Friday Fun Day

Friday we had a few cousins come to town, plus Chloe's BFF was over for the day. We set up the slip n slide and had several other neighbor kids come over and join in the fun. It was mass chaos!!! Bryce and Preslie were right in the middle of all the craziness and I just kept waiting for someone to get hurt, but luckily no injuries occurred. 

 Most of the Gang-minus Jack and Tanner who are too cool for pictures.

 It was so funny Tanner would pull Bryce down the slide and he absolutely loved it-kept going back for more.

 Fun Times! Fun Times!

Lockdown

On Thursday this guy walked into the Zions Bank, which is just a couple of blocks from our house and robbed the place-he then took two hostages and led police on a chase with shooting involved. He ended up on foot out in the area of Chloe's school. Several schools were put on lock-down-Chloe's being one of them. It was stressful as we waited for word that we could go and pick up our children. I finally got the text at 5:00. (the situation was under control unfortunately the cops had to shoot the guy to get the situation dissolved). Even though I arrived just after 5:00 at her school it was 6:00 before we left there as they were going through extreme safety measures and making all parents show id to pick up their children. It ended up being a long day-Chloe wasn't happy about the extra 3 hours at school-but I was grateful that her school and the police went to such extreme measure to keep all students safe. Quite the bit of excitement for our little town.

Lizard Hunting

We usually go out to my Grandma Marshall's house at least once a week. Bryce loves going to 'MaMa's' house. His favorite thing to do there? Hunt Lizards!!! She has tons of little lizards running around outside on her walls and in the flower beds. He gets so excited every time he see's them and will chase them around. It will be interesting to see if one of these days he catches one of them.

Baby Einstein

Bryce Loves Baby Einstein Videos-any of them that are about animals that is. His favorite time of the day is quiet time when I let him lay down, give him a bottle, and let him watch the "mammals" (animals). He gets so excited as soon as he see's the little caterpillar go across the screen (it is the start of all Baby Einstein videos). He can name tons of animals-horse, donkey, cow, dog, whale, duck, lion, bear-just to name a few. 

He is definitely an animal lover-just like his Sister!!!

Everyday

Everyday Bryce looks forward to the time when Tanner and Chloe get home from school. He love and adores both of them so much and is for the most part happy if he can do whatever they are doing.

I am so glad that the has two older siblings who love his so much. It also helps me out quite a bit, and I always have someone to watch him when I need them too.

(Enjoying an after-school snack with Sis. Yummy-Watermelon!!!)

One of Bryce's favorite things to do is play basketball with Tanner. Sometimes Tanner plays dunk-ball and Bryce really thinks he can dunk it to cause he will run and jump and then Tanner will lift him up to the net-LOL. (This time Chloe wanted to get in on the action as well)

Soccer Week 2

 Chloe had another soccer game this weekend. The pictures are kind of far away but if you can spot her she is number 6. Her team played another awesome game and had another victory winning 6-1. It is so good to see them working together and playing their positions like they should. Chloe is learning to trust and rely on her teammates (something that is often hard to do in recreational leagues because there is just some much variance in the players on a team). We are super happy with the team we chose for her to be on-her coach is great and you can tell he is really teaching the girls the game well. The best news Chloe scored another goal this week. Woot!! Woot!!  You can tell she is still learning to play at this new level, but each week she is getting better and better. We have had several parents tell us that she is doing great and they are glad to welcome her to the team :)

#soccergirl #ourgirl

Labor Day Weekend

For the first time in 2 or 3 years there were no ball games for us to attend over Labor Day Weekend. Landon didn't have to conduct in sacrament that Sunday either, so we decided to take advantage of the rare opportunity and just go on up to Landon's parents house for a nice long visit. Of course his sister Brenda and her kids live there now too so the kids are always excited to be able to see their cousins. His other sister Taryn and her family decided to come down for a visit as well so we ended up with a full house. The kids had fun playing, sleeping on the trampoline, and just hanging out. On Saturday we went up Fillmore Canyon for a picnic lunch.

 Love my boys...

 CUTIE PIES!!!

 It was so nice to just be able to hang out and not have anything else we needed to do. Landon had been working really long hours the last few weeks so it was a good break for us all. The only bad thing was that we had a little stomach flu hit our family starting with Bryce on Friday. It eventually went through all of us over the next 4 days and as we each took a day out to be sick-but aside from that we had a great long weekend!!!