6 year pictures!

Ally

Ally's a 1st Grader

I officially have a 1st Grader. She was so excited we were at the school about 40 minutes early today!! She's very excited to have Ms. Scott for her teacher. Apparently she's "fun". She just couldn't wait to get her new pink shoes and her dress on today. She's been dying to wear the shoes since we got them. She finally insisted that she needed to wear them the other night just around the house to make sure they fit. So here's her first day at school...

First day of School for Ashlee

Well, she actually had her first day in her new class last week, but today was the hoopla!!! My poor kid. She's been going to this school for 2 years now.....and still cries when I drop her off. They say she stops as soon as I'm out of eye sight and not to worry. She got better at the end of last year and the summer was easy becuase Ally was there. Now's she's back on her own!!! So hopefully.....the crying will stop. Here's a couple pictures from this morning. She's moved to the Buckaroo room with Ms. Norman. ( we LOVE Ms. Norman) You can see she's acting all silly and having a good time until it comes time for me to go!

More pictures of the house

For some reason, I'm blog challenged and can only add a few pictures at a time....so her'es a few more of the upstairs playroom and the living room.

New house pictures

Finally got some more decorating done this weekend before our big party. Looks good if I do say so myself. =) All kidding aside, I'm loving my new house and know that I am blessed.

Here are some pictures of the girls shelves in their rooms. Al's dad made them and I painted them. They were so excited to finally get them on the wall. Only took me a couple months to finally get them painted. Still looking for some small little decorations to put in the shelves, but that will come with time.

Also a picture of my entry way table that Al's dad made. I think it might be one of my favorite pieces he's ever done....right after the changing tables. I love it and it's come out exactly how I had it envisioned in my head.

Kitchen is done too, finally got my rooster picture and shelf hung in the dining room. There will eventually be a large fish tank underneath that but that's a couple months in the making I think. (I'm actually hoping the idea gets forgotten, but if it doesn't it will all work outalright and the kids are gonna love it.)

And check out my new triple crock pot!!! A housewarming gift from my boss and coworker. It's AWESOME!!!! Comes in very handy for the parties!!

Fireworks

Al bought some fireworks to do at the house for the girls. I told him I was having no part of it. But I guess I did, since I took pictures. They did like them, but we did learn that one family fun pak is PLENTY!! Made a huges mess on the driveway, that somehow became my job to clean up....still not understanding that one.

For the 4th we had made big plans to go downtown and set up for the fireworks. John, Angela, and the kids would be joining us. So I baked cookies, brownies, packed a cooler with juice boxes and water. Got a blanket, chairs....the whole shebang. And of course as my luck would have it it starts to storm. We hoped for the best and prayed the rain would end in time for fireworks. Loaded up and headed downtown. It lightened up a little then started to rain really hard. I was so worried the fireworks would be rained out and didn't know how I was going to explain that to a 5 and 3 year old. So it was so wet and rainy, we didn't get to have a picnic. So we put Rylee in our car with the girls to watch a movie and had our own indoor picnic....passing the cookie bucket from car to car. As soon as the fireworks started, we unloaded and headed to the back of the car where we could stand under the car opening of the Armada. Some had to use an umbrella and Nicholas...just stood in the rain! As soon as the grand finale had gone off we all realized....it had stopped raining. So we had a soggy fireworks show that Rylee informed her mom she "did it all for her birthday, hope you like it." And we all did; except Ashlee. She didn't like it but she didn't cry this year!!! That was the important party.

4th of July parades

On Thursday we had a 4th of July parade at school. Each class came up with their own decoration/noisemaker idea and we marched around the school (twice) for all the parents who wanted to come watch. The girls had lots of fun dressing up and having their faces painted for the parade.

Then on Saturday we went to a real parade. Rylee, Nicholas and Angelas met us there. We had a good time, but apparently none of them are parade lovers like me.....they lost intereste unless it was a horse or clown!