August 2013 InstaSample

And here is August...completely out of order again, but what do you do? :)

Daddy is so nice to sleep on the tramp with the kids. What a champ. I slept nice and cozy inside in my bed, as did Flor because she had school the next day.

First day of pre-school for this cutie. How did she get so old?!

Don't mind my nasty feet in the background. Sometimes you just need to color a good picture. 

St. George for Grandpa Maughan's funeral. We sure had a good time with all the siblings/cousins the night before in the hotel pool!

Jace is coming up with ridiculous excuses to get out of bed these days. This night it was that Mickey needed to blow his nose. 

Playing on the dinosaur bones at the mall....a place you will rarely find me. Glad we got a picture of our one annual time there.

A flashback to our wonderfully curtainy childhood. Yeah, those outfits are sweeeeeet. I know. 

She's just pretty. She had to visit the Instacare after Cole's baptism because she had a really swollen wrist. Xrays came back fine, but her wrist was still swollen for a few more weeks. It was the weirdest thing.

First day of 3rd grade!! She has a brand new teacher, too. I hope Flor isn't giving her too much of a run for her money!

We had a weekend visit from Grandma and Grandpa Strobel and had a good time shopping, swimming, and eating pizza with them!

Bear lake!

Someone else did this a while back of eyes and I loved it. My kids' eyes are one of my favorite features of each of them.

After Grandpa Maughan's funeral. UGH to the child that drew all over the program with this picture....

We tried a new oatmeal-- Amish Baked Oatmeal that was so insanely delicious that I couldn't resist the urge to post a picture of it. So good.

Jace, Jace, Jace. Remember that avoiding bed thing? One night we had a Relief Society Presidency meeting over here and I thought Jace was sleeping the whole time, until an hour later when I walked the ladies outside and Jace was people watching out the window. Such a crazy child. I wonder how often he does this when I assume that he is sleeping?

And again-- you can't tell in this picture, but another sleep delaying tactic Jace has developed is to rearrange his room. His bed is clear across the room and at a different angle than normal here. He also had on his hat and when I walked in and observed everything he had been doing, he said, "I so happy Mom!" How can you be mad at that?

Dirty diet coke. Enough said.

Awww, sweet baby Jovi made it! I love her already. 

These three. Life is never dull I tell ya. 

The girls both had swimming lessons in August. Hallie had a crush on her teacher (She would tell me every day quite dreamily that his name was Austin) and Flor was rather excited to see that her teacher was her PE teacher from school. She had adaptive swim school which meant that it cost twice as much for half the time, but she got one-on-one tailored lessons, so it was great. 

I had a three week break from school in August, which went by WAY too fast. The fist day I had home, I asked Hallie what she wanted to do and she requested riding our bikes to the library. We made it about two blocks and then had to turn around and drive to the library. Let's just say that Flor and Jace together in the buggy is a bad idea. Fighting, lots of fighting. Plus, let's be honest, they are heavy!

Whew! All caught up!