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At the September birthdays party with Ryan's family, his Grandma Georgia brought her new motorized scooter. Of course all the kids fought over riding it.

All coming together

Also this week we had our stair railing installed. Yeah!! We also had the cultured marble for our bathrooms installed. Of course there are some little issues that they have to come back to fix, but all in all it seems to be coming together. It is exciting to see the little things being installed that make the house start to look like a home.

Closet closeter

Well I use to think that having a big closet was totally unnecessary. I couldn't understand who would possibly need a big closet with drawers, shelves, and a special place for shoes. But I am now confessing that I am a closet closet-lover. I found some closet organizers online and designed my closet and my kids closets and I am in love! I can't wait to move my stuff in. We had them installed this week and I am excited. I don't have enough clothes to fill the closet, but some how I will get by. Here are some pictures of my closet and my kids closets. Very fun!!

My big kindergartener

We had the first day of kindergarten on Tuesday. It was a really big day for Ashton. He had been wearing his backpack everywhere for a week (to the store, around the block, to bed). He couldn't understand why Logan started school but he didn't. But he finally got to use his Diego backpack!!

If there was a contest on who was more scared for kindergarten (Ashton or myself), I would win. I wasn't sure if Ashton was ready and so I worried and prayed, and then prayed and worried. But as Ashton always does, he surprised me and had a really great day. In fact that was the first words out of the teacher's mouth as she walked the kids out to meet their parents. I guess I looked worried.

Ashton had over 40 kids in his kindergarten class due to some bad management decisions. The school decided to get rid of the other kindergarten teacher. But we just found out that they hired a new one, so they will be splitting their class next week. Yeah!! I volunteered once this week on Thursday and had 14 kids in my group to do an activity and I was ready to pull my hair out after an hour. I don't know how the teacher has done it all week with 40 five-year olds and just some mom help. Crazy!

Scooter

I had to post this cute video of Maren and her scooter. When we went to Cedar City to see the Shakespearean plays, the kids went to the day care center. At the day care they had one of these scooters that Maren fell in love with. So when we got home we found one online and got it for her. She just loves to ride it and would ride it in the house if Grandma Zobell would let her. But for the most part she will just ride it around the block. The best part is that she doesn't get tired of it mid-way around the block. And she is faaassssttt!!!

Chocolate!!

My dad brought home a chocolate sucker for Maren yesterday. Well she really got into it as you can see from the pictures. Us women love our chocolate!

Dinosaurs, Yeah!!

This week was the last $2 Tuesday at Thanksgiving Point so we went to the Dinosaur Museum there (Museum of Ancient Life). Well if you check the blogs of every other mother within 50 miles you will see that they ALSO were at Thanksgiving Point today. The line to get in wrapped all around the entire building. Did that deter us, NO!! We had to see the dinosaurs. So we waited, along with everybody else for 40 minutes to get into the museum.

When inside it was a barrage of toddlers (older kids are at school), babies and strollers, with their harried mom's trying to follow behind them. But despite all of that, we actually had a pretty fun time. There were enough dinosaur "fishy" and real "fishy" to keep Maren entertained.

Ashton really liked that he could touch almost everything. I think he liked to look up at the really big dinosaur bones the best.

We went with my friend Misty, and she brought 4 kids (2 of hers and 2 neighbor kids). I don't know how she did it but she did. I was having more trouble with my 2 kids than she was with her 4. We were going to top off the outing with a trip to McDonald's for lunch, but 2 of Misty's kids fell asleep on the way home. But mine are asleep now so it all works out.