Ashton's first day of school, and other stuff

Ashton in the hallway on his first day of school. He was really excited. There were so many kids! I'm used to his little preschool. Okay, I wasn't paying attention, and this whole post is in backwards chronological order. Sorry.

All ready to go to school!

Gilbert wanted to be in all the pictures!

Ashton gettin' some love from Pirate. We just found out she has heart worms. After an expensive treatment, she has to live in the house in a cage for a month. So fun! But hopefully after that she will be better. The kids and Clint (not me) sure love her.

My boys with the demon dog. Isn't weird how her eyes went crazy?

We went to the park for a last playgroup with the school bound kids. It'll be much harder to get everyone together now :-(

Snacktime!

Ashton riding the dino

Playgroup friends!

Me, and Rosemary, and Breanna with our babies. I got to know Rosemary when she was my Doula for Gilbert's birth. She is an awesome Doula and an awesome friend!

Me and my good friend and neighbor (not accidental neighbor, she and I totally scoped out houses close to hers when we were looking for a house) Breanna with our babies.

Hayden and Gilbert playing in the car at the park.

Ashton and his uncles playing Mario Kart on the Wii.

Ashton got a blue batman face painting at the rodeo. Yes, it was just as bad as I thought it would be, but Ashton and Clint liked it. At least we didn't pay for the tickets. It was fun to take Ashton out all by himself.

Ashton getting his face painted at the rodeo.

Me and Leah, a good friend I haven't seen forever. We got together for a few hours when she and her husband were in town. Now Clint and I have an excuse to visit NYC!


Camille got set apart at my house, because the only time the whole family could get together was at nine at night when my kids were asleep. I made sure to clean the living room, kitchen and bathroom, because that's what you could see, but neglected the bedrooms. So the Stake President came over and asked if there was someplace private where they could have their last interview. Yeah, they had their interview outside. Totally embarrassing. But my room, the only one not occupied by people there for Camille's blessing or sleeping children, was a bit of a disaster. Oh well.

The missionary herself.

I love this. It is from Camille's mission farewell. It looks like Lily has a propeller on her head. In other Lily news, she scoots quite well now. She eats three solid food meals a day, and REALLY wants to have some of whatever we are eating. Still no teeth. She has more and personality, generally in the form of screaming so that we know when something displeases her. Often, in case you were wondering. She is playing on the floor more now, as long as Gilbert doesn't touch her. She also sleeps through the night (6:30 pm to 6am or so).

We had a great trip to Utah. It was a really long drive, but the kids were actually pretty good. It was wonderful to see Aunts and Uncles, and cousins. I'm so happy that the kids got to spend lots of time with family, and really made some good friendships.


We went to Aunt Shirley's house to play, and then the park, and then Carl's Jr. The kids were nice and worn out that day.

We hiked up to Timpanogos cave. It is really beautiful. The hike was pretty, but rather arduous. It is only a mile and a half, but it is at a steep incline the whole way. The cave is worth it, though.

Enjoy your hike, HA!

A 4th of the way there, and still smiling.

Me, Clint, Amy, Ashton, Sophie, and Abby in Timpanogos cave.

We went up and had dinner at a beautiful park in the canyon. The weather was great, and we all had a blast. Eva thinks Gilbert should be a conehead.

Gilbert and Eva. They were good buddies. Gilbert says, "Eba."

Me and Ashley and Lily

Coby and Clint chillin'

Nick entertaining Lily.

Grandma and Granddad and all the Grandkids. That's as close to everybody looking as we could get.

Grandma and Granddad's 60th birthday party at Carrabba's

We went to a really cool pool in Lindon. They had a water slide, and a lazy river. Uncle Coby and Ashton were pool buddies.

Doesn't Lily look cute in her swimsuit?

Aunt Shirley took us to Thanksgiving point, and we got to go and see lots of animals, and Ashton rode a pony, and there was also a pony cart ride. It was a pretty cool little place.

Aunt Shirley and Gilbert by the little Chicken cages.

They had a horsecart ride that Ashton, Gilbert and Clint rode.

We went bowling at BYU. It was fun, but kind of exhausting with all those little kids. I had to bowl with Lily on my back. It's a good thing, 'cause then I could blame being no good on her!

They had cool thingies that the kids used to cheat and roll their ball down.

She is so cute. I can't resist putting random pictures of her up.

We got to have dinner with Jenny and Rik, and it was fun.

Ashton and Henry were great buddies. I couldn't get them to hold still or stand together for a picture, though.

Gilbert and Granddaddy. Granddaddy was making scary noises that the boys loved.

Lily and Grandmother.

We had dinner with some friends who have a girl Ashton's age. The kids had fun, as you can see.

Lily at the parade.

A firetruck from the parade. They have a great parade every year in Provo, but I didn't go, because I was busy packing.


We had homemade chocolate hazelnut gelato on the 4th, and it was soooooooooo good! Gilbert looked like a chocolate monster when he finished.


It's so funny to put babies together and see what they do. That is, until they maul eachother and cry. Which generally happens fairly quickly.

Clint and Cannon

Gilbert and Eliza in the pool. I was glad to see Gilbert swimming. It's on the list of things that scare him. It's a long list.

Cousin Nick pushing Ashton on the swing.

Nick and Gilbert climbing the monkey bars. They were really cute together.

Clint and Lily on the swing on the 4th.

Ashton holding a sparkler on the 4th of July. He was very brave. I wasn't when I held one. It made a lot of noise and it was long and it was going to get me!!!!!

Ashton riding a Llama.

Gilbert riding a Llama. I was really surprised that he actually did it! He tends to be frightened of large animals. And small ones, actually.



We got to go to the Krishna temple in Spanish Fork. They had lots of cool animals, and best of all, the kids got to ride Llamas!!! They really enjoyed it.

Oh no!! The hippo is going to eat Lily!
The boys and the elephant at the Monte Bean museum. They had a lot of really cool stuffed dead animals there. It was hard to get the boys to stop looking at the elephant, and look at me.