Legacy Gymnastics Meet

This is the video from Bella's first meet.  She was third overall for her age group!  We are so proud of her.  The video is taken by me while holding Tessa and occasionally cheering.

Vault

Bars-I always think this is her best event.  I think it was her highest score.

Beam-she struggled the most on this one.  But I love her graceful lines.

Floor-they have been working on this routine for so long.  Bella had a great time at this meet and is looking forward to the next one!

Happy Birthday Sophie!

Sophie turned four this past Monday!  It was a minimal day at school so the big kids got out early and we met up with Nate for lunch.  Well, let me back up, we began her birthday celebrations at 6:30 am that morning.  We seem to have filled evenings these days and we didn't want Sophie to have to wait to open her presents and play with them til almost bedtime, so we just started very early. 

My mom had brought her presents down when I had Tessa, so she had quite a bunch of stuff to open. 

So we spent the early morning opening presents and singing.  Then we got the kids off to school and Nate off to work and Sophie and I played with her presents until it was time to go get the kids.  We ate lunch at Zupas then came home and I finished decorating her cake.

  She requested a cake that looked like Ariel, I did my best, but it really isn't my forte.  I think cake without faces are easier.  Then we took Jack and Bella to their practices and came home to get ready to go to the mascot bowl.  We met up with Nate and headed over to the high school to watch a bunch of mascots play football with the Lehi eighth grade teams.  It was a good time and we didn't get home until way too late.  

Four great things about Sophie:

1. She is exuberant, really excited about most things.  We love to see how she smiles when she runs, it's pure joy.

2. She is really helpful with Tessa, she has been very patient ever since she was born.  She loves Tessa and it shows.  

3.  Sophie is funny, she says the funniest things all the time, we need to be better about writing them down.  Her observations of the world are pretty keen, and she isn't afraid of asking for what she wants and being clear with people.

4. She is smart, she knows so many things.  I think she will have a ball when she starts school in a few years, in the mean time, we do joy school and lessons at home.  She gets frustrated when she doesn't just know things-very reminiscent of Jack in that way. 

We love Sophie and I am glad she had such a fun birthday! 

Summer, according to the pictures on my phone

The weather is cooling down, it's not cold by any means, but you can tell that fall is on its way.  I take a lot of pictures with my phone to send to my mom and Nate.  But a funny thing happens, they don't often get the picture I send, they get a random picture I deleted months ago.  This is a good lesson to never take pictures you don't want the world to see.  I have no idea how the wrong picture finds its way through the ether, but it does.  Usually if I take another picture and keep sending, the right image ends up in the right place eventually, but I only do this if I have a fully charged phone and some time.  Anyway, I downloaded all the pics I took this summer and here are a few highlights.

In the hospital

Scary Hands

Pool in the backyard

Sisters

Mom, I want a haircut

Loves scarves

Neptune

I have 40 of these and it's not enough

Gummy Grin!

Splash Park

34 years old

Great form Bella

BYU Bookstore

Crab Spider

Artistic Concentration

He can finish a footlong

She can't finish a 4 inch

Hard earned football cards

Mom, please take my picture

Multitasking

Going shopping

Just a boy with a ukelele

Costco

QB

QT

 So, the older kids and Nate are hardly ever with me when I am taking pictures.  Tessa and Sophie and I spend the most time together-makes sense.  My cell phone says it holds 4975 pictures, doesn't that seem unlikely?  It would be shocking if I filled it up.  Of course if I did, even more random pictures would go to those I send picture mail to.