New Class Representative!

Guess who won the new class representative at their school? KINGSTON!!! He had to go up against 3-4 other kids and give a speech and everything and he WON!! I am so proud of our boy! He is making great decisions in life and becoming a leader! He is now the 5th grade class representative for his class at Daffodil Valley Elementary !!  Way to go CHINGY!!!

New house!

We are officially closed and recorded on our new home!! Our new address is : 15009 96th St. E.
Puyallup WA 98372. You can look up the pictures on zillow  if you'd like. We have a lot of work to do but we are so excited!! We have one acre of land and it is sweet!  We are letting Tom, the previous owner to stay a couple more days to get his stuff loaded up and then he's headed to weezer Idaho! Have you heard of Weezer? I have only heard of the band. I don't know if that is how it is spelled but I thought it was a cool name for a town! I guess it is spelled Weiser Id. Pronounced like the band name. Pretty cool. He is glad to be moving on. I am happy for all of us! I can't wait to see the transformation!

New Shower

I keep forgetting to post pictures of this awesome, brand new, gorgeous shower that Aaron installed. He did have a little help. Richie cut some of the tiles and I grouted some of them. It was a lot of hard work, but so happy it turned out so nice and pretty. The shower door arrived on Friday and was installed Friday night.

Sunday

The kids had their primary program this afternoon at church. They both did so great! Sang every word to the songs, spoke clearly when it was their turn to speak and did a great job! Several people complimented them. I was a proud Mama. I can't believe I didn't get a picture of them all decked out in their Sunday finest. Oh well. Welcome to a new week!  Last week of September!  I just took a picture of them. Kylee is still in her dress and I curled her hair really pretty. Kingston was lookin handsome in his white shirt and tie today. I did his hair too. :)

Saturday morning

I got a call from Trevor Williams , one of our tenants from a duplex we manage in Fife. He called me from work and said his car was stolen and lost or couldn't find the key to his duplex and needed some help. Poor guy was distraught and I talked to him and said how sorry I was to hear this. Apparently the people that stole his car went and robbed a liquor store with his car.  He was so grateful that I was able to meet him at his residence with a key. He hugged me! He was cool cause he had a 49er's lanyard around  his neck. :)  We ended up driving there to meet him and the owners of the property were there doing yard work. Crazy morning for sure. We did get happy donuts though so that was awesome too!  Richie is taking his real estate exam this morning, wishing him luck! Haven't heard if he passed or not. We also got good news, we will be closing on our new house next week Wednesday!! September 26th! We are all excited and already have a buyer for our current home!! YIPPEE! AND, it is the first day of fall today!

Prophet's visit

We all went up to Seattle last night to Safeco field to listen to our prophet, President Nelson, President Eyring, and  sister Wendy Nelson speak to 49,089 people !! It was the biggest fiasco getting up there to find parking. We barely made it in before 6 pm ! We had to park 4 blocks away approximately. It was pouring rain on the drive home and kind of scary. We made it though! It was so worth going to hear the prophet speak. I really loved all their talks. I didn't hear much of Pres. Eyring as he is soft spoken and there were cheesebags around us talking and baby's touching us and smelling of poopy diapers.  Some parents are disgusting! They need to learn how to discipline their dang kids.  Anyway, regardless the message was wonderful and it was  awesome to be there. Derrinda rode up with us and that was fun. Here are a few pics I took.

Kylee's cute picture

Kylee has been working really hard on this picture. She colored it perfectly!

Back to school pictures

Our neighbor, the Wilcox's took these pictures for us. The kids are adorable!

New School!!

We were so excited to start school this morning !!! Kingston is now going to Daffodil Valley Elementary in Sumner and Kylee is going to Maple Lawn Elementary in Sumner. They are about one mile from each other. Kingston couldn't get into Maple Lawn cause they were at their capacity for 5th graders there, so we weren't sad cause Kingston attended Daffodil in Kindergarten. It is kind of tricky getting them to two different schools at the same start time though. Everyone was so nice at both schools and showed us around. We really loved both their teachers. Kingston has Ms. Gray and Kylee has Mrs. Long. Here is a picture I took this morning of them at their schools.

Rodeo/Fair/Cattle parade

I had a super fun time at the rodeo on Friday night with Derrinda. We watched the rodeo and the Scotty McCreery concert afterwards. I also took the kids that morning to the cattle drive/parade and got in free at the fair before noon that day. We went on the giant bounce house  together and Kingston even saw one of his good friends from school, Carson. Lots of fun was had especially for the end of summer!

Kingston's injury

I wanted to note that on Saturday late afternoon last week, Kingston was running back into the house and didn't notice the garage door shutting  and ran right into it and slammed his head with the door on his forehead and the back of his head smack dab on the concrete! He was screaming bloody murder and has a huge goose egg on the back of his head. We iced it right away and he rested and is feeling a lot better today.  Poor guy. My Mama heart was hurting so bad for him. You hate to see your kids get hurt. He didn't want me to take any pictures but I want to document it.

First day of school!

FINALLY!! The kids started school today at Ridgecrest elementary in Puyallup. Teachers are not striking anymore. They rode the bus this morning. Same bus driver as last year. I just called Maple Lawn in Sumner and they received my paperwork and will be getting back to me today!! YIPPEE!! I am so excited for the kids to be going to a better school and district. Here are the pictures we took this morning before they got on the bus. Miss Ava Lou loves walking the kids to the bus stop and back everyday.