Olivia's First Day

Olivia started school a couple weeks ago, here are some pictures of her first morning of school! :)

She picked out her own outfit and told me JUST how to do her hair. Sadly, no piggy tails with bows, but I love her style just the same. :)

Can you find the rainbow at the bottom-left of the picture? (It was much brighter in person, and seemed bigger... oh well) We saw this on our way to school, can you picture me trying to take a picture while driving on 465? I told her that when a rainbow is in the sky and there hasn't been any rain, it is a miracle. And that God was telling her to have a great day. She was ALLLLL smiles.

Here is her class! Love, love, LOVE her teacher! I have already been room-mom for lunch duty and am scheduled again for tomorrow. Logan LOVES going to have lunch with her class.

Here are the kiddos having ice cream after our first day. Its not Vic's, but it will do :)

We have all been fighting some virus/allergy junk, so Olivia hasn't felt her best for a couple weeks. Some days she is all smiles when I pick her up and others she is just quiet. One day she actually fell asleep on the way home (we have a 30 min drive) She says she likes some parts of school and others are a little long. "Mom, we are there for 4 WHOLE HOURS!" :) We are getting into a good routine for school at home on the off days (Monday, Wednesday and Friday). We sit down after breakfast and get her homework and our supplemental work out. Logan sits with us and I give him work to do too. LOVE IT! Today Olivia had to cut and paste and so he wanted to cut and paste too. Melting this mama's heart.

I pray for wisdom and patience every day as we venture into our school years. I love knowing that God has our family in the palm of His hand and I am so humbled and thankful. I am also so thankful that He stuck with me when I said "NO WAY. I am NOT homeschooling!" :)

Baby Birds

These cuties hatched in the backyard this week. We have been waiting and waiting, watching the little blue eggs, checking each day. The momma bird flies to the roof of the house next door to watch us while we check on her babies and swing for awhile. SO SWEET! Where are all of the pictures of the eggs? oh RIGHHHTTTT, on the camera I can't find. ugh! where does it keep going??? :)

A great start to my day...

I found this on my coffee maker the other morning. It TOTALLY made my day. ;)

Her first teeth!

Before:


After, she lost 2 at one time! So exciting! I think that means she is getting really big :)

Just to remember: an email to a friend

These emails were sent the day of a playdate with Maggie, Hazel and Zek. Olivia likes to make sure that Maggie is well-prepared for their play times. :)



To: Maggie
From: Olivia

Maggie please bring your american girl doll and your zhu zhu pet. I can't wait to play.
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To: Maggie
From: Olivia

that message is for hazel too.
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To: Maggie
From: Olivia

Maggie, I was wondering if when you bring your zhu zhu pet we could play them? Hazel and Logan and you and me and we could all roll them on the floor I think. Hazel can bring Nugget and you can bring Jilly and I can have chunk, I know you haven't seen him before. I have 2 zhu zhu pets. So at first you saw moo but now I am going to play with chunk he is a white one. I got a picture that I made for you so when you come over I know we will have tons of fun. bye!

Fun Summer Days

I just LOVE that summer gives us fun days with friends. A couple weeks ago we had some FUN play dates and I actually had the camera!!! {Gasp} I know, shocking!)



Logan and Will, saving the world. Love how serious Will is about saving the world, and how Logan just can't resist saying CHHHEEESSSEEE!

A play date at the park with Corina, Sophia and Ava... we went to our version of Bonneyville, HA! That is still cracking me up, Corina :)

Then to Conner Prairie with cousins

Isabel and Olivia, love how close these two have become.

Logan and Nolan

Why does Olivia look so old to me in this picture? {sigh}

The kids LOVED revisiting Conner Prairie. We have not been in a couple years and there is TONS for them to do at this age... I see lots of visits in our future!

Funny side note: we often have to remind Logan that when we enter someone's home, we take off our shoes. So EVERY 1800-style home (and there are a bunch of them) we entered, Logan took his shoes off. HA!

Not sure how August snuck up on us so quickly, but it is here. We will be cramming in all of the play dates we can and then begin adjusting to our school schedule. Happy last few weeks of summer!

Hugs :)

And the winner is....

AVA!!!! :)