Grandpa's funeral

Saturday in Wyoming at the Lyman cemetary.

My mom and her siblings singing to my Grandma.

My Grandma and her sister.

Grandpa had full military honors.

Giving Grandma her flag in memory of Grandpa.

Grandpa's beautiful casket.

The day of my Grandpa's funeral was a bitter sweet day for me. I LOVE my Grandpa. He was a wonderful man! I will miss him very much. His funeral actually landed on Oaklee's 1st birthday. So it was a day of celebrating Life all around. My Grandpa struggled there at the end of his life, but i got a few last moments with him that i will cherish forever. He was still able to open his eyes and answer you when i said goodbye. We had a sweet conversation and i am so grateful for that.

The day of the burial was Saturday up in Wyoming. It was about a 2 hour drive and i took the girls and my sister. It rained, poured the whole way there. As soon as we got maybe 15 minutes out it opened up to blue skies over Lyman. Grandpa was definitely helping us out! It was a beautiful ceremony. I will never forget it.

Dance X 2!

Tiny Dancer Kennedy

Payton ready for Jazz

WE officially have begun dance around here! For both girlies this year...that's right our tiny tot Kennedy is in the Mommy & Me dance class. I can't believe she is already old enough to take this class. She LOVES it. She listens so well, which i was worried about, and follows whatever her teacher says to do.

Payton is taking Tap and Jazz this year without Ballet. She seems to really enjoy both so far.

we have a KINDERGARTENER

Payton officially started Kindergarten on Sept. 7th. What a grown up 5 year old we have. She absolutely LOVES school. Her teacher is Mrs. Rizer and she is great. It is so nice to be back in routine and structure...this girl thrives on it!

Hello Kitty all around

Man she is so darn pretty!!

Ready to head in for her 1st day!

Found her seat and a treat!

making her shoebox library

After School treat of her choice.... ice cream!

Oaklee's 1st cone all to herself:)

cheesy buggy!

SOOO Big!

Little miss KENNEDY is a BIG GIRL now!

She gets to wear "unnerwears" as she calls them. She went and picked out some Rapunzel unders and we decided to give it a go. The first week was REALLY hard. I didn't think she was even understanding what we were doing AT ALL! But the last week has been GREAT. She has been telling us she has to go and we haven't had an accident is almost a week! Now by telling us she says " I pooping!!" so I'm sure people love to hear that, but it translates to "run take me to the bathroom!"

Either way we got here and now we officially have only 1 in diapers! What will we do with all the extra money you ask.... GO TO DISNEYLAND of course:)!!

LOVE YOU KENNEDY!!

we LOVE cousins

FUN FUN FUN!!

We have had a blast going to Herriman Beach with our cousins! The girls love it and I love to get to hang out with my Sister in law :)

Miss Oaklee loves it too

Each time they would dig these castles or little pools... hours of FUN!

Christian TJ Morgan Payton

Kenzie & Kennedy

Kennedy has to hold on to this "handle" she will NOT let it go.

Swimming to the Buoy

Sweet silly babe!

Sadly summer is coming to an end and school is about to start so our lake adventures will be over, but we have had SO MUCH FUN this summer with you guys!

REUNION 2011

Payton & Kennedy at the softball game

Our 2nd Annual Westenskow Family Reunion was last weekend and it turned out great! It was our families turn to host it and it was a YEAR of Planning:) Glad everyone had fun, to bad the storm had to come and end things!

Judy's Family

Gay's Family

Lee's Family

Our family that attended

Red Team

The blue team unfortunately we "LOST"

Dad, Aunt Judy, Grandma Westenskow, Aunt Gay, Uncle Lee

3 legged races

The water fight that "wasn't" supposed to happen :)

Casey and Dad playing Horse shoes and Corn hole

This is a rainbow i saw on my horrific drive home. There was a huge "flash flood" rainstorm last Saturday that i got to drive home in the jeep with no windows or doors!! Not fun!

OAKLEE

Blowing Kisses

Peek A BOO

Yay.. CLaps

MOST OF ALL SMILES!!!

Oaklee is my ray of SUNSHINE! She is such a sweet go with the flow baby! Time is just flying by and in a few short weeks my baby girl will be 1!!! That seems impossible, but she is definitely growing fast! She LOVES food, talking/babbling, her sisters and high pitch screaming! She still has no teeth... not a surprise, but can eat/gum almost anything you give her. She plays and follows her sisters all over and just wants to be where they are and do what they are doing.

I wish I could slow down her growing, but i see what fun things are ahead and I'm excited!

FaRm, FrIeNdS & FUN

My Friend Kati and I decided to take advantage or the $2 Tuesdays @ Thanksgiving Point and this time we headed to the Petting Zoo. Other than being SO VERY CROWDED and BLAZING HOT it was a lot of fun!

Miles & Oaklee had the best seat in the house,.. good thing my broken stroller worked safely!

Look Chickens!

Payton, Drew, Kade, Kennedy

MOOOO cows!

Sweet Oaklee just hanging out like always!

So DANG Cute i must say:)

Kati and her boys

Me & My girls...

Besties

Kennedy makes the BEST pig sound and was talking to this pig it was funny:)