Abby's First Day of Preschool

She was all princess posses as we took her first day pics. She has been really excited to go to school. We got the back pack and the new clothes and she thinks she is as big as stockton. I think she was a little nervous about being by herself. She kept asking if I could stay with her. But as soon as she saw the doll house in the play area, she walked away and I snuck out. I am sure she will be just fine and have a great time. I am a little worried about what will happen if someone else wants to play with the doll house too.

I think Peyton is going to be taking at least a little nap while she is gone. So maybe I can have an hour all to myself to do something a couple of times a week. I could get used to that!!!

First Day of School

It was the first day of school yesterday. I was actually really sad to see him go. I started to miss him sunday night even before he left. I thought I would have to wear my sunglasses so he wouldn't see me get all emotional. But I did great. No tears. And the day went by faster than I thought it would. He doesn't get home until around 4:00 though. That seems so late to me. Abby was bored all day without him, but it didn't take long for them to fight with each other once he got home. She will start two day a week preschool next week.

It sounded like it went well. He played with some of his friends who are in another class at recess and made some new friends too. School lunch even went better than I thought, although we packed a sack lunch for today. He likes his teacher. He has lots of homework though. I think we may have a hard time cracking down and getting everything done that he has to do. But I can see how much he will progress from what we are already working on. I know everyone tells you how fast kids grow up, but I really can't believe he is such a big kid already!!!!

What a great week!

Last week was so great. My sister Mandy got married. We spent most of the week with my family, even the extended ones. We rarely all get together, so it was really fun to see everyone and spend time with them. It was busy and we were all tired, so we didn't play all the games we usually do. But we still had a great time and the wedding went off without a hitch. Mandy was a beautiful bride. It was great to meet curt's family and get to see some of his friends too. I wished that we could have all stayed longer, but we sure had a great time while it lasted!

We all worked together to decorate and get everything ready. Abby was really into helping Myriah and I do the backdrop. She has a skunk stuffed animal that she wanted to add to the backdrop. His name is "Skunky the bear." (an homage to her main man smokey the bear) But she says it "tunkey the bear". It is pretty cute. Anyway, we have had skunky for 2 years and he was completely ignored, but now he is her fave. She was going to bring him along while being a flower girl, but he got left in the truck instead. But he went everywhere else with her.

The beautiful bride!
First kiss as husband and wife.
Stockton was the ring bearer and Abby was the flower girl. They did such a good job. Except the whole time during the ceremony abby kept bending down to pick up the flower petals she dropped and putting them back into her basket.

The happy couple forced to do a smoochy picture!
Rosebud was such a pretty place for the wedding.

The three sisters and our husbands. Amber and Andy, Curt and Mandy, and Jarad and Myriah.
I loved this picture. Both so cute and happy.
My three handsome men!
This is the whole Knowles clan. Most of them travelled all the way from Wyoming to be there!
Our new family pictures. They turned out pretty good for an on the fly idea.




This is my grandpa trying to make friends with abby. He tried the whole weekend. But she is still a little nervous around him. She did let him hold her skunk while she went "fishing."
We spend Sunday morning playing with my mom, sisters and brother-in-laws, and grandparents at Capitol Reef. The kids got sticks and pretended to fish in the creek. We saw some mommy and baby deers, and looked at petroglyphs. We had cake and sung happy birthday to andy. Maybe next time we will even try a hike!

A day at the Dinosaur Museum

Thanksgiving point has had a dino museum for a few years now and we have never taken the time to go see it. So we decided to take the kids this saturday and go do something fun. They are pretty fast movers when we go to the zoo or places like this, so we really don't get to read or look at things in much detail. But they had a couple of really fun kids sections where we spent a lot of time and a lot of hands on things for the kids to see and do which we really liked.
A lot of the exhibits were pretty dark . It is hard to see, but there are two T-rex skeletons behind them.
Abby loved this little dino statue. He was just right to climb on and get your pictures taken. Abby kept coming back to him and sitting on him. She thought he was way fun. Maybe its because he was about the only one who wasn't just bones!
They had this fun water and sand table. It had little plastic trees and dinosaurs. You could build things with the sand and dig up dinos. Then it had different areas where they would start pumping water to show you how when the dinos are burried in the earth erosion helps uncover them. I seriously doubt Stockton had any idea thats what he was supposed to learn, but he had a great time playing in the sand and water.
The last part of the museum had a fake quarry where they have made casts of dinos and covered them all with sand. It was like a giant indoor sandbox. Stockton was in heaven. He had fun looking for fossils. Abby started out ok, but another little boy started hissing and acting like a mean T-rex and she was too afraid to stay in there. We stayed here for quite a while. I was really impressed at the museum and all the fun things for the kids.

Broken Nose?

We thought Stockton broke his nose earlier this week. He and Abby were playing on the couch with the cushions off. I was in the other room and heard a loud bonk and a scream right after. I knew he hurt himself by the scream and came in to see him holding his nose. He had bonked it really hard on the wooden frame of the couch somehow. By the time I got there it started bleeding pretty good from both sides. (By this time Abby saw the blood and started crying too, thinking he must be dying and it was her fault.) It was already swollen and purple. I got the bleeding stopped and put a bag of frozen corn on it. We got some advil and put on some Scooby-Doo and he calmed right down. I was surprised how fast he got over it.

A few hours later.
The next day.
2 days later.

I called the doctor and he said it probably was just some cartilidge damage and not really broken. He stopped by and looked at it after work. He said we couldn't really do much for it besides pain control and that Stock would probably get two black eyes. I have been waiting for him to get more bruised, but this is about all he's had so far. So I think we got off lucky. It looks like it wasn't as bad as I first thought. It is still a little swollen, purple, and sore, but not too bad.