nora moves out

 Nora moved out of her bedside basinet/seat to a big girl crib. Im sad to see her go, but she was getting to big. Here she is.... her first nap in her crib.

First day of school

                                      Oh so cute. Here is lincoln on his first day of kindergarten and Liv on her first day of 4th grade.They started back on tuesday. They both had good days and said all was well at school. Lincoln is happy when he comes home ...its so fun to see him growing up.  Liv gets a locker this year, and even has a friend from church in her class. She makes friends easily and has already found some gal pals at school. Ian was yelling for linc all morning on tuesday...but has since adjusted :)
They enjoy their lunch time together.

catch up

So...I am very sorry but I can't find my camera cord that attaches to the computer. I have been putting off writing a blog post until I could post photos from life's recent events. I have a couple random pics on my phone, and i guess that will have to do till I find the cord. I will now bore you with a list of what we have been doing lately...in no order (because that is the theme of my life lately)

* olivia had a birthday, she is now 9! holy smokes when did that happen. We went to the nature center, had a little family party, and went to the pet store to choose a pet fish. Ate chocolate cake and ended the night with a little Just Dance. Liv has some sweet dance moves.

* Lincoln lost his 2 front teeth...and became a jr. ranger.

* We went camping for our family vacation in the U.P.
It was beautiful, so so beautiful. Camping right on the beach out in the middle of nowhere. I have never seen a starry sky like the ones over Lake Superior. Amazing.

* We moved. It is so hard to move, I am slowly digging out and trying to figure out where things should go. The town is close to our old one (although we did almost end up in north carolina), but nicer and more cute. They have better schools, and allow chickens. jonny is interested in this hobby, but sadly I think molly would be pretty interested as well. Our street is a dead end and is full of children. The back yard in fenced, and big. Ian is loving it. I have talked to more neighbors the past 2 weeks then the whole time we lived in north aurora. The girl across the street even brought us cookies :)

* Went to a cruise in last night with our friends from our old ward, the guys both showed their cars.
We had root beer floats, and the kids all entered a hula hoop contest. ..except liv, who was to shy.

                                 she is so popular...liv and all her primary friends playing with nora