Maeley's finally 8

When Maeley was nearly 3 she went to her cousin Kourtney's baptism. Ever since then she has been so excited to be baptized. Now its finally going to happen in a few weeks.

Maeley has changed so much in the past year, maybe even just within the past 6 months.

Maeley wants to help out often.

She loves to read! In addition to her own reading each night (often 1-1.5 hours) she reads to Chase and Zoe almost daily.

She and Zoe are great friends and have a blast together. Sometimes she gets upset with Zoe because she tends to be more messy but the conversations they have in the evenings are enjoyable to listen to.

She has a great heart and thinks about how others feel. Last week they had an awards assembly at their school for the first quarter. Maeley got 3 awards out of the possible 4. Chase didn't get any and Maeley sure was sad for him and let him know how she felt about him.

She has so much confidence in herself. It amazes me.

She's quick to finish her work at school so she gets to teach other kids. She enjoys it and says its sometimes challenging coming up with new examples.

She loves to laugh. Seriously right before showers in the evenings the girls go wild and laugh like crazy.

She's already getting to old for playing with the kids. She'd rather hang around the adults.

Maeley sure is turning into such a sweet and helpful girl. We love her!

Happy Birthday Maeley!



Zoe is 5

Its unbelievable that my baby is now 5. Its mostly great but at times I miss those simple days with all the kids little and at home.

Zoe is a wonderful caboose to our family. We love her very much. Some of her best qualities are:

She is very optimistic and sees the good in everyone.

She makes up the best songs with such a cute tune to them.

She loves her family and tells us daily.

She is silly, sweet and enjoyable to be around.

She does not like getting in trouble and when she does she will tell you she loves you so you will say it back just so she knows you still love her.

Happy Birthday Zoe!

Cabins

This past weekend we went up to Heber for a nice weekend with my sisters family. The kids were on fall break, I wasn't working and surprisingly Derek ended up getting Friday off last minute. We arrived there about 1:30 in the afternoon Friday along with Laurel, Zach and the boys.

Love this picture! It may be out of focus however Chase and Zoe are cracking me up!

This is the only picture we ended up with Zach in it.

 

Derek and Laurel trying to teach Maeley how to throw the ball correctly.

Devan got a sling shot and Chase loved using it!

Can he get any cuter?

Zoe was tired of walking so Derek picked her up. As he did that Chase got hurt.

Now Chase gets to be carried. He tripped on a cattle guard and bruised his shins and cut his lip and chin.

 

These pictures were taken at Bison Ranch.

Loving the fall colors!

By the way these aren't "outhouses" they are for trash.

"My Place"

Back in May Zoe was screened because we thought she had a speech delay. She was then rescreened the end of August. Then she was finally placed into an articulation class. Sadly its only once a week for 45 minutes. Its better than nothing but it goes by too fast.

This was her first day going to her class.

Which she calls "my place".  I think its funny.

I wanted to add a picture of her wearing her zebra shoes. She loves them. She is definitely going through a stage of zebra obsession. She's a nut!