School Days

Addison's teacher just created a website with information, calendars and pictures and sent it to all of the parents. Here are some of the pictures she took during Addison's 1st week of Kindergarten. She's having a great time!

Potter Time

Last November I reluctantly went to see the 7th Harry Potter movie. Phillip wanted to go with our friends so I agreed. I hadn't read any of the books and quite frankly thought that the people that did like the books were nerds. I love reading but I never had an interest in them. This movie was Part 1 of the 7th book. I had seen all of the previous movies and thought they were fine but nothing to get excited about. However after seeing the 7th one, I HAD to know what happened. So I went home and read it over the next 3 days. I loved it so much I went back and started from the beginning and read books 1-7 in about a month. Crazy! So I was SO excited to see the very last movie this past weekend. I wasn't too thrilled about seeing it in 3-D but Phillip really wanted to so that's what we did. It didn't bother me as much as I thought it would but we took some pretty dorky pictures! We LOVED the movie and can't wait to see it again!

1st Day of Kindergarten!

Addison's first day of Kindergarten was today! I can't believe it. She has been so excited to go. She said she can't wait to make new friends. We were feeling a little sentimental last night so Phillip and I watched a bunch of videos from when she was a baby. She was so little! I can't believe how fast time flies.

We all went to drop her off this morning and she was so happy to be there and didn't have any issues about us leaving or anything. I didn't think she would but it was still a little sad to just leave her ALL day!

Her cute new backpack. Her matching lunchbox is inside ; )

4th of July Finally!

We had a fantastic weekend topped by a great day with our friends on 4th of July. We went to the pool, played video games, ate yummy food and topped it off playing Settlers. It stormed pretty bad so we weren't able to see more fireworks but the kids got to do sparklers so they were happy with that.

Rocking out to Rockband. I love how Addison is singing and drumming at the same time

My little rockstar

Twinners! Last year Tami and I got these outfits from Kohls for super cheap just so we could take these cute pictures of the girls. They are SO cute!

Sparklers...Harry Potter Style

Fireworks!

Our town has a big 4th of July festival every year. Bouncy houses, rides, etc... They had a blast, aside from the blazing heat.

Cooper was amazed by the elephant ride. He wanted to get on so bad.

Cute girl! I couldn't get a good picture of Cooper but he loved it too!

Playing catch with daddy

Addison wanted a turn with the camera. And yes, I realize I look like a tomato. My face gets SO red when I got hot. Oh well!

He wanted to put his glowstick together by himself SO bad.

LOVING the fireworks! I thought he might be scared of them but he was amazed.

4th of July Weekend!

We kicked off 4th of July weekend with an afternoon on the lake. It was absolutely perfect! We went late afternoon/evening so it wasn't crowded at all and the lake was SO smooth. It was nice to not have to re-apply sunscreen as well as having a nice cool car when we got back instead of it being sweltering in the 100 degree heat. I think that we'll try to go at night A LOT more.

Cooper's 1st time on the tube!!

I LOVE this! Just relaxin...