First Day of 2012-2013 school year!

Today was the start of our 2012-2013 school year.  The kids woke up early to a waffle breakfast (special request by the kindergartener !)

 We've got on our first day outfits, and now a pic with the signs :)

 She is ready to go into her new elementary school!

 such a big girl. . . . still makes me teary-eyed looking at this pic

 She went and found her desk right away, put her nametag on, and got out the manipulatives to play with until the 8:00 bell rang

 Dadoo with his little princess

 again.....teary-eyed as I type :(

 Goodness gracious, I love this sweet girl so much !  Going to miss our Mommy/Anniston date days :(

 He was so excited for her this morning.  They gave big hugs right before we walked out too !

 We then went over to Treyson's school for his first day of Pre-K !  (Well, year 1 of 2........similar to Anniston, he is the baby in his preschool class, so he'll do another year of Pre-K at a different church.  With his September birthday, we are glad that it worked out this way for him)

 Dadoo with his T-Man !

 This little stinker keeps me laughing constantly (and will also happen to keep my beautician in business in the future as I get to my "graying" age--this boy will be my "tester" !)

 Peeking in on his classmates. . . they had just sat down for breakfast !

Anniston and Treyson,

We are so excited for this school year that lies ahead.  You are both so smart, and we are anxious to watch you grow and learn as the year goes on.  We love you both the mosty wosty!!

Love, Mommy and Dadoo

MaMa's Birthday Weekend!

We headed down to Lake Ouachita and got to celebrate MaMa's birthday a couple of weekends ago.  We woke up Saturday morning and made her pancakes with a candle so that we could sing to her.  The kids really enjoyed that---looks like MaMa did too !

We then headed out for a fun day on the water

Michael was "surfing" since the rope was still attached to the boat!

Love this pic of Mom and Dad

This is pretty much what we do....float

Then we go into the boat to eat.....

Then float some more while the kids flip and jump over and over into the water

They were determined to catch a fish with their buckets (I must admit, I even tried for awhile)

What a fun relaxing weekend.  We headed into Fisherman's Wharf Saturday evening for a yummy birthday dinner with MaMa and PaPa.  Then, they took the grandkids back so that Todd, Mel, Jerry, and I could hang out in Hot Springs for awhile.  So much fun!  Thank you MaMa and PaPa!!

Weekend trip to St. Louis

We took the kids up to St. Louis the first weekend in August so that we could meet sweet George!  He had gotten off of his oxygen tubes the week before, so this little man is just deciding he's ready to be so big and strong--way to go little man!!

We got to St. Louis Friday afternoon (made a pit-stop in Branson Friday morning to do some tax-free shopping), and the kids just played outside and ate ice cream.  Here's a pic of Will with his ice-cream face ! :)

Sweet George sleeping on his Nanny

Kinley

Now Anniston

The kids slept together in a guest bedroom.  I thought this was so sweet all snuggled up together

Treyson and Will playing games on Nanny's iPad

Aunt Tracey's dad has season tickets to the St. Louis Rams, so they invited us to go to the Rams' Fan Day before the scrimmage on Saturday.  We got to walk around the field, throw footballs, and look at the locker room.  The kids LOVED it!

Thank you to the Bokermann family for hosting us for the weekend.  It was so much fun to get to visit with all of you!  Thank you for the amazing hospitality you provided us!