Welcome to C. Roy Carmichael School

This is day one!

Well today marks the end of week one for Brenden's kindergarten year. We are so amazed at how well he's doing. You know you always feel great about your own kids but wow this was a treat for us. He's loving school and not upset about having homework. But he is shy. He says it all day long. I was pretty worried about it. Today was my day to volunteer in his class so I got to see him in action. He's pretty shy about a few things but not afraid to stand up and answer questions during class. He's a great helper and always on the clean up duty. That I pride myself on a little. He never has to be asked to clean up.

These are all DAY ONE pictures.

This is B and his buddy Reece. Reece is bigger he's a bit older. Bren is actually one of the tallest boys.

As you can see I wasn't the only mom on day one... ha ha ha I do love this pic though so classic. Who taught Kaleigh to pose?


Mrs. Wolcott is amazing. What a fantastic teacher. Brenden loves her.


I was worried about B surviving day one so I brought him gatorade to help him out. He survived. LOL

This is it. Week one is over. Best part is that on Fridays Kaleigh can join and we can enjoy school all day long.

Oh what I was leading to earlier is I had a conversation with B's teacher about him starting at 4. She has NINE 4yr olds this year. WOW! Well, she told me it's not the starting that's the hardest thing it's the decision to move them on... where she said she had no worries about Brenden because he excels clearly above the level he needs to be already. I personally just want to work hard on his penmanship.

I promise later I will share my first day of school photos. Hope you are all having a great beginning to the school year.

it's been too long

I will try to post pics this week. Does anyone still read my blog out there?

Girl's Camp

So I've been gone for a week (for those of you who don't facebook). I've enjoyed/endured a week at beautiful Buck's Lake. I was asked to be a tent mom for the first year girls. I have to admit I was a little scared at first I mean, 12 yr olds. I only have one beehive in my class and she's going to be a mia maid next month! I'm glad to have older girls because I'm not much on patience. However, these girls were AMAZING!!! Not one complained about getting out of bed by 6:30, which is more than I can say for our YCL (who happened to be one of my laurels). I was greatful for their excitment and determination. Every girl was excited to get up and do the POLAR BEAR PLUNGE. The Polar Bear Plunge was jumping in the lake at "NO NO Beach" at 6:30 every morning, except for the day we left. Every girl was up and down at the beach in record time, to hopefully get a warm shower after. It was fun, but I must say the water was warmer than the air. It was a nice teambuilding thing as we promised (including me) that we would all do it everyday together. We all won awards for doing it everyday. I apparently won a Hardcore Polar Bear Prize. Probably because I didn't want to get out of the water. I had a different bathroom than the girls so I had less of a fight for a shower. We enjoyed learning a lot of things together, including:

how to cook biscuts on a stick,

making omlets in a ziplock bag,

how to treat a 1st degree burn, and how not to run near a fire (she's okay).



We also learned that taking a double dose of Benadryl helps you not be afarid to conqure the rock wall,





and we learned how to work together to conqure the "copes course",

we learned we are truly sisters and are willing to do all we can to keep one another on the straight and narrow. We learned that we can strengthen our testimonies of Jesus Christ throughout our lives. we know that our Father in Heaven wanted us to know that our mission in life is possible, but we can't hold it inside and not share it with the world. I'm greatful for the blessing of being in the Young Women's program and for all that they do, they teach me even more than I can ever teach them. Before I thought teaching principles and history would help them understand where we come from. Now I know they are learning for themselves who they are.
I look forward to this week, I'll get to see one of the older girls. It will be a blast! I'm just sad that our wards are so far apart. Each ward is about 1-2 hours away. We are the only one's building. Every other building has 1 to 2 wards in it. I miss all my girls already and wish they could all be in my ward.

Waterpark Fun!

Today we had our first trip to the waterpark. We will be going many more times this year. Here we are at the beginning of our trip. As you can see we need a lot of sunscreen for Keith.

Brenden was really brave today. We started the day by going down the green slide behind Keith, a slide that Brenden and I got to do together on a double tube. Quickly followed by both the blue and red slides, which B did ALONE! He did a great job of catching the lifeguard's float awaiting. He asked to go on them over and over. Eventhough he was submerged he loved it.Brenden again enjoying one of the kid play area's. This is the one Kaleigh was afraid of.

Then, trying to get them to come up. I got drenched by cold water and Keith so kindly took a picture.

Here's the brave guy again getting ready for another kid area. This time with his own tube. I think he's ready for a solo. But I wasn't ready yet.

And my favorite picture of the day...

Here is B doing the kid slides solo... he did this for about 4 hours without any help. Just me watching from the pool. I was so impressed.

Kaleigh wasn't brave enough to go on her own just yet. Maybe a few more weeks. She stayed close to daddy the whole time.
All wiped out and ready to go...

oh, I knew I was pale from the past few summers being indoors, and living in snow areas, with little days off... but um...

Oh, and prior to today my face is officially burned and peeling. That hasn't happened since I was about 10, maybe 11. I just wanted to share with you all my wonderfully modest tan line. HA! Honestly even if I didn't have a "mom" body, I'd still wear board shorts and a rash guard. But I'd only share my rash guard line with y'all. ;)

Kaleigh's Party.

That's Kaleigh's cake. What else would she have wanted. She loves horses and it was a perfect fit to her theme of presents this year. All she asked for was a horse, and since we couldn't afford it, or wanted one... ha! We spoiled her with tons of apparel from her new favorite store Boot Barn.She couldn't wait to blow out her candles. She blew them out a few times before we started to sing.


Here is a pic of her wearing some of her gifts... just so ya know our garage is cleaned up now.

You Are Invited

Here's the view of our new place. You can't see too well, but we have a pretty nice front patio. There's room for a small table. But for now we only have a pair of chairs.

Here's our back patio or part of it.

Most of our backyard is taken up by the patio. Which we can't wait to have people over to entertain. But when it's too cold we'll come on in. We know our furniture is hideous. But it's comfy.