I have been so crazy busy and I realized I didn't even get our summer pictures up. I decided to sit down and write up some of our summer and the beginning of school for the kids. We are in the process of selling our home and are very excited to enter into a new chapter in our lives but are very sad to be leaving behind our amazing neighborhood and friends!!! We have lived near one of our friends for over 10 years!! Crazy huh? They have been great friends to us and I actually in many ways consider them family!! They also have three boys, our children have played a lot together. I don't know if the boys will like being farther away from them. I'm not quite sure they understand completely. Never the less we are still very excited. We are paying ALOT less to live in this home then our current one and it is nicer than the one we are in. So we kind of feel like it is a miracle. The only thing is the doors are still really narrow for Tucker. Yet it is a really open floor plan. Lots of room for him to move around. It is only for a year until Mike knows more of what he is doing. So we can do it! I actually love the kitchen way more than the one I have now. So anyway it is going to be a blessing, Mike is going to be able to cut back on his work schedule and be able to focus more on his schooling. That is a blessing all in itself!! Anyway we are crazy busy packing up the house and getting ready to move!! We are in the process of getting the appraisal done on our home. After that it is pretty much done. We close here soon. That is why I haven't been blogging much lately.
Now for some catching up. . . We love to go camping and were able to go a couple of times this summer. Our favorite thing is tinfoil dinners!! YUMMY! The kids of course love to get themselves dirty!!
Good hiking stick.
The boys got head lights that go on your hats from their grandpa Rady and so they were excited to use them camping. It was so funny and cute how excited they were. I guess it is a guy thing and the use of gadgets. Maybe like a new pair of shoes to a girl?!? :) Not sure but funny!!
Austin getting ready to roast some mellows!
Bryson lately loves to pose!!
This is a face only a mother could love!!! :)
When I see this picture I see dirty clothes and hands and faces and how long is it going to take me to clean them up??! :) Is that what you see?? Oh the fun!!
Bryson started soccer this fall. He thought soccer was only for Austin!! So cute! After a long talk and much persuasion he decided to give it a try. He has absolutely loved it!! The first game they had he walked up to his coach pulling on his shirt and asked if he could be on his team!! :) So stinkin funny!! He is so much fun and loves to play. He has even been more aggressive than I thought he would be!! He works hard to get the ball and to kick it!!
Austin of course has been very excited to have him playing and being the bigger brother has loved to give him pointers and to teach him the game.
Bryson's favorite part is the treats!! Of Course!! :)
Bryson's favorite part is the treats!! Of Course!! :)This is a picture I took on Bryson's first day of Preschool. He has loved every minute of school and likes to go and wishes it was every day!! :)
Bryson had to have a picture of dad for the letter D. It was dad's day at preschool. So we took some really cute pictures of him and his dad.
This summer the kids played a lot at parks and we visited a lot of different places. Whenever we would go some where they were begging for us to stop at the park we had just passed. So needless to say we say a lot of slides this summer.
Tucker loves to climb up the slide instead and this is when I realize how strong he really is!! He does such a good job and even is fairly fast at it!!
Tucker loves to climb up the slide instead and this is when I realize how strong he really is!! He does such a good job and even is fairly fast at it!!
Nothing is better than spending some time with these three boys!! Oh how I love them!!
The boys were really excited to go and see the Home Depot car here in Tooele and the Home Depot!! We got there right when they were cleaning up so they got to hear it start up and go into the trailer. Boy did they think that was cool!! There is nothing better than being in a house full of this testosterone!! I love having boys and they make life so much fun!! How blessed I am!
There he is climbing up the side and giving me a smile!
All about the arm strength!!
Austin would even come down and knock him down sometimes and they would be at the bottom laughing!! Glad he finds humor in most anything!!
The boys were really excited to go and see the Home Depot car here in Tooele and the Home Depot!! We got there right when they were cleaning up so they got to hear it start up and go into the trailer. Boy did they think that was cool!! There is nothing better than being in a house full of this testosterone!! I love having boys and they make life so much fun!! How blessed I am!
He loves to read and can't seem to put books down. He started the Lightning Thief series in the summer and he is almost done with the third book. He gets excited over me getting him books to read. He also has been reading the Diary of a Wimpy kid. :) Which I find him laughing a lot! I am so proud of the young man that he has become!!
This summer I let him go to his grandma and grandpa's house for a week. They live on a farm and I was a bit nervous to send him I must say but it turned out great!! He had a lot of fun riding the horse and four wheeling around! Grandma and Grandpa took him to Bear World also and he loved that! Grandma called me one night and said Mandy you are a great mother. I was taken back by her comment and asked why she was saying that. She said he is so respectful and so sweet and has great manners. :) Always makes a mother feel good when you see that your efforts are good for something!! :) But I must say it is not all me, I really feel like he was born like that!! He is such a great kid and I feel so blessed to be apart of his growing up years!! I have seen him take on more responsibility this year with school and have been amazed how well he is doing and getting his assignments done!! My little Tucker really is maturing and growing into a young man!! 
(Can you tell he was excited to get this?? He can not wait to spend some time with dad putting it together!! Austin gave him a sleeping bag to go on his overnights in scouts with a flashlight. Yep he is now officially a Boy Scout. Yikes he is so old!! 
