Kylie's Party Part 3

Kylie's party Part 4

Kylie's Birthday Party Video

I am unable to embed the video at this time. If you click the link you
can watch it. Unfortunately, If I had taken the video with my phone I
think it would have come out better. However, I love how she is
singing along :)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBr8MvwUOrg&sns=em

First Day of School

Our first day of school was today! Other than Kylie being slightly more distracting than I anticipated (she was just really excited), today probably went better than I expected. The boys did great the whole day (about 4 hours with a short break in the middle). Once Jaden said "I'm tired of sitting here" so I will need to make sure I let him roam. Today we talked about school and expectations, looked at all the school stuff, marked our calendars, talked about George Washington, reviewed a few sight words, did Language Arts, Spanish, Science, Math, Reading, Writing and Comprehension. Phew! Math, and kind of reading, were the only subjects that took more than a few minutes. I had Kylie eating her breakfast and watching Sesame Street while we did math and I think that worked really well. Kylie did about 8 (VERY SIMPLE) pages in her workbook, played a little in her room, and did some coloring. They said they liked it which is a good thing since we will be doing it from now on ;). The location of these pictures did not make for a great one - but here are their pictures. Kylie is technically not even old enough for what I refer to as "real preschool" so I call what she's doing pre-preschool :)

Labor Day Weekend!

I am short on time so this post will be a little scatterbrained - but we had a great Labor Day Weekend! On Sat we were able to visit a very dear friend of mine from High School and her family (who have also quickly become family friends) up in Mooresville. Sadly, they are over an hour away. Not sadly for that day - but sad for all the other days :). We had a nice visit, some lunch, and the kids had a great time playing. They have a boy just over a year older than our boys and a daughter just under a year older than Kylie. They get along great! You can't often say you remain such great friends with someone this long past high school! We have some friends just south of that who we know from Bellingham (how crazy is that?) Brandi has a hair salon at her house and Jared and Jaden got their hair cut. The dads then took the kids swimming, we had dinner, and celebrated their son's (also named Jaden :) ) 5th birthday! Fun times! Sadly, I have no pictures of this day. Sunday we caught up on some chores and relaxed. Monday we went to the columbia zoo with our friends from Bellingham and had a blast! It rained a little but it wasn't a big deal. I DO have some pictures of that....

Fun at the Pool

We had LOTS of fun at the pool this summer! I'm so thankful we were able to go! Today was our last day (unless we sneak in one family visit before the end of the weekend) so we stayed until they cleared everyone out! I took some pictures on Monday because the weather for the week was not looking good. I didn't know if we would get to come back. But we did today!

School part 2

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Everything is set up for school! If this was our house that we owned I
would have had a whole different vision. But what we chose is much
more practical, portable, and easier to store - should the need arise.
I'm thankful for this part of our house that was really used very
little. The boys will each have their own desk and Kylie and I will
share the big wood one. 2 more weeks! I'm excited and nervous at the
same time!!!!