My Baby Goes to 1st Grade!!

Maddie started 1st Grade on Tuesday. I can't believe how big she is getting. She was way excited to be able to eat lunch at school and have 3 recesses. I was worried about her and was more nervous then she was. She was so excited to take a lunch to school (which will be something she does most days since we won't eat anything), and she got to be away from Mom all day. Colton on the other hand had a hard time not having Maddie at home to play with all day. Needless to say Mom had a long day with Colton.

After school she had to go to the doctor for her 6 year old check-up (I know I am a little slow). She weighted in at 39 pounds (barely in the 5%) and in the 25% for her height.

All in all she had a great day and is still excited for school. We will see how long that lasts.

St. George 2010

Ben's brother Ryan and his Family were in Utah so we decided to go to St. George and have a long weekend with the Barkers.

We were suppost to go on Thursday night after Ben got off work but I ended up with Strep Throat and so we did leave until early Friday morning. When we got there it was really really hot so the we did a lot of swimming. On Saturday we went to the Washington Community Center. It had a swimming pool that was really shallow that the kids could walk around in it. It has a slides they could go down and it had a lazy river that we went around and around and around in. They had a lot of fun and it got us out of the heat.

Island Park

We make our yearly trip to Island Park again this year. I LOVE THAT PLACE!!! We had so much fun. All of my brother and sisters except for Krishele were there for the whole week. Krishele was only able to come for the weekend because her kids are just to busy, so we missed them. My Grandma Parry was also able to come up for a few days which is always fun when she can come.

The weather was really weird while we were there so we didn't get to do a lot of the stuff that we normally do, like run the river, but we still had a lot of fun water skiing and playing on the waverunners.

On Sunday we went to Mesa Falls. I hadn't been there for a long time and Ben and the kids had never been there. IT WAS BEAUTIFUL!! I had forgotten how pretty it was there. The kids really liked it. After we got home from Mesa Falls we went to go shot potatoes out of the Potato Gun. We do this every year and have a great time with it. However this year we had a accident. Branden was on one dock shotting the gun and some of the kids had gone over by him to see him shot it. The kids were having so much fun watching the potatoes land in the water. I was standing on the other dock and heard a load sound and looked over to see Branden pull someone out of the water and he was really limp. I realized it was Colton, who had gone over to the other dock with Ben. I took off run to get Colton, because I thought that he had got hit by the gun and it had knocked him out. Ben grapped him and ran to the top of the dock just has I had gotten there. We started to strip him down to see what had happened and realized he was fine and had just got knocked into the water. Just after that Branden took off running back to camp and realized it had hit my nephew Bronsen. He had a huge bump on his head. They got the swelling to do down and he looked like everything was going to be ok but they ran him to Rexburg to make sure everything was good. We are lucky because Branden is a Intensive Care Nurser so he knew exactly what to do when it all happened. Bronsen ended up being just fine and we are so glad Branden was there to pull Colton out of the water.

We had a great vacation accident and all.

Colton Playing at the water

We could never take Paige's life jacket off. She was always getting in the water.
Maddie playing in the canoe

Hanging out at the water

Grandma Parry and Branden on the wave runner. She will only ride the wave runner if Branden takes her, and she loves it.

Mesa Falls

Bronsen having a spa day after the potato gun accident.

Maddies Dance Recital

Madisyn had her dance recital back in June. She did very well. If you want to view the videos you can go to the following youtube links below:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wJZObFYe_c

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0WaTdJxXAY

Lagoon

In June we went to Lagoon and the kids had a lot of fun. Paige was old enough to go on a lot of the rides and loved being there. We also spend some time with Aaron and Melissa's kids and Maddie loved hanging out with Aubrey.

Madisyn Kindergarten Graduation

Madisyn has officially passed Kindergarten. The end of the year was very eventful. They has a year end program, a year end dance presentation, and they were able to eat their first hot cooked meal at the school. She really loved kindergarten and her teacher but is excited to go to 1rst grade.

Swimming Lessons

Maddie and Colton did swimming lessons this summer. Maddie and Colton started out in different classes but Maddie wasnt as comfortable in the water, not having swimming lessons before, so we moved her down with Colton. They both did awesome. By the end of it they were able to swim out to their teacher by themselves and were able to flout on their back.

Jerry Rice and Walmart

A couple of weeks ago we were walking into Walmart and it was extra crowded. We couldnt figure out why until we walked into the store. Jerry Rice was giving out autographs. We would have gotten one but the line was too long.