School Pics 2011-2012

Riley age 12, Paige age 10, Hayley age 9

1st Day of School for the big kids 2010

I love the first day of school...back to a routine, a clean house for at least a few hours a day, get to go out to lunch! As for the kids well at least 2 out of 3 were happy this morning! pEverybody's backpacks were loaded down with all the school supplies for the year and hapy to waer their new clothes! Paige had a royal melt down about her outfit which then caused the rest of her morning to go down hill and was even more excited when I said you can't leave until I take your picture....after the picture she was gone not to be seen again until 3:00, hopefull she got happier once she got to school. Sadie even snuck into a picture. Riley wanted to part of us walking him to school so he bolted on his bike as quickly as he could but our sweet little Hayley girl let us walk with her to school and even take pictures with her bike.

Riley - 5th grade 10 years old (for a couple months at least)

Paige - 4th grade 9 years old

Hayley - 2nd grade 7 years old

Wow typing that out I feel super old for some reason!

One last fun summer day!

One last fun summer activity...bowling! Yea baby. I took, Riley, Paige, Hayley and of course baby Sadie with Tanner and Talin by other 2 boys bowling for one last fun activity before school started. The kids had so much fun and I have to admit I am pretty darn amazing at Pop-A-Shot...if there was ever a league for arcade basketball I think I would join. :-) Paige even managed to beat all of us with a broken arm in a cast....way to go Paiger

Randon kid pic

Tired baby girl after swimming...


The girls after church sitting on the kitchen counter waiting for lunch...so cute!

Wow...I am so behind on my blog. Here are some random pics of the girls!

1st lake trip of the season

Dusty, Ryan and Alec

Hayley took this of me while I wasn't watching...nice face.

What up Ryan and Alec

Cousins...Sadie and Tatum

Our four banshee's...Paige, Sadie, Hayley and Riley...freezing!

Well its mid March and we have officially taken our first lake trip of the season. It was a 88 degrees and sunny outside but the water was a fridget 57 degree. The kids all jumped in one time and realized how not worth it, it was to get into the that freezing water, crazy kids! Only in Arizona can you be snowboarding on Monday and at the lake on Thursday....love our weather!

Spring Break 2010

Our sweet window...we are always repping our Malibu even with a busted out window!

Braden and Hayley on the chairlift

Who is this cool guy....love you Riley bug.

The one and only picture of Paige snowboarding, my camera had died so Ryan took it wiht my phone and its not that great :-(

How cute is she...snowboarder girl!

Ski school

Me and Steph at the gas station on the way home

The worlds greatest indian taco...I would go snowboarding just to eat that for lunch...yummy!

SPRING BREAK:
We went to a friends cabin up in Pinetop with the other Bond's for spring break and took the kids snowboarding and sledding. It was so much fun. Don't have the best pictures as I was not to prepared, my camera battery died on the second day :-(....oh well. It was so much fun and great weather too! The kids and dads snowboarded two days while mom's and babies stayed at the cabin and we all went sleeding one day. There was a huge hill right around the corner from the cabin. They bigger kids and dads made a snowboard jump that was pretty sweet! This was Hayley's first time snowboarding and she was a natural. She took snowboard school for half a day on the first day with her cousin Braden and the two of them were like two peas on a pod. Steph and I drove up for lunch on Monday to watch and they were just getting on and off the lift like nobodies business. It was hysterical....after lunch she was like see ya and grabbed her board strapped in and was gone :-). Paige only snowboarded one day but it came right back to her aside from her getting in and out of the board that is always a little drama. Riley....well he is Ryan's partner in crime to say the least....they hit the snowboard park both days while stopping by the bunny hill to check in on the girls every couple of runs. Ryan of course getting more and more daring as the day went on hit a huge "ball jump" on his last run and hurt his tail bone and split open his snowmobiling scar....how old is he really. At 33 I think its time you take it easy....but I doubt that is coming anytime soon. On the way home, I put the crock pot in the back of the car and Ryan went to close the back hatch and "BOOM" (sounded like a gunshot) the entire back hatch shattered, there was glass everywhere and after we boarded up the window so we could drive home Sadie puked 2 twice in the canyon on the way home. Aside from that we had a great time and it so fun having family to make memories with!

Dress up like a star...

Today was half day before spring break and it was dress up like a star day...Riley went as Shawn White the red headed snowboarder....and Paige went as Taylor Swift. Paige was up at 5:45 asking me to curl her hair and by the time she got home from school at 11:45 it was almost fully flat again (that took me 45 minutes..buggy) but she sure looked cute when she left the house. Hayley not so much interested in dressing up...just wanted to go to school with her pillow and blanket because her class was watching a movie. I think she is quite possible the most low maintenance kid ever. Anyway it was a great day and the kids looked great.

