School Daze

I cannot believe the summer is already over and the kids are back to school! Trent is now in 7th grade....starting a new school.....lots of adjustments! Jared is now a big 4th grader and goes one more hour than last year....and Byron is 1st grade, so he goes the full day (sort of) as well..... The kids always like Chloe to line up as well! She's so cute sitting there!

Being dropped off in front of his door!
Byron with the same teacher the other 2 boys got! Our boys all got great teachers this year so we are thrilled!
Here's one nervous boy!!! The light was just behind him so the picture didn't turn out so well. I took it from the van....
And he's off.....my thoughts were with him all day that day...wondering HOW his first day of Jr. High was going!!!

Flowers

I received some flowers recently from 2 very special friends.....these first set were from Sandy and family.....

And the pink bouquet was from Nyla....both of these ladies were roommates in college 2 different years! It was SOOO special!!!

Hot August Nights

Talbert and Karen invited us up to Hot August Nights with them! They are veterans, but we've never gone before. We had a great time! These are all pictures from Trent....he took dozens!

Water fun!

Took the kids over to a park with a water area today. They had great fun. I'm always so glad that Trent, though he is going into 7th grade, does not worry about what people think, but just has fun with whatever age of kid he is playing with! So he might have been twice the size of the other kids, but had just as much fun!

There is a bucket that fills up, then every few minutes tips over.....here it is coming down on them.

No....Jared didn't know this little girl..but it sure was fun to point the water gun at her!

Byron's 6th birthday

Can you believe it? Our baby turned 6!!!! Sunday was "the day"...we started out with none other than cinammon rolls, of course! What could be better than that for a birthday breakfast!!?

Those fingers taste pretty good!
After we got home from lunch, he decided he wanted to open his presents, rather than wait till Monday when we were going to have a few people over. We scrambled and got them wrapped and opened before we left for meeting!

Byron loves stuffed animals. He uses them and uses them. They are not doomed to the lonely corner of forgotenness (I like to make up words)....so he was thrilled to get this lion he'd had his eye on for some time now!
Monday night we had Mariah and Morgan, Kyla, Kaelynn and Bryson, and Brandon&Nick over. The kids had a lot of fun! The adults had a lot to visit about! And we all ate a lot of food! Byron was kind enough to want pizza for his birthday dinner, so that was pretty easy for me! He also wanted the same oreo and strawberry cheesecake pie that Robert had for his birthday! Seemed weird to not have the traditional "cake and ice cream!"
And Morgan is learning to play the piano....so she played "Happy Birthday" while the rest of us sang! So cute!