August, September, Birthday, Back to School!!!

 This is what happens when Maddy gets a hold of a pom pom! Thank you Maddy! Good thing she's cute!

 Our family got to go to AZ for a week in August and visit family and friends! It's ALWAYS so fun and so nice to be back there! My mom got tickets for all the grand kids to go see Snow White at Hale Theater! it was so fun and the kids LOVED it! Here they are in the theater posing for a picture after the show!

 Bay found the evil witch's face/mask and obviously, from the look on her face, thinks it's pretty gross!!!

 Here is SWBy and grandma after the show! SWBy sure enjoys being in AZ and staying at Grandma's house! He was invited to stay another week with Grandma when we left to come home. It was a quiet drive without him and we only had two potty stops without him! He got to fly home with Grandma the following week for Bay's birthday. I thought he might get a little homesick being in AZ without us but he couldn't shove us out the door for alone time with Grandma fast enough! And then he didn't want to come home! I'm not sure if I should be worried about that! He had a fun week with Spencer's family and my family!

 I wanted to get our family pictures done while we were in AZ! Spencer's cute cousin (syrellaphotography) took our pictures! These are them! I think she did such a nice job and she was willing to suffer the 105 degree weather with us! We were all so hot and sweaty but it was worth it! I just love them! Maddy was kind of a mess that day...which I wasn't expecting. She usually cheeses it up for the camera, but of course the day I want her to she doesn't!!!

 Such cute kids!!!

 Happy 7th birthday Bailey!!! Grandma and SWBy flew in on Bay's birthday! Above, our cute neighbors and Bay and SWBy's friends came to celebrate Bay's birthday with us!

 I love this picture of Bay and Grandma!

 I also love this picture of Bay and Maddy! Such cute girls!

 Bay chose a giant Tangled chocolate chip cookie for her cake! I thought it was  so cute!

For Bay's birthday I told her she could invite one friend and I'd take her and her friend to do something fun. She chose to eat lunch at the Garden Restaurant and then go to Discovery Gateway. The girls had so much fun. Because my mom was still in town she got to come with us as well. It was so fun and Bay sure had a fun time!

I didn't know the Garden Restaurant did this, but for Bay's birthday they stood her in the middle of the restaurant, gave her a balloon, had everyone wish her a happy birthday and then they opened the roof and told her to release her balloon and make a wish! It was so cute and so fun!

Here is Bay with her cute friend!

 Here is Bay climbing the rock wall at Discovery Gateway.

 The following Sunday we had our family party for Bay. It's always so fun to get together with them!

 My niece has an August birthday too and because we were in AZ for her birthday we wanted to celebrate her with Bailey. This is their giant Barbie cookie cake. This was a mistake!!! It was supposed to be decorated like Brave but the lady misunderstood which decoration I wanted and we got Barbie! I felt so bad because she did such a nice job decorating the Barbie cookie that I just took the Barbie cookie-cake instead of correcting her and having her make another one.

 First day of school for Bay! Big 1st grader and is at school all day now! She loves school!!! She has ridden her bike to school a few times and loves it! She loves to ride bikes now that she can finally ride a 2 wheel bike! She didn't want to learn to ride a 2 wheel bike and was afraid but I figured she better learn before she gets any older!!!

 SWBy's first day of preschool! He was so excited! He didn't want or need me to walk him up to his classroom. He just hopped out of the car and said, "bye mom" and that's all I got! He LOVES school and actually started crying one Friday when he couldn't go to school because there is no preschool on Friday's!

Poppi came for a visit! The kids LOVE when we get visitors and were so excited that Poppi got to see their very first soccer games!

Here is Bay at her first soccer game! When she wants to and isn't complaining she does really well! Her first game she was so nervous and her attitude stunk so I told her that and she replied, "Really, well I think it's really cool that my attitude stinks!" I had no idea what to say so I just walked away and let her figure it out. She did really well in the game, but when she came in at half time we told her she was doing great and she just lost it and started sobbing! Not sure why that made her cry! However, she was able to pull herself together and play the 2nd half and do a great job!

SWBy was kicking his ball in the net during Bay's half time and somehow managed to get his head caught in the net! This was so funny! We were all laughing and every time I see this picture, I can't help but laugh! Good thing SWBy has a good sense of humor and can laugh about it because I e-mailed this picture it to our family and friends!

Here is cute Maddy during Bay's soccer game!

Here is SWBy for his first soccer game! He LOVES playing and gets so excited to play every Saturday. He is a good hustler and follows the ball wherever it goes! He has scored at least one goal every game so far. His first goal he was so excited he yelled, "I won!" and ran over to Spencer and me thinking the game was over! He was so excited and was even more excited that he got to keep playing!