Soccer Saturdays

Marveolus Maverick

 Sam LOVES school this year.    His teacher emailed me this week and said he was getting a special award this morning at the Rise & Shine presentation this morning.   Sam was so suprised and SO happy to get the Marvelous Maverick award.    What an honor that it is his first few weeks at the new school and he already made a good impression on his teacher!    I am so so proud of my third grader!

 These are all the 3rd and 4th graders that also got chosen.  

Caroline's first day

Caroline, Caroline let down your hair

Our sweet Rapunzel (Caroline) had a great 3rd birthday party

First Day #2

Emerson started her Pre-K class on Tuesday. She will go 4 days a week. She was so excited to put on her uniform and new shoes. Last night when I sat out her uniform for Wednsday she said "Am I going to wear that again tomorrow" I explained to her that I have 4 of these dresses and she will wear them everyday. She cried when I left her but she always cries every Sunday at church and at Preschool. She said she had a good day.

new school + new friends

Last week Sam's new school hosted a back to school parade. It was so fun. The kids all made posters with their teachers names. Doesnt he look thrilled that I was taking his picture

There are 6 third grade classes each class is full with 20 students! Thats ALOT of kids in one school. Our school had 855 students last year. It is the biggest elementary in the district.

First day! As you can imagine with that many kids traffic is terrible! So we parked and walked to school.

After school we hit the pool. We had it all to ourselves! The Greenwoods came and joined us! My sister lives only 5 minutes away!

Recents

I have been having technical difficulties loading pictures- so I have resorted to loading my camera pictures. Here are the random pictures and what we have been up to!

The kids have been LOVING Just Dance for the Wii- as you can see Emerson likes to "help" Caroline. Emerson showing off her new Toms- these are her new school shoes. Yes we fought the crowds on tax-free weekend. got Caroline a pair too. I figured if I waited for 30 minutes at Nordstroms with 3 kids I might as well get 2 pairs! They haven't taken them off. In fact, Emerson has planned her outfit for church tomorrow around her shoes- she might be a little bit like her mommy.

My mom got the kids school workbooks. It kept them busy for a long time- I had Tracey's kids that day too. But don't be fooled- five minutes after this picture they had every pillow and blanket and made a HUGE fort in the living room. Andrew and Meredith came to join the fun.

Sweet Caroline- please pray for her as she is going under anesthesia again this week to biopsy her esophagus. She will start physcal theraphy 3 times a week in September. If they don't find a cause for her swallowing problems after this procedure then we will just treat the symptoms.

Tracey, Amy, Jessica, and me.

Jess was in town from Germany wth Jack and Lula. We had so much fun when they were here! The kds loved them! (Sorry my letter button s stuck)

We went to Sea World with my mom last week for a fun end of summer vacay!

We celebrated Emersons 5th bday

Top Golf

These are the shoes we wore to play golf- real professonal

me, Meredth, Tracey, and Ashlee

Ashlee & me- we miss Ashlee- they moved to Georgia a few years ago! But we feel like we don't miss a beat when she gets in town!

We went to IPic theater in Allen talk about a frst class theatere.

Reclners with blankets and free popcorn. LUXURY!

Great way to spend the evenng.

Happy Anniversary! 11 years has flown by!

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Sea World

Here are the Sea World pictures. My mom and I drove down for a quick one night stay and used our season passes. The kids had so much fun! I had to get a picture since they were holding hands without being asked and without fussing! Caroline LOVED the baby Shamu

Day 2- we went and saw the 2 shows that we had missed the day before.

Emerson's Art Birthday Party

Our energetic and fun girl turned 5 today! She was so excited! Everyone she saw today she told them it was her birthday- she smiled and her joy showed all day! Before we went to church today she said- "I can't go to church today because I might miss a phone call to tell me happy birthday". A few days ago she got in trouble for answering the phone and she said "Can I please answer the phone on my birthday because people call for me that day". She waited all day for people to call her.

She chose a Art theme for her birthday- so we did tye dye t-shirts, bead braclets, decorated art smocks, and did canvas hand prints. I am exhaused- the set up and clean up for this party was a lot of work! I found most of my ideas on www.pinterest.com the best website ever!

the t-shirt station

The tye dye cake

Me and the birthday princess

Art Smocks with glitter glue and fabric markers

The handprint canvas- luckily the two Grandmas were very helpful with the paint and wet wipes to clean their hands. Overall there wasn't much mess (or I should say I haven't found it yet)

OK- note to self- all the kids need for entertainment is a "balloon forrest" as they called it. My kids LOVED the balloons!

We ate tie dyed cake, white chocolate dipped pretzels, cake balls, fruit, and Trix balls (rice crispy treats made with trix cereal), and these jello cups

I found these layered jello cups on pinterest. I thought they looked fun. I started at 7:30 Saturday morning and finished them at 5:00 Saturday. If you ever want to make them just know it is time consuming. Make the jello using the quick set method then put them in the cups or pan and put it in the freezer- reserve about 1/3 of the jello and mix with cool whip (however much you want- I used about 1/2 c) and layer on the jello after it has set. I let them sit in the freezer for about 30 minutes for the jello and 30 minutes for the cool whip. Repeat with each layer. They were very cute and tasty. I think you could only use one or two colors if you didn't want to spend so much time!