First Day of Preschool

Reganne on Monday officially started the Mother Goose Preschool Progam at day care. She moved up to the Combo's Class which is kids turning four this next school year. Her teachers are Ms Heidi and Ms Shanna. She was so excited on Monday morning. Everything had to be perfect. She woke up that morning and her hair was really curly and in her eyes. She kept saying she had wild hair. When I asked to take her picture for school. She asked me to please fix her wild hair before. We have had so much humidity this week. It has been well over 50% and even topping out at 68%. We live in the desert!!!! Reganne's hair has been pretty and of course wild. Since she won't keep anything in it.


So here she is our pretty Princess Beulah ready to tackle her new class. She really misses her teachers from the Three's but quickly gave them hugs before class started. She tells me she is a big girl now and will be six soon so she can go to school with Rylee.

Waters Family Weekend

We had a fun weekend with the whole Waters Family. We met everyone at Lagoon on Friday Morning. This turned out to be another hot day. They reported that for Salt Lake City it was the first day of 100 Degrees. We still had a lot of fun. We met Brandon, Kim, Nate, Trevor, Mitchell, and Breeonah. Mike, Christopher, Jennifer, and Kelly. Let the fun begin!!!! Everyone went their own ways with so many different ages. Reganne and Rylee were able to ride everything they wanted to and then double up on their favorites. Dave was able to ride Wicked again and then ride additional ones with his brothers and the older kids.

Here is Ryder's first Carousel Ride and doesn't he look happy. We discovered right before this on the train that his top two teeth where breaking through. So he wasn't his usually cheerful self. He was amazing and just sat and watched and wanted to be held.


Here is our crazy group. The park was shutting down for the night and they all wanted to still party. Trying to get this picture was a miracle let alone getting them all to sit and stay.Saturday everyone gathered for a barbeque at Brandon & Kim's house. Finally, I snagged them again for pictures. This time was even harder because the "Big" boys kept teasing everyone. Reganne refused to get in this picture. That is her shoulder behind the couch.

Here are the boys: Mitchell, Christopher, Ryder, Trevor, and Nathan
Here are the girls: Reganne, Rylee, Breeonah, and Jennifer It was Karate Show and Tell that turned into beat up Uncle Brandon. The kids loved tackling him. It can't be because he is a big kid himself. Everyone had a fun time.

The airplane ride home was an adventure as well. No A/C until we left the ground. On Saturday Night @ 8:00 that can take awhile. All Ryder wanted to do was sleep and he couldn't. Finally we stripped him down to his diaper, fanned him, and he fell asleep. Rylee just wanted to go home and she fell asleep. Reganne wanted to know why it was hot and tormented her Dad the whole way home.

Wow what a long weekend!!!!!!!

Watch Us Grow

This week started with planning for Pirate Day at Day Care. Rylee's class this week was all about pirates. They got to dress up and go on a scavenger hunt for treasure around town to the various parks. So here are my Pink Pirates. We had one problem Dad bought a package of eye patches & earings, but only one sword. So the fighting began over who got to play with the sword. Just as we were getting ready to leave on Tuesday Morning. The sword disappeared and could not be found. After begging, yelling, and threatening Reganne finally gave in and brought it back. She hid it in her shirt drawer underneath all of her shirts. The funny thing is I looked there and didn't see it. Needless to say that when this was over I put everything away. So no more fighting over this as least.

Dave found another project to work on outside. Of course it has been over 100 degrees with 40% Humidity. Reganne decided she wanted to help. She stayed right there with him the whole time with her shovel. She loves being outside with Dad and wants to do exactly what he is doing. Dave finished the side off with small pea gravel and it looks really nice.
Ryder is now constantly moving. He goes right for the stairs. So we figured putting the baby gate here was alot safer for everyone. So here he comes and what is this???? He then tries to pound on it and push it. Luckily it didn't fall on him. After three tries he gave up and when on down the hall to the bathroom. Lucky for me he is not pulling himself up yet. So he is limited to what he can get into. His trick for this week has been learning how to go from his belly, to his knees, and finally sitting back up again. Yesterday he finally started crawling on his hands and knees. But it only lasts for one or two steps and then back to his belly at full speed.
The girls can't pick him up because he is wiggly and we have told them not to. When we tell him to come back he just giggles at us. So Reganne decided enough already. She went over and grabbed his feet. She then pulls him to where ever she wants him to be. He of course is laughing the whole time. As soon as she lets go he is off again.
The sad part of the week was Dave's Uncle John McClellan passed away at the age of 87. We went to Richfield for the funeral. It was a really nice service and a nice day. The girls loved playing with their cousins. The sad part is there are were not may young kids to play with. This picture is of the house Dave's Dad grew up in.

