Carnival Favorites (6 photos) from September

So I think when you click on this picture it will take you to a new site that will allow you to see the 5 other pictures that we took at Freemont Elementary's PTA fundraiser Carnival. They both looked so cute with their hair and faces painted. Erica was fearless but Sam actually suprised me and wasn't scared to try even the biggest most scary blow up rides there. It was a lot of fun and a great way to raise money for the school. Let me know if you can't see all of the pictures and I'll try to get them posted some other way.

This is us camping.

I'm experimenting here. I think I can show you some pictures that I have on my snapfish account but not actually on my computer. This single picture was a test. I am going to try a few more in a minute. Let me know if you guys can see them good enough or if it doesn't work. Thanks.

One project done...too many left too count.

I just wanted to show this project off a little...I have to say I am pretty proud of myself. It actually looks like a real scarf. =0)

Thank you Grandma Anderson and Mom for teaching me how to crochet back when I was a bit younger. I know I never finished that afgan (Grandma Anderson finished it for me) but if you hadn't taught me how to do that one, I never would have been able to figure out how to do this scarf for the Relief Society.

Back to School

But all that summer fun is coming to an end. It is time to go back to school. First Grade came on very suddenly and I wasn't ready to get pictures of Samantha's first day so we are going to just pretend that day #3 was really her first day. Here she is with the sun in her eyes...

And there she goes.... Oh wait she forgot to give me a hug and kiss goodbye. She is so sweet.

And there she goes for real...she is such a big girl now. She has to walk all the way around to the back of the school (past a bunch of these lines you can see) and line up with her class to go in and have breakfast and start the day.

Catching up.

So here are some things we did to make it thru the 100 degree weather.

(1) Getting wet helped.

(2) Staying indoors with the AC and some company -while scrapbooking- was fun too.

(3) And of course lot's of camping.

Summer's here so it's Family Reunion time.

So you know how family reunions can be pretty boring for the younger people...well I thought they did a really good job making this one fun. The first part was an overnight campout with all of my Mom's Dad's family (The Anderson's). We played cards, had a horseshoe championship, played frisbee golf and had a blast with the kids tetherball/tennisball game.

Then for the second part of the reunion we go further back in time to include the Larson family as well. So we all packed up and went to the Fountain Green park where they had some major fun stuff for all the kids.

We made necklaces.

And we played on the playground. But then we only had time for one more activity each. So this is where my girls personality differences showed. Sammy wanted to get her face painted. Isn't it cute. I totally love this picture!And Erica wanted to climb up and and slide down the BIG blow up slide. She was so brave. It was really high.