A few random happenings in our life according to Instagram. Sasha is such a funny dog, she snuggles with random things. We found her snuggled up to this bat and ball. She also loves her tennis ball. The boys call it her boyfriend because she carries it around with her.
Utah State played Tennessee. We were going to go to it until we found out it was on Sunday. On our way home from church the day of the game we saw it advertised on a billboard and it was so fun to see the Utah State Logo all the way in Georgia. We watched the game and even though they lost, it was fun to see a game (we have gotten to see a few actually).
McKay is obsessed with wearing all red. He does it whenever he can.
We built a fort out of our moving boxes. We did this the last time we moved and although it wasn't quite as elaborate this time, the boys still enjoyed playing in it. Only Palmer and Hunter slept in it. Lincoln and McKay decided that didn't look to much fun (and I am pretty sure Palmer and Hunter agreed with them the next morning).
Our favorite thing to do on Sunday nights is the play games. Our favorite one is "Mormon Bridge." It was such a fun thing the day we realized that our kids could play games with us.
Some friends and I decided to start a preschool together and each take turns teaching. In Georgia preschool is pretty intense (in fact it's called Pre-K), and is a lot of days for a lot of hours. Kindergarten itself is all day long and I just am not ready to send my baby off. We have been so happy with our little preschool and McKay looks forward to it every week.
This was the 2nd day, but it was such a cute picture.
Palmer applied for the Yearbook Staff and made it. He has been so excited about it!
I was asked to participate in a fashion show for a boutique that funds a home for battered women and children. It was so much fun and I loved getting my hair and make up done by professionals. I loved this hairstyle!
This was one of the looks I modeled for the night and below was my second look.
We headed to the pool every Friday after school started. They kept it open until the end of September and were so glad. The weather has been very hot!
The first time I taught the preschool the letter was C. McKay and I love the "C is for Cookie" song so much and sing it all of the time. We decided that the treat needed to be cookie Cs.
McKay worked so hard on this Spiderman picture. I thought he did a great job!
Josh and I haven't had very many date nights lately, so we take them where we can get them. This was our lovely trip to the grocery store. Yes, that is a lot of milk...we are a little milk crazy here.
My second preschool day was D. I have seen these cute dinosaur feet on Pinterest forever and it was fun to finally do them. The kids were so cute dancing around in them.
My week theme (we each have a week theme, 2 letters and a number), was colors. We read "Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What do you See?" and then played this little sorting game with colors from the book.
I was lucky enough to get to go with some wonderful new friends to Time Out for Women in Birmingham, Alabama. Birmingham isn't very far from us (about 2 1/2 hours) and it was fun to see another state. It actually looks like Georgia, but was still fun. I needed this experience so badly. Life had been pretty crazy and I loved the recharge I felt from the weekend. I am so grateful my sweet husband let me go.
This is our whole ward who went.
McKay gave the sweetest talk on families in primary.
I was asked to make a Native American scarecrow for Lincoln's 4th grade class to decorate. I had no idea how I was going to do it and must have stared at this bale of hay and sticks for hours before I got an idea in my head.
I ended up really loving the experience of figuring this whole thing out. I sometimes underestimate how much I need projects in my life.
This is after the 4th graders painted clothes, beaded the dress and made the heads and headdress. It turned out pretty great I think!
McKay is past naps, but usually falls asleep some place in our house every day.
Fun little things that McKay got at preschool. One of the darling moms made elephants with these red things as noses. All of my boys loved that one.
The perks of having a mom in Young Womens. McKay has to go with me on Wednesdays to YW because Josh coaches soccer. This was one of the times he wasn't sad about it. The Beehives did cupcake wars and McKay got to be a judge.
I've never seen Poinsettias growing for Christmas until I stumbled upon this fun greenhouse. I thought it was fascinating.
Palmer is now in 11 year old scouts. He was so excited to go on his first over nighter with Josh. It was at a Christmas tee farm owned by some people in our ward and they had a ball. Josh said it was so pretty and you couldn't even tell you weren't in the canyon.
I made my first banana pudding for the General Women's Meeting of the church. We have learned that banana pudding is a southern things. Our first week in Georgia, our neighbors made us some. It was so delicious!
I got to go and help Palmer's 5th grade class out with decimals. This is the first year I haven't volunteered in everyone's class and I really miss it. I had a good time with them.
McKay is obsessed with the swiffer and loves to clean our floors. It couldn't be worse!
The first day of October, we surprised the boys with their own box of Halloween cereal. This truly is one of my favorite months!
Crazy sock day for Palmer's class and his first day to take pictures for Yearbook staff. He got a HUGE shirt to wear and I re-sized it I am not much of a seamstress (although I want to learn), and I was pretty proud of the fact the shirt didn't look too crazy.
The leaves here in Georgia are changing so SLOWLY. There are leaves changing here and there, but the majority of them are still green. I think the beginning of November is when they really have all changed. I am glad to have a long fall season.
The rain storms here are pretty crazy and McKay and I like to watch them out the window.
McKay will venture into them sometimes.
McKay helped josh and me shop at Trader Joe's. We pretty much picked up anything pumpkin we could find!
A family in our ward has a very awesome haunted house they do every year...like a real professional one. They had a Halloween party and we got to eat in one of the rooms and get a tour of the Haunted House. It is going to be spooky!
Morning soccer games and we finally got some cold weather (it changed the next week to being super hot, we were glad to get some).
Everyone got a goal on this day, that is a very good soccer day.
Our bishop and his wife invited us over for brunch and General Conference. It was so much fun to get to know them better.
The second session of General Conference we did our traditional candy buckets. I always love GC weekend.
My second week of teaching was inventions and I and J. We "invented" these robots.
Josh took us for ice cream at Brusters. I am so glad there is a yummy place for ice cream fairly close. It was soooo good.
Letter J. Jellyfish with curling ribbon.
When you have red Gatorade for soccer team treats, it stays with you all day... I know I will one day miss that cute little red mustache.
Just when we thought autumn was here, we had another heat wave. Hot enough that they boys felt that they needed to do a water fight. First they helped Josh wash the dog and the cars, and then the fight began.
