Middle Child Syndrome...

I have always worried about the whole "middle child" thing. I've never wanted Austin to feel neglected or anything because he is the middle child, although assuming we have more kids, he won't always be. But I just realized I just posted one post about Taylor and one about Emma, so being the fair mom that I am, I figured I better post one about Austin. But WARNING...the pictures following are kind of gross!!! The other day I accidentally ran over Austin's toe with the shopping cart. OOOPPS!! He insists on climbing all over the cart...so it was bound to happen one of these days. Needless to say, we make quite the scene in Walmart. Anyway, thanks to that little accident, Austin is now in the process of losing a toenail and Ira thought it would be cool to take some pics....don't look if you think you'll be grossed out!!

Watch out...little diva is here!

So it's been a new experience for me being the mother of a little girl. It is crazy to me just how much being "girly" comes naturally. Emma has only brothers and yet she is ALL girl. Here is a picture of Emma modeling her little tutu I made her. She loves to twirl around in it. The next pictures of Emma wearing these little boots she found the other day at Old Navy. She is obsessed with shoes. She saw them and insisted that I put them on her. Once they were on her feet she just grinned and grinned. And let me tell you, when I took them off of her to put them back she threw a pretty good little tantrum. She could get a little expensive!!! She loves to shop and she's not even two! But look how cute the boots are....at least she has good taste ;

He's all grown up!!

So i always forget that the pictures are going to go up in the opposite order so they are always backwards from what i wanted...but oh well! Taylor turned 6 on Wednesday. I can hardly believe it...where did the time go? And even more than that, when did I possibly get old enough to have a six-year-old child?!?! The day after Taylor turned 6, he had his first day of first grade!! It is so weird to have him gone all day. I get him up and get him ready and then i don't see him until almost 4:00! But he is loving it already and doing so well. He is such a good boy and we love having him in our family. On Saturday we had a party for him with all his friends. It went really well except for the small fit Taylor threw when he was the first one to get out when we played "Hot Kryptonite" (our version of hot potato). He's still working on the being a good sport thing :) Gotta have a little drama right?!?! Oh yeah, my neighbor went to lunch with her little boy on the first day of school and she sent me a picture of Taylor having his first school lunch. I was so nervous that he would trip and spill his lunch everywhere and then be starving all day...but he did just perfectly!

Horseback Riding

A friend of ours took Tay, Austin, Emma and Daddy to a ranch to go horseback riding. The kids had a blast, and I couldn't believe how well they did riding by themselves.

Summer time....

So after I published my last post I decided I would add a few pictures from the summer. So things are out of order...but oh well...here they are!

Such a bad blogger...

Really...where does the time go? I can't believe I haven't blogged in over 2 months!! I know everyone has been desperately waiting for an update from the Hinckley family, right!?!?! So the summer has been kind of a crazy one for us. I know there is no hope of me getting caught up on everything we have done so I'm going to have to settle for an abbreviated version.
Here are some of the main events:

The boys had swimming lessons (they passed with flying colors!)
Emma started nursery (she hates it!! We are still working on that...)
Ira turned 30!!! I threw a big surprise party for him...he had no idea!!
Spent a week in Pagosa Springs, Colorado for the Hinckley family reunion
I went to girls camp for a week
Ira took the kids horseback riding. Emma loved it and giggled the whole time...she still does when she watches it on film!)
Taylor played on a t-ball team
Austin took a reading class
We had our entry way and kitchen tiled
Ira's brother Stu got married
Ira and I celebrated our 7 year anniversary!!
Sent my little brother, Brian,off on his mission to New Zealand
Went to Youth Conference
Took the boys to Raging Waters (Taylor went on everything he could. He had people cheering for him at the bottom of this one ride because they couldn't believe a kid his age was brave enough to go on it!)
Beyond these things...we spent lots of time outside playing, and swimming in the pool! We have had a really great and really exhausting summer! I can't believe school is starting up in two and a half weeks. Taylor will be in first grade! It will be so crazy for him to be gone all day! Austin is also starting preschool this year and will go three days a week. Emma is still our little princess and she rules the family...she is getting more and more personality everday!