First Days of Kindergarten

His first day of Kindergarten was a half-day and it was a rainy morning :( Baby Logan went with us to the bus stop.

Riding the bus is the best part about going to school!

There's the bus! I see it!!

Alaina's Wedding

After Will picked me and the kids up from the airport we headed down to Kansas to our old ward building to go to Alaina Larson's wedding reception. It was great to see everyone from Overland Park 1st Ward, it has been 3 years since we moved out. Alaina was a beautiful bride, and I've never seen an LDS gymnasium look so elegant!

Indy Trip

The boys and I rode back to Indiana with my folks after the blessing on Sunday for a quick visit before school started. I was very surprised when they pulled into our driveway with a new custom high-top van. Now that they have one daugther 10 hours east, and one daughter 8 hours west with grandkids they are going to travel in comfort. And they are going cross-country in October to pick up Chris from his mission in Arizona. I climbed in and was checking out the back bench, overhead storage, etc and then I turned around and looked up to see the 27 inch TV!! SWEET! Benjamin loved it of course, it came with 2 sets of wireless headphones.

We also had lots of fun playing Rock Band Guitar Hero

We took Ben to the local school playground to burn off some energy

The sad part about my trip was it was the last time I'll see our family dog Shiloh. We got him as a puppy my senior year of high school and he has been our only family dog. He has cancer and will probably be put down soon. You can see his tumor growing out of his nose, it makes it difficult for him to breathe and he keeps having bloody sneezes.

Logan's Blessing

This is my favorite picture to date of my angel baby (7 weeks old). He was blessed on Sunday August 9, 2009. He was awake but quiet and my parents drove into town to participate.

Adventure Oasis

This was one of our few family fun days this summer what with the pregnancy and new baby in the house. Will took a week off of work for a "staycation" and we checked out Adventure Oasis in Independence about 25 minutes from our house. All three of us got in for $25 and we had a GREAT TIME. The weather was PERFECT, sunny with a breeze. They had super-size umbrellas so Logan could stay in the shade the whole time and we took turns watching the baby who slept most of the time and taking Ben down the Lazy River. They also had 3 waterslides for adults that were fun. I think Ben would've stayed all day if we had let him :) A very fun and relaxing day was had by all. I can't believe Ben is five and this is the first time we'd been there, we've been missing out!

Asked and Answered!

Benjamin has been driving me nuts all summer with the behavior of repeatedly asking the same question if he doesn't like my answer! He'll change how he phrases it or even drop to his knees with hands clasped and beg, Please oh please can I... "You already asked me twice and my answer is still NO!" ASKED AND ANSWERED! I'm told this is a common thing for his age...