I got to coach Rachel's soccer team which was a blast. Rachel did amazing and grew a lot during the season. We really worked on passing and teamwork. It paid off with only one loss on the season!
Dinner at the pool.
Rachel and I had a night out looking for dresses for Carrie and Loren's wedding.
This boy has the side glare down.
Helping me pick tomatoes in the garden.
Just a cute little boy in overalls.
At the youth rodeo.
Anne scuba diving in our bathroom sink.
Saying hi to our neighbors.
Soccer
Sarah and Jet's new bunkbed from Aunt Carrie.
Trial run of Carrie's wedding cupcakes.
Bike ride
I have never shared this on Facebook before, but I do today with the sole purpose and most sincere hope that it might be able to help even just one person. Ten years ago today I delivered our oldest son, William. He was born stillborn when I was 20 weeks pregnant. It was one of the most heart-wrenching experiences and trials that I have had to face in this life. At the time I saw two paths I could take. One was of despair, anger, and darkness. The other was filled with hope, peace, and light. I chose the path of light. That does not mean that it was easy by ANY means. I cried almost every day for a long time. I had to work to move on and press forward. Ten years later I am so grateful that I made that choice. My life is not perfect but it IS full of peace, joy, and hope. Right after the experience I felt strongly that Zac and I should sit down together and record what had happened. Years later I felt prompted again to get that journal entry edited by my good friend Krista Holmes Hanby. I thought that that was what I was meant to share with the world. But I had the feeling of not yet. Years again later while pregnant with our fourth child, our son James, I felt very strongly that I should write a children's book. Lizard Boy is a result of that prompting. It is a story of a conversation between two voices, James and his older brother. The purpose of this story was to help our kids understand about William because we had never told them about him yet. It also recounted some fun experiences we had with Jet while he was in my yummy. On Monday I read this story to the kids and it went perfectly. They laughed at the goofy parts and were just tickled that it mentioned their names. At the end we talked about who the different voices were and about William. They asked some awesome questions and had some interesting comments. If that was all that this book was intended for, awesome. It was perfect. But I have a feeling and hope that others could benefit from this as we have. The book contains the Lizard Boy story, the journal entry, pictures and an afterword. If you think you or someone you know could benefit from reading this book I can order them from the publishing website for the same cost that I paid which was $10 for the paperback (I ordered a really nice hardcover copy for my family for family history and heirloom purposes. That one was more expensive.) This is not a money making scheme at all. I am not making ANY money from this. I just want to help others that may be going through something similar to us. I know that our son is with his Father in Heaven and I am so grateful for the peace that that knowledge brings to my heart.
P.S. If you would like a copy of just the Lizard Boy story I can do
that as well. I just haven't ordered any like that yet so I'm not sure
of the exact cost. But I assume it would equal or less than $10.
Day at the lake with our buddies the Evans.
Soccer hair.
Total Solar Eclipse in Idaho with our buddies the Taylors.
It was absolutely incredible and well worth the drive. We would've driven across country to witness that event. I hope our kids will never forget it. I can't believe how dark and cold it got during totality. It went from upper 80's down to the low 60's.
Sleepy kiddos.
First day of school for these two cuties. 3rd and 2nd grade here they come!
First BYU game of the season. Boy was it hot!
This is how 4th children take naps.
Jet sure loves his dog.
Reading Lizard Boy with the girls. I will remember those moments forever. :)
It's a bit of a blurr but this is hummingbird moth that we saw in Idaho when we saw the eclipse. So cool.
Just cute.
Riding horses with some friends :)
Fishing at Manila Pond
She marches to her own drum. And I love it.
Rachel loves making her own after school snack of scrambled cheesy eggs after school.
That boy is a sound sleeper.
Anne's Birthday! Our big girl is 9! Nine! Isn't that crazy? This girl is still my kind, sweet, snuggly, usually happy, fun-loving, lover of all things shiny and pretty sweetheart. She loves to play with her younger siblings, is excited to learn to ride horses, loves Elephant and Piggie books, and is becoming quite the piano player. We love you so much Anne! (Rachel made her that birthday crown that she wore to school the day of her birthday because she was in a class play and was a princess :)
She loooooves listening to music.
He also got her a fidget spinner which Rachel liked putting on Jet's forehead. He actually thought it was pretty funny.
For Anne's birthday this year she asked to go on a train ride so we rode the frontrunner up to Salt Lake and went out to eat with Jen. Then Anne spent the night with her and we all rode home. We had quite the exciting trip home when our train hit two cows. Thankfully it wasn't a person and we were all ok, just took a little longer to get home than expected.
I tried dying my own hair the fire colors using a paintbrush and foils but unfortunately it just turned out splotchy light pink so i just went all out and dyed it all bright pink. At first I wasn't sure about it but I ended up loving it! The only reason I dyed it back to brown was because I was going to be in Loren and Carrie's wedding and I didn't want to stand out in the pictures. This pic was also celebrating losing 10 pounds on Zac and my's fitness challenge. We said whoever could get to their percentage weight loss would get a certain amount of money and if you got to your goal weight before Thanksgiving you got a certain amount. Zac got to his percentage the day we left on our trip to VA. I got to my goal in October. Glad we could finally put our competitivness to good use. We also had a daily step challenge to see who could do more steps and the loser had to give the winner a massage. It worked for a while.
These guys love playing trains together.
I like to workout in our playroom in the basement and even do some live workouts on facebook to stay motivated. This is some of my song and workout planning.
I just loved the colors of his outfit :)
Sarah is doing a homeschool preschool group with our neighbors and their friends. I got to teach in September which was actually a lot of fun. They are so cute.
Preschool
Our catches from our fun fishing day.
The gardens at Wheeler farms. We want to try and mimic them in our garden next year.
Went went to Pizza Pie Cafe after the last game of the season with the team. What a great group of girls. So sad that they all aren't moving up with Rachel.
Our little monkey.
Good music at the festival.
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