Preschool for Wyatt

Wyatt started Preschool this year. It has worked out so nicely with each kid to team teach with my friend Shai, her 3rd daughter is the same age as Wyatt and she has a little boy  Ryker's age. So she teaches Tuesdays and i take her baby and I teach Thursday's and she take Rykers, I love teaching and enjoy spending that time with Wyatt and Brooklyn. It is going to be a really fun year.

1st grade and 4th

We absolutely love Chamisa, they both were just excited this year. They knew what to expect in the primary and middle team pods and knew that they were going to have fun with all their friends they had missed over the summer. (mom was the worst at getting play dates this summer)

Sure to love these kiddos we are blessed with. Britton luckily had a break in his crazy travel schedule in August and got to participate in all the first day of school fun.

We had flown in from Las Vegas the night before and had to wake up the little boys to get to school on time, hence the sleepy grumpy faces.

4th grade and 1st grade got some good ones.

Conway is so thorough and thoughtful he loves science and math and wishes he could just think about and discuss things with out writing it down, but he is getting better.

Ellese loves to try new things and is the bravest girl I have ever seen especially if she doesn't have time to think about it she will jump right in and try the hardest things and rock at it!

What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas

Not really but we did take advantage of Britton';s 7 week work assignement in Vegas to enjoy a mostly free vacation., the best week for our schedule was the 3 days before the first day of school, so we threw caution to the wind and went on our last fling of the summer

Britton racked enough points flying back and forth from Las Vegas in July that we all got to fly for free

Britton got the easy row for sure.

and this girl was not the problem in my row. Ryker did not sleep on the flight and it was not easy keeping him happy, grateful the flight was not any longer

Landed late Sunday night. Kids thought the mini van was the coolest, to different sky lights and lots of cool features.

The Lambson train everyone had a bag to carry and pull.

Britton went to work early Monday, and we got to explore our Luxor hotel

the Luxor is the location of this show on the strip

That night for dinner we went to a Hard Rock Cafe, Wyatt appreciates a good restaurant experience and was so cute when Dad took Ryker out so the rest of us could finish our meal, Wyatt's comment, "That's better, now we can enjoy our dinner. " LOL

A huge blessing Tuesday Britton, didn't have to go to the testing sight and was able to stay with us at the hotel while he worked remotely for a few hours.

 

We surprised the kids with a fun aquarium visit, got to see some cool sharks and other fun exhibits

The food court lunch. Part of our aquarium package was the amazing pool at the Mandalay Bay hotel, amazing wave pool, lazy river and great kid section Ryker loved. We spent the rest of the day there, Britton was the only one to get sunburned.

Sure do have fun with these party people 

 Conway edited this photo of them at the hotel waiting to check out

Headed home Wednesday

Pretty sure they hung a sign that said "no climbing in this window" after we left, little monkeys.

Made it back to NM at 8pm this picture is a good representation of how the flight went of my struggle trying to keep Ryker happy and still had to drive home but it was all worth it for one last summer fling thank goodness the first day of school is only a half day.

Summer Fun

 End of July I got to go help out in the kitchen for girls camp!

First time girls camp had been able to use camp Gorham. I don't think I have mentioned yet that i have a new calling in the ward as the first councilor in the YW, Britton was the first councilor in the YM for a few months and was released and replaced with my Dad this month. a having a really kitchen and showers  and facilities it was amazing definitely acted like an old person and kept saying "back in my day we rubbed to sticks together.... and did not get to have all these amenities"

While I was at camp for one night Britton's got everything packed an ready so we could head to Ramah for a Lambson family reunion and pioneer day. Half of the group all camped up on the Mesa for 2 days and we were able to take some great family pictures have a July monsoon swept through and soaked everything, all of us scrambling in our tents trying to look presentable again will be a memorable part of the photo shoot. The most memorable part of the photo shoot came when Dane stared downloading and editing the photos after we all left and we got see Seth and Ashlee's pregnancy announcement! Pretty tricky you guys.

A great new tradition we are hoping to to recreate every year is a mountain bike race that Koriel designed around the Mesa and back into town. this year only Britton, Koriel and Corinne participated but we are all hoping to get ready for the next one.

The next weekend the Britton and Conway went Backpaking for 4 dyas with Grandpa adn Uncle Westley in CO for a fishing trip with friends, they hiked 15 miles in and out and lived off of fish. Conway loved ever minute of it and can't wait to go backpacking again with his Dad.