First day of school

Ryker started kindergarten last week. He was very excited and talked about it for weeks before. He gets to ride the bus to school too, which was almost more exciting than school itself. The first day I walked him to the bus and waited with him then went back home to drive to the school to meet him there. (His teacher asked that we come for a few minutes on the first day to help them figure out what they are supposed to do.) By the time I got to the school Ryker was already there and in his classroom figuring out what he was supposed to do on his own. He was also the first one there.
So here are a couple of pictures I took later in the day because I was nervous for him and forgot in the morning. I know I never remember to take pictures but hey, I still got one and it IS on the first day of school.

You can always count on Ryker to do some kind of pose. It makes the picture more interesting.

How old are we????

This is what we did after Reagan's party. This is only one of the formations. We always did stuff like this when we were younger at our house in Woodland Hills. This was a fun way to remember those days. (yes Paige as a tube around her waist. wouldn't want to get hurt if she fell....)

It's her party......

Reagan is 4!!

This is miss Reagan on her birthday. She is getting so big.


Here are the gifts. She got lots of fun stuff and now everyone fights over them. That means they are good. We got her the bike. At first she didn't really want to ride it. I was expecting this so it was okay. We have tried to get her to ride Ryker's old one for a while but she always acted like she didn't know how to pedal. So when she didn't do it right away I knew she would do it on her own time. It didn't take as long as I thought for her to be interested. Everyone started playing on bikes and stuff so she joined to fun. She just got on the bike and started going. I was shocked. She is a lot smarter than I give her credit for most of the time. I just can't be there and want her to do it then or she won't. I don't think she likes people watching her. Anyway, she rode her bike for the rest of the night. She even went all the way around the "block". Of course she wanted her toys in the basket on the bike. Which is the reason I bought it so that worked out nice.

Here is the cake. She wanted an Aladdin cake. I was going to put the figures on top but thought that would look a little weird. So this is how it ended up. I like it. (by the way it is a magic carpet)

Happy Birthday to you!!!! Here is the cutie waiting for her lovely rendition of Happy Birthday to end so she can blow out the candles. I love this girl.

Flaming Gorge

We went to Flaming Gorge a couple of weeks ago with my family. We had a great time. We went boating, on the water wennie, and fishing. We were camping while there so we also did all the stuff involved in that. The only downfall was that it was FREEZING at night. One night it rained and when we woke up all the rain had frozen. Yeah.... cold. Anyway when we got there we went for a boat ride on. Most of the kids loved it. Ryker and Reagan acted like it was something they did every day and was no big deal. Jax was typical Jax and just took everything in quietly. Jocelyn did not like it when it went fast. Mostly due to the loud noise of the engine. After a while she was okay with it and wanted to walk around while the boat was going at high speeds. On the other days when we went out on the boat Jax and Jocelyn would almost always fall asleep. We had a blast but next year I hope it is a little warmer.


Skyler, Peter, and Michelle went cliff jumping. So naturally Ryker wanted to go to. I was a little worried about this but figured he would see what it was and decide no way. That wasn't the case, but there was just a tiny little cliff that worked great and Ryker thought he was pretty cool.......

But he did do a belly flop when I got the picture.

On one of the days everyone (except me and the two little ones) went on a rafting trip down the Green River. This was the coldest day there, so it wasn't as fun as it could have been. The kids got soaked bout stayed in the raft. Skyler, of course, jumped out of the raft (so I heard) and one of the rafts was having trouble and kept tipping over. (I think it was over loaded) Mom said I am lucky I didn't go cause it was so cold,but I think everyone else had a good time.
When we got done I only had 10 loads of laundry to do........

White Trash Moment

One day the sprinklers were on out by the basketball hoop so I told the kids they could go run through them. It is easier than sounding like a mean mom saying "no" every time they get close. For some reason the sprinklers got the cement court really wet and not so much the grass. The kids had a great time and were all cooled down by the end.

Jocelyn watched for a while then decided it looked like fun and then joined them. She would copy everything the older ones did, only slightly slower some times.

Say What?????

Yep you saw right...... baby #5. Let the craziness continue......... Really though we are excited. You can all start a poll on the gender.