First Days of School!

Last Thursday and Friday, each girl got to meet their teachers for the new school year! Cayleigh was extremely excited to get Mrs. Bunch because she was one of the teachers who had spoken to her back at kinder round-up. Brooklyn met Mrs. Ward and Morgan met with Ms. Liz and Ms. Shirley at our church. Each girl was pumped about school beginning again and looking forward to meeting new friends. After seeing their teachers, we had dinner and surprised our new kindergartener with a new backpack and lunch box!

Cayleigh and Mrs. Bunch

Our sweet kindergartener, ready to rock school!

Brooklyn and Mrs. Ward

Ms. Liz, Morgan and Ms. Shirley

Yesterday, was the First Day of Second Grade for Brooklyn, Kindergarten for Cayleigh, and Preschool for Morgan! It was a busy morning! Everyone woke up happy and ready for school! It was a fabulous day and each one raved about their teacher and how great the day was. We are so thankful for their independence and love of learning. We have and will continue to pray for this school year and their teachers. Each of our sweethearts are so very different and we pray their uniqueness continues to develop and blossom!

Age: 5, Favorite Color: red, When I grow up I want to be a Cowgirl.

Age: 7, Favorite color: aqua green, When I grow up I want to be an Architect.

It was by far the sweetest thing to watch how loving and excited B was for Cayleigh to start! She has taken her under her wing and Cayleigh said that after the first day, she only wanted Brooklyn to walk her to class (sad sigh).

Haslet Elementary school year 2017-2018

I am so incredibly blessed that these sweet girls call me "Mommy!"

Kinder, here she comes!

Second Grade, here she comes!

This girl is so grown-up! She told stories about how she had to help the other kids in her class who didn't know how to do certain things! Oh goodness!

1 Year Check-up

Zach had his 12 month well visit today and he is doing great! He weighs 19 lbs and is 29 in long (both in the 12th %). His head circumference was 45 cm (17th %). He took his shots like a champ with minimal crying and got his first round of the flu shot. Praise for a healthy and happy boy!

Zach is all over the place and into lots! He eats everything and is not in love with whole milk yet but has to tolerate it because we are out of formula and this momma is not buying anymore. He says dada and mama (mama is very rare) and can follow things that you ask of him. He can stand up on his own and just took a few steps the other day, so I'm sure the world of full walking will come soon. He has two teeth on the bottom and one of top that are through with 3 more in line on top coming very soon all together. He is happy and happy and happy!! We adore our little man and are constantly entertained by his need to climb under places.

Zach's Party

We celebrated Zachary's first birthday with a bowtie themed party at the house with family and friends. It was simple and fun! I made Zach's personal cake and one other small cake and all the food. We had pulled pork sandwiches, several sides and bowtie shortbread cookies. The messiness of cake eating and chaos of gift-opening used to stress me out and now, I think its just good ole "crazy!"

A dear friend made the wording and picture decor that was around our house!

Can't believe our little man is already 1!

He ate a tiny bit of the cake and icing, but mostly just played with in it and made a huge mess!!

mmmmm, maybe I'll try it

Silly boy!!

Summer Days, Part 2

The second half of the summer really picked up speed (as you can tell with all my delays with blogging)! More swimming, trips, activities, and visiting with family and friends. It was very busy, but on the days when it wasn't, we were lazy and just spent some good ole time with each other. Usually lots of morning to-do's and the very hot afternoons were inside lounging time.

One of the sunflowers in our backyard that the girls planted. 

We drove north to a much smaller zoo, Frant Buck Zoo and met some friends there. We had a really great time. The weather was nice, they had a mini train and a huge park to play at too. It was very manageable and so much fun!

The girls participated in a service project; helping feed lunch to homeless children. Unfortunately, due to other obligations, we could only aide in buying some food to go into the lunches. But, Brooklyn came up with a way that we could minister to the kids with the rice krispie treats we bought. They really do have big serving hearts!

Crafts, Lumi Snow (new ice cream place), lost teeth and giggles!

Sand Art

Painting t-shirts

New toy we inherited from a friend!

Cayleigh had Art Camp with two of her best friends, Layla and Phoebe!

B yanked out another tooth...I don't think it was quite ready yet.

Here is the ice cream we tried twice. Lumi Snow and it's like shaved ice but melts in your mouth like ice cream. It was really good and the girls devoured it within maybe 2 minutes. No Kidding! The pink one is called, The Circus, the blue one is Birthday Cake and the chocolate one below, Campfire Classic.

We also got to see family from the de Wolfe and Treese side. My uncle Gary and Aunt Debbie came up from Houston with their boys, Stephen and Andrew. We had dinner and extended chat time with all of the them.

Cousins Addy and Kate came to visit and they spent the night one night (sleepover!!) and we got to spend the morning with the birthday girl, 8 year old Katelyn! We got fun donuts for breakfast and painted clay pottery figures. Kate's birthday party was later in the week at an indoor pool, but I forgot to take pictures of that.

Addy and her bear donut

Birthday Girl and unicorn

Cayleigh and minnie

Morgan and sprinkle one

Brooklyn and her chocolate twist

Playing with Zachy boy

Can we say #toomanygirls Ha! Such a fun time with cousins! Kate chose a giraffe to paint, Addy a turtle, Morgan a mermaid, Brooklyn a fox and Cayleigh a penguin.

I also had my annual alumni soccer game. I missed last year because I was super pregnant with Zach, but we made it a family affair with the girls and Aaron and my college roomie, best friend Kensley!

20th Season for our coach, Neil Piper

A photographer captured some shots of us, here is Morgan running around

Me taking a corner kick (if only it was zoomed in...my face looks so fierce!)

We rounded out the Friday before school starting with a trip to Chuck-E-Cheese because who doesn't like to play a bunch of games where you earn tickets for terribly cheap prizes and when its half price?!