Kindergarten, 3rd, & 9th....IT's GO TIME!

Well today is the day that I have been dreading and waiting for. It was bittersweet, on one hand I am so ready for routine, and earlier bedtimes, and some peace & quiet during the day. But on the other hand I love my kids and I miss them when I'm away from them and I don't know of I've mentioned this before but Morgan is starting high school!!!! I am SO NOT ready for that! But ready or not the time has come.

So I will start with Morgan. This year she has to leave an hour...HOUR earlier than in years past. which means I have to get up at the ungodly hour of 5:45 am. It was so dark outside and it is my belief that no one should ever have to be up at this time of day.

David will be taking her this year so that I can get the other two up, ready and take them to their school. But I was sad this morning because this is the first time in 9 years that I didn't take Morgan to school on the first day:( But my hubby knew that I wanted pictures so this was the best he could do from inside his car..

Now onto McKinley & Madison..

Both girls got up happy & excited to start their day.


Madison's Teacher gave all the kids these little "Jitter Glitter" bags during open house. So the night before the first day of school we were suppose to sprinkle the "jitter glitter" on her head to help her sleep & get all her jitters out:). Madison LOVED it:)

I am volunteering in the lunchroom for the next 2 weeks..sigh! I am a Little worried about how Madison will do:) She tends to eat slow & talks and looks around etc so David & I have been talking with her about this and telling her that she only has 25 minutes to eat so she cant talk..Well today she came right in sat down and ate all her food, which I was thrilled about...I kept praising her BUT then she ate so fast that she had 15 minutes of just sitting there...which can be a problem because Madison is not one for being still or quiet! So here is a picture progression of her in the lunchroom, oh yes, I was there to work but I had to take pictures too.

So we are still gonna have to work with her on this:)

McKinley had a great lunch time as well:

I can't wait till they all get home and I can find out how their day went.


Happy Tuesday!

OPEN HOUSE

Thursday night was all 3 girls open houses for school, and of course they were ll at the same time! Ugh. We went to McKinley & Madison's first and David & I split up to save time. He took Madison to meet her teacher and I took McKinley.

You can tell by her face that she is just a WEE bit excited about school:)

Madison & Mrs.Aune

McKinley's teacher we have known for a long time & love her. Mrs. Wheeldon was also Morgan's 3rd grade teacher 6 years ago.

Then we ran home dropped the two"Little's" off with a babysitter and went to Morgan's high school open house....There is only one word I can accurately use to describe that open house STRESSFUL! I was completely overwhelmed. We are coming from a small private christian school where the total number of 8th graders were 35....35. and Morgan's new school has 600 9th graders...600!! I will leave it at that and just ask for prayers many, many prayers.

I had every intention of taking a few pictures of Morgan at her open house because there is NO WAY she is gonna let me take any of her there on the first day of school, but with all the stress I was under, Pictures never even crossed my mind.

I came home and then ate one  two spoonfuls of nutella to calm myself down:) It worked!

When we got home the girls were having fun with Jazmine taking pics:

Oh my, I don't know what I would do if I had that many kids!

Just two more days till school!!!!

ROOM REDO, MORE SCHOOL SHOPPING & SWIMMIMG

We took Madison to get all her school supplies.

 She is very excited about starting Kindergarten.

We've  also spent our days playing will baby dolls:

 Eating ice cream at 10 in the morning!!!! Don't judge me, its the last week of summer..we ALL need ice cream by 10 AM:)

 Morgan went to GAP camp at Newsome...Have I mentioned my first born, my baby, will be starting HIGH SCHOOL in 7 days!!!! 7 days! I am in denial big time.

She got her class schedule on Thursday. She's already sporting her Newsome shirt.

 She came to us a few weeks back and asked for a "teenage" room, well she did more than ask, in true Morgan fashion she made a model of what she wanted her room to look like:

So we did a total room makeover the past few weeks: ( I forgot to take a before picture)

 She wanted a couch:)

She was Happy with the way it all turned out.

And McKinley has been swimming a lot, she loves playing with the underwater camera:

I am counting down till school starts, we have had a wonderful summer, made lots of memories and got to visit with family But I am craving routine & organization ..all the homework, not so much but early bedtimes definitely!!

Happy Tuesday!

PRETEND THERE IS A CREATIVE TITLE!

I've got nothing! I just have not had any desire to write a blog post lately, maybe because we've not really done anything exciting:)

David got his "sabbatibeard" shaved off..He starts back work on Monday:

When we go on sabbatical David lets his hair and beard grow but when it's time to get back to work he cuts it off:)

Meanwhile, Morgan wanted to redo her room so she painted some canvas' to hang on her wall. I left her about 11 PM one night working on them in her room. This is what I found the next morning when I went to check on her:

Bless her heart! She was up untill 1 AM painting.  Once she starts High School in a few weeks I am sure this is a scene that will repeat itself over and over.

We took McKinley to get her school supplies, last year we took all 3 girls at the same time and I almost had a melt down in walmart... never will I do school shopping for all 3 girls at the same time again!

3rd grade...yikes!

I took Morgan to do a little school clothes shopping...She has always wore uniforms until now, she is very excited to say the least:)

I can't believe we only have a few more weeks left of summer. I am a little sad but I am starting to crave my routine again. This year is going to be a little tricky with Morgan being at another school. I will have 3 kids getting out of school at 2:30, 2:45 and 3!!!! Soooo I am going to have to be on a strict schedule to make that work.

Well I better go, Morgan is having a pool party her today so I have some cleaning & cooking to do!

Happy Friday!

Melissa

16 years!

It has been a wonderful, scary (at times), fun 16 years, babe!  I love you!

SIX

Madison turned SIX yesterday! This was her 2nd birthday with us and she had a great day. We spent the last 3 days at the Nick hotel in Orlando.

Madison & McKinley got "slimmed" 3 different times, played for hours on watersides & had hours of fun.

Waiting to get slimmed!

 I even got slimmed once..there will be no pictures of that to follow:)

I think McKinley could spend all day long on the water slides, two days in a row she spent 4 hours straight going up & down the slides:

Madison enjoyed them too:

They got some tattoos as well:

And we even had breakfast with sponge bob & all his friends one day.

Morgan has been a real trooper. I know that when your sisters are 6 & 8 years younger than you she has endured lots of things that have not been so fun for her:) She joined right in on the picture taking fun and even got slimmed with us one day. Morgan your the BEST!

 They brought Madison out a cupcake with a candle at breakfast:) the cupcake had a pink umbrella on it and oddly enough that was her favorite thing..she carried that umbrella around all day!

Happy Birthday to my sweet & sassy girl!  I love you!