August meant back to real life. We stayed very busy this month starting a new school year.
We had one last hurrah in Park City. We spent two nights at Brandon's family condo. We swam, went to the Park City Resort and did some back to school shopping. It was a lot of fun.
Just Brandon hiding creepily in the closet to scare Mia.
Back to school meant back to football even though they really haven't taken off much time since last season. It was fun to see the games get going again.
To start the season they had a scrimmage where they announced all the players. Alex was announced as Alex Clementes for some reason.
It has been fun to see how much Alex has improved from just last season. He is playing mostly safety this year. He is bigger, stronger and faster.
Once again we squeezed in an outdoor movie night at the end of summer. We watch Jurassic Park this year which was perfect for outside.
Brandon secured all the new oreos for us to taste test. They were Banana Pudding, Deep Fried Oreos, and Chicken and Waffles. The banana ones were okay but shockingly the other two were not very good.
Mia and I got to attend a "farmer's market" for our Relief Society this month. Everyone could bring things to contribute and then people to got to use tickets to buy stuff. There was so many great things, we left with quite the loot. Mia made bracelets and necklaces. She brought a lot and almost all of them were gone by the end. We also got to make bag charms. It was a fun day!
Even though summer just started it was suddenly time to start school again. My new class is very young and very talkative but it has been fun to see how much they have learned already!
Ripley's new favorite past-time is barking at nothing out the window.
They are in reverse order but here are the before and afters of my classroom. Since I am working full-time this year I was excited to get to have (and decorate) my own classroom. It's been a ton of work but fun to see the result.
Sometimes on Sunday Brandon creates a barricade so that Ripley will not scratch at my door while I take a Sunday nap. Somehow she made it through this time.
Mia and Alex were also very excited to head back to school. Mia is heading to 7th grade and Alex to 11th. I can't believe how grown up they are.
It's so fun that he gets to drive himself this year.
At the end of the month we celebrated Brandon's birthday.
Cones to celebrate the birthday boy!
We also went out to eat at Gary's Bistro. It was amazing as usual and the sunset on our way out was amazing. This picture doesn't do it justice.
Brandon's work even celebrated him.
