First Day of School 2014

Today's the first day of school, oh my!

Shelby is in 11th grade at Syracuse High School this year.  She is going to be getting her CNA certificate while she's there to start her career in the medical field.  We're so proud of her!

Kaylee start junior high today.  She's in 7th grade at West Point Jr. High.  She's a little nervous and not sure she wants to go through with this moving on from elementary thing.  But we have faith in her and know she'll do a great job!

Carson is in 5th grade still at Lakeside.  Not too many changes yet for him so he's a pro at this.

Austin is the hardest one for me.  He starts kindergarten today.  I didn't think it would be that hard but knowing that this is the last child of mine that will have a first day of kindergarten is kind of tearing at my heart strings!  He's so big!!!

He didn't even want to hold my hand walking in to his classroom!  My heart broke just a little!

Christi's Wedding

On August 21st our good friend Christi got married.  She is so cute and it was so great to see this happy occasion!  Congratulations Christi and Jake!

This was at her reception.  We have such a great group of friends and I truly love them all!

They had a photo booth with dress-up stuff and lips and mustaches.  Christi and Jake were busy so we had a great time by ourselves!  I think we manipulated that photo booth longer than the little kids did!  Who are we kidding...when we're together we act more like little kids than the little kids do!

Nye Summer Luau

This year's luau was fantastic.  Grandma Nye bought these blow-up things where you try to bump your opponent out of the ring.  I took more pictures but for some reason can't find them.  But here's the one with Curt and Troy.  Nothing better than brothers battling for bragging rights!

Thanks for the fun times, Grandma and Grandpa Nye!

Cousin Birthday Party 2014

On August 2nd we had our annual Nye Cousin Birthday Party.  Jeff and Holly were in town from Washington and they actually planned it.  We had at Get Air, a trampoline park in Kaysville.  It was so much fun.  Most of the moms didn't jump but the dads got in there with kids and there ended up being this gigantic game of dodge ball with our whole family and a lot of the people who were there with their families.  It was so fun to watch.  A dad that was there said that he's never played so hard in his life and loved playing on Curt's team because Curt took it just as seriously as this guy did, too.  They were dripping in sweat but they all had a great time!!!

Love this picture of Shelby!  She's going to kill me that I put this on here!!!!  That's what she gets for being funny!

 

Pineview Fun

Today we went to Pineview with our friends the Smith's.  They have a boat so we went to play in the sand and water.

This is Darcy, their youngest.  She's a little spit-fire but the cutest thing ever!!!

The kids loved playing in the water and riding on the tubes!

Of course there's handstand competitions!

These pictures are deceiving.  It looks like he's swimming but he's just fooling!

This is where he always ends up.  He loves to play in the sand!  I love his face on this picture!

Thanks Alex and Brydie for having us.  It was a blast!

My 20th Reunion...Ouch!

I cant' believe it has seriously been 20 years since I graduated from Layton High School in 1994.  I still remember it like it was yesterday.  I really did like high school.  I had a great group of friends who we're still friends to this day and we had a great time and a ton of memories.

But anyway, on Friday July 11th we had the school tour.  I can't believe how much that place has changed and yet it is still a lot the same.  Lots of good times in those halls.

I took this picture because this was from when my brother was in high school.  They won the state championship in baseball.  He's the one on the top row in the middle, kind of the shortest one!  I laugh because he's on the top row which is usually for the TALL players.

Here are a few of my good friends, Julie, Kim and Christi!

Here are all of us that went to the tour.  Fun to catch up with everybody!

Friday night there was a barbecue for families and stuff but unfortunately we had other things going on and couldn't make it.  But Saturday night was the big dinner.  

Here is a picture of all of us that went to Whitesides Elementary.  

Another picture of some great friends!

I still can't believe it's been 20 years.  I'm thankful for the friends and memories that I have from those years in my life and the lessons that I learned that I'm able to pass onto my kids.  Hopefully they will learn from the mistakes that we made but have all the fun that we did!

Go Lancers!!!

Guess who's 16!!!

Shelby's birthday is on June 4th and this year it just so happens that she had her birthday while we were at Girls Camp.  She always dreaded that that would happen but to have it be on her 16th birthday...let's just say she wasn't thrilled.  Thanks goodness I got to be up there with her since I'm the Camp Director for our ward.  So I tried to make it special for her.  The YW presidency got her the sash and birthday hat.  She's a good sport!

While they were hiking I stayed back to decorate her bunk and get her present ready.  Also I had all our family members that wanted to write her cards or letters that she could open.  That really made her day to know that everybody was thinking of her while she was away!

This was her present for up at camp.  It was a candy bouquet!  It turned out really great and she loved it.

We celebrated with family on Friday (when we got home from camp) and Saturday.  She got her license and her present was stuff to "outfit" her new car (new to her).  Then we had cake and ice cream.

Of course now that she's 16 she gets to date.  This was her first date.  It was with "Nate" who we love and adore.  He's in our stake and all the girls are crazy for him.  She and Nate are good friends so we couldn't have picked a better first date for her.  Love you sweet girl!