Cohen heads to KINDERGARTEN
1st Day: August 25, 2014
Basswood Elementary
Ms. Pittman
Full-day Kindergarten

 He has been counting down the days for a month!

He could not get to school fast enough. I will admit, I was just as excited for him. He is SO ready for school, was not nervous about a thing. He couldn't stop smiling since the moment he popped right out of bed.

 There was playdoh ready for him at his desk which he was thrilled about, that they got to play with until school started.

 Ms. Pittman already seems like the perfect fit!

I think we scored and got the best kindergarten teacher there.

 After school...

So excited for all the fun adventures Cohen will have this year, and all the fun and new things he'll learn.

A quick story about last night...

After dinner and bath and jammies, we sat down for Brock to give Cohen a Father's blessing (tradition every year before school starts). Cohen was giddy about it, while Brock was changing into church clothes to give the blessing, Cohen said "Mom, do you what I'm most excited about starting school? Getting this Father's Blessing". He thought is was miraculous! I had to peek at him most the blessing, he was smiling SO big with closed eyes. After the blessing he thanked Brock for such a great blessing. He said he really liked the part about how he knows how to be kind and reverent and will be a great example to his classmates. Made my heart happy how excited he was about the blessing and how much he listened and remembered from it. Brendon didn't want to feel left out, so he received a blessing as well, for some extra help missing Cohen while he's gone most the day.

Eternally grateful for a wonderful husband who holds the priesthood, who is willing at any moment to give blessing to our family. What a great example to our boys he is.

HAPPY SCHOOL YEAR!

I have nothing but good feelings about this year.

Adventures on Saturday
{Saturday, August 16th}

We all need more adventure in our lives...

While Brock was studying on his LAST big Saturday study session, we took the bikes at found some new trails at a park.

 This wild boys thought it was AWESOME to ride their bikes UNDER an actual road. Very adventurous, right?  ;)

 Playground time, which led to taking their shirts off at hitting up the splash pad...

 Cohen loves getting right in and being crazy, getting dumped on.

 Brend would much rather chill in the stroller with a snack. :)

 

My little FISHIES

Cohen's 1st swim without floaties - Aug 2014

 The other day we were at the pool and Cohen out of the blue decided he wanted to swim with no floaties on... Eeeek! My biggest fear is my kids drowning, so this was big for me.

He basically taught himself to swim.

Between Brock and I were gave him a few tips and he just went for it! I couldn't stop smiling I was so proud. His bravery and confidence level has skyrocketed this past month.

He is already swimming under water for about 15-20 seconds and is diving for rings. Yikes.

Way to go Buddy!!

You are amazing.

We are so proud of you,

and thank you for saving us money on swim lessons. ;)

NEW CAR time
{August 4th}

Meet Mozzie!

2008 Mazda 3 

"silvery blue" as Cohen tells everyone

 We found this car on Craigslist on a Sunday night, it was posted as only having 13,000 miles on it. So we jumped right on the deal! The next morning Brock drove to east Dallas to test drive and then it was ours. Once again, blessed big time! It really is practically brand new, the plastic covers were still on the cup holders in the back seat. I don't think anyone ever sat back there.

The cars story is this...

It belonged to an old lady with Dementia.

Extremely sad story, she shot her sweet husband thinking he was an intruder in their house, then she was put in a rest home until she recently passed away. She hardly ever drove the car.

Brock looks so good in it, not our idea color or even what we were looking for, but we feel like we scored big time!

We ended up buying it for $8,400.

We had been test driving other cars around that price with 70-80,000 miles on them. 

We couldn't turn this one down.

YAY for Brock!

He FINALLY gets to feel like a king while driving.

He so deserves this.

Oh, and the reason why we bought this new car is our old honda broke down in Phoenix on Brock's last day of his rotation there. AGAIN, blessing. Not a coincidence that it was the last day...

The mechanic said there was at least $1,000 worth of work to be done (which the car wasn't even worth that anymore) but lucky enough Brock posted the car that day and it sold in 2 hours for $1,000. Brock then flew home and bye bye Ol' Red.

It had almost 250,000 miles on it, it was time.

Welcome to the family Mozzie!   

NEW (used) STROLLER

A few weeks ago a sweet lady in our ward was giving away this stroller her daughter was getting rid of. I was the lucky one that snagged it! So excited, mostly to haul Brend and new baby around in it. Brend doesn't stay close to me for very long and walks REALLY slow, so I was hoping to get some sort of double stroller.

I LOVE THIS ONE!

The boys and I scrubbed it down and made it looking brand new.

  

Papa, Nana & Matt
came to our house!
July 25th - July 30th

(all iphone pictures, oops)

This helped us big time with leaving Utah, knowing that we would have visitor coming a week after we got home.

Uncle Matt was invited to some football thing in Oklahoma City, and it was cheaper to fly into Dallas than there so we were lucky to have visitors. We all went to OK city together and stayed a night, had a new little adventure.

 We went to Bricktown for dinner and to party on the town and see the city.

 break dancing session going on during and after dinner...

 Fuzzy's Tacos.....HOLY MOLY YUMMY.

  Thought we found a great sacrament meeting close to our hotel, but ended up being a Spanish branch. Ha. Oops. Still was awesome, such a strong spirit in the chapel.

 Saturday we swam before we hit the town... the pool was FREEZING so it was short but sweet.

 At Uncle Matt's Football shindig. I guess there were scouts there checking him out, or something like that. He's an amazing athlete, it was fun to watch him a little.

  Back in Fort Worth, Papa took us to a movie, Planes 2: Fire and Rescue. Such a cute show. The boys both loved it.

Bike riding and mini train ride was perfect for the 79 degree weather we were lucky enough to have.

Making family trees and talking about ancestors for FHE.

 One last outing to Bahama Bucks while our visitors were here.

We love you Papa and Nana and Matt!

Thanks a million for the fun visit. :)