MM First Day of Second Grade

MM started Second Grade yesterday. She was excited but very comfortable with the routine since she is going to the same school this year. Her criteria for picking a teacher was "I want the blonde teacher!" I thought to myself....you are really going to pick a teacher like that! But she got her wish. She has the blonde teacher - Mrs. Hay! She also has another teacher because they team teach this year. As of yesterday afternoon she had not gone to the other teacher's classroom but she was excited about her homeroom. She looked so grown up when she was headed to the truck for us to take her to school!

A Bear's New School Year

ABear is so excited about starting school this year. Here teacher, Mrs. Pam, came to visit her last week. She shared one of her favorite stories with A Bear - If You Take a Mouse to School. She even had the little mouse from the story with her. A Bear also got to play a lot of games to show Mrs. Pam hand dominance, fine motor skills, colors, numbers, etc! She will be going two days a week this year and can't wait!

MM's Pool Party with Friends

MM is seven!

At the beginning of this month we celebrated MM's birthday with two parties! She had all the family in town one weekend and then a cool pool party with her friends from church and school. This was the year of clothes, art kits, and an easy bake oven! MM is growing up so fast. We love you MM!

Decorating Idea for Ellie's Room

There is a scrapbook queen in Austin named Jennifer Stewart who has amazing ideas. She creates a lot of vintage items, minibooks and such. I love her stuff. One of the ideas that she taught for a class was creating scrap-dresses for decorations. I hope to get together with some of my girlfriends to make these for our Sweet Pea#3! These pics are from her blog: http://jenniferstewarts.blogspot.com/

Surviving the rain...

Today a few MOPS friends and kiddos headed to the Children's Museum for some fun! All of the kiddos need an outlet to exert some energy since we have had nonstop rain here for three days. A Bear decided to dress up and strut through the museum, making sure everyone saw here. My friend snapped a few pictures for me. She chose a beer maiden outfit (I am sure it is called something else but it is what the ladies wear at the renaissance festival!)

Blog Slacker and more...

I know I need to update my blog. #1 to tell you about my baby turning 7 #2 fill you in on baby happenings #3 just general musing! But at this moment I only have time to add this: some of friends wanted to see the nursery bedding that I finally chose. It is different than what I posted before...actually wasted about 1 1/2 hours looking online and finally found the perfect bedding for our little Ellie! Will write more later.

21 weeks today

I had a check up this morning with my doc and all looks great! The baby is measuring great and the heartbeat is nice and strong. I have not gained any weight but I definitely have a protruding belly already :) I am starting to get excited about decorating a little girl's room again. I really want it to be simple but adorable at the same time. This is the crib set that I am in love with right now.....we will see what Daddy says when he sees it.

Beach 2008

We had a blast at the beach...more of an update to come soon! Just wanted to post a few pictures for family and friends. My mom did well and all the cousins had a blast together!