Jessa's Fairy Garden Birthday Party

 Jessa turns 8 years old!  She decided to have a fairy garden birthday party. 

The girls spent the first part of the party dancing.  Everyone wore a dress or skirt.

 Olivia and Jessa

 Lyric

 Drinking sherbet floats and coloring rocks.  The girls loved their sherbet floats...it was just sprite and sherbet.  But they all wanted to know the 'recipe' and what store I got the ingredients at.  We baked the rocks in the oven so the crayon wax would melt, and then the girls put their rocks in their fairy gardens.

 Hunting for their magic pixie dust (glitter) to help their gardens grow.

 Everyone with their pixie dust!

 Kamdyn Judkins, Jessa Carlson, Olivia Chournous, Raavyn Ellingford, Reeves Ellingford, and Lyric Telford.

 Planting and decorating their fairy garden.

 Kamdyn

 Olivia

 Reeves

 Raavyn

 Jessa

 Opening presents...Jessa got some littlest pet shop, a fairy art set,

a bracelet set and a cupcake fairy book and some games.

 Jessa's birthday cake...:)

Eating cake...it was a fun party!!!

The girls also made fairy dolls, but because I was so busy helping everyone I did not take any pictures. 

End of Summer and First Day of School

Here is Paige with her lovey the lamb.  She sleeps with this lamb every night and wakes up hugging him!

 Elsie loves to play with Jessa's dollhouse!

 Here's my creative Caleb making something with wiki sticks.

 Jessa reading one of her Rainbow Magic Fairy books to Caleb.

 First day of school!  Jessa was supposed to bring an "All About Me Poster."  Can you see sweet Elsie crying in the background? She was having a hard time with all the attention I was giving to Jessa and Caleb while I helped them get ready for school.

Jessa and Caleb stood here for their first day of preschool photos...my how time flys!  It was fun watching them hop out of the car and run into the school together. :)

Cousin Time

Heidi and the kids came to visit for a weekend this summer.  We stayed at grandma and grandpa Carlson's for a night so we could visit.  Grandma and Grandpa Carlson live just a few minutes from one of the beautiful Utah canyons.  We had a picnic on Saturday and hiked up to Crystal Lake.  Elsie and I did not make it to the top, but everyone else did.  Even baby Paige and Chloe who was wearing sandals.  Jessa and Chloe had fun making up fairy names and looking at the flowers along the way.  The wild flowers were amazing!

On Sunday we went to church with Grandma and Grandpa Carlson, and the Ashton's, and afterwards Aunt Evelyn made us a beautiful lunch.  The next day Shane and I went with Heidi and the kids to the Odgen Nature Center.  We had Cafe Rio for lunch, and when the kids got home they got to crack open geodes that Aunt Heidi bought.  Connor and Shane played some basketball, and then the kids took Caleb's little car for a spin.  We also had slurpies and Heidi and I talked about houses.  She is remodeling her house, and we are building a house - so we had a lot to talk about!

Lagoon 2011