Newborn Pics

I by no means am a photographer, but we didn't have the time or money for professional pictures with Dallas so I gave it my best!  Luckily, my mom has an awesome camera so they turned out pretty well.  Plus Dallas is a beautiful baby (in my unbiased opinion) so that helped too.

First Day of School. Kind of

The first day of school in Liberty Lake was September 5th which was also my due date.  However since Dallas came early and we decided to move on the 12th we just figured it made more sense to keep the kids out of school and just start them when we got to Utah.  I knew schools in Utah had already started about 2 weeks before WA so I was pretty anxious to get them there and get them in school.  Little did we know at the time that we were actually going to be moving to St. George where school had started a whole month before. 

Rylynn 2nd grade

Carter Kindergarten

Normally I wouldn't really care that much that they were starting a whole month late, but I was really sad that we didn't get that real first day of Kindergarten experience with Carter.  That was such a big deal with Rylynn and so I was kind of worried he would be really sad.  Luckily he is my easy going kid and he didn't mind at all.  He was really excited to start and we went the night before and bought them their new backpacks and school shoes which was very exciting:)  Carter loved his first day and his teacher and settled in like a pro.  Rylynn loved her first day too and made friends right away.  She loves her teacher and her best friend is on our street.  My kids have always lived where there have been some members of our church but most of the kids in school and in the community haven't been members so it is still so exciting for Rylynn that all these kids in her class are members of her church. The first three weeks of school straight she would come home and be so excited and say, "guess what Mom!  So and so is a member of our church too!"  She found out one of her friends was a member when she started to sing a primary song in class and she got so excited and asked her if she was a member of the church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints!  I still don't think she gets that pretty much everyone here is:)  I'm just so thrilled that we found a great school for them that they love.