Crazy Fall has begun!!!

School Has started again for Shyanne. She is in 2nd grade this year and is already enjoying it. Emily and Shyanne also started gymnastics last month and they both look forward to it every week. Along with school starting, I have started coaching Freshman volleyball for the 6th season. And, we can't forget BYU football has begun!!! Jerid is a good sport through the Fall. He gets to pinch hit quite a bit as do our moms and Aunt Susan. We are so appreciative to all those who help us watch the kids to allow us to do some of our hobbies and responsibilities. As for the kittens... we have already lost one of them (Oreo). Moonlight is still around and we have adopted one of the neighbors kittens. So, we will see how long we are able to keep them. The kids have really enjoyed having pets, and the kittens actually have grown to enjoy the kids as well :)

EMILY AND SHANDON'S INDOOR POOL

I was at work today when Mandie found this party going on in the tub. Good thing it was her that found it. I think I probably would have lost it. One good thing about it, we were able to get rid of some stuffed animals.

Shandon was ok with it; he took the fish into the water.

Just Starting

We decided to give the blog thing a try. We are new at it so the first while will be a learning experience, but hopefully a fun one. We had a couple of different people tell us they kind of like to use it for a family journal. I am sure we will be doing a lot of cleaning up if we catch onto it. First of all the picture above is the best recent photo we have as a family for starters, my brother Ken's graduation.
We had some summer activities so far that were fun and hope to post pictures of and maybe tell some other stories of as we get use to things. Mandie is president of the Young Women's in our ward and I'm in the Young Men's presidency so we will have to see about getting some of those pictures up as well. I also attempted to take the kids by myself on a camping trip this summer while Mandie was at summer camp. So let try my best to get some posted and see if I can figure it out.