Nora Jane Preschool

Sending this wild one off to Preschool!  Why its so hard to get her to look at a camera for a picture, I will never understand.  She has always been so excited to do what her big brother does, last year was hard dropping off carpool, and having to keep her in the car.

She has Tucker's same teacher, who I just love, Miss Celeste and her other teacher is Miss Brooke, who also seems really nice.

This was from the day before, when I went with her to check it out.  Couldn't get her off the playground...

FINALLY!!!! Kindergarten!!!!

Since the day this kid could talk....all he's talked about is wanting to go to "Elementary School".  Preschool for 2 years helped...but TODAY WAS THE DAY!!!  Finally after all these years he's in the big league at Elementary School and he could not be more excited.

He's at Crestview Elementary, just down the street.  So Grandma Pace came over and walked to school with us for the first day.  Grandma Olson called at the perfect time, while we were on our walk, so Tucker got to share it with her too.

This is the same school that Grandma and Grandpa Pace went to Kindergarten, and Grandma Pace peaked in the classroom, and remembered it being the exact same room!

Nice Summer Evening...

Graydon and Nora Jane sillyness....

Nora Jane had been playing with Graydon, and was starting to walk away when she tripped.  I turned around to see what was going on, because she started laughing so hard.  She didn't realize that Graydon had grabbed ahold of her skirt, and so that's why she fell.

Poker Run 2011

Daniel participates in the Hunter Irrigation Sales Retreat each year, for work.  Its a good opportunity to do some networking, and have fun riding 4 wheelers, motorcycles and side-by-sides.  They set up a course on Friday, and then ride the course on Saturday, picking up poker cards along the trail, and then getting prizes at the end, based on your "poker hand".  Last year he took Tucker up on Saturday just to run the course, and he of course loved it.  This year, Daniel spent the week helping to take trailers up to the camp site and get everything set up, so starting Thursday he and Tucker went up and slept in the snowmobile trailer until Sunday.  He had even more fun this time.  He got to ride his motorcycle around some (until the Ranger came to the campsite to check on things...) and just hanging out with his dad.  Plus, being the social guy that he is, I think he was in heaven with all these new people to meet and talk to.  Daniel had a hard time keeping track of where he was...luckily there was always someone who knew where Tucker was. :)

Girls trip!

The first weekend in August, Daniel had a Hunter Irrigation sales retreat at "Strawberry River Road" which is what Tucker keeps calling it, apparently that's the road you turn on to get to the camp ground, I thought he just wasn't hearing Strawberry "Reservoir" properly. :) Anyway, it's called "the poker run". They all ride a course on motorcycles/dirt bikes, 4-wheelers, rhinos or razors and pick up cards at stations, and win prizes for the best hand.

Originally Daniel was going to have me bring Tucker up on Friday to stay the one night, and come home Saturday. Then I suggested, if he could take Tucker with him starting Wednesday, then I could take Nora Jane to St. George to see The Little Mermaid, at the Tuacahn outdoor amphitheater. He agreed, so I started looking into it. Turns out, you can't take children under age 2 into the show, so i couldn't just go alone, I'd have to take someone to watch him. So the week before when we went boating with the Anderson's, I thought it'd be perfect to have Kristin and her daughter Ava, who's Nora Jane's age come with us. Then I brought one of my laurels, Katie, to come along to watch Graydon for me. It was all last minute, but worked out perfectly!


Nora Jane as Ariel.


Nora Jane as Prince Eric, and Ava as Ariel.


The show didn't start until 8:45PM ...this is at about 11:00PM, when we took off. It was still 96 degrees! The girls were way tired, and Nora Jane was quite fidgety, but loved it! She smiled and danced and sang. She kept asking if she could go down and see Ariel. I think my response was, " she's a little busy right now".


Cute girls, shopping in St. George and playing with their squinkies!

We had such a blast! Thanks Kristin, Ava, Katie and Daniel for making this all happen!

Boating with the Anderson's

Cute friends Nora Jane and Ava!