Rachel Earns $500 Cash!

Murphy Oil awards students in the first grade who score in the top 85th percentile or higher on the SAT 10 with $500. Rachel along with 35 other students in the El Dorado school disctrict earned the award! She wants to buy a laptop computer!

This is the president of Murphy Oil, Mr. Wood. He gave a speech and then awarded the eligible students their awards. He noted he thought Rachel looked really cute. Thanks Mr. Wood! Cute and Smart!!!! Way to go Rach!

Drew Made All-Stars!

Drew and one other child his age made T-Ball All-Stars. He was playing with kids who were going into 1st and 2nd grade. It was so fun to watch. He was actually in the paper today because he went 11 for 12. He played in four total games. There were 14 teams from four states. GO DREW! He was also first in the batting line-up for every game. GO DREW! Ricky and Tyler were SOOOOOO proud (and so were Rachel and I).

MOVING!

We are moving! Ricky has accepted a new job with a company called NIDERA based out of The Netherlands. We will be moving to Chicago, IL. I am a city girl at heart and so I feel like in a small way I am going home. We are all excited about the move.

The Whole Family!

Here is the whole entire gang. We were all able to go to Aspen Grove in Utah at the end of June. We had so much fun. All the kids were able to enjoy TONS of activities during the day and the adults were also able to have a little bit of fun...ha ha. We played paint ball, shot guns, and played every sport imaginable. The surroundings were amazing and the weather was PERFECT.

Boom, boom...Fire POWER!

Hiking In UTAH

Love this picture!

Stewart Falls in Utah

There were two nights where the camp had family games. Of course, this spells BYU! LOVE IT!

My cute sister and brother!

Swimming at Aspen Grove

Can you believe this view? The weather was in the mid 70's and at night got down into the 50's. Thanks goodness for heated pools. Yep, if you look close, you can still see some snow in the mountains.

Aspen Grove

Drew lost his first tooth. He seems so grown up with a missing tooth. He loves to touch the spot where the tooth fell out.

Ropes course, high above the ground! I was also able to conquer this course. First you climb a long log, then a rock wall, then walk on these wire ropes. Pretty amazing!

Rachel did the monkey bars for the first time all the way! Thanks Elle for teaching her!

Aspen Grove

Rachel and Elle. Ahhhhh. So cute!

Drew had pirate day with his group. He is captain blue beard.

His cousin Sammy was captain white beard. I thought it was funny...in this picture he is closing the eye with the patch drawn on his face.

My whole gang on the last day. We sure did have a lot of fun!