First Day of School

8/24

The weekend before school started Amanda and I treated the girls to a pre-school week pedicure. We also heard that a local ice cream place was selling their state fair ice cream sandwiches in their shop!

These are peppermint ice cream sandwiched between chocolate cookies and they were divine! Luckily we drove fast because we got there a few minutes before they closed!!

A few days later the kids started school on Wednesday. It was late start so we had plenty of time to get up and get ready, and my secret was - I took the pictures the night before so we weren't stressed about it (genius!)

We walked to school and I did great dropping them off - but as I walked home I got really teary eyed....all of my babies were in school...Their babyhood was over! I had a hard time walking the mile or so home wallowing in self pity...looking back on it a few months later I have taken on so many volunteer activities my days stay very full - but in that moment I felt like I had sort of lost my purpose! I couldn't wait for them to get home and tell me about their day!!

Grayson of course LOVED school, as did the other two. It was going to be a great year!

Week of Rya

8/7

Man I'm sort of exhausted looking back at these pictures! I know Grayson was super excited that his buddy Rya got to come over for a few weeks while she had a gap in daycare. Rya will always be special to Grayson. They were born a day apart and grew up together at Eski's They were always best buddies from the beginning (and she was even his first kiss! shhhhh...)

We were going to party hard the last few weeks of summer so we did all our favorite things! Parks, bubbles, zoo, science center, lunch on the capitol lawn, waterpark, trampoline, squirt guns, merry go round, frisbee, beach - rya was a trooper as I ran kids here there and everywhere!

Kenna still had karate and she got to go to an overnight camp in Ames! It was called Zombie camp and used zombies as a way to teach survival skills to the kids - sounds like it was a hit!