School Begins

School begins. Reading during pick up and drop off times begins.

It's that time of year. You better believe I was quoting Nemo. "First day of school! First day of school!"

I remembered to get first day of school pictures (oldest to youngest because they started on different days). 

Jeremy got in on the action. 

 

Before that, I got some going to the schools to pick up things or talk to teachers (and eat hot dogs) pictures. 

We have another string player this year. We joked for years about how the oldest played violin, the next oldest the cello, and the next oldest the viola in orchestra, so the next should play bass. 

He took it to heart. Ha Ha Ha Ha. This is NOT a full sized bass (it might be 1/4 size) and it's taller than him. Ha Ha Ha Ha. I love this family.

 

Date and Second Date

One day, Jeremy and I took some time to ourselves. We got up early, had a quick breakfast, and headed up Nebo Loop to go birding for a date. We saw mostly cows. 

There was one spot we stopped right on the trail because there were birds all around us, including in the branches right above us.

The cows decided not to continue on the trail we were on and went their own way. That was nice. We didn't have to move. It was good we stopped when we did or we would have run into them. 

He had a little walk at Devil's Kitchen before heading home. 

When we got home we had second breakfast, took a nap, then had second date.

We went to see the new Spider-man movie. Spider-man: Brand New Day.

It was a lovely day with my sweetheart. 

 

Be an Angel at a BBQ

There was an end of the Summer neighborhood BBQ on August 22, Be an Angel Day. There were plenty of angels. We were all being angels at times. Some people were angels to let Jet play with them.

Jet served himself with the food. He didn't eat it all.

Angels brought a soft serve ice cream machine. Several people at our table followed my example of putting chips on our ice cream. 

My friend, Cathy, and I unintentionally wore matching opposites. She said the two of us looked like bees. We're so cute. 

She is an angel. She really is such a nice person and sets such a good example for me.

That was a successful Be an Angel Day. 

UCB Potluck

On Thursday, August 20, I went to do humanitarian work by tying quilts in the morning.

In the afternoon, Jet helped me make gingerbread cookies. Nichole and Jr. found alphabet cookie cutters and bird themed cookie cutters so we could make cookies for the annual Utah County Birders Potluck. 

Being out in nature is great to celebrate World Mosquito Day. 

It was also National Lemonade Day so we had some lemonade at the potluck and Jr. made us some mint lemonade for when we got home. 

 

Lucky: I know the C-cret ingredient.

Po-Ta-To

August 19 was National Potato Day.

We ate Slow Cooker Swedish Meatballs (from A Season of Family Meal Plans, volume 3, by Jordan Page) with rice and Bacon Ranch Potatoes (from Instant Cooking by Six Sisters' Stuff) and some cucumber from our garden. Yummmmm. 

Can You Tell We're Related?

 

Congratulations!

My niece got married in August. Toward the end of July she had a bridal shower that Nichole and I went to. We got to spend time with both of my sisters and some of their daughters.

 

The day of the wedding was wonderful. Beautiful day spent with family. All but one of my siblings were there. 

The temple sealing was in the morning.

There was a family luncheon after pictures.

Some of us did some juggling afterward.

My sister-in-law has been practicing her juggling. 

Jeremy and I took the kids home between the luncheon and reception for a little break. It was pretty little because we went back in time for the whole reception.

The reception was also nice. 

Look in the background of this picture. Lucky photobombs without even trying (I can also see his reflection in the middle picture).

There are plenty of times he does try, though. Looking through my blog, I noticed he's been creeping into photos since before he was 2 years old.

It was a beautiful day. I'm happy for my niece and new nephew for finding each other. And because he already has children, we got even more family members added to our numbers. 

You know I love family!