It's that time of year again, you know, the time of year that everyone has been thinking about for the last three months, in the back of their head, whether it be a teacher, thinking "oh... freedom!", or those kids, thinking (some of the time) "freedom!!", but the other half of the time, thinking "boredom", and the time when mom's think "...". Oh, that's right, mom's don't get to think during the summer!
Monday, Aug. 24th, was the first day back to school, and after our glorious vacation, I'm not sure we were all ready to get back to reality, but it came anyways, with the pre school jitters, for most everyone. Dylan and Jocelynn kept getting up, and I think those girls stayed up pretty late reading as well. But things went pretty smoothly.


Jocelynn was excited to have Mr. Karen, along with her bestest friend in the whole world, Katie Burton. I was happy, because she was originally put in the split class, and to say the least, I wasn't very happy about that, so at registration, I went in and talked to the principal, told her my concerns, and then she told me to come back! I couldn't come back, because we were going to be gone, so I asked her to put an asterisk by her name, and change her if she could, so when Nari (Katie's mom), called me on Thursday, when we were at Sea World, she told me she was in Mr. Karen's class I was thrilled.



Dylan is a big 4th grader this year, which is almost unbelievable, and he got "Yelling Yoder" or so she is nicknamed, but he didn't seem to mind. He'll do great so matter what. So far she is not living up to her nickname.




Afton was excited to find out that her teacher is Mrs. Cooper, and that her two friends are also in her class this year. Sixth grade!! Next year she'll be off to Jr. High!! Crazy!



And my dear Kate. Last year of Junior High, and in the 8th grade. This year they changed the way they do their classes, so they have 5 classes each day, instead of seven. They keep the same 3 core classes, in the morning (I think), and rotate their 4 elective classes every other day. Confused?? Me too!! Her first day of 8th grade will always be a memorable one for me, I think she cried (after school) about 12 times!! No kidding!
I'm excited about this year! They are all super kids and super students, so we should have lots of superp experiences to tell you all about!!

GoiNg to A PerFecT PlaCe...

If you're going to a perfect place, then you need to plan on taking the perfect picture, but you will see that we are not perfect, nor did we get the perfect picture, but we tried, and had fun doing so!!
P.S. I even had to dye the dress I got for Jocelynn brown, because I couldn't find one that was like the rest of ours! What some moms will do...
P.S.S. Since we were planning on taking these picture we brought a tripod, and right when we were setting up, guess who walked by?? Any guesses?? None at all?? Ok, I guess I'll tell ya, it was the Romney family, Mitt Romney's son and daughter in law and their two kids, so he was kind enough and took a couple of pics, they must've been out surfing, because she was in her wet suit!! What a crazy life!

The Dream House

Here's some pics of this $22 million dollar beach house!

More DrEaMinG! part 3

On Monday and Thursday of our Vacation, we were able to go to Sea World, where we rode the rides, watched the whales, the dolphins, and the sea lion shows. We felt the eels, held star fish, and got really, really wet! We had such a good time, that we went back on Thursday, because we HAD to ride the ride that was closed on Monday due to "technical difficulties", we're glad we went back because those sea lions were something else, and we had to go back on the shipwreck rapids again, to get really, really wet AGaiN!! All the kids were all very brave, and rode every ride, with only a couple of tears along the way!

ParT 2 of the DreaM

On Wednesday, Daniel and I got up early and went to the San Diego Temple, it has to be one of the most beautiful temples, ever! It is absolutely gorgeous! Then later that same day we went downtown to the Gas Lamp District, and went to the Mall, and walked around, and then for lunch we went to TGI Fridays, which was close to the Temple again, so we went back, and walked around and took more pictures.

A DreaM! part 1

A dream vacation... it's pretty close to what we had. Daniel's boss, offered us a chance to stay in his home on the LaJolla Beach, which is basically San Diego. This house is up for sale at only $22 million dollars. You could not beat the location, just outside and down the stairs was the beach, which had a steep drop off, so we went down and around the corner to the La Jolla shores beach where we spent two glorious days, where the kids and Daniel played in the water on the boogey board, body surfed, and Jocelynn "surfed" in her little Zoe tube! They all had such a good time, I even had to try to boogey board, where I hit a couple of waves, and drank a bunch of salty water!! We went for walks on the beach. Watched the sunset, and just relaxed. Like I said, it was a dream!!!!!!

Oops! I am so OuT of OrdEr!

Before we are officially through with summer, we probably should add one of the best things we did! It was celebrating with Grandma and Gradpa Bryant, their 50th Wedding Anniversary! They decided they wanted to host a great big get together for all of their family, and since Brenda and John and family were going to be out to Utah, from Texas, over the 4th of July, they decided to have it then.
We drove up by Mt. Carmel Junction, to a fun resort for the day, where we did the zip line, Dylan and Jocelynn trampoline bungy jumped, Dylan rock climbed, Jocelynn had a pony ride, and Kate went with the Roschers to hike Angels Landing, in Zions National Park.

and then over to Kanab for a couple of nights. We had such a good time being together.