First Day of School

Thursday was Destrie's first day of school.

He was super cute and so brave.

Destrie with his teacher.

He loves playing on the playground.  I am pretty sure that is going to be his favorite thing about school!

*Kiley and Madee also started school on Thursday.  I was not  functioning well at the early hour they left and I failed to get a picture of them...bad mom.

It's hard when your baby goes to school and now your home all day by  your self.  Since I only teach preschool 5 hours a week, I figured I needed something else to occupy my time, so I got a job as a kindergarten aide and I am training to run a half marathon in March.  That ought to keep me busy for awhile!

Love @ the Dam

So, on Friday, Jen, Destrie and I went to First Dam to feed the ducks. While we were feeding them, we heard a strange noise coming from some of the bushes that were by us. So after investigating, we found an interesting situation. Pulling back the bushes we found a rooster chicken canoodling with a female duck. You can see the white duck in the grass.


That explained the noises. After that we saw that they appeared to have reproduced. I didn't even know that was possible. I actually never thought about it. My farm experience didn't involve chickens or ducks. I guess if the parts are there and the correct physics are applied... Why not? Anyway, here is the proof...

It's hard to see, but there is one other (smaller?) egg under the feather on the right. The egg on the left looked like a duck egg and the other looked like a chicken egg. I would be interested to see when these babies hatch what they are going to look like.

Bowling For Soup

So, last night I got to see one of my favorite bands- Bowling For Soup.  They performed in Salt Lake and it was such a great night. Of course, I forgot my camera.  Grrrr.
Kile and I had dinner at Applebee's.   I had my favorite-Oriental Chicken Salad.
Then we went over to the show.  This was my first time seeing BFS and I loved it!  They put on a great show.
So much fun and know I can cross this off my list of things I have been wanting to do.

Lemonade Stand

Destrie had been wanting to do a Lemonade Stand for awhile. Last week Madee and Kiley helped him with this.  (I forgot to take pictures of him and Kiley...oops)  Anyway, after 2 days of selling, he made $24.  Not bad!  He originally wanted to use his money to get a Smurf at Build a Bear, but now he says he may choose something else.  I guess we will see...

*Don't you just love how thrilled Madee is?

Random Summer Photos

I have been really bad at blogging lately. The month of July went really fast.  We started off the month doing some 4rth of July celebrating with some friends.

And some fireworks at home.

After that, a week at Girl's Camp for me, Kiley and Madee.  We spent 5 days at Heber Valley Camp.  Here are pictures of us on the high swing..

Madee

Kiley

Me.

I have just been trying to get back in the swing of things since then.  Ya, and it was 2 weeks ago.  Since then- we had the Godfrey Family Reunion, our annual block party and my brother and his wife had their baby...10 weeks early.  We made a trip to the hospital to see the cute little guy.  Other than that, we have just been trying to enjoy this summer that has been going by way to fast.  Anyway, on to the rest of the pictures...

Happy Birthday Madee 6/29/11

Madee's birthday came and went and I am finally posting the pictures.  We went to eat at Takara.

                                                                   Sushi....YUM!

                She wanted Brownies and not a  cake.
              Happy 13th Madee!  We love you.

Riding at Hardware Ranch

On Saturday we went riding with our nephew Nick.  We were so glad to have some good weather so we could finally get out and ride.

When we stop, Destrie likes to have fun playing with various sticks that he finds.

And of course, we we found some water and mud to drive through!

Thankfully this time we didn't get stuck...oh wait, we did.  But this time we were able to get unstuck!
Good times.