New School Year!

Kenner started a new preschool this year. He missed the kindergarten cutoff by a day, but I was fine with him having another year before he started kinder.

He still goes twice a week and I'm excited about the new school. He's done pretty good so far the last three days he's been. He always seems to make friends with the girls :) and I think the hardest thing has been adjusting to the earlier time we have to be there. It makes for some tired and sometimes cranky kids when we are getting up earlier then we are use to and they are not going to sleep as quickly as usual because they've been sharing a room the last month or so. So, we are still adjusting to that and hopefully it'll get better.

Here are a few pics I took the morning of his first day. It was a bright morning and was hard to keep those eyes from squinting, hehe! I didn't even attempt to take the camera to school to get pics. Between trying to get there on time, juggling all the stuff we were carrying, keeping Myer in hand and my extra large front, I just decided it wasn't going to happen.

This one makes me laugh, it looks like he's crying but just that bright sun hurting the eyes!

It's been awhile since I blogged. The rest of our summer consisted of a trip to Utah to see Family the last part of June into July for two weeks. It was a good/fun visit. I would've blogged about it but we had to empty our camera card while there and the CD we burned the pics onto so I could have them when we got home didn't work. So, hopefully they are still saved and I can get them at a future date. By then though, and even now, that is old news!

We mostly have been trying to stay cool but have ventured out several times to swim at Six Flags and play at a few indoor play places. Don't have many pics of all that though. The summer sure did go quick. Now we are looking forward to another baby coming soon, only about 5 weeks left! Crazy!

Let the Summer Fun Begin!

We got passes to Six Flags over Memorial Day Weekend. We went that Friday with Wayne and took the kids on some rides after braving the crazy end of school year groups that were there. It took almost an hour to get through the line to even get into the park.

Yesterday we went with our neighbors to enjoy some fun. Unfortunately, the water park hasn't been open yet when we've gone (today is the first official day) so we could only do rides. I think our future visits will mostly entail hanging out at the pool. Too hot for anything else!

When we first got there! Had to go say hi to Miss Piggie. Is that her name?

First ride! Don't they look thrilled?!

Caught a funny expression on Kenner's face!

I didn't think Myer would be interested in seeing these big silly people but he got out of his stroller and went to say hi to Dorothy the Dinosaur. It was cute to watch him, he was being kinda shy.

Michelle was nice to take the kids on most of the rides and I stayed with the other two.

Whoooeeee it's hot and bright out here!

We found a ride that Kenner and Emma could go on all by themselves. They enjoyed going several times on the roller coaster together and it was fun for us they could just run up and do it themselves.

After getting off the roller coaster the first time. Kenner was pretty excited and wanted to keep going and going!

They redid the kids area since we were last there. They have a little water area with water coming up from different spots and a boat thing you can climb up on with slides.

It was refreshing to get a little wet here. Kenner enjoyed it the most and was pretty soaked!

After a few hot hours it was time to come home and get lunch, take naps and cool off! Next time we'll definitely be going to the water park! I can't wait!

Schools out for Summer!

Today was Kenner's last day of preschool! I'm kinda excited for the summer break and lazy mornings for a bit. But hopefully we don't go too stir crazy. We'll have to get out and do some fun things and make a trip to see family. Kenner will go back to do a summer session twice a week in July. So, that should help things.

Anyways, just wanted to post some pics from his little program today.

This is actually from Mother's Day. His class had the local bakery come in with these little cakes and the kids got to decorate the tops with frosting and sprinkles. Hmmmmm, nothing better then a nice big BLOB of frosting on top! It was actually a pretty good little cake. Just had to scrape some of the extras off a bit!

Today at graduation.

He was so smiley when he came in and kept smiling as we snapped pics!

The whole group of kids, 2,3 and 4 years olds, did a song and had signs to do with it. I was excited to see Kenner actually doing them. I was proud and almost wanted to just cry (tears of joy of course)!

Here at the end. Signing love or something. Kinda blurry and he's standing funny, haha! He was swaying around to the music almost the whole song. Cute!

Going up to get his certificate of graduation from his teacher Ms. Rosie.

Ms. Rosie and Kenner

Ms. Mari and Kenner

I remembered when we got to the car to leave the graduation that I wanted a pic with us. Kinda late, Myer was already in his carseat. So, we just took one with me and one with Wayne.

It's a ............

Well, I had the long awaited appointment today to find out what we are having! So, I guess there isn't much more to say then It's a BOY!! Ahhhh, little boys, that's all I know how to do I guess!

I will admit I was slightly disappointed and emotional about it but I'm happy to know he's a healthy little guy in there and looking good. Sorry, haven't scanned any ultrasound pics but this little guy was pretty proud to show off what he was!!!

So, it is nice to finally know and now we have the task ahead of us of coming up with another boy name. Ohhhhh, it's getting tricky! This is the most difficult part for me.

Family Pictures

We FINALLY got an updated professional family picture. The last family pictures we had professionally done were back in the day when it was just Kenner and he had just turned one! Ya, just a bit behind. And since I waited so long this picture will be outdated come October. Oh well. I am very happy with these and how they show our family with just the four of us!

It has actually been almost two months since they've been done. I started to post some awhile ago and got tired of waiting for them to load and I wanted to load every single one of them because I loved them all. Now I think I have a few favorites I can limit it to so I don't go crazy trying to load them all. It may still seem like alot but I had 65 to choose from so this is definitely trimmed down!

I found a great photographer (Krista Adams) thanks to a couple people I know that posted pictures they had done from her and I knew I wanted to try her.

Anyways, here is some of what we got!

This boy was sure a handful to keep still and wanting to smile. Didn't help we were outside. I was afraid we'd end up with nothing good! I guess what can you expect from a 2 year old?