Summer's first day of Kindergarten

Summer started Kindergarten on August 18th.  She was so excited, and was happy to get right out of the van at the drop off line.
The principal opened the car door and Summer said "hi, do you like my back pack?" And off she went.........  I was not thinking I would cry, but I did.  There went my baby, off into the world.
the next day we stopped to buy her some new tennis shoes, since she had grown out of hers.  she's in a size 10 now!
This is her first pair of tie shoes and we sat for about 5 minutes with me showing her how to do it and soon she had it down.  After that she kept untying and re tying them.  She was so proud to show her Daddy when he got home form work and said  "wait until Aunt Jill sees this!"
 
We're still in our campus apartment until we can move into our new house September 9th.  aunt Jill is coming to take care of them and get Summer to school and dance class while Mommy and Daddy go back to North Carolina for the movers to load up our furniture.  Grandma and Papa are still taking good care of our Dog, Kelly, since there are no dogs allowed in the apartment.
We'll be happy to be one family again

Visit to Aunt Jill's

Summer and I went on a trip to Ohio to visit Aunt Jill and her family.  Our Sister in law Kirsten and her son Finn came from Wisconsin too.

 

We had a lot of fun swimming in the lake and the pool and shopping and of course having smores by the fire.

It was a nice, relaxing trip.

 

Molly stayed at home and Grandma and Papa came from Indiana to be with her.. She had a lot of fun having them all to herself, and having all the toys to herself with no one to boss her around!

Santa's Land

We went to Santa's Land a few weeks ago.  It's an amusement park for little kids.

The girls had a lot of fun feeding the animals and riding the little rides.  Summer loves the helicopters.  I tried to talk her into riding the Ferris wheel with me but, no, not this year.  It's still too high up there!

We rode the train and even saw Santa and sat on his lap to tell him what they wanted for Christmas.  Molly went right up after Summer did.  She is usually way to scared to go near Santa.

We rode the peddle boats in the the lake and fed the fish and monkeys and lemurs.  It was a hot day, but we had a good time!

 

Oh, and of course Mom got asked to come up to the stage during the magic show.  I was lucky enough to get to have my hair stand straight out with the electro static ball!

Summer turns 5!

Our littel girl is 5 years old!

We had fun opening presents and eating cake.  Then the 4 of us went to see the movie "up",  is was so good!

Molly got antsy half way through, so we went out to get some skittles and she was good for the rest of the show.