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Talk about your really really really hot weather! This one is a killer, this is what we looked like when we got home from school on the first day of school. Think we'll keep riding our bikes! YES! but we'll be bringing a spray bottle next time.
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1st Day of School

Here we are ready for school. Emery forgot her lunch and got lost after school but other than that it was a pretty good day. I have Miss Jones and Emery has Mrs. Zuchichi. Mom says Josie and Shelbie enjoyed their 1st day by themselves too. We are riding our bikes to school this year as you can tell by the pictures.

Red Cliffs

This is us girls by Lee's Ferry! We stopped on our way to Kanab. Dad says t has something to do with pioneers and where they crossed this river on a boat. It was pretty cool have the river was clear or kind of green and the other half was muddy because another river ran into it. We enjoyed the break from the car. Thanks Dad




Here's a pic of Dad and us girls. We also went hiking around Kanab and boy do they have some fun caves!

Intervention

Okay so I had to put my two cents in on the girls blog! I was writing letter for their teachers tonight, you know the ones where you have to put things like what they like to do, things that will help the teacher teach the kids, stuff like that. I was talking to Shane and asking him what I should right and I got to thinking how different both Darby and Emery are. Darby loves the spot light and while Emery likes it she does not require it and in fact will often let anyone else be the better at whatever IT may be. Darby does the work and does a pretty good job but nothing really sinks in while Emery seems to be dumber than a post until one day a week down the road when she asks an amazing question and your realize she is just absorbing all the information and departmentalizing it all into very organized files. Emery has to be given very detailed instructions while Darby is learning to branch out and think for herself. It has been so fun to be with them this summer and I am sooo upset that my time with them is already over. I need more time! They are growing up tooo fast!

Abby

UGH!

How can it be over? Summer I mean. I just started to enjoy sleeping in and getting bored during the days! I think we only got to stay in our PJ all day, like twice this summer!

We just went to meet the teacher night and both Emery and I have great teachers! I got Miss Jones and Emery got Mrs. Zichichi. Mom still calls her Mrs. Zucchini, I wonder how long that will last.

Well got to run 8:00 bedtime ya know!

Darby

Dive Team

So we have been working on dive this summer, we get up and go to practice every morning at 8:00. Then on Saturdays we have meets. Darby had to miss our first one because of her broken arm but she has done pretty well. We've learned to do front flips, back flips, back 1/2 twists, front dives and back dives. We practice at home using the ottomans as our diving board so Jo gets in on the action too. It has been fun to learn a new sport. Darby and I have a pretty colorful wall of ribbons from our meets. We both qualified to got to finals but we headed to Sherwood Forest instead! Maybe next year!

Love ya Emery