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I am playing catch up again! Life is crazy and very busy. I am 31 weeks preggo, but I am guessing that I have more like 6 or 7 weeks left. I have never made it past 38 weeks so my guess is this little munchkin will be coming at the end of August instead of mid September. The girls are getting really excited to meet her, Autumn is starting to grasp that a baby is going to be coming to our home. She kissed my belly the other day and smiled. It was so sweet. Lily and Cloey are really excited to start school in about 5 weeks. This summer is going by so fast! I can't believe Lily will be gone all day and Cloey will be gone half the day. It is going to really take some getting used to to have Lily gone the entire day. I have described it as having joint custody with the school. We get her nights, weekends, and holidays from here on out. I thought kindergarten would the be hard one, but I think 1st grade is a ton harder. It makes me want to cry, but she is really excited to have lunch at school. Brian took a summer class that is now over, he went to school from 7:30-9:30am 4 days of the week. I am grateful for him and all the hard work he does for our family.
For some reason some of my posts got out of order and I don't want to figure out how to fix it! ;)

Swim Lessons

This year I put the girls into swimming lessons. They had so much fun and Autumn and I had fun watching them. I was disappointed in the teaching, they basically played games the entire two weeks and their teachers only really got their (the teachers themselves) hair wet. I taught swimming lessons for 7 years and have been swimming since I was 9 competitively. It was all I could do to just sit there and not jump in and take over. So we only did it for 2 weeks and then we put our 12 ft by 36 inch pool up and I plan on teaching the girls how to really swim. But I was proud of how much more comfortable they got in the water.

Dairy Days Parade

This year we went with some friends to the Meridian Dairy Days Parade. Wow we were not prepared! It was soooooo hot! Luckily my friend Ali had a bunch of water bottles and we had thought ahead enough to bring sunscreen. It was fun to hang with the Fields and the Edwards! We have awesome friends! The parade was fun, but there wer some obnoxious teens who kind of ruined it. Our families were good and sat very near the curb but there were some teens who continued to run up to the cars and people grabbing all the give away stuff. We got some fun stuff, and the kids were exhausted when we got home!

4th of July Weekend

We had a fun 4th of July weekend. Saturday we hung out at Jason and Angie's place for some cousin playtime and swimming at Brian's parents house (they were out of town). Brian got to try out Jason's riding lawn mower, he was super excited. He told me we needed one, I replied by telling him that he could get one when our yard was about 5 times bigger. My best friend from my middle school and high school years, Melanie Gibson (Bird) came by with her husband and new baby Savannah. It was sooooo fun to be able to visit and hang out with them. I really really wish we lived closer. It was fun to go through memories and talk about life now. It makes me feel old to think of all the things we did together, I remember thinking we would always be in high school and we would never grow up. And now look at us, wives, mothers, and old ;)!

On Monday the 4th we got together with a bunch of friends at Merril Park to play in the water feature and the park, as well as letting the men folk do some fishing. Then we headed to the Field's house to do some yummy bbqing and fireworks! The kids had so much fun playing and watching the fireworks. The boys had a lot of fun with some fireworks that were loud and might have left the ground.... it was really funny to watch all the guys going through and lighting fireworks. Cloey even lit a firework that Brian helped with and it was really cute to watch her do a mad dash as soon as she lit it. We are so blessed to live in this beautiful free country, and to have such wonderful friends!

Lily's First Lost Tooth

So about 2 Sundays ago Lily turned to me in the middle of the Sacrament being passed and whispered "Mom, look at this." And she wiggled her bottom middle tooth. I hastely whispered back to not touch it, I didn't want blood to be all over her white shirt and at church. So we worked on it that Sunday, and she was nervous. We let it be for the night, it was pretty wiggly. The next day she continued to wiggle it and also freak out everytime Brian or I tried to see how loose she had gotten it. I think it was really the thought of pain that made her nervous. Well by bedtime she had gotten to the point where it was basically laying flat. So Brian tickled her while I pulled the tooth downward and left it hanging, she freaked out, but she was laughing. She finished taking it out and we asked her if it hurt like she thought it would. She thought for a minute and said.... "nope" silly Lily! Well my mom was asleep by time we got the tooth out so we called Grandma and Grandpa Keeley, she was super excited. She got to put her tooth in a special gold tooth fairy pillow. The next morning she was so excited to find gold tooth fairy dust and a dollar as well!

Date Night!

We hang out with our friends Bryson and Heather often and usually just at our house playing board games. Brian and I basically grew up with Bryson and we think of both his wife and him as family. Bryson works almost every night except Sundays and Tuesdays so it is hard to get together and go out. We finally set an actual date up, you know you go out and do something ;). We played some frisbee golf and then hit Red Lobster for some yummy food. Lets just say I lost miserably at frisbee golf. I am the worst frisbee thrower of all time, and I am not kidding. We had so much fun and were grateful to my sister Sarah for watching our kids, she is so good with them!

One Year Down....

June 3rd Lily's kindergarten class did a little program the last day of school they sang some really cute songs and then Mrs. Lawrence handed out their certificates and popped a balloon over their head that had "magic move on dust" (glitter) in it that is supposed to help them do good in the 1st grade. It was a long year and we had a lot of fun. We are so proud of her and all that she learned and accomplished. I thought sending her off to kindergarten would be hard but I think 1st grade will be a lot harder. How I see it is like having joint custody with the school. We get her nights weekends and holidays for the rest of her life! Ahhhh! Oh well they are bound to grow up someday right?! So we will be ready for a new year, with Lily in 1st grade gone all day, Cloey will be in kindergarten half day, and Autumn and the new baby will home with me. Right now I am enjoying having them all home for the summer!

Jackson, Kylie, and Lily. I took a picture of these three cuties on the first
day of school, they are in our ward and such fun kids. I am so glad Lily has
such nice friends!