August 2017

August began with a visit to the park with our friends we made while at Cornell.  We have so many fond memories with our friends the Hales and Ortons in Ithaca, New York.  It was fun to get our kids together and chat about the "good old days".

 Maddie started learning new tricks, like holding her own bottle!

 In early August, we went to the baby blessing of my cousin's son, Luca.  We had fun visiting with cousins and second-cousins of each other.

 During this time Ben was at his annual Academy of Management Conference, where he won the award of "Best Paper from a Dissertation." Grammy came to help us while dad was gone for the week.

 While Grammy was in town she helped us move William and Lucy's rooms together, as they now share the biggest room upstairs.

 Dad came back to Utah and we did some more bowling as a family. 

 There is always something fun going on around the Provo/Orem area.  We had a dance party with the Minions, shot off homemade rockets, and went to a "back to school" BYU sports party.

 The kids loved the Provo Rec Center outdoor pool this summer. 

It was tricky juggling Lucy and Maddie while swimming, so dad played with the "big kids" at the pool a few times.

 We watched the solar eclipse from the park.  We met Aunt Diana there for a picnic lunch and had fun watching the sun "disappear".

 William had been looking forward to his first day of BYU Kindergarten for a LONG time.  

We were so excited for him to be right by dad’s office and go to school every day! William was in Miss Amy’s PM Kindergarten class from 12:30-3:15.  He is in the same class as Josie, our neighbor, and Tegan, a boy from his t-ball team.

William gets to ride to school with Josie every day and I pick him up M-Th and dad picks him up and brings him to his office on Fridays.

 On August 26th BYU had their first home game. 
We brought the family to the pre-game party for games and photo ops.

 We feel truly blessed to have these three cute kids and love being their parents!