a kind kindergartner

Hello Miss Kindergartner.

Chloe started full day kindergarten on Monday. She goes from 830am till 345pm.

She gets to wear uniform colors (red, white, blue, light blue, and khaki)

She obviously inherited my disinterest in white socks. 

 Chloe's teacher is Miss Sullens. She got to be the line leader on the first day.

 I am pretty sure we have the smartest kindergartner in the class. I'm just sayin'!!

 The family before we left.

 I wanted to make her return home special so we did a fun dinner where she got to order her choices and Brad and I served them. I made them some crowns and then we had a family night where we talked about Kindness and friendship.

 Chloe said, "my teacher is not calm like we thought...she gets frustrated."
"I wish we had rest time" (well thats because she just gave up her nap last week and that's a true story)
"I love GP." I think she meant PE:)
Here she is showing me what her PE teacher tells them what they will gain in gym. I think I like her already.

Well, hello pretty lady. Lola is 6 months old and weighing in at a whopping 13 lbs. Remember when she was born she weighed 9.3?

 She is a very charismatic little baby. She is totally mellow and will just hang out on my hip. For some reason from the hours of 12 till 6am she becomes possessed. But whatever, i cherish each and every moment I have with her and I especially love her warm little body against mine during the night. She is our little Lola Love.

and then there's Brad. Brad had to take a sick day (3 actually) this is the first time I have ever seen him (in 8 years) sick and ask for a sick day. The guy is so hard working and refuses to miss a day unless, you should see him, he is on his deathbed. But he is going back tomorrow.

finishing up summer in Utah...

Do you stop and read this blog every once in awhile? I hope so. I am just going to jam pack it with random pictures till we get ready for back to school pictures.

Bear Lake with the Chambers. This is a Chambers tradition and I am so glad B-rad was able to be with us. The lake was up higher and the weather was so nice and the water was the perfect temp. So...

Here is the family with Great Marie.

Brad and I have wanted to go to Minitoka cave for a long time. We tried last year but it was closed and so we got everyone psyched for this year...turns out you probably should get there early. We had to wait several hours to get to go. We opted not to with the lake calling and the sunshine. But we walked down to the front of the cave. 

 In front of the cave.

 inserted random picture: Chloe is starting to get her 6 year old molar. She is pretty excited to start losing teeth not get more:)

 My cute Brad.

 His Mel.

 EZ is perfectly content with all things boy.

 Movie nights.

 Melinda. Do you know anyone who has done a gajillion ragnars? This girl has.

 Always time for lots of games. We learned a card monopoly game. Loved it, but mostly because Jeff and Holli dominate.

 This is a great picture.

 Chloe is a fish. Here she is knee boarding behind the row boat which is how all the Chambers kids learned. I perfer on ski to kneeboarding so hopefully she will get the hang of that one day, too!!

 These 2 are so fun and the best of buds. Swim lessons. I enrolled EZ before he was 3 because he almost drowned the week before and after being pulled out by the lifeguard all he had to say was, "I want to do that again"So, the instructor made an exception. Plus, Chloe is so self sufficient in the water that he has some catching up to do! Anyway, he dominated. They both did.

 Chloe was in the class with the big kids. Swimming back and forth a dozen times. She made it the full 50 yards by the end of class. This kid will always rise to the "challenge" when given one. They also taught them to dive off the blocks and the diving board. The olympics have been so fun with her this year because she is so "inspired" for lack of better word at what the athletes are doing. Me, too!

 And finally, it rained! Sweet rain.

 After this beautiful, natural scene we heard the not so natural sound of the icecream truck. And we bought one...their first icecream out of a truck (with bars!) We could only afford 1.

 Our new house has this beautiful blue wall. Look at Chloe? I am so proud and in awe and in love with my sweet 5 year old big girl. School is soon on us.
Me: "Ez, don't open the door, you will fall out of the car and you could die"
Ez: "okay, mama."
Chloe: "if Ez dies and you have another baby will you please find out if it's a boy or girl this time."

Happy Birthday Brad. I guess if you're a resident doctor you have to do this this where you work 28 hour shifts (or longer if you get home whenever you're done) I feel so sick when I think of working that long. But it kind of worked out because Brad's birthday was the day he came home and was supposed to be sleeping. We started his day with delicious cinnamon coffee cake and made him wear an "i am special badge". We barbequed on our new (well, new to us) grill. On Saturday we went to this fun water place.

 And pistachio cake and waffle cookies for desert.
Mel:"everyone pretend to blow the candles out for the picture"

Okay, so it was an amazing summer. I am glad to be settled in our new house. We still have our wrecked van in the shop and Brad's cell phone broke but soon we will all be "complete" in our sense of the word. Soon it will be back to school and new adventures await us.
A couple of things:
I'm loving Bruno Mars lately.
I think i'd like to be an Olympian. 300M hurdles, Giant Slalom, long jump, high jump, synchronized swimming (who knew!) The Olympics are inspiring. As i've been out doing my runs I have their triumphant images in my mind. What about Oscar P the double amputee from South Africa. Forget it! Man, i love being so inspired.
I've been making some delicious treats without chocolate because I tried to be better and now make treats and so I didn't buy chocolate, but then I just figured out other treats. I am in the process of gathering all of the recipes and other stuff and put it into a craft/whatever blog i'm working on.
The End.