Avery's first day of preschool

Avery started preschool this past week!  She is going 3 days a week and so far loves it!

UGA

We moved at the end of July to Athens, GA.  Christopher started their MBA program and we will be here for the next 2 years.  My brother, Hansen, came and visited us for a week!  We took him on the official UGA tour!

The stadium!

 Terry College of Business, where all of Christopher's classes are!

 The church bell on campus.  And no our girls were not strong enough to make the bell ring on its own. 

 The famous arch on UGA campus.  It is said to be bad luck to walk under the archway until after you graduate...so of course Hansen walked under it!!

We even took Hansen on the UGA bus!  Avery really loved it, despite what her face is portraying!

Summer Vacation!

Our vacation started out great!  We were headed to Utah for the week. 

 Christopher loves to stop at all the state signs to document what states our kids have been in!  

 We spent our first night in Kansas City!  We went and saw the new temple!  

 And then we went to a Kansas City Royals game.  They even won!!!

 Our second day went great until we got into Colorado!

 And our car broke down 100 miles east on Denver.

 Here we are in the tow truck!  We rode for 100 miles just like this!!!  

 We had a day detour and spent the night in Denver.  We ended up leaving our car there to get fixed.  

We rented a car and kept on going to Utah.

 Before going to our reunion we stopped by our old apartment.  

 Here we are at Gates Hall!  This is where Christopher and I met.  We had to get a picture because very soon it will be bulldozed!

 The "Y"!  

 Our goal this summer was to get pictures of our kids with all their grandparents.  Here they are with their great grandma Blake.  

 Here they are with grandma and grandpa Blake!

The worlds most awesome teeter totter that also spins in circles!

 After Utah we went to Grand Junction to see Christopher's grandparents.  Avery and Sarah loved their back yard.  

 Avery, Sarah, and James with their great grandma and great grandpa Siebert!

 Our plan was to go the same way home as we went out to Utah, but because of our horrible car problems we had to take a detour to Texas and stay a couple of days!  I, of course, did not mind one bit!!!

4th of July

We spent of 4th of July at home in Norcross.  We went swimming and Sarah showed off her new skills!  She can now swim with just floaties on her arms.  It has made swimming much more enjoyable!

 We bought a bunch of sparklers to do with the kids.  Avery loved them and James loved watching them...

...He did not like holding them.

 Sarah thought they were pretty cool, but didn't like the sparks coming at her.

Tubing Adventure

We took our girls tubing this summer for the first time.  Avery loved it and could not get enough.  She yelled the entire time while on the tube, "Go Faster!!!"  

 Sarah on the other hand enjoyed the boat ride more than the tube ride.