First Day of School

Everyone is going to a different school this year so things were really exciting on the first day -

Alaina is solo for the first time at her school this year and with a teacher that none of her siblings had. She's so happy to be going back to school - I wish they all were!


Off she goes . . .

Rebecca is sad because everyone else started on Thursday - but her classes don't start until Tuesday! The good thing is she gets jammy time longer :)

See what I mean about wishing everyone was happy about this?

He tries really hard to fool everyone - secretly he loves school!

Kathryn was first on the bus to school - up and ready early for her first day of Middle School!!!

It will be an interesting year . . .

Garrett hits double digits!!!

Didn't this happen awhile ago? No, wait he was just in Kindergarten . . . Why does it feel like both are true? He doesn't like frosting (is he really my son?) so he asked for Cheesecake instead (good alternative). Unfortunately we were camping on his birthday so couldn't go to the Cheesecake Factory - but got him the Sam's version instead - which was still really yummy!

Since we were camping, we also got a normal cake - lots of families and kids with us to celebrate!

At home before the camping trip - our family party.

Waffles for dinner and present opening . . .

He was happy!

Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn from the Grandma and Grandpa in Texas, he's working on Tom Sawyer . . .

Climbing rope from Grammy and Grandpa here. He had an excited face, but I kept telling him to smile normally and finally had to take the photo before he gave up on me and put it down.

I'm a little afraid of what he's going to climb. . .

Happy Birthday Garrett! We're so happy that you are growing up so well - You're amazing!

What's wrong with this picture?

One Sunday not too long ago, Rebecca left our house in her beautiful dress

with these shoes on her feet.

So adorable!

They are cute, she's been wearing them all summer,

and she has friends at church that have shoes just like them.

I did notice that they were two left feet before we left for church, but I thought maybe a friend had left their left shoe at our house and went home with two right foot shoes.So at Church I found that friend and took one shoe off Rebecca offered it to the friend's mom and grinning asked for my shoe back. Then I looked down at our friend's cute feet and realized that this friend had her pretty white shoes on the right feet with no doubles.

Rebecca went all through church with her shoes like this (one a half size smaller than the other). I kept a look out for other little girls with these shoes that might have two right feet with no luck.

At home I searched our closets and shoe baskets and found that I had the same shoe in two sizes :) Ooops! I guess it's not always someone else's fault . . . .