FIRST DAY OF KINDERGARTEN

Abby was so excited to go to Kindergarten, I was so nervous to send her. She couldn't wait to get on the bus with big kids. She got up early, put on her new outfit she picked for the first day, ate all her breakfast and was all set to go. When we got to the bus stop, we discovered that her new friend, Lauren who she had met at the open house, and who was also in her class, lived just down the street from us...and we thought we knew all our neighbors. The bus finally came and off they went...Ally was very sad to say good-bye to her sister. She was very clingy and didn't know what to do without her sister there. We managed to keep ourselves busy all day, and finally walked back down to the bus stop at 4 pm. When Abby came off the bus, first she was very concerned that her friend Jenna, who gets off at the stop before hers, had left her backpack on the bus, then she opened up her backpack, pulled out her folder and showed me that she had HOMEWORK! She was so excited...lets hope she keeps that up right? She had a great first day and couldn't wait to go back.

Abby

Abby & Ally

The 4 of us

Abby & Uncle Ricky

Abby & Grandma Sandi

Abby & Grandma

Abby & Mommy

Daddy & Abby

Ally & Abby walking to the bus stop

Sammi & Abby

Lauren & Abby

Getting on the bus

Grandma, Ally & Mommy walking home

Coming home off the bus....with hers and Jenna's backpacks

Abby & Madison

A "GIRLY" DAY

Since this was Abby's first year of school I decided to have a girly day with her so she could pick out some new clothes for school. She wanted to go shopping first, so she picked out a very cute outfit for the first day of school, then it was out to lunch. I was hoping for a nicer sit down place, but she insited it have a play-land, so we ended up going to Burger King, which did save me money, but wasn't exaclty what I had in mind. Last she wanted to have her nails done, so we went to the local nail salon, and she got to pick out her colors for her finger and toes. They had sooooo many choices it literally took her about 10 min to decide which colors. But she loved every minute of it, and had a huge smile on her face the whole time. I am hoping to keep this up as a yearly tradition...it was a lot of fun!

First her fingers....

then her toes...

now they are drying

All done!

Look at that smile....she is such girly-girl....I love it!

STATEFAIR

Since we hadn't been to the Statefair in about 5 years we decided to take the girls and go enjoy some deep-fried food on a stick. The girls had a great time going on rides and eating lots of junk food. They also liked seeing all the animals. We had lots of fun, but will probably wait another 5 years before we go again.

Abby& Ally

Ally

Abby

Stephen & Abby

Abby & Smokey

Abby

Ally & Me

Ally & Abby

Ally & Abby petting a chicken

Abby on the giant tea cup (Ally is in there too, you just can't see her)

SAILING

In August we had the opportunity to go on a sailboat with our good friends, Dana & Amy. The weather was perfect, and we had a lot of fun with great friends.

Amy & Curt

Me & Curt

A cool boat we saw

The whole crew (plus a random passer-by)

Me & Curt

ABBY'S LAST SOCCER GAME

Abby's soccer is all done for the season. She had lots of fun playing, and it was especially fun to have Daddy and Brie as her coaches. They did a great job and you could see improvement from the begining until the end with Abby. She started out more concerned about matching shin-guards and water bottles, and eventually realized that she was there to score goals and not socialize. Thanks Daddy and Brie for a great season!

Daddy getting them ready for game time

Abby doing a corner kick

Abby's Team

Coach Brie Coach Curt

Makenzie Avery Abby Elly Jayden

Abby & Daddy

Coach Brie & Abby

NATIONAL NIGHT OUT

We love National Night Out, we are pretty much stuck outside with our kids everyday and night that it is not raining, so it is especially fun when the neighbors are all out too. We love our neighborhood and the wonderful neighbors that we have, so it great to have all the kids playing together and enjoying themselves. We feel very blessed to have such wonderful people around us all the time!

CC Tori Abby Emma Sammi & Ally

Sammi & Ally

Abby & Tori

Ally & Emma

Jim-Jim...Little Emma's Dad

We have a ton of little girls in our neighborhood...seriously we are in real trouble if we all still live here when they hit puberty....can we say DRAMA!!

TEA PARTY

Ally found a tea set at one of the neighbor's garage sales, and so the girls wanted to have a tea party, well actually water & cookies. The were extra excited when two little girls from the nieghborhood came walking down the street and wanted to join them.

Ally CC Abby & Tori

CC & Abby

Ally

HOME MADE ICE CREAM

Our neighbor Sammi bought this ice cream maker for $1 at a garage sale. So we decided to make some homemade ice cream. I was surprised it actually worked, and it tasted really yummy too. We made vanilla and then we had toppings for the girls to put on theirs. A very fun summertime activity. Next time we might try chocolate...yum!

Ally Abby & Sammi waiting for the ice cream

Our delicious ice cream

Abby is so excited to try it she can hardly wait

They loved eating it :D

They even brought a bowl over to Sammi's Mom.