Clarissa turned 3

Out of order on the blog.  Oh well, I guess that is what I get taking months to update it!  Clarissa turned 3!  Our little Clarissa Girl, the Princess, Sue, whatever we call her at the moment.  Of course, we had to have pink cupcakes!

Annual Family Photo

It's that time of year that we have our family photo taken.  Fortunately, Aunt Debi came down to visit and has a bit more experience with the camera than the average joe.  Also, she does it real cheap...free!!  We took these out on the CSUCI campus.  I think they turned our great!  I love the bottom picture of the kids.  They appear to love each other!

Halloween 2011

 Steven (Ryan's friend) with the bros

 Annabelle and Sleeping Beauty

Belle

Halloween is generally a stressful time for mom.  First, she has to keep up with the constant changing minds of the part of her children in deciding what they want to dress up as, let alonw how much money and time is spent on creating/buying a costume.  In our family it also means there is a big event every two weeks till the end of the year with holidays and three birthdays!  This year the kids told me they wanted to be the Kratt Brothers so I spent time and money to make them a costume.  I won't lie, the outfits were ok, but must not have met the standards because the day after I finished, both boys wanted to dress up as football players.  Clarissa girl of course kept to the course as a princess.  The hard part was deciding which one!

Jog-a-thon

 Garrett's class

 Clarissa cheering on!

Ryan's class

Funny class pictures from this year's jog-a-thon.  Of course, we had our little cheerleader this year!

First Day of School

 The boys at the bike rack.  School is just 2/3 mile away so they are able to ride everday and love too!

 Ryan in front of Ms.Todd's class.

Garrett in front of Ms.VanWagner's class.

First grade was off to a good start when we found out Ryan got Ms. Todd for his teacher!  She has been great and Ryan is blooming!  It is amazing how much they learn at so young.  Garrett has an awesome teacher too!  He has Mrs.VanWagner for traditional Kindergarten.  She has been wonderful with the kids and Garrett enjoys going each day.  Sure makes it easy for mom to get them to school!

Wedding #2

 Ryan goofing off!

Sam and Adrienne

Daddy and Clarissa

It was Sam and Adrienne's turn to get married.  We zipped back  up to Utah for a quick weekend to see the ceremony at the American Fork Temple.  It was a beautiful day.  Later that night was the reception.  Here's were I ended up taking only a few pictures. I am getting lazy about taking pictures these days.  I'm really lacking in photos!

Soccer - year #3 for Ryan; year #1 for Garrett

We got back from Utah just in time for soccer.  This year was a bit different because Garrett was playing. Ryan was on the Green Hornets and I think they unofficially called Garrett's team the Red Hots.  Garrett was able to have games and practice at the same time each week to learn more about the sport since it was the kids first year playing.  He did really well and still loves to put on the uniform 9 months later!  Ryan also had a good year playing on the same team as friends Steven Bryan and Andrew Palma.