Brackon's 63 Mile Ride

This is for you Jeannie! You wanted to see pics of Brackon and his bike. He and a few of his friends were in an organized bike ride this Saturday the 11th in Northern Georgia. They rode 63 miles and it was so hot and humid. They'd had heat advisories the whole week and Sat was no exception. This first pic is of him and his good friend Zane. Zane is the one who got Brackon really involved in road biking. Zane did the 100 mile ride with a some of the other guys.
This is Mike he works with Brackon. This was his first ride with the guys. He did the 63 miles with Brackon and Justin. The pic was taken after the race so they were exhausted and had an hour and a half ride home from there. In our ward there are about 12 guys that ride together. Brackon loves it and has lost 30 lbs already.

Berkley, Berkley, Berkley

Berkley has gotten so big! She's 4 months old now and you can see just how big she is in this picture with Morgan. The girls love to hold her (as long as she doesn't spit up on them) and Berkley LOVES it! She misses them when they're at school. She just rolled over for the first time last night from her tummy to her back. She is such a content baby, but sometimes has her moments so we thought we'd let you see one. We put her in her jumpy seat and she didn't last very long!
My how you're hair has grown! Morgan's baby doll that grandma & grandpa Livingstone gave her for Christmas lost her hair and we thought it would be funny to put it on Berkley. Her head is a little too big for the wig. This picture may be a lot funnier to our family than it is to anyone else, but we laughed our heads off!
I need to talk to Rob and Flori and see what it is that Rob does to get Bea to smile in her pictures. Everytime we take Berkley's picture she stops smiling! It's like standing on your head to get her to do it in pictures. She really is a very smiley baby, but we just can't show you! Her acid reflux is still horrible. I always have to put her down on a blanket with a burp rag because she is spitting up none stop. It's not just after we feed her either. The only time she stops is at night when she's asleep. Poor baby! They say that it should get better when she starts eating solids and sitting up on her own. She can start eating solids next month so we're crossing our fingers that it will at least slow down. Most people I talk to whose kids have acid reflux say that it doesn't really change a whole lot until they are around 9 months to 1 year. We'll see!

We have dicovered that Berkley LOVES books! It's so cute to watch her get excited when we read to her. She loves to hold the books herself as well. She straightens her legs out and points her feet and shakes with excitment. She is also starting to make that noise that Kennedy made when she was little and concentrating on something. It's so funny how each child is so different yet they will exhibit little behaviors that are the same.

1st Day of School

On Monday the 6th the girls headed back to school. They were ready to be there! The bus leaves at 6:55am so we quickly snapped a few pic's before we headed to the bus stop. It's so early to be going to school, but we're used to it now. In Utah our school started at 9am so when I called their school here in Georgia and was told what time they started, I hung up the phone and started to cry, literally! It cracks me up to think about it now. The tears were more for my sleep than theirs.

Morgan is in 4th grade this year and has a great homeroom teacher. When we went to the open house to meet her she was hilarious and talked up a storm. Now let's be realistic here for a second, we all know that I could talk the ear off a tree so I walked out of there knowing that we would be getting along just fine.

Emree also has a great teacher. She's in 1st grade this year. She's at the age where school is sooo exciting and loves to be there!

Kennedy is now in 7th grade, her 2nd year in middle school. She is growing up so quickly! All the girls are. Kenners loves her math and science teachers. Everyone asks me if I'm excited to have my girls back in school so that I only have one at home. That's not the case because I've lost all of my little helpers. Berkley really misses them too!

Kennedy's 12!

Happy Birthday to Kennedy! I have been really bad about keeping up our blog so we are starting back in July. Kennedy didn't want to have a big birthday party so we had a fun day as a family. She wanted to go see the movie Hairspray so we went and saw that in the morning and then played around for the rest of the day until we had cake and ice cream in the evening. I still can't believe that we have a 12 yr old. Wasn't I 12 myself not too long ago?! Crazy how quickly life seems to pass us by.

Kennedy is such a great girl! She is very responsible and so much fun to be with. It has been so fun watching her grow up and mature into a young lady. She's the self proclaimed second mom around the house. On Mother's Day Morgan and Emree brought breakfast up to me while I was in bed. Kennedy was on my bed talking to me when they brought it up and asked the girls where her breakfast was because she was like their second mom. It was hilarious!

We are glad that we have Kennedy in our family. We don't know what we'd do without her!