Reid and Stefani Adopt

Isaac's first day picture. He started school 3 days before Esther. Isaac walks Esther to her class like a good big brother during the first week of Kindergarten. Esther's first day of school.  She totally froze when she got to her class and we had to leave her there crying.  She was fine when we picked her up, though. Seems to love school now. Isaac and Esther pose during Kindergarten round up.  Our school's mascot is the Mustang.

This summer we went on a 2 week vacation to one of my favorite places on earth... Blanding, Utah!  This is my home town.  We flew into Denver, CO, and took Isaac to the Denver Mint.  Later that day, we went to the Denver museum of Nature and Science. Isaac outside the Denver Mint. Esther in the play area at the Museum. After spending some time in Denver, we drove to Blanding.  We spent some time with cousins hiking, and we even got to spend some time at Lake Powell. We hiked to a little known waterfall on Blue Mountain near Blanding, Utah. All the cousins in the back of the pick up truck Reid and I rented, coming down from the mountain hike. This was a floating restroom at Lake Powell.  Somehow we totally neglected to take pictures of the kids swimming, tubing, and of Reid and I cliff jumping.  I guess the restroom was a bigger novelty than any of those other exciting things we did... We visited the Bluff, Utah fort, where the Pioneers settled after car