August

In kindergarten Megan has Mrs. Hager for the first half of the day, then Mrs. Parks for the other half. Mrs. Hager sent me a text one day with these pictures and said "I love me some Megan!"

The monsoons this year have been very disappointing. Hardly any big storms. But we did get a decent double rainbow. The second rainbow didn't show up great in the picture, though.

Since Savannah got into U of A Law School, our kids have been super excited to have cousins move closer. And it turns out they moved super close. They ended up renting a house right across the street from my parents. Which means they go to the same school as my kids. I happened to be at the school when they came in to register, so I took them on a tour of the school.

Eloise is actually in Annie's class with her, which is pretty exciting for them to get to see each other all day every day.

Their PODs arrived on Friday in the middle of the day and instead of waiting for people to come help, we started unloading the little things, which then included the big things, and before we knew it, we were done unpacking in less than an hour.

We've enjoyed having cousins close by. Though we don't see them all that often during the week. Well, I guess the kids do on the bus every day if nothing else.
We did have them over for a movie night.

The next day we had a priest/laurel activity going shooting.

We all had a lot of fun. And left just as the lightning was starting.

Playing Fuji Flush:

All the games Todd and his kids like to play are one of the highlights of having them close by for the kids. They love playing these fun games.

Rachel joined the Cross Country team this year. They practice and race in the heat of the afternoon. Like 100+ degrees. It's crazy to me, but Rachel is tough and pushes through and gets it done. This is at the cross country meet at Corona Foothills:

Todd and Savannah flew to Georgia for Savannah's brother's wedding and the kids stayed here, mostly with Grandma, but we took them while Grandma was at the temple. Since it was too hot outside to go play, we decided to take the kids to Burger King to play on the indoor playground there. And to get ice cream. We didn't think they'd be too happy about us all showing up, playing on their playground for an hour, then leaving without buying anything. :)

While the kids were at Grandma's, they got in lots of pool/play time.

At the end of August we had a youth temple trip. Since we had to meet at the church at 5pm we were a little sparse on attendance, especially with the YM, but it was still a pretty good trip to the temple.

For FHE one night we did musical chairs. It was a lot of fun (and traumatic for Megan whenever she would lose).

We finally did get a decent monsoon last week. I was picking the girls up from piano when it hit. One street no rain, the next street, pouring rain. We drove around a little longer before heading back to home.

Then when we got home, the kids went out to play in it.

There was even some hail.

We've been losing a lot of teeth around here. Megan lost both of her bottom middle teeth over the last couple of months. And Ryan lost a couple teeth. This is when his tooth was hanging on by a thread. It needed to come out. But he was unwilling to get it pulled. It came out that night when he got up to use the bedroom in the middle of the night.

Ryan got dressed in a jacket and skirt on the head. The thought I had taken a picture of him and I asked if he wanted me to. He said "only if you put it on the blog." :) I took that as a yes.

It's been a full and busy month of August, but mostly the regular old stuff: homework, school, after school activities, cousins, etc.