Alexa started 1st Grade back at Noah Webster on August 17. She makes her lunch every day and loves that she gets to eat at school and stay there all day! Kyle is the new PO president so he was really involved with Board and PO Meetings leading up to the start of the year. Our carpool is getting smaller and smaller. I now only take one 6th grader (Chase) and Alexa to school in the mornings before work.
We tried to get Tyler into Vineyard Preschool this year. He had to take an aptitude test and we didn't find out whether or not he would be accepted until August 28. It turns out that he was too smart to get in. Ha. They accept kids first who are struggling and show signs that they are not ready for kindergarten, which makes sense. They had over 70 kids apply and they only accept about 20. He had to score under 70% to even be considered and he scored a 90%, which the test administrator said she never sees. He is doing a great job reading on his own, writing, and has started to pick up on a little math from Alexa. He has almost learned all 13 articles of faith. The late rejection notice put us up a creek with all other preschools full and having already started for the year, but there was a kid who dropped out of Pamela's Preschool so we made it in. Tyler is loving it so far.
We were so excited to see Grandma and Grandpa Sweeny on their way home from their mission. They got to stay with us for a while and play lots of games and read lots of books. We went on an adventure up to Antelope Island and floated in the gnat-filled Great Salt Lake. There were tons of bison on Antelope Island and Kyle even got a buffalo burger on our way out. There was also a pioneer village and old farm that we got to explore.
We took the kids camping to Mirror Lake and crossed it off our bucket list. It was gorgeous. We tried to reserve a campsite online earlier in the week, but they cut off online reservations 5 days before. We got there at about 4pm on Friday afternoon and checked 6 surrounding camp grounds, each with 30-60 sites, ALL of them full! It was insanity. So we filled up our jug of water at one of the camp grounds and then made our own camp site in the wilderness. Which in all honesty was really nice and secluded and looking back I'm glad we were forced to do it that way. The kids even helped gather firewood.
Tad was up most of the night so Kyle and I barely slept. And Tyler woke up puking--probably had too many hot dogs and s'mores for dinner. However, we all survived and managed a hike around the beautiful lake before heading home.
Our Executive Team at work jumped out of a meeting and headed up to the roof to watch the solar eclipse. It was amazing how much cooler it suddenly was outside, and definitely much darker. Kyle got to see it from the gym and Alexa watched from school. Such a neat experience! We had lots of friends who drove to Idaho or Wyoming for the total eclipse, we had about 95% here.
Tad got his first haircut this month because his fuzzy, incredibly blond hair was barely starting to go below his ears.
We are sad to say goodbye to summer!
We tried to get Tyler into Vineyard Preschool this year. He had to take an aptitude test and we didn't find out whether or not he would be accepted until August 28. It turns out that he was too smart to get in. Ha. They accept kids first who are struggling and show signs that they are not ready for kindergarten, which makes sense. They had over 70 kids apply and they only accept about 20. He had to score under 70% to even be considered and he scored a 90%, which the test administrator said she never sees. He is doing a great job reading on his own, writing, and has started to pick up on a little math from Alexa. He has almost learned all 13 articles of faith. The late rejection notice put us up a creek with all other preschools full and having already started for the year, but there was a kid who dropped out of Pamela's Preschool so we made it in. Tyler is loving it so far.
We took the kids camping to Mirror Lake and crossed it off our bucket list. It was gorgeous. We tried to reserve a campsite online earlier in the week, but they cut off online reservations 5 days before. We got there at about 4pm on Friday afternoon and checked 6 surrounding camp grounds, each with 30-60 sites, ALL of them full! It was insanity. So we filled up our jug of water at one of the camp grounds and then made our own camp site in the wilderness. Which in all honesty was really nice and secluded and looking back I'm glad we were forced to do it that way. The kids even helped gather firewood.
Tad was up most of the night so Kyle and I barely slept. And Tyler woke up puking--probably had too many hot dogs and s'mores for dinner. However, we all survived and managed a hike around the beautiful lake before heading home.
Our Executive Team at work jumped out of a meeting and headed up to the roof to watch the solar eclipse. It was amazing how much cooler it suddenly was outside, and definitely much darker. Kyle got to see it from the gym and Alexa watched from school. Such a neat experience! We had lots of friends who drove to Idaho or Wyoming for the total eclipse, we had about 95% here.
Tad got his first haircut this month because his fuzzy, incredibly blond hair was barely starting to go below his ears.
We are sad to say goodbye to summer!
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