Carly is 5 months old

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September Excitement - School/Birthday/Anniversary

School

This is what my kitchen looks like as the girls walk out the door to go to school. We move over the ice cream dishes from last night so we can have breakfast. Then we move over the breakfast dishes to make lunches. Then Lucy wakes up and has breakfast.

Hanna & Jill on their way to school in their quality new school clothes. Lucy wanted to be in the picture, too.

Hanna on picture day. I only buy their class pictures not their individual pictures,
so here is a memory of how cute they look.

Jill on picture day.

AUSTIN & KAYLYNN'S 12TH ANNIVERSARY

We celebrated our anniversary by going out to dinner at the Copper Mill. I had been dreaming all day of ordering cheesecake for dessert, but when dessert time came, they only had chocolate cheesecake (which I can't eat while I am nursing). So we went to Sam's Club and bought a whole cheesecake and brought it home to share with our girls. We left our girls with my brother & his wife, Doug & Emily. Carly only screamed the last 20 minutes. It was the first time we left her.

Our 12 years of marriage by the numbers.
*12 years
*4 houses
*1 phone number
*3 college degrees
*4 kids
*101 rodeos


JILL'S BIRTHDAY

For Jill's 10th birthday we had sticky buns for breakfast. She got to go on a field trip at school and then to Activity Days. We went to Village Inn for dinner where she got a free piece of pie (but no fancy song by the waitress). Then we had some people over for cake and opening presents.

She had her friend party on Friday after school. We had a pony party. They rode our pony, Sparky, I took their picture on the pony and they decorated a frame to put it in. They also roped the dummy and did stick barrel racing. Then they had cupcakes and pop and opened presents. It is a sign that Jill is getting older that she got 4 new items of clothes from gifts from her friends. She is past the toy stage of life.

Jill leading Hanna and Carly on Sparky during the party.

Canada Horse Sale

My family missed the second day of school so we could go to Canada so Austin could help at the horse sale at Lodge Creek Ranch. We came back with 4 new rock chips in our windshield (thanks to the Montana freeway) and 2 new horses.

Austin helping to get the mares and colts ready for the sale.

The mares and colts coming in from the pasture. This picture shows the prairie landscape of the ranch and how you can see someone coming for days.
Hanna's new horse - Spurs. He is only a few months old. He will stay at the ranch until October when he will be weaned from his mom.
Jill's new horse - Little Lena. She is a yearling mare. She went to Grandpa Buck's house for the winter.

Hogle Zoo with the Bennetts

Jeanette invited us to come and share some tickets to go to Hogle Zoo for a fun thing to do before school starts. We had a really fun day. Grandpa Randy even joined us since Grandma Carol was helping her Dad in Salt Lake. The weather was great and it wasn't too crowded. We loved the bird show. If you ever go to Hogle Zoo, you have to make sure you go to it. And plus we all are going to have good luck for the next year because we gazed at the eyes of the white alligator.
Hailey got chosen out of the audience, and she got to hold out her arm and a bird landed on her arm and ate the seeds out of her hand. She's famous.

What Goes Around Comes Around

I gave these cute little pants to Malinda when she had her first daughter. All 3 of her daughters used them and then she gave them back to me to use for Carly. Good things come back to you, I guess.

Summer Travel ... 1800 Miles

From our house in Hyrum, to a night in Idaho Falls, to the ranch in southwest Saskatchewan, to visit Grandma and Grandpa in Cardston, Alberta, to a family reunion on Flathead Lake near Glacier Park in Montana, back to Hyrum is 1800 miles. Our kids are excellent, well-trained travelers. Even Carly did great. We did have to stop a couple extra times to feed her, but she was a great traveler.

Nunn family photo

We had a really fun time. We went swimming in Cardston at the river and at the Cardston swimming pool. We had a tea party with Grandma and rode the pony and the horses. My kids loved hanging out with their cousins. They love to play in the horse trailer and on the haystack.

Taylor, Jill, Kaela, Hanna, Julia posing on the haystack

Lucy riding Grandpa Buck's pony, Blaze

The family reunion was so fun. It is a Gwilliam Family Reunion of descendants of Martha's grandparents. When we first got there, it seemed like the gathering is getting too big (122 people and like 32 kids under the age of 5), and then it poured rain for half of the first night which doesn't make for pleasant sleep in a tent. But by the end of the 3 days, we had laughed and cried and had a great time. It is truly a quality family. The place where we had the reunion was awesome, lots of room, they cooked & cleaned up all of the food, there was a really fun place to play in the lake, no mosquitoes, beautiful view, etc.

Grandpa Buck defended his Wrangler Water Skiing Champion title. He had water skied in wranglers at a family reunion 18 years ago. He made a new buckle out of a pie plate and then water skied in his Wranglers again. He rocks. What a cool grandpa.

Grandpa Buck water skiing in his Wranglers.
(modified water skiing since there were no skis)

There was a really fun blown up tube called a blob. The first person would jump onto it and crawl to the end. The next person would jump off and it would shoot the person at the other end off into the water. My 11-year-old niece blobbed me, so I didn't go very high in the air before going into the water. But it was a fun time.

Austin jumping off the tower onto the blob

Kaylynn jumping off the tower onto the blob

Summer Photo Shoot

I decided to try to be the photographer and take pictures of my girls to put up on the wall in some matching picture frames I found on clearance. We took some quality pictures in a park in Logan and at Spring Hollow Campground up Logan Canyon. Trying to take pictures of 4 girls is an adventure. Carly was either asleep or not happy to be getting her picture taken, plus she had a blowout. Lucy had to go to the bathroom many times. Lucy's shirt was torn into two pieces by the time we got home. Then as we were coming out of the canyon when my cell phone got service again, Austin called and his car had died and was sitting in it waiting for us to come and get him.
But to look on the bright side, I did get some pretty cute pictures.

Hanna

Jill

Lucy