First Day of School

I know I am a week late on this one but only for the girls. Today was Owens first day of Kindergarten!! Even though he is the 3rd child I was still emotional about leaving him. I was so perplexed that I could be so excited to have yet another kid in school and yet so sad that he is gone. Such mixed emotions! I cried when I kissed him goodbye and I cried walking back to the car, and I cried while driving home. It is so quiet now with just Sam and me. I have been saying that when Sam goes to school I am going to throw and giant party, after I cry for 2 days! It will be nice though to go to the store with just one, and to go to lunch with just one. I am sure I can find it in me to get over it and enjoy it.

Here is Morgan smiley as ever. She is getting so big and enjoying 3rd grade already. I can't believe how fast time goes by when you aren't looking!This is Mikayla's last year in Elementary school so I am struggling a little bit with that. I just can't believe that she got this grown up so stinking fast!! She loves 6th grade and loves her teacher. I hope that she feels this way at the end of the year too.

Def Leppard Concert

Last night Troy and I went to see Def Leppard in concert at USANA. After seeing them at least 6 times you would think that it would get old. Not even close!!! They were AWESOME!! They came with Cheap Trick and Poison. Such a fun concert. We danced and sang along and during Poison's song "Every Rose Has it's Thorn" Troy even danced with me. I really liked USANA we had great seats and I could see everything (mostly), especially when the people in front of us sat down! ( I love tired people at concerts. I can see soooo much better!) Here are the pictures we took.

Cheap Trick Performing. They were Awesome!

This is Edda (Ryan), Me, and Lindsay waiting for Poison to go on. We are getting our Rock on.

Troy, Edda is helping him get his rock on.

Poison, The bass player for poison got sick and so they had the bassist from Bon Jovi (who was just there to watch the show) fill in last minute. He was learning the songs while Cheap Trick was playing their set!

More Poison (Yummy Bret Michaels!)

This is me when Def Leppard came out!

Def Leppard! I have a little bit of a funny story to go along with this post. When Troy and I were talking about the concert before we left home Troy was making fun of me because I think the Guitarist from Def Leppard is pretty hot, and he always plays without a shirt on (yummy). And Mikayla told me that I should show her what he looked like. I kind of thought about it for a minute and then much to my disappointment I told her that she would just think he was old. And if I showed her a picture of when he was young she would think he looked super goofy! I can't believe that I am that old!!!

Troy's face during the concert. Can you tell he is having a good time!

More pics of the show.

We (if you didn't know already) love to see Def Leppard and will probably go again the next time the come! If you want to join us because you can see how much fun it is just by looking at the pictures. . . the more the merrier!!!

The Baxter Family Fort

Being thoroughly immersed in summer boredom I have been trying to think up ways to have some fun with the kids and make it a (Free) fun family time. Well we have made clay sculptures and run through lots of sprinklers. We went camping but I think that what we did last weekend will be what they talk about most. I have to preface by saying that I have watched my kids try to build a fort and have always thought in my head ways that I could improve it. But being the "great" parent that I am I left them alone and let them figure it out themselves. Well I decided that since Troy was taking the day off we were going to show that kids how it was done. So we built the Baxter Family Fort!

The kids made up a sign that said the Baxter Family Fort and then a sign that said "today's feature: The Tale of Desperaux" it was so cute. We had so much fun making this enormous fort

Then we went around the house and got all the rest of the pillows and blankets that weren't already being used and laid them all on the floor and we watched "The Tale of Desperaux"

We had so much fun that both parents promptly feel asleep! It was so hot and cushy in there how could you not!!!! We were sad when we tore it down later that night. But we rebuilt a smaller (and might I say sadder) version upstairs in the boys room for them to sleep in that night. Best free activity we have done yet!