Palmer's Tackle Football Season

 Palmer was dying to play tackle football this year.  It was hard for me to agree to it, but finally I came around and decided that he should get a chance to try it.  My telephoto camera lense hasn't been working right so I didn't really get any good pictures of the season, but thanks to my iphone, here are a few.

 They had a good season and won about half of their games.  Palmer really loved it and played running back and defense.  He definitely wasn't the biggest kid out there, so I was surprised he was put on defense, but apparently the kid is good at tackling (that shouldn't surprise me, he has been doing it since he was in nursery at church...).

 He really loved it and had some great coaches.

 This was one of the games that he was the MVP.

 One of his highlights was playing on the big field at Clearfield high.  This game he had a touchdown, extra point, interception and ran the ball 127 miles.  It was his best game.

He played Competition Soccer and Tackle Football at the same time and it was a bit out of control, but he loved it and learned a lot this past season.

First Day of School

 Alright I am still way behind, but at least I am still going forward.  Here are the pictures of the boys from the first day of school.  Hunter was so excited for his first full day of school.

 He was even more thrilled about his new backpack :)

 Hunter let me follow him in to his class and take pictures

 He was so cute and excited to eat lunch at school.  He LOVES school and his teacher.

 Lincoln was also good to let me come and take pictures of is class.  He is so excited about school and has lots of fun friends in his class and he adores his teacher as well.

 Palmer was nowhere to be found before school and I finally found him in the field playing football.

This is the best I could do to get a picture of him OUTSIDE of his class room.  Oh well, I guess he is a cool 3rd grader now.  He also loves his teacher and class.  This year has been wonderful so far!

Back to School Dinner

 Last year we did our first Back to School Party and had such a good time we decided to do it again. I decided to go with what we did last year since we spent most of the day at Seven Peaks Water Park enjoying our last day there of the summer.

 I'll do a post on it later, but we LOVED having passes to Seven Peaks this past summer.  It was so much fun on boring days to just pack up and head to the pool.

Josh couldn't go with us at all in the summer, so it was fun to have him on this last day.  The boys all wanted to show him all of their favorite parts, especially McKay :)

 I basically did a lot of what a did last year for our dinner, but it was still so much fun.  We invited our favorite friends The Yeates to come over for the dinner.

 It was a fun night and the kids were so EXCITED about the next day.

We sure love school and were happy to go back!

Back To School Photos

I am a huge lover of yard sales and one of the reasons that I love them so much is that you never know what wonderful things you are going to find!  Last year I found this awesome retro school desk for $2 and I knew just what I was going to do with it.  Back to school pictures!!!  I have wanted to do these forever and couldn't believe my luck at finding a desk.

My cute friend Brittany had these perfect vintage readers that I was in love with.  They were the perfect prop for our photo shoot!

                     

2012 Family Pictures

 Family pictures are always a bit of a stress to me.  I worry so much about what we are going to wear, where we are going to go, the vibe the picture will have, etc etc.  This year we decided to go pretty classic (okay I always go pretty classic, one of these days I will branch out...)

 We used Heather Telford Photography, and she did such a great job and got the best reactions from my boys.

 Sorry the picture overload, but I had to post some favorites!

Yahoo, we are done for the year now I just need to print some off and get framing them!