Morgan and Ethan at their piano recital with their teacher Becky

The recital was at an assisted living facility and the kids did awesome

Em's 1st day of preschool

Big kids 1st day of school

Is Morgan really in 3rd grade? Where has the time gone?

My little guy's 1st day of 1st grade!!

Morgan and her friend Shay in class together

E-man and his friend Luke waiting to go inside

Ok I'm really bad about being able to move pics around in my posts...so these are not in order how it happened, but I thought I would post some Puerto Rico pics from the summer when Matt and I got to get away for a week (thanks to my family for the babysitting) and after 11 1/2 years of marriage...we still completely enjoy being together and had a great time!!

In the rainforest...thanks Jake and Carolyn for making sure we saw all of the most amazing parts of Puerto Rico!

Like I said...not in order...but this is a picture of our favorite beach...the sand and water were AMAZING

the pool at our hotel

view from our balcony

Exploring in a cave on the beach...so awesome

Our favorite day I think was our last full day...we took a small plane to another island (where the amazing sand and water was in the picture above) and enjoyed being completely lazy (heaven knows we don't get that at home)

So family picture taking is not my talent...but here goes

this is Macy....she was done

Matt of course...gotta love that man

My handsome boys

And that's the best I can do....sorry peeps but they are still cuties

CAMPING IN SILVERTON....camping with 5 small kids is a lot of work, but Matt and I would do it over and over...just cause we love it. We thought this road sign was hilarious, but no kidding...the road was like this for miles. It had the most breathtaking views and I mean my breath actually left my body.

This is right from our camp spot...absolutely beautiful. Our spot was at elevation 10,500 ft.

The little town of Silverton...when no tourists are there...population 400

Another view of the road we traveled

fishing was defintely the highlight of the trip for the kiddos...even though we didn't get anything

oh the anticipation

ok is that not the most serene place to be?

the other favorite for the kids was chipmunk chasing...they carried around a pocketful of sunflower seeds to try and catch them...where are you Alvin, Simon, and Theadore?

The babies are accidents just in the making...poor Macy's nose is trashed from face-planting on the driveway before we left and Miles got a fat lip from falling out of his camping chair