Evelyn's 11th birthday and student council

 

Evelyn turned 11 this year. Out of order pic in the cute outfit Grandma and Grandpa gave her. They haven't been able to come down the last year or two for her birthday due to travel/vacations, so she was VERY excited to have them come down for the day. She looks SO grown up in this picture. These pictures are totally backwards in order so this was the end of the night ha ha.

Getting ready to be sung to.

She got some sweatpants that match the hoodie as well.

Opening presents is always a hit.

Auntie Kari was also able to come down for the day and her and Joe gave her this VERY cute dress and purse. It will be SO cute to wear on Sunday. 

More present opening of course!

Evelyn requested Rumbi for dinner. She went there with Allory and Lainey for the first time and LOVED it so she got teriyaki chicken bowl again and LOVED it.

She decided she did in fact want a cake for her birthday and she decorated and chose the candy and colors herself.

Spending serious time on it.

Birthday breakfast was baked french toast :)

And she applied for the 5th grade student council and GOT IT! She was so excited. So she has some extra responsibilities at school and she will do great. She was SO happy she got it.

And our cute cute surrogate Grandma Sister Madsen came and brought her a very sweet card and this gorgeous necklace and cute little boxes to store it in. We sure love her!

Liam's first football game vs. Murray

I need to keep this out of order pic forever, I caught Liam in an actual smile! Next to Evelyn! It's a miracle in many instances :)

Liam's first official football game was against Murray. The girls and I got there and it was VERY VERY hot on the visitor benches but it was really fun to see a great game!

The whole team did a great job and the game was MUCH more exciting for the girls to watch this time. And Liam "waved" to Adeline twice so that was wonderful for her :) 

Liam's team won 40-16! YEAH!
 

First week of school things

FINALLY had enough tomatoes to make a round of Kari's salsa. YUM!

Evelyn working on OT for her hand in trying not to squeeze the paper.

This is some thera putty we have been doing to stretch and work with her fingers. 

The opening social for seminary.

First day of 9th grade and high school for Liam.

Collin's first day of 11th grade, junior.

Evelyn's first day of 5th grade.

And first day of 3rd grade for Adeline.

She is very excited because she is in the "big kids" hall. First time in a LONG time haven't had any kid in the lower grade area :(

 

Loveland Living Planet Aquarium visit 8/9

Out of order pic of Adeline looking at the axolotl hat she wanted. For future reference. She is still in love with axolotls. 

As part of aquarium camp, the girls each got 2 free tickets to go back to visit the aquarium for free with someone before the end of the summer. So we only basically had one Saturday available to go and do it before they expired, so we went the morning of August 9th. Here we are doing a little bit of the zipline after we did the EECO voyager thing.

They were very bouncy zip lines. 

Even Collin did it.

Checking out the turtles.

Getting zapped by the eel.

Seeing all the big fish. Some of these guys are HUGE!

Walking the rope bridge.

The poisonous dart frogs are always cute to look at. 

The penguins were super cute. The girls were very excited to tell us about them since they had learned a lot about them and got to feed them as well.

I like the jellyfish.

Sea life is cool looking.

The girls loved touching the stingrays. 

It was a fun trip to the aquarium. I'm so thankful for so many fun things around our area!