First day of school!!!! Emma started 2nd grade this year, her teacher is Mrs. Garcia and she loves going to school. She loves math, reading, music, and art. Emma has lots of friends and is constantly having play dates with all her friends. Hard to believe she is in 2nd grade.

Even harder to believe is that Cami has started Kindergarten. She has been going almost a month and is loving it. The first week she was tired after school and wanted to rest. She goes to all day kindergarten and it is a long day for a 5 year old.

Ahh, my cute little girls, going off to school. Carson and I get pretty bored some days now that both girls are gone all day.

Taking Cami into her class, I thought she was going to cry, but she found her friend Brooklyn and they both walked off to play on the play ground.

Some more pictures from Idaho

We went to the Dubois parade, my kids got TONS of candy, guess its easy to do when there arent very many kids to gather it up. Thanks Grandma King for taking us, plus we got to see Grandpa drive his Sheriff tuck.

Kids playing dress up and putting on a play for us, they are always good for a laugh.

And of course no trip to Idaho is complete with out a trip to Bear World. I think this if my kids favorite part of visiting Idaho.

Here is Cami and her cousin Preston, she just loves him to death and couldn't wait to see him and play with him. Poor kid he couldn't get away from her even if he wanted to.

This is on our drive back to Arizona, our trip was awesome but 3.5 weeks without Chris was a long time and I was ready to get home. However, once we got here I quickly missed the nice summer days of Idaho. SO HOT HERE!

Catch up

Well since I haven't posted since Christmas I'll give a brief recap of our summer. We had a great summer, since we spent a good chunk of it in Idaho and Utah. We went to Park City as a family for a week, then Chris had to fly home for work and the kids and I spent 2 weeks in Idaho then an additional couple of days in Utah again for my Grandpa's 90th birthday party. Now my girls are back in school, its hard to believe they have been going for almost a month. Carson gets a little lonely with out them some days. Here are a few pictures from our vacation and the girls first day of school.

This is the trolley that we rode around the streets of Park City

Chris's family came to visit us in Park City for a few days. We just got done going down the Alpine Slide's the the Olympic Park

Walking down the streets of Park City, I love this town, it has so much character.

Cami LOVES little things, anything miniature she just gravitates to, so no surprise that she loved the mini fridge that was in the kids room.

This was us checking into our room, of course we had to ride the cart up and down the halls before we returned it.

Christmas 2009

Wow, its been a really long time since my last post. Here are a few pictures from our Christmas in Idaho. Sadly I ruined my memory card and lost all my pictures so there are from Chris's sister Michelle. Thanks Michelle!

We were lucky enough to have Santa come and visit us at Chris's Dad's house. It was awesome the kids were in awe.
Carson with Santa

Cami with Santa

Cami and Chris on Christmas morning

Emma with Santa

Acting out the Christmas Story. The kids and Grandpa were great.

Mother Natures Farm

We went to Mother Natures Farm today with a group of people from our ward.
The kids got to take a hay ride, decorate pumpkins, and run thru a hay bale maze.
We had lots of fun.

Emma sitting with all the pumpkins, trying to find the one she wanted to decorate.

San Diego Trip

We took a quick trip to San Diego a couple of weeks ago. We stayed with my friend Laura and visited The Zoo and Sea World. My kids had so much fun playing with Laura and her kids.

Cami and Carson in front of the Camel.

Outside of the Zoo. Unfortunately I something happened to my other pictures so these are the only ones I have of the trip.

Mom Massages

My kids love Massages!!! Every time I get my table out the beg for me to massage them, even though they only last about 5 minutes. I do think Carson would lay their longer if his sisters would let him. Chris has to fight really hard sometimes to get his turn. I am loving school and love that I can share it with my family.

Potty Training

First of all I cant believe that I am potty training my last child Horray!!!

Carson is a little bit harder to potty train then my girls were, we are kind of going at his pace, some days are great other days not so great. I did get him some new underwear, instead of just pull-ups, and he loves them. I make him wear diapers to bed still, but he insists on still wearing his new big boy pants as well, so we just put them over his PJ's. In these pictures he actually has on two pain of underwear over his PJ's, what a funny boy.

Kids First Day Of School

I cant believe that school has started all ready!! Emma is loving the
First Grade, her teacher is Mrs. Aupperlee and she is making some good friends.
It gets pretty quiet here without her during the days. She is getting to be a
great reader, her favorite books are Junie B. Jones (I love that she has
developed my love for reading).

She Loves her new backpack.

Ahh, my baby girl started Pre-School this year. Her teacher is
Miss Julia, and she absolutely loves going to school. She comes home with
some of the neatest things that they made while at school. She only goes
to school Tuesdays and Thursdays but she wishes that she went everyday.

Emma lost her first tooth!

After many, many, many, days of wiggling her tooth it finally came out. (Well I pulled it out actually, but hey at least its out) Excuse Emma's nice hairdo we had been at the pool prior to this pictures.

Visit from Grandma and Grandpa Smith

Grandma and Grandpa Smith came to visit us a few weeks ago.
My kids were so excited, we had not seen them since we moved from Idaho.
All day long Emma would ask how many more hours till they would be here.

As you can see, my kids couldnt even wait till Grandma was out of the car to give her a hug.
We Love Grandma!

Hugs for Grandpa too!

Meggie getting her bags out of the car.

Carson playing at the park with DeeDee.

Our Family Staycation

This picture is about a month late, but oh well.
We couldn't leave to go on vacation this year due to school, so we decided
to go on a Staycation, and stayed at the Marriott in Phoenix for a week.
We had a great time, and Chris and I still made it to all our classes.

Kids outside the Hotel

Emma took swimming lessons this summer and now loves the water.
There were about 4 pools and a splash park were we stayed, so we were in
the water every day.

Cami also took swimming lessons this summer, but she has
not grown to love the water like Emma, yet. Hopefully, she will soon.

Carson is so funny, he LOVES to be in the water, and is such a little
daredevil, I have to watch him very closely or he just runs and jumps in.

Family Camping Trip (In the Backyard )

The kids have been wanting to go camping, so we camped "Ferguson Style" in the backyard.
Even though we didnt go anywhere it was lots of fun.

Enjoying some smores in the tent.

Showing off the smores they made. Emma even roasted her own marshmallow.

Family photo in front of the tent.

Dad and Emma with Chocolate on their faces.

Dance Performance

Emma's Dance Performance

Some shots at home before we left.

This is her dance pose.

She did a great job dancing, and had lots of fun this year. But we sure miss being in Aunt Amy's dance class.