First day of School!

I realize I posted Meliah's first day of school but not Lizzy and Christian's. Lizzy just started Kindergarten and her teacher is Mrs. Dempsey. Christian is in the 6th grade in Middle School at Manzanita. I was at a family reunion for the 1st day of school, so I avoiding crying when I left Lizzy for her first day. So, here are the pictures from the 2nd day of school, close enough, right?

My Lizzy Lou has been ready for school for a long time!

Here she is with her friends, Megan, Cate and Kennison

Christian - 6th grade

He's nervous about going to AP Algebra this year! Argh!

Meliah's 1st day of school

My sweet Meliah loves her teacher, Mr Stewart, and is so excited to be in a class with two of her best friends ever, Calissa and Samie.

Our Camping Trip

My handsome husband, making sure we get our scriptures read.

The boat races! It was so fun we did it again!

Roasting Marshmellows

Lizzy hands me her stick and says, "Mom, will you get the black part off?"

Aaron posing for me.

Meliah trying to get her boat unstuck.

I love the background in this picture!

Daddy with his girls!

Lizzy painting!

Lizzy and I (Oh how I will miss her when she goes off to school this year)

Christian being cute! He loved sitting out on the end of this log.

Timer set, Aaron runs... whew! We got the family picture.

This year we didn't get to go camping with Aaron's family because of Aaron's work schedule, so we decided to go just our little family for a one nighter. We had such a great time together, playing games, eating (of course), having boat races and exploring at the Sly Creek Reservoir.

All-Stars!

Grandma and Grandpa came to all three of the games. They are so supportive of everything the kids do... I don't know how they do it!

Christian with his friend Chase. They are such great buddies and I love it because Chase is an awesome kid.

Aaron helped coach the team with the Conroys. Those were such busy days, I never saw him except from a distance.

Christian before the game.

When Christian pitched he was very calm and did an amazing job.

Christian played on the All-Stars teams this year. I wanted to post some of the pictures we got. He played 3 games. They won the first one, barely! The score ended up being 10-9 after we had been behind the entire game. He was put in as pitcher in the 3 inning and the score was 3-9 and the team never scored on Christian's pitches again. It was a very exciting game! The other two games were complete blowouts but they were still fun to watch. Christian play pitcher, shortstop and third base.

Christian's week long celebration!

Christian's birthday seems like it will never end. An Eller family party on Sunday started it off then, a little party at home the night of his birthday, a slumber party with some of his buddies a few days later and then a Gold Sox Game on Saturday. It has been busy but so fun!

Christian blowing out the candle at Grandma's house. Aunt Kerri made the brownies, they looked like little barbeques. So cute and yummy!

At the Slumber party the kids played some minute to win it games under the direction of Aaron. I was at a girls night out and Aaron agreed to do the party! The boys loved it! When I walked in I kind of ruined the party a bit... an all boys party is way different than when mom is there. There was some clean up time after I came home.

Calvin, Christian, Chase, Ivan and Jacob showing off the presents Christian got.

They all camped the whole night outside in a tent. They were up pretty late, but no complaints from the neighbors. They had breakfast together outside too.

christian eating a baseball cookie that Aunt kerri made for the party! The boys loved them!

Christian and Calvin at the Gold Sox Game on Saturday. They both got foul balls and then tried to get one for Calvin's brother, Adon.

Aaron and I at the game! It was like a date because the kids were so busy waiting for the foul balls, they didn't spend any time in the stands.

Aaron caught a hotdog! Pretty impressive catch too!

Christian got his ball signed by, I have no idea what her name is??

All the boys ended up with a ball! Meliah went away crying because she really wanted one too and the boys told her, "Boys first". But it's too good to be true if everything goes perfectly, right?

Summer Days!

We went and got wood the other morning as a family! It was hard work but we got to go play afterwards... so it was totally worth it. When I was a kid, we got wood together as a family all the time. My dad would take the truck and load all 8 of us in the back of it. We would drive off and find a good tree and cut it up and load it, then we would take turns riding and running back home. With the back of the truck full of wood there wasn't enough room for everyone to ride back all at once. I try to explain to my kids how easy they have it... but they think my childhood sounds fun (I really can't argue, those were great memories! ha ha!)

Lizzy is such a great worker with not one complaint!

Aaron working the splitter with Richard.

The kids at 1 mile in Chico

Aaron trying to make a raft for the kids... until he got yelled at by a lady downstream who told him she was going to call the forest ranger for disrupting wildlife. That same lady lit up a cigarette a few minutes later! We vented about her for about an hour!

The kids stacked up rocks and made a really cool water shoot.

After swimming, we went through Gridley and had a milkshake at the Burgie!

Arrow of Light and Birthday

Christian receiving his arrow

With his boy scout plaque that he will be able to hang on his wall and put all his badges on.

Christian had the best den leader (we are really going to miss Lena)

At his last pack meeting! He will miss some of his buddies until they join him


Meliah and Lizzy will miss their friends at Scouts too.


11 years old (legal to babysit his sisters now... yeah!)