Preschool and Lessons

Claire officially goes to a preschool. This year we enrolled her in a local preschool. She goes twice a week and is loving it. She did make me feel really good the other day though, she told me she missed me teaching her preschool. I asked her if that meant she didn't like her preschool. She answered by telling me that she still loves her new preschool and she wants to go there, but she also wants me to teach her. It certainly made me feel good!! Here she is ready for her first day of preschool.
We signed Claire up for another round of swimming lessons. She was so excited and she got even more excited when she found out her friend Teancum would be in her swim lessons too. They are currently the only two kids in the class. It is so cute to see how happy they are swimming and spending time together.

She is One!!

The other day we were eating dinner at my in-laws, we had Mia in a hook chair (buckled in) at their table. I went to start my dinner plate and kept coming back to give Mia bites...after a few times of doing this I came back to find this...

This post is about Mia, but I had to include at least one picture of Claire....Here she is at one...

...now you can compare Mia at one on the same rockin' dinosaur.

Here she is on her official birthday. Thanks for the cute birthday outfit Aunt LeeAnn!!

On Saturday September 3rd, we had a pool party to celebrate Mia's first birthday. Thank you to all those that could attend to help us have a good day. We had so much fun. This is Mia with her first cake of the weekend. She wasn't so sure of it...Bryan had to help her figure out what to do.

She did love the ice cream though. Thanks Grandma for sharing your ice cream with me!! (We were so happy to have my mom and dad come up to celebrate this special weekend with us. We were all so sad to see them go back home.)

After Mia's birthday party we came home and put the girls down for some much needed rest time. Then we watched the BYU vs Ole Miss football game. After that it was another birthday party...this time at Chuck E. Cheese. Claire had so much fun playing all the games. What a great day we had!!On Labor Day we were able to go out on the river (thanks to my father-in-law) and enjoy the tubes, wake-board, water and sun. It was a fun day... Mia knocked my mom's prescription sun glasses in the river by the boat launch...Bryan and my father-in-law went back with masks to where we thought they fell in and in one dive the glasses were found...
Here are the girls, Bryan and Aunt Terin going on their tube ride.

We had such a great weekend. I didn't want it to end. I am selfish, but I wanted my parents to be here longer. Although I am grateful they could come up for the few days they did. We ended the visit with some more cake, pie and ice cream. This time Mia didn't need any help knowing what to do with her cake. She loved every minute of it!!