Having some fun in August!!

Getting started on Scott's new apartments on 15th Street.  515 W. 15th Street to be exact.

Allison always gets recruited to do the concrete work.  You go girl.

DeWitt, just one of the crew!!!

They like working behind the block wall for privacy.  DeWitt is a bit disgruntled about the block fence, because he says, "we spent all summer putting that thing up, and now, we're going to spend a lot of time taking it down."

Experimenting with Tye Dye

It's looking good.  Lillian is the teacher.

It is a nice rainy day, and the puppies were scared of the thunder and heavy rain!

Going for a sauna

DeWitt playing some summer soccer.

The Throw in

Our good friend Jordan Hunt.  He's going to Moscow Russia on his mission.

Cool how Polly and DeWitt got the same color of uniforms.  Polly is playing in the big leagues now.

The throw in.

She and her good friend Matt Hacket got to be on the same team.

Um ya, that is a lot of money.  Lillian sucked her savings dry so that she could buy Allison's car....Corban Blue

The handshake to make it official

Cute how Lillian is not even 15 yet and she is already buying her first car.

The Joy, The Joy

I was cleaning the garage, and knew that it had to be time to get rid of these shoes.  These are Dallin's that he wore everywhere.  as you can see he wore them almost thread bare.  It really hurt my heart to toss them, but it had to be done. I at least had to document it.

The First Day of School August 10, 2011

It's weird to only have 3 kids in the first day of school picture.  Last year when I had two in college, Allison and Dallin still stood in the picture.  I keep having reminders that my family is changing.  Ugh.  I knew it had to happen.  This is DeWitt's senior year,  Lillian's freshman year, and Polly is in 7th grade, she just started middle school.

Lillian a freshman

Polly a 7th grader

DeWitt a senior

After school.  The kids get to have their traditional feet sugar cookies for their first after school snack.  Notice how they all seem more relaxed and at ease.  They were a bit nervous this morning, but now that they have their first day over with, they are happy.  They each had great experiences.  Lillian and Polly both started at new schools and DeWitt is the seminary president, so there were new things for everybody to deal with, and they did, in grand fashion. 

Picnic on the Mountain August 8, 2011

School is about to start and we thought it would be nice to drive up to Mt. Graham for a picnic.  It was pretty simple, we ate yummy food, we relaxed and slept on the blankets, we walked around for a bit, found a swing to play on, and that's just about it, but we had a lot of fun just being together, and laughing about conversations we were having.  DeWitt declared that we are Lord of the Rings Nerds.  We  have all of the movies on VHS.  We have them all on DVD, and we have all of the extended versions.  They watch them on a regular basis.  They can quote and act out almost all of the movies.  I say they, and that's everybody but Lillian and I, we hold a disclaimer to the nerd hood.  They have the Risk Lord of the Rings.  They check often on how the Hobbit movie is being made and watching for when it comes out.  They have a Lord of the Rings Chess.  They have a strategy game.  They have multiple books of the Lord of the Rings, and all of the history books of that series.  Nerds?......................Yup!!!

Enjoying our food.

They didn't pose for this, it was quite natural.

Lillian was very watchful of the bugs.

Scott wanted to make sure that he made it to the blog, so he took several pictures of himself.  Pretty good I think.

Now it's time to relax after the mas amounts of food that we had.  I'm not sure how Polly ended up on the bottom.

Just relaxing

Lillian didn't want to relax, she wanted to take advantage of the perfect picture taking opportunities.

Everyone loved the apple pie, and DeWitt wanted to make sure that he got the last bite.  He really is asleep.

Enjoying the "muddy buddies" that Lillian made.

Allison loves being taller that her little sisters.

Just sitting around talking

This is Polly's "Hobbit" hideout.  She was sitting on Scott's lap and then his leg fell asleep, then she sat on another chair, and she put her foot on my leg, and after a little while, I complained of how heavy her foot was.  (it wasn't really, but she is good for some fun), so then the teasing began, and it ended up that she had one heavy hobbit foot, and how does she walk around with it and so on and so forth.  It's silly, but it was funny at the time.  So she took her chair and went to her "Hobbit  hideout"  It was pretty funny.

Polly found a swing near by.

DeWitt thought he would give it a try.

Polly is pushing and DeWitt is complaining, he didn't want any help.

Allison tried to help push, but DeWitt didn't want her to, so he would kick his legs every time he came near to her.  I love being with my family, and it's times like these that I miss Dallin even more.  He loves to say movie lines, and he loves to be  Lord of the Rings nerd.