Brace Face, Maranda

The lucky day has finally arrived, Maranda gets to have braces. She got them yesterday at Garn Mason Orthodontics, from Greg Garn, the best orthodontist ever. She hasn't complained about pain even one time so far. I knew she was a tough one! She can't wait to have straight teeth.

Eagle Court of Honor

Yesterday Chandler had his Eagle Court of Honor. It was awesome. It was so great to finally have all his hard work and dedication pay off in the greatest honor awarded to scouts. We had many family members there to share the event and of course his wonderful scout leaders. Here is a display of Chandler's scouting experience including cub scouting with pinewood derby pictures, his recent trip to Havasupai and pictures of his eagle project. For those of you who don't know; Chandler's eagle project included collecting more than 1,700 books for a Navajo elementary school in Arizona.
Here we are getting our parents pins.

Dan, Chandler, Jannalee
Chandler and MamaGinger who helped him collect several hundred books from her friends.
Grandma Proffitt and Chandler
Grandma Evans and Chandler

First Day of School 2008

This year school started on August 11. Here are our Junior High students: Hanna is in 9th grade and Danica is in 7th. And here are our elementary students: Andria is in 2nd grade and Maranda is in 3rd. They are just so cute. I am so sad that I didn't get a picture of Chandler because he was so cute too. His school starts at 7am and he goes to swim before that so he was gone before I thought to get a picture.
Preschool started on August 18. Here is Samantha on her first day with Miss Peggy's preschool. Sam is loving it, Zan is not.

Beach Vacation 2008

Last month we went on our family's favorite vacation. Each year, the Proffitt's (all that can make it) camp at a KOA in Chula Vista. Every day we pack a lunch, load up the car and drive to the beach. We spend about 6 hours on the beach then we head back to the campground where we eat dinner, have a campfire and play games. Here are some of the pictures from this year.

Camping in the White Mountains

We decided to get away from the heat for the fourth of July. What we found out is that you have to go rather far to escape. We ended up traveling 5 hours to Big Lake in the White Mountains. We left early Thursday and returned late Friday because Chandler had to work on Saturday. It was so beautiful and the weather was gorgeous and cool! On Thursday, after lunch, we had quite a storm that blew the tent over and got everything inside it soaking wet. We spent the rest of the night trying to dry out Zan's crib.
So, that night no one slept in the tent because everything was still too wet and we actually all fit into the trailer. We were glad that we had such a large trailer that could fit nine people including a crib. It was pretty cold that night but the kids all slept well. Friday morning we went fishing and hiking and had another thunder storm. We enjoyed playing games in the trailer while it rained outside. This was such a fun vacation, we'll probably do it again sometime!

Sunsplash!

We went to Sunsplash with Schmidt Westergard a few weeks ago. It looks like we pulled out the camera exactly two times: once when we were playing in the splash area with the babies, and once when the big kids were golfing. It was such a fun day with lots of water slides, swimming, wave pool, bumper boats, go carts, arcade games, bingo, prizes, food and ice cream. What a fun day!

Chandler's Bedroom

Well we decided to put the girls all upstairs with the big bathroom and move Chandler downstairs with the small bathroom. This bedroom had been painted pink, blue, green and orange when it was Hanna's and Danica's room. So while Chandler was gone at his priesthood encampment, I painted his room. It is now a lovely tan color and I made the brown curtains for his closet so he didn't have to keep the brightly colored daisies. It was clean for 5 minutes so I took a few pictures. Zan is my room model.