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Saturday, April 29, 2017

August 22-30, 2016 - First Day Of School / Salt Lake City

It was finally time to go to the school and meet the girls new 
teachers. Jaina has been so excited to finally be in 1st grade!!


This is her new teacher Mrs. Bates


Mara's new teacher Mr. Tuescher


Later that day we headed over to Lana's house for Olivia's 4th 
birthday party. It was zoo themed and Lana had masks for everyone.






Summer's over and it's finally the first day of school. Xander had actually gone 
to school the day before for a half day with only 7th graders so they could find 
their way around the school easier. But today was the first official day of school.

Xander is now 5'8" and wears a size 13 shoe! He is definitely growing in knowledge and stature. 



Jaina is so happy to finally be in 1st grade, go to school all day and have 
school lunch! She wouldn't let me do her hair fancy, just wanted a pony tail.



Mara is so ready for school and excited to have a boy teacher this year.




Melody and I had had a pretty boring day with everyone gone. I had let her sleep a 
little longer during her nap, which ended up being a bad thing, because she didn't 
want to wake up and ended up sleeping on me for awhile after I got her out of bed. 


We love when Uncle Morri comes to visit because he 
doesn't mind playing dress up with the little one.




I had a WIC appointment out in Payson and on the way home I decided to stop at Salem Pond so Melody 
could play outside. She loved that there were ducks on the grass and she tried to catch them.


We found a praying mantis on the playground and she was so concerned 
about it. I think we hung out watching it for close to 10 minutes.



This is her new way of watching shows. Daniel Tiger is no longer on Netflix so we have to watch it on 
Amazon Video. Sadly our Apple TV doesn't have that app, so we can't watch it on the TV, only the iPad.



Dad reading a book to the girls is something that I love, and they 
decided to wear their matching jammies from Christmas too!



It was Saturday and we wanted to go up to Salt Lake to see what kind of Pokemon were 
there. Xander and Mara didn't want to come, so we arranged for them to hang out 
at friends houses while we were gone. So it was just us with Jaina and Melody.


We had to throw pennies into every fountain we saw, 
and they used ALL of the pennies that I had in my purse.











It was so nice getting out of the house and doing something different for a change.



While the kids are at school, Melody has free range of doing pretty much 
anything that she wants to. This is how she decides which movie to watch.



Melody noticed the training potty under Xander's sink and wanted to get it out. She 
would follow me into the bathroom and sit down on it (but still had a diaper on). 
She did this every so often for a week or so. So I know that training is in our future.



Jaina and Mara have officially started piano lessons. We've had the piano since last November and they 
are both been wanting lessons. So they are being taught by a young woman in the ward, Jessica Jensen. 


Melody just playing dress up. She's such a cutie.

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