18 months

Afton and Lilly are 18 months old!!!!!! That has gone by way too fast! I absolutely love this age!!! Two 18 month olds is a lot of work but I love how they learn something new everday and are so cute!!!
They are now ready to officially be in nursery in church. They went in last week for a trial run and did amazing!!!! They have their 18 month dr. appt. on Monday. Lilly is STILL NOT walking and I am thinking our pediatirician will probably say she needs to see a physical therapist :)

Anyways, when each of our kids turn 18 months old we take some special pictures to celebrate them being in nursery and primary. Enjoy!!!

Afton




Lilly


Just to go down memory lane- here are Ethan and Lizzie's 18 month photos....
Our scanner is broken so I had to take pictures of a picture (pre-digital photo days!)

Ethan


Lizzie

Grey's River

Here are some pictures of our trip to Star Valley/ Grey's River. Jim came home about a week ago and said let's go next weekend for a long weekend..... so we went. We took way too many pictures but here are a few highlights


A familiar site if you grew up in Jim's family



Lizzie enjoying the river



I still can't believe I have these three beautiful girls.



I like to call this one - THE APPRENCTICE


The Fisherman





Ethan with his first fish he caught all by himself! I would like to add that he caught two right in a row!





Afton Wyoming meeting Afton Harrison



Yes, we did see this bear about 20 to 30 feet away from us. We were glad we were on the other side of the river.

2 down 2 to go

As of today I now have two kids in school!!!! The night before they each started school we had a BACK TO SCHOOL FEAST for dinner. I think they liked it.

Ethan is gone every day from 8:15 to 2:55 as he learns the ropes of 2nd grade. He started a week ago. Oh, how I miss that boy. He loves math but does not like to work on his handwriting.




Lizzie just started kindergarten today and will go from 12:15 to 2:55. She is excited to do art in a new place and has been practicing wearing her backpack. Although she tests my patience every day I know I am gong to miss that cute girl so much and her quirky answers and sayings for everything.





This is how school shopping for shoes went with Ethan and Liz.

Mom- "Ethan do you like these?"
Ethan- "Yeah, sure."

This is how it went for everything. I could have shown him shiny purple shoes and he probably would have said sure.

Now for Lizzie,

Mom- "Lizzie do you like these shoes?"
Lizzie- "No"
Mom- "What about these?" repeated about six times with six different options.
Lizzie- "No" repeated about six times.
Mom- starting to lose patience "Why don't you just show me which ones you like?"
Lizzie- of course finds something for more money than what mom has been showing her.
Mom- "Fine, let's just get them and go."

What a smart girl I have.... :)


This is what will be waiting for them when they get home from school today. I rarely make chocolate chip cookies (Jim does this) so it really is a treat!