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Wahoo for New Baby Cousins!!

This is our newest nephew/cousin...Baby Zachary. He entered the world on Sunday, September 21st at 11:43 pm...and he is so cute!!
His proud siblings and dad. Since it was so late, they decided that his other brother Benjamin (age 2) could meet him later.

My sister is amazing, this pregnancy was not the funnest for her. At the beginning she had to have shots every day...as if just being pregnant isn't hard enough! She also had 4 extra people living in her home (us!) to deal with on top of everything. Of course, after all she had to deal with she has a beautiful baby boy! My mother, who lives pretty close to my sister, happened to be over the mountains at our house for a work conference. Well, as soon as she was done Sunday evening we drove over to be with Valerie (and so Grandma could meet her 11th grandchild!) We finally got some sleep around 1 am and had to get up at 5 am to head back over to Yakima in time for her to attend the remainder of the conference. It was a super quick trip...but we wouldn't have missed it for anything! We are both so glad that we could be there to meet him, though bed time will be early tonight.

We have had a cousin explosion in our family lately. Annika in February, Madison in June, Beckham in August and now Zachary in September. The next baby will be ours...but that still seems a long time away!

Andrew's First Day of Preschool!

Andrew has been wanting to go to school like his big sister for a long time. Today his dream came true. He started his first day of preschool!!

Can you tell that he is a little excited?? I think he is so adorable!
Today was a play day at school. They got to meet the teachers and just play with whatever they wanted to help them get comfortable in the classroom. Andrew had so much fun, he didn't want to go home. Hooray for preschool!

**We also found out that we are having a baby GIRL today...we are super excited!

Busy Busy in Boise!

We made a quick trip over to Boise this weekend for the baby blessing of Madison, our newest little niece. We were so excited to meet her and spend time with family.

On Saturday we all went to Zoo Boise. It was lots of fun and just the right size for all the little ones we had with us. Dave growled at a snow leopard and I am pretty sure the thing really wanted to eat us for dinner! Thank goodness for the strong metal fence that was seperating us. :)
A quick family photo at the zoo.
We took the kids to the Boise Temple. Kelsi took this picture of us.
This is heaven in a pie tin. :) A chicken green chile salad from Bajios...it does not get much better than this. We really miss Bajios, there is nothing like it where we live now.
This is the reason for our visit, Madison! She is a cutie and we all had fun making her smile. We can't wait to see her again.

First Day of Second Grade!

Kelsi started her first day of second grade yesterday...I can't believe I am the mother of a second grader! She woke up super early and was ready to go about 2 hours early, I guess she was a little excited! She had fun picking out the perfect outfit for her first day. Isn't she cute?
Andrew was sad that Kelsi was leaving for the whole day, they have been best friends and playmates all summer. He is excited to start preschool next week, stay tuned for more news about that day!

*Dave and I also celebrated our 9th anniversary yesterday. Since we didn't have a babysitter, we were going to go out this weekend and do something. However, Olive Garden was calling my name all day ( I love their salad!) so we took the kids and went out after all. We had a great time and the salad was just as great as I had imagined all day long. :)

Birthday Fun

Since Kelsi was sick on her birthday, she didn't get a very fun birthday dinner. Once she was healthy, she chose to go to El Porton for her dinner. They sang Happy Birthday in Spanish and gave her a HUGE serving of fried ice cream. Our whole family was eating it and we could barely finish it. It was delicious!
My birthday was last week...I have entered my last year of being a 20-something. We had a great day which included:

• breakfast in bed (yummy french toast!) and lots of beautiful roses
• a family hike that almost killed me...I am not in very great shape since I have been laying in bed sick for 3 months!
• a dinner at Outback with just Dave and me...it was delicious and so fun to go out with my husband, we don't do that enough!
• yummy cheesecake for dessert...I am not a huge cake person, but I always can eat cheesecake!
  

Just a picture of my cute family...we took down their bunk beds and put them both on the floor. They are having so much fun and love their "new" room. :)

Summer Fun!

Hopefully this isn't picture overload...but we have been having lots of fun lately and wanted to share a little.

New Bubble Machine!
Bubbles are so fun. The kids have spent hours playing in the backyard with bubbles and sprinklers this week. Yay for mom, I just had to sit in a chair and watch. :)
Running hard!
This is the bucket we keep our outside toys in...but the kids decided to bathe in it instead. They were both in it together at one point, though not long enough for me to get a picture.
Num Nums!! Gotta love Costco's chocolate muffins! Andrew's favorite part is the chocolate chips and he just digs through the muffin to find them- as you can see by looking at the table!
Camp Z!! We got to go spend the evening up at a church camp with Dave's parents. The kids had tons of fun while the mosquitos tried to eat us alive.
Grandma and Grandpa Button...what a treat to get a whole evening with both of them! Dave's dad is serving as our Stake President right now and that tends to take a little bit of his spare time...

Our dirty, but always cheesy kids!
We hope you are all having as much fun this summer as we are!