Clark Clan: August 2010

Thursday, August 26, 2010

1st day of school

Summer is over and the kids are back to school. They were excited to head to school for their first day yesterday. Ellie wanted to pretend that she was headed to school too, but she gets to start Preschool after Labor Day.

Tyler is in 6th grade this year. I can't believe it! Time flies!! I am not too excited for Jr. High next year.

Brayden is in 3rd grade this year. He loves school and is excited about his teacher. At first he had heard that she was mean, but after back to school night and the first day he says she is nice.

1st Football Game

Brayden had his first football game of the season on Saturday in Logan. He was so excited and has been loving football so far. He has a great coach and a fun team. They did a great job on Saturday and ended up winning 14-0. Brayden usually plays safety on defense and the tight end on offense. I don't really know a ton about football, but he basically has to block on offense and on defense gets to go after the guy with the ball. I am hoping he will get to run the ball more because he is really fast!! It has been fun watching him and it is a change from our regular sport- baseball.

His brother Tyler got to be the water boy and take the kids water during time outs. He thought that was pretty cool!!

Swimming Lessons

The kids took swimming lessons the first 2 weeks of August at the Peak in Brigham. This is where the boys have went the past several years and this year was Ellie's first year. She was a bit shy and some days didn't want to get in at all. Bryce had to take her a couple of times and wasn't very patient with her. The first day she cried the whole time and didn't get in the pool at all so he ended up getting in with her the next day.

She never got her whole face/hair in the water but we did end up getting her to go down the slide a couple of times and blow bubbles in the water. She gets her water shyness from me.

Isn't she cute in her suit?

Ellie riding the horsey

Kicking on the side of the pool. She didn't like this much because she got splashed.

This was when I was coaxing her to get into the pool. I think she would have rather stayed on the step and watched.

Brayden doing his front crawl. He did great this year and is moving on to the next level next summer.

Tyler doing the butterfly. He is an awesome swimmer and wants to join a swim team. He definitely doesn't get his great swimming from me.

Monday, August 9, 2010

Brayden's Baptism

Brayden got baptized on Saturday. He was so excited and looked so handsome in his new suit. I think he had a great day and both of his grandparents made it too. I was able to do a spotlight on Brayden and tell a little about him. His Grandma Clark gave the talk on baptism and did a great job. Afterwards we had a bbq at our house. I am very proud of his decision to be baptized. He is a great kid!!