Winter/spring sports

What a great pose...

Hayley, Sadie and Ryan killing time in the car while they wait taking pictures of themselves!

Hayley and Sadie watching Paige's basketball game...so cute!

We have had a busy couple of months with three kids playing sports. Riley is playing flag football with a bunch of kids from his tackle football team. They play great together and are super competitive. They only lost 1 game this season and came in 3rd in the tournament. Riley had some great diving catches for touchdowns and it was super fun to watch him....football is truly one of his favorite things to do! Shocking I know, but after 10 weeks of football I failed to take even one picture...looser mom! Paige played her first season of basketball with WHAM....it was hysterical to watch her play. At the end of the year party she got the award for the most improved because in the first game she got a rebound and didn't know what to do with it so she handed it back to the other team and on the last game she was diving on the ground for rebounds. She improved 100% and we are so proud of her. Hayley is playing soccer for Arsinol enjoying every minute of it.... she is not super aggressive but she is learning some great fundamentals and gets really excited every Saturday for her games. She has improved a ton and last Saturday she was so close to scoring a goal. Sadie chills in her car seat as we go from game to game every Saturday with an occasional errand or birthday party mixed in. She has really been a trooper the last few months especially for her crazy personality.

Service project

For FHE we packed all of our teaching supplies into plastic boxes.

Yea....we finished or teacher boxes! Disneyland here we come.....

School pictures 2009/2010

Love school picture time of year....find an outfit...get all spiffed up....hurry and get to school and then what in the world happens......by the time they take the pictures there hair is messed up, lunch on the shirt and sweaty from recess. All in all they turned out great ........ and I can't believe how much they grow from year to year.

Back to school

Funny picture...they are all packing all the back to school supplies, looks they they are on there way home from the grocery store!

Where do the summers go...back to school again. This year Riley is in 4th grade (yes Ryan and I are getting old we have a 4th grader :-(), Paige is in 3rd grade and Hayley is in 1st grade. They were all pretty excited about school starting this year but probably not as much as our Sader B.....it has been near impossible for that girl to get her 5+ hours of napping a day (I wish I had her life) in with all the kids home and all the places they want to go and all of their friends over. It has been a great summer but glad to get back to a routine and a schedule and most of all a clean house...yea! This year Riley and Paige both got teachers they didn't know and Hayley got Mrs Liddy...the same teacher Riley and Paige had for 1st grade that we absolutely love, she is so sweet. I am sure this year will lend itself to lots of home work and new and fun field trips, projects and activities. BTW - I you were wondering why we only have a few pictures...apparently are kids are way to school to hang out with us and take pictures on their first day of school...another indication that we are getting old :-)

Bike Park

Riley got his new bike and we all went to the bike park to watch him ride...he was so excited and did great, looking at the hills and the drop ins I was scared for him but as usual no fear and he dropped right in. There was a park with a water feature so the girls and I played over there for a bit. I wish we had a park like this in our neighborhood instead of having to drive all the way to Chandler but it was worth it....all the kids had a great time especially Sadie. She was going from the sand to the water and water to sand, which is a mothers favorite combination :-).

Swim Team

Look of determination...

Riley's backstroke

nice jump

So cute!

This summer the three older kids signed up for swim team and it was great (for all of us). Paige and Riley along with a group of other kids rode there bikes the 2 miles each way to and from swim team every morning. They were in back to back classes so they just waited for each other. It was great for me...they were up and out of the house by 6:45 and home by 9. They loved the independence of riding by themselves and I loved the fact that I didn't have to drop off and pick up 5 times each morning. I dropped Hayley off a bit later for her group. Riley and Paige also decided this year to do some of the meets....they did great and we have a whole new appreciation for the world of competitive swimming (it is SERIOUS). They did preliminaries which is where they try to qualify in 3 strokes that they choose for championships. They choose the top 16 kids from all of the schools in Gilbert to compete. Riley qualified in backstroke, freestyle and IM. Paige qualified in freestyle, backstroke and was DQ from breast stroke (Ryan admits that he might have told her to do the wrong kick...hopefully she won't hate him forever). They both did great at championships.

Summer switch

She got so good on the slides she could go up and down by herself.

This summer to keep the kids busy we came up with the summer switch....I take one day a week for 3-4 hours in the afternoon and Sherri (Riley's best friends mom)takes one day. It has worked out great. The kids love getting to do different stuff each weak. We have done scavenger hunts, swimming, bounce u, the rec center, slip and slide, Golfland, movies and lots of other fun things! These pictures are from a week that I took to Golfland...notice there are no pictures of any of the boys or Paige because as soon as we got there they were off having fun and only to be seen when it was time to check in...Sadie had a fun time in the baby area. It is great to have friends and families so close by to do fun things like this! Thanks Sherri!