Eva's first day of Kindergarten

She was dressed and ready to go.. She could not wait to get to school.

The entire family walked her to school. Jax and Todd are behind me. :)

Her teacher is Mrs. McDonald.. She seemed very nice and very well organized.. lets face it.. that is a bonus for me!! LOL

Eva's first day of Kindergarten

It was amazing to stand back and watch her. She new Maddie from preschool and she was very excited to see that she was sitting by her in class. She politely got up and got some pencils to share with maddie. Very sweet.

Kia's first day of preschool

This year Kiara is going all by herself to preschool. It is a great in home preschool that is only a block away. She loves the teachers there and so do I. She was very excited to get her new clothes on and get going.

Her and skirts... that is all she wanted this year.

Have a great year of school sweetie!

Todd's first run.

Todd finished the Oregon Wine Country Half Marathon today. I got to see him run in two spots of the race in Lafayette. Did take pic's but my card went bad on me.. so I cant get them off the card now :( and then when I got to the finish line in Carlton.. I was not prepared for 20 minutes of trying to find a parking spot! Jax and I ended up missing him come in. I wanted to cry! But he finished in great time 1 hour and 49 minutes. Way to go babe! I am so very proud of you. (I think he has caught the running bug)

Thought the finish line looked pretty cool with the barrels of wine.

Then he got to go around and do wine tasting for free.. We hit a few of them then decided food might be better right now at 10 am in the morning. Pizza here we come!

A big day for Kiara

Before...

During....

5 seconds after.... :(

3 minutes later!! A happy little girl.

last days of summer

This is what the girls do when we have no pool!! I was watering the lawn. Turned my back for 1 sec. and they there were! Having a blast.

finally!

JD learns to use a straw!!

Eva's first Pedi..

So we have this place in town that has seats for little girls. (very smart on their part.. I have never seen these before!) Stacie had told me what she is doing for Ali to get her to stay out of their room at night.. And we had the same issue with both girls. So we decided to do the same thing. After 7 nights in a row of staying out of our bed she would be able to get a pedi with mommy. She loved the idea. It took her about 3 weeks to finally do it. But she did.. and every since, we have not had an issue with her sneaking into our bed. Now if we could only get Kia to follow her!!

Everything was tickleish to her.. I think she laughed the entire time and would not stop asking questions!!

Family

It was probably the worst time of day to do pics, the sun was always in our eyes.. But here are a few good ones.

Silly silly Kia!

Ohhh.. Poor Eva... she is doomed just like her mamma to be taller then all the boys!! :)

Sweet Sweet Chase!!

family

So, I have always wanted to go and get pic's done in a field. Well thank goodness we know a farmer!!

Even though you can not see our faces completely. This would have to be one of my favorites. Very sweet with JD!