-sheh= shoes, which she loves!
ganpa or papa= Grandpa
poe=poo

-She loves to sing and listen to music especially Old Mac Donald had a Farm, Twinkle Twinkle
Little Star, Ten Little Indians, and Itsy Bitsy Spider.
-She loves to play with her sister and wants to do what she is doing.
-She loves to be outside and go for walks in the stroller or wagon.
-She is still very attached to her fuzzy purple blanket and pacifer
-She is stubborn and silly and gives great kisses.