First Day of Preschool

Alex started Preschool today. She has been talking about starting school pretty much since she could talk. She's been counting down the days since her Dad started school over a month ago, she figured she should've started school then too. When she woke up today and I told her it was a school day she about jumped out of her socks with excitement. The fact that school didn't start until 1:00pm was torture for her, and for me, since I had to listen to her beg me all day to let her go to school already! She insisted on wearing her new "fall" clothes even though it was 80+ degrees outside. It was so cute watching her walk down the street to her first school day with this huge backpack on her back. She has 3 friends in our neighborhood that she is going to preschool with and we switch between houses for school. I can't imagine watching her walk into a school room with an huge backpack on her back next to lots of other little kids with huge backpacks on their backs. Although she is already picturing that day and can't wait for it as well. She came home today with her first homework assignment, "just like Dad" and couldn't wait to get started on it "all by herself". Our little girl isn't so little anymore (it doesn't help that she's taller than all her friends too). I hope she always stays this excited about school but we all know the excitement wears off after a few years.

Ah, to be young again...

When was the last time you laid upside- down in a chair and read a book?

And no matter where Johnny is, he always feels like he can get just a little bit higher.

Camera Flirt

Alex's new favorite piece of clothing is her new pink skirt. She has worn it two days in a row already and asked, as she was changing out of it into her pj's, if she could wear it again tomorrow. 3 days is pushing it, it'll probably wind up in the dirty clothes hamper. But you can be certain that as soon as it is clean again, she'll be showing everyone how it twirls when she spins around in a circle.

Frosting Fiend

We went to our nephew, Brayden's Birthday party the other day where of course everyone over 2 feet tall was served cake and ice cream. This is Johnny doing his best puppy dog look in hopes I would be kind enough to share mine with him. Now how can you turn that down? At first I gave him some cake, apparently that wasn't sweet enough for him.
He spit it out with a terrible look on his face as if I was feeding him spinach and continued to beg until he got a fork full of frosting. How he knew that there was something even better spread ontop of the cake, I do not know but he was quite persistant until all of the cake was gone.

Wallowa Lake Camping Trip

Near the end of August, we packed up the kids and drove 4 hours to Wallowa Lake campgrounds in Oregon. There we met up with Brian, Stefany and kids (Chris & Lizzy) as well as Jason, Tiffany and kids (Brayden, Logan & Ethan). Alex had a blast running around with her cousins, collecting pinecones and playing Jedi Knights.
Johnny just loved that he was aloud to eat dirt and play with rocks and sticks all weekend long.