Our Kindergartener!

Emma had her first day of kindergarten yesterday. She had been awaiting this day for a LONG time, so this was a dream come true for her to go to school with the big kids! She loved it!

(Yes, Heidi brought her "pack pack" too except instead of bringing school supplies, she loaded it up with cars and barbies, because you never know when you'll need those!) (Emma's best friend Jenna.)


Heidi missed her buddy, but she is starting Joy School next week so that should be a fun adventure for her. We look forward to a great school year! As for Grace...even though she's not in school we put her to work doing dishes and

cleaning up eating toys. Apparently the little people taste great!

As for a summer re-cap... Brooke and the girls went to Vegas for a girls' weekend with the Dunyon cousins, while the boys were at Powell for Father's & Son's. We went to Powell twice this summer as a family (yes, that's a total of three times for Aaron - lucky guy!). Grace celebrated her 1st birthday at Powell
- so fun! We spent a week in California playing (Emma wanted "yellow hair" like Grandma Dunyon so Grandma put conditioner on her hair with the foils...sneaky. To make sure she was convinced we all had to compliment Emma on her beautiful yellow hair for the rest of the day.)
and attending Breana and Scott Daly's wedding (Brooke's sister). Grace loved her little cousin Luke. He showed us all how it's done at the Spectrum Fountains. Brooke was spoiled having live-in babysitters while we stayed there. We miss living by our grandparents! Grandma and Grandpa Nielsen are coming up this weekend to stay with us and we are really looking forward to that! The girls have already decided what games and activities they'd like to do with them. It's sure to be a blast!

Brooke was called to be the Music Leader in Nursery and loves being in there with Heidi for a few minutes each Sunday. Aaron is still our Superman - working in Salt Lake, going to mutual/scouts, playing basketball every Saturday morning, and chipping away at his always-growing honey-do list (In all honesty, though, some of those projects are his suggestions...I just add to it every now and then.). More pictures to come of our recent home renovations!

~Brooke & Aaron