Update on Carden

 Carden is enjoying school.  He has been working really hard on his Articles of Faith.  He is now on number 11 and can't wait to finish.  He is talented at memorizing.  His Kindergarten teacher wants all the kids to learn the site words and so we decided to put up flash cards around the house and play "FIND the word...!"  Carden can find them all!  Brooke and Rhead joined in as well and it was cute seeing them try to read the words!  Now we have been trying to spell the site words out on our large white board!

 We also decided to do another exercise with his site words and the Articles of Faith.  I had Carden take a marker and mark all the site words in the Articles of Faith.  Then I had him graph out which site word came up the most, which helped him practice some math and graphing!  He loved doing this activity.  Carden is always so willing to learn and try new things which makes it really fun to teach!

Carden enjoys being at school with all his friends from church and his soccer team!  I have already gone in twice to help out and it is fun to see all Carden's friends!  They all seem to know who Carden is!  He is quiet and listens to his teacher very well.  He works well with others and loves being at school and seeing Cohen and Luke after class.  We just got him a bigger bike and he FLIES getting home!  Rhead got Carden's old bike and now can keep up with everyone. 

Carden is enjoying soccer.  He has scored several goals which has been fun  (it is 3 on 3 which makes this more possible).  He gets along with his teammates.  He loves to keep track of how many goals everyone makes (Justin says this comes from his side!).  He enjoys reading books with his Daddy at night and is already on JAMES and the GIANT PEACH! 

First Family trip!

 Our family finally took our own little vacation!  Poor Justin missed family reunions and all the trips to family all summer so we decided we better take advantage of his three day weekend!  We just headed over to Monterey to enjoy the cooler weather and beautiful ocean!  The kids loved it.  Justin loved it.  We wished to go down to San Diego but now we live SEVEN HOURS from there so Monterey had to do.  Its only a little under three hours which makes the drive a breeze with four little kids! 

 The weather was cool but we weren't complaining since this summer has been EXTREMELY HOT!  Over 100 for several weeks! 

 Daddy was brave enough to go into the FREEZING water!  The beach was so pretty and we saw tons of dolphins and a seal that stayed around all day.  I forgot to take pictures of them but the kids were so cute as they watched the dolphins jump into the air and splash around  (who needed the aquarium when its right here in real life!)

 The kids got in the water and loved playing football with Daddy on the beach!

 We brought their scooters and rode all around on the bike paths.  We rode down the beach towards the Denise the Menice Park to play until dark.

 Here is the cool park that the kids enjoyed till dark!

 Mckay was even getting pretty brave to go down the slide and pretended to ride the kids scooters around!

 We then rode our scooters down to mcdonalds to get ice cream!  It was such a cute little mcdonalds with lights hung outside!

 Haa haa look at those faces!!!  Boy were they excited about chocolate dipped cones!  They were HUGE and ended up melting too fast to even finish.  But they were YUMMY!

 Brooke and Mommy!!

Thanks DADDY for our FUN family vacation!  Crazy to think that that was really our FIRST FAMILY TRIP!  It was VERY FUN and we sure are glad Daddy works so hard to take care of us!