September

September was filled with football and cheerleading...Go Packers! Noah's team went undefeated for the season games and lost the Superbowl game. He had a great team and coaches. The best part was that Malia got to cheer for his team! I got to watch both of them at the same time.

First Day of School

 

This is the only year I will have 3 kids at one school....I am enjoying it! The three of them walk or ride scooters to and from school :)

Cooper started kindergarten.

Malia is in third grade.

Noah is a big fifth grader!

August

 Summer started to slow down a little in August. We went to the Ventura County Fair , Cooper entered in the sheep riding contest. He had a good ride...it was so fun to watch! Noah and Caden were too big to ride on the sheep, but perfect size to try to catch the sheep and grab the flag.They both won and got a medal.

On August 4th Colby turned 2! We spent the day at the Santa Barbara zoo. Colby fed the giraffe, he still talks about how the giraffe licked him.

He looks sober faced in all these pictures, but I promise he had a great day.

 

Vegas

July ended with our annual girls Vegas trip. I LOVE getting to spend kid free time with my favorite girls! I am already counting down until our next trip.

JULY

Just to get caught up I am going to do highlights of July- December.....

July was a very busy month for us!! It was a whirlwind of fun.

We started the month at the beach house. It was just the Pollards and the Melzers, smaller group then we are used to, but still so much fun.

I can't believe I have a baby this old. He is such a stud.

 Here is Dad with three of his girls.

The beach house was perfect!

Home for a few days and then off to Colorado to visit Amy for her big 30th birthday.....

 Amy always makes our trip so much fun, she wants to make sure we will come often :)

We went to Red Rocks Amphitheatre.

We went to a water park that was the biggest I had ever been to.

We got to go in some cool caves.

The kids loved having stick races in this super clean creek...YUCK!

The best part was having ALL the cousins together. We were most excited to FINALLY meet Holly!

We got home just in time to celebrate our 13th wedding anniversary!! I LOVE YOU JOSH.
I am still amazed I was lucky enough to meet Josh and super lucky that he fell in LOVE with me :) He makes me a better person.

Wow! It has been way too long since I have sat down to blog. It would be nice to just start fresh in 2012, but there is too much that happened in 2011 that I do not want to forget...

One of the most important being my one and only girl turned 8!! Turning 8 was so huge because she got to be baptized. It was a very special day. She wore the dress that I, along with all of my sisters, and cousin Summer were baptized in.

Macy will get to wear the same dress in just a few years!

We were grateful that Grandma Snuggles came all the way from Minnesota to be there.

Malia adds the girly touch that I need to our family, but she can definitely hold her own with her brothers. She is filled with personality and spunk. I love her self confidence, I hope she will always believe in herself as she does now. She has a huge imagination, loves to dance, sing, and cartwheel wherever she can! Malia is a straight A student and has been the teachers pet in every class that she has been in. She cheered for Noah's football team this year and blessed us with her cheers morning, noon, and night! Even Colby now chants the cheers:)
 I feel very blessed to have a daughter...I LOVE YOU MALIA

Cooper's 5th Birthday

Wow!!! It has been way too long since I have blogged....Now that Cooper is almost 5 1/2 I decided to write about his birthday party. Cooper graduated from preschool on his birthday. This picture that he looks like a waiter in, is actually his cap and gown :)

The day after he graduated we had a reptile party for him at the park. Cooper was in heaven, that is him LOVING the snake! The party was so perfect for Coop...not so much for a lot of the other kids. One little boy was so afraid of the tarantula that he told his Mom it was the worst day of his life! Lots of kids cried in fear, only a few loved the reptiles as much as Cooper.

My sweet Cooper, I can not believe he is 5 and in kindergarten. I have actually had a hard time with Cooper starting kindergarten. I know that in a snap of a finger he will be in 5th grade!

Cooper's favorite thing to do is catching things (lizards, snakes, crabs, bees, bugs, frogs, etc..).

He is still my best snuggler and likes to sneak in our bed in the middle of the night. My favorite thing about Cooper is that he still gets super excited to see me. He will run to me open armed to give me a big hug :)

Cooper likes music, after seeing the Justin Bieber movie he asked me if I would start calling him Justin. He had me mark his water bottle this summer with the initials JB. He loves to dance around and flip his hair. He is independent and pretty happy most of the time.

I love you Coop, don't grow up too fast!