Hello There!

It has been way too long since all of us have posted!!  Thank you Kristie (At least I think it was Kristie!?) for posting!  It is so fun to read about and see pictures of what everyone's up to!

Well- we have some exciting news!  Nope- NOT pregnant! Haha!  But, my baby sister, Sarah, is getting married!!  Her missionary got home in August and they got engaged this past weekend and set their date for Nov. 15th!!  So that means we'll be heading home for a visit!  Yay!  Not excited about the drive, but plane tickets would be way too expensive for a family of 7!  We're hoping to be able to stay and visit for a few days, but it all depends on if Tyler can find an assistant wrestling coach.

We finished our kitchen renovation- well, almost- we still have a few little things to do, but we love it!  It's nice to have appliances that actually work like they're supposed to!  Haha!  And we love our new sink!

Before Backsplash

During Backsplash Install

During Backsplash Install

I thought we had some pics of the kitchen all done, but I guess we don't.


Everyone's doing well in school.  They started way back at the beginning of August.  Tyler- 4th year teaching, Taylor started 8th grade, Jon- 6th, Max- Kindergarten, and Levi- Preschool!  Max had kind of a rough start, but he's doing better now. He got all 5 Stars (5 Stars is really good!) last week except for one day when I guess he said "poop".  Really??  I mean I'm not a big fan of that word myself, but it's Kindergarten, and he's a 5 yr. old boy!  I guess the teacher has to be hard on them so they will learn to be good :)  

Speaking of teachers....Look at this handsome guy on his first day of his 4th year teaching!

Soooo excited!  Can you tell?  Ha!

Levi's first day of Preschool!

Taylor started Football several weeks ago, but broke his arm during practice before they even made it to their first game :(   He's got 2.5 more weeks to go until he gets the cast off.  He's being a good sport about it though and is still going to practice to help out as the water-boy.

Oh- and he got glasses!

Ryder started going to Nursery a couple weeks ago.  He doesn't like it much when he's first dropped off, but he settles in and does fine after a few minutes.  We have some really great Nursery leaders that LOVE being in there with the little kids, so that makes it nice.  Can't believe he's that old already though! He's finally growing some cute blonde hair :)

Nursery wore him out today!  Fell asleep on the way home from church.

Well, that's about it for now!  Hope everyone else can post soon!  :)