Spirit Week~Nerd Day

It's spirit week for football homecoming at Grace's school...today was Nerd Day.

I never knew nerds could be so cute!

"Did I do that?"

a night at the zoo

during this past extra long weekend, we went to member's night at the zoo.

we loved feeding the birds.

carter just giggled.

it was pretty cool...birds flying past your head.

we visited a few animals before it got too dark.

then it was time to take advantage of the free rides.  the kids didn't even know there were rides at the zoo...maybe, because we somehow always miss them when we visit.  but, for this "special night" we got to ride all of them!  woo-hoo!!!

we had a fun time, but let me just say...the zoo is kinda scary at night.  i wasn't a fan of being in the dark with all the lions and tigers and bears. oh my.

boring

Our life right now is pretty boring.  We are busy, but there is nothing exciting going on.

Our days are pretty much...school, dinner, get ready for school tomorrow, go to bed, and repeat.  Throw in a soccer practice, Awana, and a couple cups of spilled lemonade and that sums up the days of our lives.

Grace and Carter did find my secret stash of powdered donuts.  I was not happy!  They were.

Kindergarten art is my favorite.  Especially, when the artist is my favorite kindergartner! It is titled "God gave us our families."

Grace won 2 games of UNO!  She said, "I'm as lucky as a fiddle."

We may just get a little crazy this extra long weekend.  Maybe.  Boring is good sometimes.

The end.

InstaFriday

My phone pics from the last couple of weeks...

We went to Jerry's!  Yummo!!!

They've been playing school a lot...Carter loves his backpack because "it's cute!"

Grace wants to know who taught me to eat jell (aka: jello), Mimi or Poppa?

I got a sweet note from a sweet girl!

An apple for the teacher...it's hard to believe that Grace is in kindergarten!

the first day of school

Water game night to kick off Awana...fun times!!!

We went to the river and had a boatload of kids!  That's not even all of them!

Girls just wanna have fun!

Carter's turn!!!

These three!  They were sad when their ride was over because they were having so much fun talking.

It's that time again!!!

Team night at Awana!

Have you noticed that I use a LOT of exclamation marks?

I do!

I hope you have a fun weekend!!!

The First Day of School

Grace had her first day of kindergarten.  Kindergarten, people!  That's like the real thing!  Big school.  For real going to school with grades and attendance and stuff.  I'm really not sure where the time went!

We celebrated with our annual "Back to School" breakfast.

After breakfast, Grace got herself dressed.  She was very excited to wear her new shoes!

They are going to miss each other so much!!!

Grace was a little nervous, but was excited to see some of her friends from preschool.

She met her teacher.

Then, went right to work at her desk.  She was very worried about her crayons...she had a 24 pack and everyone else had a 12 pack.  She did not like being different, but after some reassurance she was ok.

She said she had a fun day!  She also kept telling me that there are 20 kids in her class...way more than last year!

We are praying for a fun, happy year and that she develops a love for reading and makes a good friend!