Batman and Rainbow Dash had fun at the ward trunk-or-treat.  They got lots of candy and some crazy glasses. (Will post those pictures later.)  I wasn't watching Soren very well though...I was busy helping with pictures while Soren started stripping off his batman costume on the stage- putting on a show I suppose.  :)  Fun times.

Trip to Oregon

 In the hotel.

 At Grandma Jensen's house.

 Build-a-bear fun at the mall!  Sydney, Grace, Belle, and Soren

At Grandma and Grandpa Durfee's

 Grandma and baby Jack.

 Cute Alexis.

 Celebrating Soren's birthday.

Baby Olivia and beautiful Meg.

 Happy Birthday Grandma Jensen!!

 Playing with cousins at Aunt Tirsa's.

Back home.  Isaiah and Soren battling.

Soren loves Phineas and Ferb.


 I've been having fun playing with picasa, changing pictures of the kids.  Love this 1960 movie look.  lol

 Sydney going to school.

Beautiful girl.

 

Sydney's First Day of Kindergarten

School started Aug 16th, so I'm a little slow posting this.  Sydney's been having a great time.  Her biggest complaint the first day was that there wasn't enough time to eat lunch.  :)  She compensates by finishing it in the car on the way home.  When talking to her Grandma Jensen about school she said that she liked the boy who sits at her table.  I'm not so sure how I feel about that statement.  Yesterday, she said that her new best friend(girl in glasses and pink bow headband near Sydney in the class picture) and she decided to not sit by the boys and only sit by each other forever(during rug time, at lunch etc).  So I guess she's changed her mind a bit.

School's a big change for us all.  Soren and I have spent lots of time at parks and at playdates or playing tackle in the living room.  We're finally potty training and he's done great!  He's waking up dry and telling me when he needs to go and is only having one accident a day since starting on Friday.  Well, Friday we had accidents all day long, but the first day is always tough.  He's growing up too.

When we go to pick Sydney up, Soren always runs up to her and gives her a big hug.  He's pretty happy to see her, until we get into the car and she won't share what's left of her lunch.  Then he's not as happy.  :)

Life is good.

Love this pic of Syd and Bay!  :)  Cute friends.

We have been bowling a few times this summer and I realized we didn't take any pictures.  So I took my camera today and snapped a few shots.  Fun!  Where has the summer gone?!

 Above are some of the wild blackberries we picked a few weeks ago.  YUM!  Very glad we didn't get into poison ivy.

 Below is one of the caterpillars I pulled off the pansies.

 The bug below has been eating my tomatoes.  Still haven't identified it...

Soren is 3!  We gave him his a tee ball set on Saturday and went to play at the park.  He loved it!  Below is the ice cream baseball cake I made.

 I think he liked the cake.  :)

Video opening presents. Not very action packed, but I love hearing his little voice and how nice he is to Sydney.  He is a pretty sweet kid.

I've had fun with our small flower bed this year.  I'm starting to learn about the problems that go along with it!  This type of caterpillar ate every single leaf off of three of my pansies(see link below).  The kids and I picked 15 of them off the plants.  There is also some bug feasting on my tomatoes.  hmmmm....

http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euptoieta_claudia