California Star Fish

While in California, Austin and his cousin Paityn found some really cool starfish. They had a hard time deciding whether or not to keep them or set them free. After much soul searching, they decided to let them live. Yea!! Here are some cute pictures of them with their favorites.

Cole Learns to Blow a Bubble

I don't know why the sound didn't work here. Something to add to the list.

First Day of School

The kids actually started school weeks ago but of course I wasn't blogging then. So here are some pictures of them on their first day.

Jordan started high school and early morning seminary this year. Poor thing has to get up at 5:00 a.m. every day. He's such a responsible kid though. He never needs me to wake him up, ever. He went through the last two school years getting himself up and out the door with no help from his lazy mom still in bed. After school he has football practice until 5:30 so that's a 12 hour day for him! I don't know how he does it?

Logan is in 8th grade. He also got himself up and out the door all of last year by himself. I don't know why, but that really impresses me. They are both such good kids! Since I drive Jordan to seminary at 5:30 every other week, I am now awake most of the time when Logan gets up. Such a cute, happy kid.







Austin is in 5th grade and enjoys going to school. He is still in strings playing the violin and loves it. I have to almost force him to come inside when he gets off the bus though. I've had to re-train him to come inside the house, say hello, and do his homework and chores etc. before going out to play. He would prefer to dump everything at the door and take off on his bike for hours!

Cole started kindergarten at Longview Farm Elementary which is such an amazing school! He says he likes kindergarten "okay". The kind of mood he comes home with depends on whether or not he got to sit by his friend Jay on the bus. If he ever gets to then it was "the best day ever" but if not then it "wasn't a good day" (said with a long sad Cole face). I can't believe he is this old. I miss him but it is fun to watch him learn and grow.

Ok, that wasn't so good.

My first attempt at posting was pretty sad. Of course Jason isn't home to help me figure it out. Dang. Well, here I go again to see if I can make my 3rd post better than the first.

The Whits Finally Visit Arrowhead

Well, we finally did it! Jordan has been wanting to go to a Chief's game for oh, about four years now and we finally took him. By far the majority of games are played on Sundays, so that, in and of itself, has been a big hurdle for us. This year, for a special surprise, we decided to get Jordan and Jason tickets to go to a pre-season game on a Thursday night. We got great tickets through a good buddy (Thanks Bruce!) that were on the 50 yard line and about 13 rows up. Then, the day before the game, one of Jason's friends from work gave him four more tickets. They were in the nose bleed section, but hey, they were free and got us through the door. The day of the game the weather was beautiful but hot and I was complaining about having to go sit through the game in the heat. Well, right about the time we were leaving the sky got very dark and cloudy and on our way there it started pouring down rain. And I mean pouring!! We stopped at Walmart to get some ponchos and luckily Jason didn't go for the super cheap ones. The game was delayed for about 1 1/2 hours but eventually got going. Logan, Cole, Austin, and I headed up to the top to our seats and Jason and Jord took their fabulous seats down below. That only lasted about 15 minutes though before Jason told us to move down to sit by them. Luckily, being pre-season (and probably the rain) there were extra seats. So, we all got to enjoy the game together!