Balloon Festival Labor Day Weekend 2008

We went to the Ballon Classic again this year. This is an event that is held every Labor Day Weekend. They let the balloons off on Sat., Sun., and Mon. mornings of Labor Day weekend. On Saturday and Sunday nights, they tether the balloons the to ground and "glo" them. It is so neat. We get up at about 5 in the morning and go see them let off, come home eat, and take a nap. We hang out during the day and will go back this evening. I am hoping that the weather holds out and is as beautiful as it was this morning. I will put those pics up weather permitting tonight or tomorrow morning. Dale and I might go back in the morning to get more pics. I want to get closer to the nearby lake that is at the park to get more pics. It is really cool because the balloons "splash and dash" on the lake. The bring the baskets down and touch the wather on the lake for a second and then take off again. We will see how that goes in the morning though. If they are able to do all the events of the weekend, it will be the first time in several years that all the events have been totally completed. It seems like every year they have to cancel a lift off or a "glo". The girls absolutely love going to this and it is one of the few times a year I can get them out of bed super early and not hear any complaints about it. I hope everyone enjoys their Labor Day Weekend. Love you all and miss you bunches.

Our family in the mountains!!

As you can see my girls love having their picture taken. At the last spot that we stopped to take pictures, the ones with the waterfall and creek, Bailey was climbing off the rock, lost her footing and fell straight in the creek! It was so funny. Of course, nobody could take a picture of the fall because once it happened we were laughing too hard to think of the picture. We were upset that we didn't have the video rolling!! That would have made a great picture!! Bailey also has a little rock collection from the trip today. Everytime we got out to take pictures or look around she had to find a rock to save. She is excited about taking her collection to show and tell at school. She was a little worried about the trip in the beginnig when she realized that where we were going were mountain lions and bears. Of course, Lex, Nikki, and I teased her about this for the first half of the trip!! It as great! One time her arm was hanging out the window when we were stopped, so as I was walking quietly up to the truck, I grabbed her arm and shook it. She screamed like you wouldn't believe!! It was great!! We then told her that there was a bus wreck in one of the tunnels and all the children on the bus died! This story has been told for many years, but we still don't know if it is true. We told her that if she looked at the walls of the tunnel she would see the claw marks of the children. Well, when we went through the tunnel, Nikki hit one of the panels in the truck and again, Bailey was scared to death. She was sure someone was trying to get in the truck. I am still not sure who she thought was trying to get in the truck!! I look back at the day and I can see my daddy doing the same type of thing to us as kids!! He would have so enjoyed that!! It is so fun having such a gullible kid!!!

Our God is an awesome God!! Pics from the mountains of Colorado!

These are just a few of the pictures that we took today while we took a drive in the mountains. This is proof of what a majestic and powerful God we have. I have just added a few of the pictures that we took. All of these picturese were taken within about 30 minutes of our house. It was a beautiful, clear day out and we could not have asked for better weather.

Lex's first day of high school

Can you believe she is a freshman in high school???? Time has flown by so fast!! She seems to be really excited about the school year and she has just made the J.V. Cheerleading squad! I am not sure if I am happy about that or not. I am sure she will be fine! I just don't want it to be too much for it. She is goint to be forced to study to keep her grades up!! I have faith that she will succeed though!! She is a very smart kiddo when she wants to be!! Just think before you know it, Josh, Asher, Berkeley, and Lydia are all going to be this age!!

Bailey's First Day of First Grade!!

Picture of Bailey in her first day of school outfit! It is so hard to believe that she is in 1st grade!! She is getting so big!! She is very excited about going to school, but isn't excited at all about reading!! She seems to hate that part dearly!! I am hoping that she will get over that with her Mrs. Redford, her teacher. I warned Mrs. Redford about the fact that Bailey thinks her cuteness will get her out of trouble. Mrs. Redford assured me that she would not buy into Bailey's puppy dog eyes. Bailey is joined in class with the other Bailey from kindergarten. To tell them apart, Mrs. Redford is going to call our beloved Bailey, Bailey Mae.
This is Selena and Bailey. Selena just started in day care with Bailey. Bailey was very excited to have Selena in day care with us since they went to kindergarten together.

I think by this point, Bailey was sick of me following her around the playground taking pictures of her!! She was very ready to get her day started!! We didn't realize how cool it was going to be this morning so she had to borrow a sweatshirt of Lex's that was in the car!! She was very proud to wear her sissy's sweatshirt to school!!
Bailey was so super tired when she was done with school today. She didn't want to read the book that she made today, or any book for that matter so I told her to move away from the table that we were sitting at. She went over to the carpet and crashed for almost 2 hours. This pic was taken when I made her get up so we could go home!! This poor baby will never want to have a first day of school again!! I took so many pictures of her!! I wish I could have taken more of Lex, but she probably would have died of embarassment if I had followed her around high school!!