Week 33

First Day of FIRST GRADE!

This is her first year going to school full days! It's so different not having her home at least some of the day. I really miss her! I was so excited to pick her up the first day and to hear all about her day. She gave me the play by play (I love that about her!) and I heard about everyone's lunch boxes and that her's is the coolest one. She was also very excited over having three recesses, ha! She had a great first day and I know she's going to have a wonderful year. I just wish time would slow down a bit.

After we dropped her off the rest of us went straight to the pool! It was a super hot day and I knew the pool would be dead. I was right!

It's FOOTBAL SEASON!! By now I'm sure you already know that I am a die-hard Broncos fan. I couldn't wait to get this jersey onesie on my baby girl for their first pre-season game!

I bought these blank books in the $1 section at Target for Paxton. He LOVES drawing and creating stories so I thought this would be a fun activity to do together. He loved it!

Paxton's first day of PRE-K! He didn't even say bye to me. He just ran up to his friends to play and never looked back. I cried on the drive home thinking of my boy and how shy he used to be and how preschool last year really broke him out of his shell. I know he'll have a great year! =)

Week 27

Happy 4th of July!

One of my most favorite holidays! I absolutely LOVE buying the kids some patriotic outfits. I went a little bit over-board this year and even bought the flip-flops, sunglasses and hat/hair accessory too! I can't help it… it's so much FUN!

We started our holiday with a bike parade in our neighborhood. The kids get to decorate their bike/scooter/wagon and parade up and down the streets in our 'hood. The best decorated wins a prize. We seriously have the best community who puts on some FUN events!

Here's my cuties with their decked out rides for the parade!

Then we headed to our neighborhood pool. Our HOA puts on a BBQ, raffle and lots of games for kids and adults. We spent the whole afternoon there and Cory got a pretty bad sunburn, but other than that we all had a blast!

Later that evening we headed out to the lake to watch the fireworks. It was super windy and raining. It was a long wait. But fortunately about 10 minutes before the fireworks launced, the rain stopped and the wind died down and we were able to enjoy the show. 

We got home pretty late, but the kids really wanted to do some sparklers. So we busted them out and let the kids have fun for 10 minutes and then we were mean and made them go to bed.

Alexis had another T-Ball game. Cory told me it was going to be an over-cast night so I grabbed the camera. Perfect lighting condition for a sport that's played in full sun. It was windy and quite cold though, the game ended just in time when the rain moved in and down poured.