First Day of School!!!

First Day of school breakfast with daddy!!

Adores his daddy!

Adoration goes both ways!!

Love this boy!

Beginnings of a Ninja

See my muscles?  These are awesome first grader muscles!!

Love his missing tooth! (number three) :)

First Day of Pre-K!

And oh the sassafrass has begun!

The sun is in my eyes, but I'm still cute!

Not to be outdone by the older two!

They start Tuesday..

Adorable!

I'm a big boy!!

Be still my heart!

Praying for the day. 

After school treat for the first day! :)

What a joy my kids have been this summer!  While I will miss their sweet faces each day, I am so excited for all they will learn this year! Excited for a real schedule!! 

Easter Egg Drop

A local church was hosting an Easter Egg Hunt.  We had heard about it too late last year, so we decided to head over this year.  The field was marked off in 3 sections for different age groups.  Under Preschool, Preschoolers and Older kids.  We had a hard time getting out of the house on time and really should have planned better, but we finally made it there, ran across the field while watch a helicopter drop 10,000 easter eggs onto the field.

We rushed across to our age group just in time to turn around and go back to where we were.  We could have stayed where we were, but didn't want to get yelled at by the angry parents who had been waiting there for over 45 minutes to be "first in line".  Seriously folks?  It's just easter eggs.  But apparently, it is taken very seriously.  Anyway, the kids were so excited about the helicopter.

When they called out our age group to start, it was insanity!  Someone dropped their smartphone of sorts and instead of reaching down to get it (and possibly get trampled), they looked down, looked back up, grabbed their child in their arms and started running.  Mayhem, I tell you.

We got quite a few eggs and vowed never to go to it again. It was an experience that only needed to happen once.  The kids enjoyed it for the most part though, and it really is all about them, right?

Poor little one was just tuckered out.

Moms Club Easter Egg Hunt

We decided to join a mom's club that is in our area.  It is full of fun moms and tons of kids. The first event we went to, to check it out before joining, was an Easter Egg Hunt. It was a little cold and drizzly, but the kids enjoyed running around outside (until they stopped and started to whine because it was cold and they wanted to eat all of their candy).  I seriously need to learn how to adapt to the winter and summer months here, otherwise my kids will never see the natural light without a thick sheet or two of glass between them.

Creative little stinker!

While hiding out under a large bin playing what I thought was "fort" games, this little stinker decided to be creative.  At least his mouse (top picture) came out pretty cute! I'm going to have to keep an eye on this one!

Apparently, he wanted to draw and didn't bring any paper under there with him, so this was the next best thing.  At least he knew not to draw on my bin! Crazy kid!  Got to love him!

Note to self...

...bring change of clothes for kids after swimming lessons.  Kids didn't want to get their seats wet from their swim suits, so this is how they rode home. Um... yeah.

Daddy Time!

Helping Daddy and spending time with him is a favorite time of the day!  Even if you have to improvise!  Monkey is just now starting to like being on the mower, because she can drown out the noise!  Love how they puff out those cute cheeks!!

He can't wait for this to be his job in quite a few years!

Jumping Madness

Thanks to a good friend, we found a great deal on a trampoline for our kids.  It's a smaller one, but we like that we can have it in the house or outside and feel the kids are more safe and secure in it!  Ever since we got it and put it together, it has been jumping madness in our house!  Every chance they get, they go in there! Right now it is taking up half of our living room, but this week, it will head out to the garage/outside area.  Phew! More space again!

They have also enjoyed taking their big bag of balls and making a "ball pit" in there.  Just need about 500 more to cover the surface and another 1000 balls on top of that to make it really pit-like. Oh well!  100 is enough to have some fun! ;)

Purposely wearing socks so they can slip and fall. They love it!!