Back To School----or On to a New School

It's hard to say "Back to School" when this is a new school for my kids. Kaylie said something today about the "Welcome Back to Centerville Elementary" signs that were up. She said its not welcome back for us! It's more of just Welcome!

Here is my sweet kindergarten boy with his new backpack!

My handsome 3rd grader....didn't HE just start Kindergarten??? Where does the time go?

My very anxious for school 5th grader....she's her mother's daughter thats for sure!!

The school kids...all ready to go!! We hope they have a great school year!!

My Kindergartner!

My Kindergartner is so excited to go to school! Here he is waiting in line. As it turns out, the Kindergartners only go to school today and then they have testing on Wed but they don't come back to school till next week! Dallyn is so bummed...he thought he'd get to go to school all week! I'm going to line up some play dates for him though so he won't be too sad.

Hanging up his backpack by his name!

Sitting on the rug waiting for the teacher to come welcome the kids....

Here are my three kids waiting for school to start...what a big day! New school year, new school, new everything! It's an adventure!!

Cam's First Pack Meeting

Since Cam just turned 8 in April and then our life was a whirlwind with moving and all that, he just now is having his first pack meeting. His pack did the flag ceremony and the boys are all in shorts because they had water games after the awards!

Here Cameron is receiving his Bobcat Award...

Pinning the pin on Mom...I guess this will be the first of many "mother pins' for Scouting..this is all new to me. Scott was just called to be the Weeblos leader so he will be busy with that starting this next week!

Kaylie went to a friend's home and made banana cake...here she is with her beautiful creation!

A Museum or a Store??

Since Thanksgiving Point was SOO PACKED we decided to go visit this store called Cabellas that Austin had said was so neat. I knew it was an outdoorsy type store but I had no idea it was so incredibly cool inside!! We spent a few hours there and it was so neat. We have to go back with Scott sometime..he would love it!

Here are the kids upstairs overlooking the back of the mountain....

Dallyn's favorite animal of all were these moose..they were HUGE....so he asked me to take a photo them!

There was a walk-through aquarium, the fish were so different and the kids just had such a great time! Here is Dallyn with one of his favorite fish!

We stayed so long that we passed our lunchtime and so we decided to catch a bite in their restaurant enjoying the view of the mountain tops. There was an airplane above us that Kyler kept talking about but I forgot to get a photo. Dallyn said it flew into the building and then the workers fixed the roof after that. =)

This is such a cool place! It's a store but its like a museum inside and its FREE to go visit so if you are in the Lehi, Utah area you should really check it out! Wow! It was so fun!

More Cabella's

The kids had some fun with target practice...against Mom's better judgement I'm sure!


Relaxing in the home section...Austin thinks I need to redecorate my family room to accommodate these camo chairs and stuffed animal heads my kids were asking me to buy...I'm thinking....uh no! =)

Kyler's favorite in the African animals...the zebra!

Kaylie isn't sure what to think of this fish????

Capellas

The kids loved the bears.....there were lots of neat ones!

Kyler is making a face like this boar is...see the similarity!?

Cam thought this guy was cute....Cam got his photo taken with about 20 animals I think....he loved all of them!

Here's the neat animal display complete with the waterfall and fish pond..it's amazing!!!!!!!!!

Pony Rides

It was a great thing that we went to Thanksgiving Point with Amy and Austin because the place was packed! That's what you get for going on $2 Tuesday the last week before school starts!! I waited in line for an hour for the 2 minute pony rides, but the kids loved that so it was worth it. Amy and Austin took the kids around the park the first 30 minutes and then I took them around the 2nd half while they held our spot in line!

Here's Kyler on "Horseley" as he named his horse. =)

Kaylie said she wishes she could have ridden her pony without the chains on!! =)

Cam had the tiniest pony in the group....he loved it though!

Mom and the kids...enjoying one of our last days of summer!