First day of School

Just like every year in Septemeber comes school and the end of summer. The kids were really excited about it this year which is great, Mattison is going into the
4th grade which is totally scary and Taylor started kindergarten this year. Since it is now Nov. I will give you a little update along with this post. Mattison is at the top of her class and as her teacher says "everyone wants to be friends with her". Oh my little social butterfly...hopefully it doesn't go to her head! Taylor is doing well also, just learing letter sounds and shapes but if you ask him everyday, "what did you do at school today." his response is always "nothing" ha!

now September we are getting closer to current..

September was full of firsts for Miss Payton, and of course school for Matti & Taylor althouhg I think that deserves a seperate post of its own. Payton is gettin bigger as you can see, she sleeps in her crib, and her first bites of cereal. She took to sleeping in her bed well..(don't get too excited I didn't say anything about sleep through the night!) she does like it though. In Sept. she also got to try her first bites of cereal. She wasn't quite sure what to think of it but knew she wanted more! After a few more bites she knew it was good stuff!

From July to Aug...

Well, August was filled with fun things. Here is just a few to start you off but many more things to come. We started August off with a trip to the zoo and we had a great time. Payton was good, and the kids ran around and just crashed on the way back to the house. There is just something about the zoo that never gets old. Then we took the best family vacation yet to Silver Mountain, and for those of you that have not been it is a must. The rooms are beautiful with balconys and great views everywhere you look, the indoor water park was so much fun and the gondola ride....well jeff had fun the rest of us just about crapped our pants! Notice no pictures....well that is becuase I was convinced if I moved the thing would fall! HA! seriously! Other than that we really enjoyed our selves with G & G Hammitt there to keep Payton busy while Jeff and I acted like kids with kids. (Scary I know) All in all the beer was cold, water was warm & it was just all out fun! Had to throw in a few pics of Payton too.

Rewind the clock!

Since my last post was back in June, I thought we should rewind a little back to then and work our way forward. 4th of July...let's see...We spent the 4th of July with G & G Johnson, ate great food, and just enjoyed the new baby. We got to hang out with our good friends the Stuarts who had us over for a great BBQ (great burgers Lind's can still taste them now) we played games and the kids wore each other out. It was wonderful to see family and friends....thanks everyone & enjoy some of the pictures from that weekend.

Pumpkin Patch and finally an update!

Horrible blogger I am! I am going to try to get back on the wagon & keep this thing updated at least on the weekends. This last weekend was a blast for our family, we did...."nothing"....other than the pumpkin patch and a little girl shopping. Payton was fascinated with the pumpkins and all the people and Matti & Taylor has a blast as always. Just the best time of year! Here is just a few from our day!

Old baby...meets new baby

Stoli was the big baby around this house for the last three years so now that Payton arrived we were not sure we could trust him. We had tried to let him check her out once before but all he wanted to do was nibble on her toes so we had to go back inside till next time... well Stoli was sitting at the slider so we though why not! I don't know if there is anything more cute, he was so calm and we started with the screen in place and he just kept smashing his nose as hard as he could to smell her, so we opened the slider a tiny bit and sure enough he stuck his tongue in the crack and licked her toes...she smiled..so on for more we put Payton in her bouncer, opened the slider and surprisingly enough Stoli just sat down and it was like a staring contest for about 5 min then stoli started mushing her blanky around gently to check her out. This back & forth went on for about 10-15 min.... then SHHHHAAAMACK!!! a big wet kiss and I caught it, she loved it! So cute!!

First tooth!

Man has it been eventful around our house the last month. Taylor lost his first tooth and I was instructed by him to "put it on that blog thing" HA!! So, here it is! He was very proud of it and even pulled it out himself.