And so it begins.......another school year. We were excited to begin the new school year today. The lazy days of summer are over. Now soccer, volleyball, homework, and meetings consume our lives. Maybe at some point, I might find time to clean the house....maybe not.

camp

I have sent P off to camp for the first time this year. She did great, not sure how I did. I did not cry but I got a bit choked up when I took her to her cabin. She seems to be having a good time but I will not get a chance to talk to her until Saturday (when we pick her up) The camp website had a few pictures of her. She is in a green shirt. In the bottom picture she is in a brown shirt. You can click on the picture to make it bigger.

E and G are going to day camp this week as well. 9:00-5:00 It is just K and I. She is so bored. She really misses her sisters. E canoed today and G did some sort of obstacle course.

Happy Birthday!

Today was K's 5th birthday. She had her birthday party yesterday with her friends. We put up our waterslide and she invited some of her friends from school. We all had a great time. Nana and Papa came into town today to celebrate with her. She was born 5 years ago on Father's day so this was a special birthday. She informed me today that her clothes do not fit anymore because she is 5 instead of 4. haha.
P and G went to nana's house for a couple of days. It will be nice to separate the girls for a couple days since they were really beginning to get on each other's nerves. Summer is here.

C "coached" little K's soccer team this. He has the patience of Job!

He coached two teams this year, so he was really ready for soccer season to be over. We are both so worn out. I am really ready for summer and lazy days!

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Greek Day at Regent. P enjoyed dressing up for greek day and learning greek culture and history this year. She is in the white outfit with a red armband. They got to eat greek food and participate in the "olympics" P actually got second place (against boys) in the javelin throw.

Here are the girls with Nana and Papa at Easter (our nephew is holding on to Nana's hand). Alice and her sisters are getting ready to have their "sisters vacation" and we are excited that they are spending part of it here in T. I just hope I dont have to cook. haha.

We were in Ark for Easter. We got a chance to visit with both of our families and see some old friends. The kids really enjoy doing the Easter Egg Hunt and ate way too much candy. We attended our old church and had Easter lunch with C's family.

We went to Branson for spring break. These are pictures from SDC. we had a great time with three other families (11 kids). It was really, really crowded but fun anyway.

Colonial Day

G had colonial day at school last Friday. We all dress up and learn how people lived in that time. She made jam, candles, cloth dolls and quilt making.
She had such a great time. We also eat a colonial lunch. E will have Oklahoma Day and P will have Greek Day this year. I included a slide show below.

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P had her first formal dinner at school last week. The 5th grade boys/girls took etiquette classes for a couple of weeks, then they put them to practice. She is here with her best friend (at their home) I was proud of her. The parents served dinner for the kids at another parents home. It was a great experience for them.

Dont Stop Believing!

Okay, the slide show is of C's 3rd grade girls team. We FINALLY won our first game on Saturday. E is number 23. I am not sure if she is even in some of the photo's because P took many of the pictures and there is not telling what she was thinking! Haha. You can see C on the sidelines.

Oh, another Valentines Day, another opportunity for matching pj's. I am not sure how much longer they are going to let me do this to them. V day becomes much more about the kids instead of the adults. We went to Wendy's for dinner!
What an exciting life we lead.


It is all about parties at school and Valentines for classmates. C did get me Lilly's (my favorite)

We got the christmas tree put up! We do NOT have a Martha Stewart tree. Our ornaments go way back to C and my childhood. School is out soon and we are looking forward to sleeping in. We were without power most of last week because of the ice storm and none of us have recouped from it. There was a car wreck outside of our neighborhood last night and we lost power for maybe 5 minutes. We all almost lost it. We could not go through it again! haha.
Merry Christmas Everyone!

Birthday!

G turned 7 years old. She wanted to have her birthday party with her good friend, N, and they both invited 3 friends. N's mom had her hair stylist come over and do their hair. they made bracelets and we painted all of the toes. The pictures are not my kitchen/house. We had the party at the other mom's house. (nice for me- no cleanup)
Needless to say, having 9 or 10 6/7 year olds is exhausting. She had a great time! She turned 7 at the beginning of Oct, I am just getting around to posting pictures. We have been so busy lately. I know that it is just going to worse with the holidays coming up. We get the entire week of Thanksgiving off, so that is helpful. We are going to go home for thanksgiving, then C and I are off to Branson for some R&R. We are going to do SDC adult style.
The picture with G and Nana/Papa IS my living room.

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We went to Albuquerque a few weeks ago to attend the funeral of Chads cousin, Brent. While we were there we went to Old Albuqurque and the girls all tried on these hats. We also visited one of the oldest catholic churches in the United States.

It is a very beautiful church. As we were leaving, I stopped to look at some of the old pictures on the walls. This church is from the 1700's and still has services. All of a sudden I hear, "moms, whats this?" I looked over and G had her hands in the holy water, playing with it. I thought I was going to pass out.
Our picture is now on the front of the church saying "Do not let this family in"
I guess G is Blessed now. haha. :)

Katie's first day of school. I just got these pictures from my camera. katie is in preschool this year.

Here a picture of Katie on her first day of school. She is blonde!
Katie is really enjoying school, but really dislikes her uniform. She doesn't think that it looks cool. She has been watching way to much Hannah Montana.

First Day of School

Paige (5th) Emma (3rd) Grace (1st) started school today! Katie starts next week (pre k)
They were so excited and nervous at the same time.