First Day of School

Oh my how time flies! Kids all grown up and no school for Bridget yet!

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Back to School Blessings

I can't believe it's that time of year already! We had our back to school blessings that Sunday before school started. Bridget decided since she was not starting right now she would get hers later and unfortunately Shui didn't get a picture when she got hers done.

And of course we had to read or kissing hand book! The kids are always so good to let me read that let me kiss all their hands! A tradition I will cherish forever! I am thankful to have a priesthood holder in our home to be ready to get blessings when needed.

Back to School Blessings

We are very blessed to have a worthy priesthood holder in our home to give all of us blessings before the new school year! We always do this the Sunday before school starts! Kaylee was sick with strep throat and a UTI so she didn't end up going to church but thankfully we got her to the doctor and got some outings so she got to get her blessing first!

This is always a special time in our home. This year we did it Twila you're all still fasting and it was kind of emotional for the dad giving all of them!

This was extra special because earlier that day at church Bruce ordained Rhett to the office of a Priest So it was a special day for us!

Bridget isn't starting school for a few weeks and so she decided to wait to get her blessing. Bruce always gives me a blessing because I start the new work here with school.

Add with returning back to school is the reading of the kids and all. I am most forgot. Thankfully Kaylee reminded me. The kids even the big boys are always so good to participate in that with me! It is a memory I will always cherish from time with my kids.

Temple Trip

Bruce and I along with the Elder Clark and Elder Humphreys were able to go to the temple to do baptisms with Sister Wright in our ward for the first time. We were thankful that they invited us to go and had us take them! It was great to see her enthusiasm and feel of her spirit. We did baptisms and then went to Elcupidos for lunch!

Sunsplash

We had a good little family trip down to Sunsplash a couple of days before school started. With these Pogo passes we got we could go for free so we decided to have it be out last outing before school started.

It was a great trip down there in! Everybody had a lot of fun except Kaylee. She wasn't feeling very good and so she just stayed mostly in the lazy river of the wave pool with me. She did go down to or three slides and it was making her head hurt so will didnt do it anymore after that.

These four had lots of fun on the slides together!

Kaylee did a lot of this because she wasn't feeling good! It's kind of sad that that's how she spent her day at Sunsplash but we got through it.

After Sunsplash Dustin wanted to go to a Downeast store see if they had cheap American fighter shirts. We found one that had some good deals this morning to trip over there!

We went to Raising Cane's after and had a yummy dinner and headed home. We had to stop in Payson for some groceries and it ended up getting home at 11 o'clock that night! It was a great trip down there as a family and time spent together!

Rhett Man it 16!!!

I can't believe this bit is 16!! We had a fun evening with him and all his friends including the Elders! Of course Rhett has his eyes closed in this picture!! We fed the Elders - Humphreys and Clark dinner the night of his birthday. The boys had football practice so Rhett barely caught them before they left. 

After football the team and all of Rhett's other friends came over for biscuits and gravy he. I made two huge Dutch ovens full of gravy and a whole ton of biscuits.  We made green chili gravy and regular gravy and the green chili was by far the favorite!

The kids ate and ate and ate and played Kan Jam and corn hole and played on the trampoline.

We even talked to Scott in the coming for some biscuits and gravy!

It's a good thing the kids had fun on the trampoline because at Bridget 16th birthday party the trampoline got bent and it survived this whole time and it Rhett's16th birthday party they finished it off and clear broke it!

This is just a picture I posted to write happy birthday on social media. It was when he was eight years old but has a birthday!

Right is a sweet special kid with lots of friends and we sure love having him in our home and the fun times he brings there!

Read it with his delicious chocolate cake!

I sometimes tease Rhett about being a turd because sometimes he is with all the teasing he likes to do so when both of us saw this in the store right decided he needed it so he got it for his birthday!

I decided it would be nice for him to have a little blanket to take on his sports trips with him so while he was gone to football camp Bruce Tylinn and I got this quilt made for him!