Family Pictures

I am quite late on posting these pic's, but I wanted to show some family these. We took these pictures like a month before Cory left to Guatemala. Our friend, Lydia took them, and I am so in love with her photography skills, she's taken pictures of my kids as well, that turned out amazing.

I love how she took these, zoomed in on each family,or couple.

She even did seperate family photos, and these are some of my favorites...

Aisley was not willing to sit still through much of any of the pictures, so we didn't get much with her looking at the camera, or smiling.

Here's the cute Boyer family (my sister Jessica)

Family pictures were so overdue, and we were all pleased with the results. We were lucky to have our beautiful Grandma and Gramps visiting, so they were able to take a few shots, and I love that their holding the kid's...And we were cracking up in this picture because Lydia's husband, was trying to make the kid's laugh but it made us laugh instead, he was being so silly...

The Guys: once again laughing about markus

And then theres the girls:

And the best for last, I love this pic of my gorgeous sis Kel!

Update!

Elli is doing really good with school. She wakes me up at 6:30 and tells me to get up and get ready so she can go to school. She is a total morning person, and i am so completly not...but when her cute self wake's me up and starts talking about a million differnt things that alot of times I have no clue what she's talking about, i just can't help but smile and get going. She rides her scooter half way to school, and then waits for her teacher in line. Everyday i ask her so elli what did you learn in school today, and everyday its the same,oh nothing. OK, well what did you do, oh just played. Hmm, ok well that tells me alot...but she did manage to tell me a few days ago, that she was on the "marker list" at school today, because she went down the slide after her teacher told her not to. So I said, well why didn't you listen to your teacher, well mom, I didn't actually go down the slide, I just looked at it, but my teacher thought I went down it. OK, good that makes alot more sense ell. Of course, she was trying to get out of lecture from me.

She has made alot of friend's at school, one of her friend's is Miss Kaylee. They had a playdate after school today...They went swimming..

Lots of extremly hard homework...so much coloring

Ate snacks

Figured out a tricky dora puzzle

Rode scooters

And were acting like crazy 5 year old's most of the time...

This time last year....

We were able to go to the Los Angeles Temple to be sealed as a family...

It was such a long, hard, but worth it road to get to the temple. We were so excited, and couldn't believe it when we started taking our temple classes. The best part was seeing our little girls coming into the room, they looked like angels, I think everyone in that room shed a tear when they saw them come in.

We are so grateful to our parent's who have supported us all the way through our path of trials, and happy times as a family and a couple.

This is my side of the family that were able to attend: Boyers, Gramps and Grandma, Grammy and Grandpa, Cyndy Sorenson, Rachel Johnson, and Benjamins....We also had alot from the Papavero side, I don't know where the pictures are with all of them ill have to look for them. Brittney and Dyl were able to share this special time with us as well as nana and bumpa, Linford's, Lemmon's, and a special surprise for us, Uncle Mike. We were so happy to have all our family there. Our good friends, the Short's and the Thompson's were also able to join us, and I was so excited they were there....

Rick and Dylan and Isaac and Elise...too cute....

Kindergarten

Today my baby started Kindergarten. I was so nervous, but excited for her at the same time. Daddy took her to the beach yesterday and was there late, and she fell asleep in the car, so I woke her up early this morning to get her showered. She was soo excited even though she was so tired. She picked out her own outfit, and daddy let her choose whatever breakfast she wanted, but all she wanted was cinnamon toast crunch. I think Brandon was a little bit happy about that!! We went outside to take picture's and everytime, I said say cheese, instead she said, it's my first day of school! She was just beside herself with excitement. Pappy stayed home a little later than normally, and she wanted to give him a kiss goodbye...

She really wanted to ride her scooter, and so we let her although she did take a few falls on her way, she was too excited to get hurt..

Mommy and Elli at the school...

Daddy and Elli...

Elli's first classroom line up...

Then the unexpected came, she started whining, and saying she didn't want to go to school, and when I asked her why she said because im scared of my teacher. I tried to explain to her she would be okay, but she wouldn't let go of my pant's the whole way to her classroom. When we got inside she found her name on her desk, and sat down, but the whole time she was pouting. Yeah, wow, total change from 30 minutes before.

Mrs. Kraft's class...

While Brielle was at her first day of school, Aisley could be found doing this....sharing her pos (popsicle) with her dadddy...

She saw me from across the hall after lunch when I came to pick her up, and was happy to see me, but told me no mommy, I cant go yet I still have class! haha, so I think all in all she loved her first day, and Im so proud of her...