::back to school dinner::

We had our 3rd annual back to school dinner tonight. I made my Aunt Jeri's spaghetti (oh! it was goooood!), olive oil dip (for the french bread), and some little cupcakes.

(Remember how I wanted to do a theme? Well, that's what I came up with. I figured Portie would be learning a lot of new things this year, and he tends to give up easily and get mad any time he has to learn something new. He thinks it should come easily, and it doesn't always. Anyway, I thought this was a good one.)



(mushtashes and my "I feel like I'm smiling, but I'm really not" face. And also a very fingerprinty fridge-don't look!)

Now they're in bed. Their clothes and backpacks are all ready. I'm so excited for them! I'm a little nervous too. Chloe's going to a new, big school. She has some friends in her class from last year and church. I hope she has fun and learns a lot. I hope she likes her teacher (Mrs. C set the bar pretty high!). School starts earlier and gets out earlier for her-so that'll be interesting. I can't believe Portie is going to kindergarten! I hope he likes it. I hope he has fun. I hope he makes lots of friends. I hope he learns a lot. He's a pretty cool kid, so I think he'll do great in school. I hope Bubb doesn't miss him too much. He thinks he's going to school with Port. We try to tell him he's not, but he insists that he is. Tonight at dinner, he said "I'm gonna miss you, Pohtuh." I wanted to cry because it's so true.

Good luck, you little babies! I hope you make good choices, are good examples, and always remember who you are.

And also...
Do your best, and NEVER give up!!

::swimmin'::

Yesterday was my mom's birthday, and also swimmin' Saturday (part of our last week of school acivities-more on that later). So we decided to combine the 2. We all got together here...

That's the barn. It's Uncle Kerry's (Papa Kitty's brother) & Aunt Eunice's house. Their pool is SO much fun! There are cliffs, slides, a hot tub, waterfalls, all kinds of fun stuff!!






The cliff was pretty scary! It's gotta be about 10 feet up from the water. We all took turns talking ourselves into jumping off. I only did it once. It took me a few minutes to actually do it. I was scared. Matt did it a few times, so did Papa and Billy. Chloe did it about a million times! Such a tiny girl on such a big cliff!!




(Grandma & BeeAva played together a lot. She fed her and dipped her feet in the water. She liked the baby pool best. It was quieter and not deep.)


(The baby pool. Isn't it great? Bubb liked it and the hot tub best)


(water cannons)


(Portie didn't want to jump off the big cliff, so he jumped off the rocks. Bubb liked the black slide. A lot.)

We all had lunch @ Shakey's (a pizza buffet in American Fork) before swimming. It was pretty good. We gave Grandma a sparkly purse and a little compact mirror. She loved it. The purse is a little crazy, but Chloe insisted that we get that one for Grandma-because she's fancy. Grandma likes it. She said she'd take it to work on Monday. After all our swimming, we got ice cream and called it a day.

Happy Birthday, Grandma! We sure love you!
(and tell Uncle Kerry & Aunt Eunice thanks for us. We sure had fun in their pool :) )