The Kelly Family

Madalyn and Savanna went to their first day of school on Wednesday. I thought that by the end of the summer I would be ready for them to get back into school, but I was really sad. Madalyn and Savanna are both gone all day long now, and I have to say I miss them. They really love school though and are happy with their teachers. When I picked them up from their first day of school Savanna said she wished it was the next day already so she could go back to school. Madalyn told me that she has the best teacher ever because they get to have a snack in the morning. (She belongs to me, she loves food) This is the first class she has had with a teacher who reserves time for snacks. They both have some of the same kids in their classes as last year, but a lot of different kids also. They were both so excited to wear new clothes to school and have had fun picking out their outfits. (They are such girls!) I am sure they will do well this year. Emma and I have had a lot of fun together. Her favor...

I ran my first 10K yesterday. Tiffani came to visit me kind of last minute, and ran it with me, yay!! It was her first 10K also, and it was awesome to run it together. I had a goal of running it in under an hour, and I was able to meet my goal! I ran it in an even 55 minutes, averaging 8.6 minutes per mile. I ended up placing 4th in my age group. (That's probably just because there wasn't as big a turnout as there usually is though.) Tiffani says she was a rock star and ran it in 57:58 minutes, averaging a 9 minute mile. We both were so happy about our times. My awesome friend Ada and her husband (along with a bunch of great people in my ward) also ran the race. Ada skunked us both with less than 53 minutes. I don't remember her exact time. Nick was really nice and watched our kids, plus Tiffani's kids, plus Ada's kids while we ran the race. He had 10 kids at our house. When I called him to see how he was doing he said he had only lost two kids, so things were great...

We went camping this last week with Nick's family. We had a lot of fun, which I will tell you about in my next blog. This blog is actually dedicated to Nick's BUM shirt. He got this shirt when he was in the 9th grade, and a few years after that he began using it as a camping shirt. He continued to wear this shirt every time he went camping, year after year. Well, he wore the BUM for the last time. This year after wearing it he burned it. Everyone had to watch as his famous shirt was burned. I have to say though, for being at least 16 years old, it was still in pretty good condition before it burned! Nick holding it for the last time. Into the fire it goes. We thought it was funny that you could still see the letters and stripes so well as it burned. Goodbye ol' friend.

A couple of weekends ago we had my family's reunion. It was so much fun. We had fun with all my sisters and parents on Friday and then on Saturday we joined my Mom's side of the family for their reunion. I have a couple of uncles with boats so we did boating and eating, and just hanging out and having fun. My favorite was being pulled on the raft with Nick, and my sisters Wendi and Tiffani. My uncle Kirk pulled us, and he is a crazy driver, trying to knock us all of the raft, which he had great success in doing. I was laughing so hard, I could hardly breathe. Here are some pictures from Saturday. Emma and her 2nd cousin Cambry Madalyn and Naomi (cousin) Savanna with a bunch of her cousins. They had so much fun together! More cousins on the raft. All of my sisters and my Mom. (My sister in law Sara wasn't there, so she is missing.) Sisters and Mom My Mom is such a good sport. Ha Ha Tiffani, Candice, Rochelle, Wendi, Me Nick and I Tiffani, Me Madalyn and Sava...

Okay, so I have finally gotten around to posting pictures of my house. I have been really busy with getting the yard work done, and I am still not caught up like I would like to be. It is coming along though, and I love my house. This is the front view This is the front facing the side. Nick is closing the gate to the backyard. Notice the rainbow in the sky. This is the flower patch in the front yard. It still needs a little weeding, but it's not too bad. This is the other side of the front yard. I love the rock. This is my garden in the backyard. I should have taken a "before" picture. It was covered in weeds. Getting it weeded has taken a lot of time! This is a rainbow that was outside our home on the fourth of July. This is the living room. I didn't pick it up before I took pictures, so you get to see books, shoes and other kid stuff. This is the kitchen/dining area. Madalyn and Savanna were working on puzzles. This is Emma in our family room, and her...

So, yesterday we were at our new house bringing a few things over and working on some stuff. I had been standing on a kitchen chair in the kitchen to sanitize some of the high cupboards and then got down and was working on something else. Emma decided to climb onto the chair, and tipped it over, smashing to the ground. I just barely missed catching her, I watched it all happen and just couldn't quite make it in time to her. The back of the chair hit the floor and she hit the back of the chair by her eye, splitting it open. There were three little gashes and they bled pretty good. We took her to urgent care and they stitched two of the little gashes closed. It wasn't a really gaping injury and they would have used glue if it wasn't so close to her eye. They had to wrap her up tight and then hold her head steady. The nurse had a hard time keeping her head where it needed to be, and the doc and nurse kept commenting on how strong she was. She was pretty worked up, and didn...

The last couple of weeks have been really crazy for us. Today was Savanna's Kindergarten Graduation. It was really great. At the graduation all the kids got to tell what they wanted to be when they grew up. Savanna said she wanted to be a doctor. It was pretty funny what some of the other kids wanted to be. One wanted to be a McDonald's worker, another a spy, cat rescuer, power puff girl, super model, to name a few. Savanna had a great teacher and a fun class. Last night I put her to bed, and about an hour later she was sobbing so I went to see what was going on. She was upset that school was almost over. She also has a friend that is moving at the end of the summer, and her teacher might not be back next year due to a decline in registration for next year's kindergarten. She was so sad that she might never see her teacher again! We talked it out and she finally went to bed feeling better, but it is a big stress for her right now. Poor girl. We also closed on our house toda...