First Day of School

We were waiting for Charles to get on the bus in the morning, or I should say early morning as his bus comes at 6:25am! This was Charles' first day of second grade and Ryan's first day of Pre-K. Both boys were really excited.

I had a very hard time getting the kids to stand still and smile at the camera. Amy just wanted to walk on the grass!



Charles has a teacher that Caitlyn had for a few hours a week in the 5th grade. That's the first time this has happened. His teacher has been teaching for 21 years and likes the Charlie Brown Peanut characters, Snoopy in particular.

Ryan has the same teacher that Charles had for VPK, Ms. Stephanie.

Both boys are doing very well in their new classes.

Amy's First Birthday

Okay, so I'm really behind on my blog posts. Amy is already 17months old and I still haven't posted the pictures from her birthday party. Have no fear folks, I just downloaded all of the pictures from my camera to my computer and I have a rainy three day weekend ahead of me, so what better to do than update the blog.

We had a small family celebration at the house as we did for Charles and Ryan. Amy had a great time. She did appear to be quite interested in several of her gifts even though she also liked the tissue paper and the balloons too!

Amy in her cute Bday outfit.

Crawling to open her first present.

She loved the tissue paper!

I love how Caitlyn, Charles and Ryan all helped Amy with her gifts. They were just as excited and she was.

Caitlyn gave Amy a cute Mini Mouse hat. Adorable!
After all of the presents were opened, Amy went immediately to the balloons!

Grown-up Bedroom Makeover

We made a few changes to the girls' bedrooms at the beginning of Summer. It was time for Amy to move to a new "big girl" bed. We converted her crib into a toddler bed. She loves it and stays on every night. I don't know how but she does. She knows how to climb off the bed but she does not like to do it and would rather wait for you to come get her in the morning.


We got some new "used" furniture from someone in our neighborhood that was moving and part of that furniture included a new bedroom set for Caitlyn's bedroom. We got rid of the metalic loft and turned it into a classy but girly room! So Caitlyn's room now looks more grown-up too! She now has a black and white poster of the Eiffel Tower in her room too and her grandmother made a black curtain to cover up the storage area on her bookshelf as well a sewed a decorative bolster pillow for her bed, so we've even made a few more improvements from when I took these pictures.