nothing like a fall rainstorm!

in your jammies with your best friend!

uniforms!

the boss man finally got his official soccer uniform!



fall festival

with sailor being in the 6th grade, she got to be in the dunking booth at the fall festival this year.  the air was cold but it didn't stop her!

hayden and his cute friend, michaela, worked the snow cone booth almost all night.

what happens when sailor is babysitting

i love it when random pictures show up on my camera.  sailor had a blast putting the twins in each others pajamas and having a little photo shoot!  for some reason, brighton in boston's jammies is okay but boston in brighton's jammies just doesn't work. even when they're mostly blue!

sleeping with the toys

boston decided to make himself a bed by his toy cupboard one night.  i thought there was no way he would really sleep downstairs, all alone.  my big kids won't even do that!  but, he did it!  i took this pic about 1am.  he eventually made it up to my bed--thank goodness!  i couldn't sleep a wink knowing my baby was down there all alone!

14 & 15

these 2 are close enough in age that most of the time they are good buddies:)

first day of preschool!!!

i wish i could keep these two home with me all day but i guess preschool is just as important:)

meet the teacher

the twins started a new preschool this year.  they were so excited to meet their new teacher!

sky sky

skylar, the 8th grader!  i didn't get a before-school picture so this will have to do!

back to early mornings

it's always hard to switch to a school schedule.  the twins would have rather been in bed than taking sailor to school!

big time 6th grader

sailor girl is off to 6th grade!

sailor had to go early to meet & greet kids for student council.

one last swim

after hayden's first day of school, we snuck in one more day of swimming!  sailor worked on her front flips while i worked on my tan:)

my cute brighton, jumping off the diving board for the first time!  i love her form!



golden tiger

hayden is officially an orem high school, golden tiger!  i almost needed therapy sending my boy off to high school.  and MY high school.  how could he be going there when i just barely went there? this was his first day, sophomore day, he loved it!

an O for orem high!

soccer boy!

boston was finally able to sign up for soccer!  he absolutely loved it!  he honestly was the best one on the team (i know i'm biased but really, you should have seen his team).  he scored multiple goals almost every game.  this pic was taken before his team got their uniforms.  luckily we bought this jersey in mexico when we were on our cruise so he felt pretty official!

during this game, i think these 2 were the only ones that did anything.  this kid was huge next to boston.  boss was the youngest one on his team.  (i really hope i have better soccer pictures than this in my file???  he's getting wasted!)

hayden

hayden had a great summer.  one of the highlights was spending a week at efy.  hayden went with his best friends, nic & garett (another friend, daxton, went).  on the thurs. that he was at efy, they had "spiritual day"  the boys wore white shirts and ties.  hayden texted me that night and said, "this has been the best day of my life!"  oh, how grateful i am for the efy program and his amazing leaders that taught him so much in 1 week.
(unfortunately the pics from efy, including all the boys in his group were erased:(   )

trying to catch up after frustration of losing pictures:

i'm determined to be caught up by Christmas.  stay tuned!

the navy base

a good friend, mace, got special permission to get us on the navy base.  here are a few pics of that amazing day.  so sad that i don't have one picture of patrick from this trip.  stupid camera.

we went inside this hangar.  the most pristine, clean, beautiful hangar full of these fighter helicopters.  amazing.

this pic is for you, grandpa bob.

california beach. all in one post.

san clemente.  a favorite vacation spot for us (maybe that's why we've gone 5 times in the past year!)  so fun to take the whole entire family!  chandler and jordan checking out the waves!

family, laying in the sun!

skylar, and kids, running from the waves!  and christian dipping baby canyon's toes in the ocean!

the robert family cannot go anywhere without doing backflips!  chandler's still got it!

okay, is he a little hottie or what?!  is that weird to say about my baby brother?!

these 3 were pretty much inseparable.

thank you, joe, for giving my boy "smiley eyes"

joe, the surfer king.  or, maybe the aspiring surfer king.

the boys on their boards.

watching the surfers.  i mean, the wanna be surfers.

these boys could run from waves all day!

me, showing off something interesting that i found on the beach to traci, shayne, and mike.

future surfers.  finn and boston.

a little girl time (thank you whitney for taking a pic of sailor, sadie, and brighton)

sand castles in the making!

a sand hole big enough for 2!

i {heart} bright.

after a fun day in the sun, brighton helped hold holland and tuck in finn.  i think she wishes she was a ferguson

another day at the beach!

where's boston?

another long tongue!

we took some fun pictures on the lifeguard station.  annoying that i don't have mine.