All 3 of my girls did the Pine View Cheer Clinic this year! It was so cute to watch them. I was even suprised Brielle did it. She didn't even get scared.
Makayla loves to dance and cheer she is always the one that wants to be the first one to do it every year.
Brielle watching her leader. She loved being with all the other kids. She felt so big!!
This picture didn't turn out very good. But it had the panther in it, and my kids all LOVE the panther!!
Corben turned 8 and wanted a "Lego" friend party. He is so into Legos and loves to build them.
And these are the Lego party favors for all his friends to go home with.
He had 10 of his friends he invited to his party, and played lots of lego games. They especially had fun playing pass the lego with 2 teams, like an relay race. They had to carry it with a spoon acroos the room and couldn't drop it, The team that had the most in their bowl ant the end won!
Corben opening his presents!!
All of his freinds had to do a challenge of who could come up with the most original creation from Legos.
Blowing out his number 8 candle!!
Yeah!! We finally got our addition done on our house. It was quite the project, but I am so glad it is done. It is hard to still try to live in your house while you are working on it. But we managed and now we are so glad we did it. We love having a bigger living room and opened up our dining room. I especially love having a fireplace. So much Fun!!
We also added brick to our arch way and Brett did all the casing. So then it all ties in.
We did the rock and casing on the other side.
So the wall use to be where the beam is but we took it out and moved the windows back, and double our living room space. This was a great summer project for Brett. He did a great job on it!
We moved the door over more and did an arch way with brick where the old doorway use to be, and we just cased it in and added brick in to our house for some more texture. Brett did a good job matching our wood floor so you couldn't tell it was added on.
We went up for the football game and we stayed up there for Labor day weekend. My brother Steve came up with his kids and we stayed in a hotel up there with my parents. We went to the Swiss Days in Midway. My mom had never been before so I wanted to take her. 
We ate at a 5 buck pizza that was just behind our hotel. I was suprised how good and it was and cheap. I had never ate at one before. The kids all loved it. Brett loved it too cause they had tv's all around with football games on.
We went up tho the Varsity game in Salem Hills, it was so pretty up there. I loved the cute valley by the mountains and it was so green. My parents went up with us and we took Corben and Brielle. Kesley and Makayla stayed with Grandma and Grandpa Gifford.
Brett is the Defensive Coordinator for Pine View. He is excited about it, he has coached for Pine View for 8 years and loves it, and has good kids he coaches.
It is so much fun to watch him calling plays down on the field. It makes the games alot more fun to watch.
He talks on the headset to another coach on the tower during the games!
Brielle does so good at the games. She likes watching the cheerleaders, annd can't wait tell the end of the game to run down and see her daddy on the field.
My parents had their 40th wedding anniversary. We wanted to do something fun and special for them. We rented the church and had a nice dinner catered for everyone. We suprised them! We all pitched in and got them a gift. My brother in law Paul had some oldies music playing and my parents had fun dancing. It was cute!
The kids had fun watching them dance!
After dinner we set a projector up and watched our old slides of all of us when we were younger. It was fun to have my kids see all my family when we were little! I was sad Brett couldn't be there, he was coaching a football game.
Steph brought her popcorn maker. It was like we were at the movies.
My sister Steph cutting the yummy cheesecake!
Me and Marsha did all the decorations for it. We did it all in their wedding colors, light and dark purple. They turned out so cute!
It was nice to have lots of room at the church with our big family!
I can't believe it is already that time of year again, Back to school. Where did the summer go? I am excited for the new school year, the kids all have really good teachers, and I think they are going to have a fun year. They are growing up so fast! I can't believe my oldest is going to be in the 5th grade! Crazy!
