Kindergarten BBQ

We are all set for Brianna's first day of school. But first we meet the teacher and find out how things role. Its so crazy to be on the parent side of things. The letting go has finally begun, mommy's girl is going to have to start learning how to really do things on her own.

 

Playing before we head inside to go to her classroom

Getting her first assignment done. She's put what she was told to put in her desk and she begins.

Brianna took a crayon, wrote her name, and then drew her favorite things, a butterfly and mommy. She will introduce herself to her class using this picture.



Water Park FUN

So since Brianna is starting school here soon and any family activities are going to be designated to the weekends, also since she's been gone all summer, I wanted us to have a last busy couple days starting with going to Big Sky Waterslide. We initially wanted to go to Silverwood but things change and time flies so fast that it didn't get planned out so Big Sky was the next best place to go.

Only sucky part was that I couldn't go on really any of the slides. Gotta say being pregnant has some down falls sometimes. But I got Preston in the 3 foot pool and splashed around there with him. Clayton took Brianna up the first couple of slides just to see how she did. She did amazing and finally talked her into going down the one slide she had to go down by herself by herself. She ended up just going rounds on that slide, especially after Clayton took her down one of the bigger ones and she hit her head.

Once Papa and Grandma got there, Clayton took Preston down one of the smaller slides and I knew as soon as he did that that Preston was going to want go again and again, but he only went down a couple more times. He went down a big one with Clayton and that pretty much ended his sliding cause Clayton got sucked under and held onto Preston. Preston wasn't happy about that.

All in all it was an awesome day.

 

He was not happy about putting his life jacket on

First time all by herself she had daddy at the bottom just to make sure

Should have cropped this photo for it to be closer but she had tons of fun

Grandma and Preston

Papa coming down Geronimo

Clayton getting ready while papa gets off the slide

Clayton coming down Geronimo

Brianna on one slide and Clayton about to take Preston down the other

They made it down!!

This is right before Clayton gets sucked under and takes Preston with him. I think he would have came out with a smile if he had not have had to deal with water in his face.

Enjoying some pool time before its time to go

She said she wasn't taking her life vest off just yet cause she wanted one more run down a slide but first she gets in a tube.

 

One day of fun in the sun, while seeing a preview of the upcoming air show on occasion. Next up though is kindergarten BBQ time.



Fair day

And the fair comes to town. Talk about a money sucker lol next year I double or might triple the money I brought cause what I did bring barely covered anything. But I also recruited papa will and grandma Cindy. And honestly thank heavens they came cause I barely survived and would not have survived had they not been able to. Will and Cindy took over getting on rides with the kids and making sure they had a good time. So thank you Will and Cindy. Also man oh man I've gotten motion sickness as I've grown older and being prego doesn't help. I could barely look at some of the rides without wanting to hurl. But we had fun and it wore the kids out!

And here we go

Will and the kids on the Ferris wheel 

Brianna coming out of a fun house

Carousel

Cindy took the kids on a helicopter ride.

A weekend in the caves

Last weekend Clayton and I invited both set of parents to the Lewis and Clark caverns, including a night stay in one of their cabins.

We were planning on taking Preston in the hiking back pack we used in Germany but with both of us forgetting how tight and cramped it is in the paths in the caves the back pack would have been a complete waste of time and luckily Clayton was told before we hiked up to the opening and we put it back in the truck.

Preston's favorite part was the echoness of the caves. Especially after he heard another of the little kids become loud.

 

 

Getting ready to go up

Such beautiful scenery

While they didn't discover the caves, the caves were along their route.

Waiting to go inside.

 

The entrance to the caverns.

 

The ceiling has damaged stalactite's from people breaking them off and keeping for souvenirs. Back when they were able to do that.

Very narrow stairways. This one in particular was difficult.

A hole cut to see if there was another room by explorers a long time ago.

An old stair way

Through this hole is called the queens room. The guide didn't talk about it but it was the 4th time going to the caverns and remember this fact from one of the times. Only thing I did remember haha

Two different colors. Amazing what natures chemicals can do

 

After the caverns we went down to our cabin to eat lunch. After lunch my parents went home and Clayton, Will, Cindy, and myself carrying Preston went for a long walk down the train tracks to a fishing spot. Clayton caught a sucker fish which was horribly hideous. Sucks that I didn't bring my camera cause it would have been cool to take some more scenery pictures or to take a picture of the train that came by while Clay and Will were fishing. Good thing it let us know it was coming cause Cindy was sitting on the tracks. But I also found two good rocks to actually collect for Bri. She has a thing for "finding" rocks. These two were worth collecting

 

Kid friendly back yard

Since I had Brianna I've wanted to get a swing set for my yard, that way we pretty much have a park right outside our door and when I don't feel good its easy for them to go get energy out.

Anywayyyyy... We finally got one up, we also ordered a baby swing sense Preston can't sit in a normal swing yet and sense the kid loves cars it was only befitting that we got a car baby swing.

 

slide aka gide

He didn't do it this time but when I was cooking dinner he was going down the slide, stood up half way down and jumped the rest of the way. Clayton said he landed on his feet before falling

 

Amongst all the swing set and trampoline fun we have we also got soccer balls for each kid (which Bri asked for a pink one before she left) a fisher price basket ball hoop, and a planes basketball. I think its safe to say that we are set for the summer and set for indulging our children in sports, now to see what Preston is most into.