It's All About Teeth

We are teething at our house. Rylee came home from her week with Uncle Randy & Aunt Janelle with four loose teeth. I wasn't to concerned since they were all just beginning to wiggle. Well a trip to the Washington County Rec Center with her day care class and with a little help from the side of the pool. She lost her first front tooth 2 days later. She was playing with it on the bus and showing off that it could twist around. Out it Popped and everyone started screaming that her tooth fell out. The teachers quickly stopped and made sure everything was ok. The other kids were making a bigger deal of it than Rylee. She is fascinated by the hole in front now. The second one is quickly following and will probably be out by next week. She is also getting her molars in back is fascinated by them growing in. Reganne is also getting her molars and complains that her mouth hurts. Ryder's look swollen but so far nothing yet but the two bottom ones.



It was movie night again at the Town Square. The kids were really excited to go and watch the movie on the big screen. We made caramel popcorn, played in the water, and made new friends Jesse & Emma. The movie got started after technical difficulties and the thunder started. Within 1/2 hour it started is gently rain. Dave & I decided we had better be ready to run. So we packed everyone up and headed for the car. Just as we got in the car it started to pour. There was thunder, lightening, and wind. By the time we were out of the parking lot the movie had stopped. We haven't had rain for months and it made up for it over the next 2 hours. We watched the rain storm from our balcony. The best part the temperature dropped from 101 when we left for the movie. By the time we went to bed it was 80 degrees.

We are at the funny face stage. Ryder is on the look out for the caramel popcorn. He can now move fast enough to get into things. He wanted the popcorn and no matter where we moved it he was there shortly reaching his little hand in the bowl. He then would look up and give us that smile like What???
Here we are in our Sunday Best. The girls picked their own clothes and didn't know that they picked the same one. Ryder's outfit is a 12 month. I was sure it would drowned him. Surprise it doesn't look that bad.

Ryder's 9 Month Pictures

I am a little behind in posting these pictures. This is due to problems with Sears in getting them. He is growing so fast it makes my head spin. He is still working on crawling, but has discovered that he likes to stand and walk with help. He giggles the whole time. He also discovered that he can move beyond the family room and is now checking out the kitchen by doing a combination of army crawling and rolling. Yesterday he discovered that everyone was going downstairs. So he quickly followed and with no fear tried going down head first. Luck for us we weren't to far behind and quickly grabbed his feet. He is now fascinated by the stairs. Up went the gate and trapped the girls downstairs and him upstairs. So between all three wanting to go up and down I am ready to teach him how to move on them.

4th of July

Fourth of July dawns really early at our house. We have a neighborhood parade and breakfast that starts at 9:00 am around the corner. This is to avoid the heat. Which by this time was already over 90 degrees. The kids have so much fun decorating the wagon with Dave. The theme this year in St George was to wear red and show support for our troops.
Reganne wanted to pull funny faces instead of smiling. So here are their funny and goofy pictures.
All three kids in the wagon smiling and not fighting with each other. Or picking at Ryder.
Here is the start of the parade. This year the kids have grown up to the next stage. Not many strollers, but lots of bicycles.And they are off.... they wanted it to last longer......but once the kids started there was no stopping them.
Our celebrating ended here. We came home and Ryder wasn't feeling well. He was running a mild temperature and started throwing up. Dave the night before cut his hand and had to have 5 stitches. So he was not feeling well. We watched movies and had Wendy's for lunch. Then we watched the various neighborhood firework displays from the back balcony at home. Maybe next year will be better.