Miracles never cease

Emma had a permanent tooth grow in behind the baby tooth which meant the baby tooth was not loose at all. Sorry if the pictures are a little gross.

When I called the dentist office I figured they would agree with me when I suggested she be sedated, afterall they were there at our last cleaning. They witnessed the screaming and running and mommy pinning Emma to her lap and holding her head still just so the dentist could look inside her mouth. Instead they said, we'll try taking the tooth out without using anything. If we have to we'll give her something that relaxes her. I thought, you've got to be kidding. They are crazy if they think Emma's just going to sit there and let them pull her tooth out, but that's just what she did. She was nervous and her heart was beating like you wouldn't believe, but she layed back, watched a tv show, and let them pull her tooth out just like that!!! I was almost in tears I was so proud of her!

The hole!

The tooth!

The trinkets! They gave her 2 tokens to spend, and a free ice cream certificate for being so good! That is our miracle for the week!

Family Update

We have family far away that has asked us to write a letter each week with everything new going on in our family for the week to better keep in touch. I've decided to kill two birds with one stone and use my blog as my update! So from here on out I will try to update my blog each week. Wish me luck!

Eldon had a rough week, even though it was short thanks to Labor Day. He came home from work Tuesday saying he felt like he was getting sick. He stayed home Wednesday with some sort of stomach flu. He worked Thursday even though he still didn't feel good and Friday only complained of a sore throat. Saturday did not help him feel much better since BYU lost their football game. He started feeling sick again, but for different reasons.

Sara turned 36 on Sunday and the happiest part of the week and day was knowing she didn't have to do sharing time!!!! We had regional conference on Sunday! I know you're all thinking, "Wow! Sara is that old, she doesn't look a day older than 29!" Ha Ha!!!

Sunday night we ate dinner at G&G Tuckett's house and Sara didn't have to help with any part of the meal! Spoiled! Here she is just before blowing out the candles on her chocolate eclair dessert!

She had a great birthday and feels blessed to have so many wonderful people to share in her celebration!

Not much exciting happened in Julia's life last week. They got their first loss of the soccer season and then played a practice game against a boys team their age and lost that too. This week will be better, especially since she gets to play Erica's team! Always fun to play against the cousins! Next week I'll try to get a photo of Julia's soccer team doing pushups after their game and the story behind it.

Emma started adaptive soccer on Saturday. This is a league for kids with special needs and they each have a buddy assigned to help them. The kids pretty much just took turns kicking the ball into the goal. Emma kept track of how many goals she scored. She would raise both arms up, clap and say 1 point after each goal!


Andrew started preschool at Wise and Wonderful on Tuesday. He let me take a picture of him at home and at the preschool door, but he wouldn't let me take a picture of him with his teacher, Aunt Kelly. I guess he doesn't talk to her much:) Andrew is one of 11 boys in his class and only 4 girls, but we think it's pretty funny that his best friend in class so far is not one of the other boys. Her name is Alyssa!



AJ found a new friend at my parents house yesterday. "My Little Buddy" was Jeremy's baby when he was young and now the grandkids love to play with him, even though he's not LITTLE like his name suggests! It was funny to see AJ try and drag him around even though the doll is almost as big as him!

Back to School

Emma and Julia on their first day of 1st and 4th grade.

Emma was the first to head out. The bus came at about 8:15.

After getting Julia off to school and I ran up to Emma's school so I could meet her teacher, who wasn't at the open house, and take a picture of Emma at her new school, Rees Elementary.

We were excited to have Max walk to school with Julia on their first day since Lisa had to be in Payson helping another teacher for her first day.

Julia will also be walking to school with our new neighbor, Abbie.

Last days of Summer

Our last trip of the summer to the Reservoir.



Highlights of the Fiesta Days Parade:
Plugging the ears for the first five minutes because of the cannon and guns!

Emma waving to all the princesses!

Our daughter was part of one of the many ball teams that ride in the parade. Usually you're wishing they would get the ball teams over with and get on with the parade, but not this year. We were waiting excitedly to see our Julia and her state championship team!

Our only and last trip to This is the Place State Park where they have a mini train to ride, along with a big train.

You can pan for gold and then use the gold you find to trade for a piece of candy at the bank.

Pet the animals on the farm....

and ride the ponies! We LOVE This is the Place!

That, in a nutshell, was the last few weeks of our summer!

Grotto Hike with Tuckett Cousins

Arches National Park

Day 2 of our reunion found us at Arches National Park. Our first stop in the park was Balancing Rock.

The kids had a great time climbing around on the slick rock trying to put themselves in any crevice they could find. One thing we learned about slick rock is that it's a lot easier to get up than it is to get down:)

There's an arch in the back ground here. I think it's double arch. It was a fun, short hike the kids really enjoyed, especially climbing around on the slick rock. I forgot to take my camera on the hike so I didn't get anymore pictures.


Delicate Arch will have to remain on our to-do list because the kids were done hiking for the day by the time we made it to this one. This is as close as we got.

Arches is a beautiful place! I can't wait to go back some day!

Mesa Verde

The second week of July the Tuckett family had a reunion down in Southern Utah. The first day of the reunion we took a road trip down to the North Western corner of Colorado to visit the ancient Indian ruins in Mesa Verde National Park.



Andrew heading down into the kiva (above), and in the kiva (below).



This was an amazing place to visit, and even though we only did one hike and saw one dwelling place, I was impressed and can't wait to visit this National Park again someday. The kids were just too tired to do anymore hiking that day.