First Day of School 2011-2012

August 10, 2011

Cayden's first day of sixth grade! I can't believe he will be in junior high school next year!

Cayden's new backpack for sixth grade!

Carson's first day of second grade!

Carson's second grade backpack! I was sad to see the D-back backpack retire after Carson using it the past two years!

Keira's first day of kindergarten!

Keira of course chose a Justin Bieber backpack!

Wow! I can't believe I have a Kindergartner, second grader and sixth grader plus one on the way!

Keira and Carson out in front of their school on the first day of the 2011-2012 school year!

Keira and Carson with our neighbor friends Zoe (4th grade) and Austin (6th grade)!

Keira's good friends Brooke (1st grade) and Cassie (3rd grade) from church!

Keira and Ms. B.!

Keira and her friend Dianna from church were excited to find out they were going to be in the same Kindergarten class!

Dianna, Sydney and Keira!

Bye mom! Keira walking in to the school! She was so excited and was all smiles.

Katelynn and Keira. These two are in the same Primary class at church! I returned to the school for the Kindergartner's lunch recess and lunch!

Keira and Max! These two are in the same Primary class at church!

Kindergarten lunch time!

Carson, Brady, Jonathon and Nathan during the second grade lunch time. These four were in the same first grade class together last year.

This picture was taken with Mark and the kids on the second day of school! The kids were excited to have their dad drive and walk them into school! Mark is such a good dad and went out shopping and bought all three kids their school clothes and shoes this year without me! He found some amazing deals on everything. All I had to do was get all the kids their school supplies and that was quite the task! I swear those lists get longer and longer each year! The kids are loving their new stylish shoes and clothes that their dad helped pick out for them.

Meet the Teacher Night!

August 8, 2011

We started off meet the teacher night at Cayden's school! Cayden is pictured with Mr. C his sixth grade teacher! Mr.C is an awesome teacher and Cayden is very lucky to have gotten such a good teacher!

Cayden at his sixth grade desk!

Next we went to Keira and Carson's school! Keira is so excited to be in Ms. B's Kindergarten class! Carson had Ms. B for Kindergarten and we were all hoping that Keira would get in her class for Kindergarten! Ms. B is a great teacher and we all love her!

Keira at her kindergarten table!

Keira and Sydney! Sydney's older sister (Keira) and Carson have been in the same class at school for kindergarten, first grade and now second grade! Sydney's mom and I were really hoping that these two would end up in the same class and they did!

Keira with her school mascot "Bob the Bulldog !"

Carson and his second grade teacher Mrs. H! Carson was so excited to get according to him the nicest teacher in all of second grade at his school! I am so happy that Carson got the second grade teacher that he wanted. Mrs. H is such a nice and soft spoken lady and has been teaching school for over 20 years!

Carson at his second grade desk!

Mrs. H loves teddy bears and has a huge collection inside her classroom!

Carson stopped in to say hi to Ms. A. his first grade teacher!

Cayden's Trip to Utah & Idaho!

August 3-7, 2011

Cayden flew out of Phoenix with Papa Bear and cousin Taylor for a 4 night/5 day all expense paid trip to Utah and Idaho courtesy of Papa Bear! I sent Cayden and Taylor each with a disposable camera and told them to not come home without using up every picture on their camera! LOL! They both did an awesome job of taking pictures of their trip! Thank you Papa Bear for treating Cayden to such a fun time. He made memories that will last a lifetime.

Before Papa Bear flew out with Cayden and Taylor to Utah he took us out to eat at Firehouse Subs! Don't you love Papa, Lexie and Keira's hats?!

Cousin Taylor and Carson looking good in their fireman hats!

The boys getting ready to head to the airport to catch their flight to Salt Lake City, Utah!

Cayden taking a picture out of the airplane window somewhere between Arizona and Utah!

On the plane ride to Salt Lake City, Utah!

The first night they staid in Logan, Utah! They went on the Utah State College Campus where Papa Bear graduated from and had them some famous Aggie ice cream!

The Logan, Utah Temple!

Cayden and Taylor standing in front of the Logan Temple!

Preston High School in Preston, Idaho! Preston High was one of the main filming locations in the movie Napoleon Dynamite. My Grandma Goodsell was one of the first graduating class from this high school!

Cayden with Aunt Phyllis (My dad's sister) and her dog at her house in Preston, Idaho!

Cousin Jayden and Cayden! Jayden came down to Grace, Idaho from Idaho Falls to hang out with Cayden and Taylor while they were visiting!

Sightseeing beautiful southern Idaho!

Papa Bear took the boys to Chesterfield, Idaho! The Chesterfield Town site is an old rural village frozen in the time period before 1920. It is located between Lava Hot Springs and Soda Springs, Idaho and along the Oregon Trail. This is the Moses Muir House.

The Chesterfield Meetinghouse! This place is now a museum.

Inside the Meetinghouse!

Soda Springs, Idaho has the only captive geyser in the world! This geyser reaches 100 feet in height!

Cayden and Jayden playing by the geyser and getting wet!

Cayden and cousin David! Cayden loves to play with all his little cousins.

It was the Caribou County Fair and Rodeo in Grace, Idaho where my family lives and that is where Cayden, Taylor and Papa Bear stayed for three nights. Cayden got to go to the parade, rodeo and the demolition derby! He of course got to ride lots of carnival rides. This was Cayden's favorite ride.

This was another favorite ride of Cayden, Jayden and Taylor! This is the ride that Taylor puked all over in after eating too much fair food! LOL!

Aunt Brenda and Uncle Dave's dog named Rose Bud!

The view from Aunt Brenda and Uncle Dave's house backyard in Grace, Idaho!
Cayden and my cousin, Jennifer!

Cayden and Aunt Brenda (my dad's sister)!

Cayden and Uncle Dave!

Cayden up in the Beaver Dams outside of Grace with Grandpa Gilbert, Aunt DeAnn and Taylor!

Aunt DeAnn (my mom's sister) out on the family ranch.

Last Chance Dam on the Bear River! My Great Great Great Grandfather named this dam in Idaho.

Last Chance Hydro Electric Company that my Grandpa built on the Bear River in 1976!

Taylor and Cayden with their Great Grandpa Gilbert out on the family ranch! This is my Grandpa's childhood home!