School Begins

Spencer is now in 7th grade at Greenspun Jr. High. He thinks it's pretty cool. He's hoping to grow a lot this year -more than Ali anyway, and keep up with grades, music, and friends.Ali is in 5th grade at Bartlett Elementary. Her teacher is Mrs. Lewis. She thinks it's going to be exciting and a great year. This is the first year she hasn't been in her good friend Ellie Putnam's class, so she's looking forward to making some new friends.

This is what Ali had written on the 1st day of school.

Sam loves to be in the water so he and good friend Aiden Putnam are taking a swim class and also an exercise fun class.

We're looking forward to this 2009-2010 school year.

Some More Summer Fun

Our little camera broke -the one that was so easy to take everywhere. Such a bummer. I managed to get a few with our other more bulky camera.

This is a fun place called Bounce U where the kids played hard and got nice and sweaty.

This was called the Spider Web. It's pretty tricky to climb to the top, but these climbers made it.

Ali and Ellie

Spencer and Masen

This was a hard day. Sam was into everything. I ran downstairs to get something and Spencer started yelling, "Mom! Sam made a mess." Needless to say I was not happy. Spencer ran down the stairs and told me to get the camera first. Smarty! that cooled me down lucky for Sam who was just having a great time.

This was Ali's Gotcha Forever Day.

This was the day that she became a forever member of our family, sealed in the St. George Temple to lucky us on July 23, 1999. She gets to choose something she wants to do with the family.

Ice skating -what a great idea on a hot summer day.

Even Sam had fun on the ice. Spencer was too fast to catch a picture of.

This was the Salter Family at Dave's sister Lori's house in Rockport, Ut. not too far from Park City. She has a beautiful home up in the mountains. The weather was great and it was fun visiting and playing games. The Salter's are a fun bunch. We were sad everyone didn't make it, but it was still a pretty big group.

Some of the other Summer highlights: Swimming; Spencer's Diving; staying with our friends the Gublers at Mandalay Bay and playing hard and hanging with them for a few days; Scout Camp for Dave and Spencer at Lake Arrowhead; some of my Santa Clara friends coming on my birthday; and a quick weekend in Scottsdale, AZ.

Happy 3rd Birthday Sam!

This cake was what Sam was so excited to wake up and eat. He helped me make it and decorate it. Isn't it beautiful? He was proud of it.

He had a great time trying to blow out the candles which he did over and over thanks to fellow pyro brother Spencer.

We didn't have a friend party -most of his little buddies were out of town.

What he wanted to do was go jump, so we did at Sky Mania. He's such a jumper and I am too so I didn't get any pictures. It's such a fun place with trampolines all over even the walls, so yes, we were bouncing off the walls.

Having fun in his new tent.

Sam thinks birthdays are so much fun.