Fall is here

Just a few random pictures from this fall.  We went to a SDSU game w/ our whole family above is a picture of my parents w/ the grandkids.  Peyton is my little book worm and will read a book anywhere (brushing her teeth, outside, getting ready for school...you get the point she loves to read)  Jackson got his first two wheeler Strider bike...its a balance bike (as you may notice there aren't any pedals ) and is supposed to easily transition him to a regular bike w/o training wheels.  We'll see but he can go really fast on it, balance on it and go quite a long ways on it so it's pretty neat!  Grandpa Mike built the kids a sandbox just in time to get some use out of it before winter.  The kids (and neighbor kids) are getting great use out of  it so far and we've been lucky to have a nice fall!

First Day of School

1st grade

1st day of school

Went to a rodeo before school started

My little cowgirl and Jack!

Hard to believe my little girl is already in 1st grade! We started school last week and of course Pey loves it, being the social girl she is, she loves being back with her friends and actually really loves to learn. She was complaining about NOT getting homework the first few days and would assign herself her own homework--she's a funny girl. Jack is left alone for another year but I think he likes the one on one attention he gets now when I'm at home. He also started daycare this past week as our Nola started a job at the school, thankfully his transition went smoothly and he loves getting to play with all the kids! Although we miss summer and the fun it brings its nice to get into the routine of a new school year and all the fun that comes with it!

Ending on a high note....

Gazing at her horse

Jack on his pony ride

Probably the highlight of the vacation for Pey! She was a natural...

Visited Grandma Julie on the way back in the Black Hills

Stopped by Mt. Rushmore on our way home

Peyton claims she is a cowgirl....and somedays I truly think she is so we knew on this vacation we needed to try our best to go horseback riding...so we did in the Black Hills and she LOVED it. It was one of the highlights of our trip and now of course she continues to plan her horse ranch!! :-)

Hurray for VACATION!

We ended our trip at Mt. Rushmore

We were lucky enough to meet our wonderful friends from WA for a family vacation in Yellowstone! What a great time we had...


We saw buffalo...

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Old Faithful...

our best friends.....

We miss our friends!

Just relaxing

Awesome !

Hiking

Beautiful!

At the top of a waterfall

Carson, Jack, Alissa, Pey

Best friends-together again!

On our way!

This year we decided to take a trip to Yellowstone and met up w/ some friends of ours from Washington- the Martindales. We soon realized this was our first family vacation since Pey was born (how sad is that!) We had such an awesome time, saw so many amazing things, and loved being w/ our friends we've decided to make it a Meyer-Martindale tradition!

More catch up!

Just too cute

Our day usually include some type of riding horses of course!

Its too early to take my picture!

We visited the Farmers Market and the Falls

My mom and the kids

Typical Pey!

Visited the dam....record waters let out this year b/c of the flooding..pretty neat to see!

Recap of June...

We celebrated 11 years of marriage this June!

Jackson loves riding

Pey rode and rode

T-ball ..Pey did great and learned a lot this summer!

Our little friend we found

Bad Blogger

Really I haven't blogged since May?!!--that seems hard to believe..but I guess it must be true! Summer has flown by and we've been busy, busy...and had lots of fun. Between T-ball, swim lessons, vacations w/ GREAT friends, going to the farm, oh-more swimming, gardening, riding bikes...time has flown by. I'll try to do a short update w/ pics and then get better about staying on top of things!