The Night Before 1st Grade...

Hard to get back into the routine of early to bed, early to rise

Not enough sleep and they are grumpy and that's no surprise....

Ella getting her phone calls wishing her luck on her first day...

This was her talking to Grammie...

 Weren't we JUST reading 'The Night Before Kindergarten'?????

Where did the years go?

 This year my sweet girl READ the book to me!!!

sniffle, sniffle, smile....proud of her

 special hugs from her brother...

Sweet dreams to my princess...

She was excited and READY!!!

Ella's Day...

The day before the 1st day of school is a special day....yesterday, it was Ella's day...

A day to chose everything....from meals to activities...

Breakfast was at Dunkin' Doughnuts

Logan was quite happy with that choice as well

 Ella LOVES to buy things herself lately...

This is her peeking from line waiting to buy her 2nd doughnut

 Nothing better than chocolate sprinkles...

 Then we were off to the gym...Ella and Logan have both loved going with me this summer (thank goodness).  She wanted to go back for one more day with me...

Then back home after McDonalds drive thru to color, color, paint, watch tv, etc.....  Love that my Ella loves to spend time at home.  Then it was baths and ready for dinner....Ella chose Pita Jungle for dinner....YUM!!!

My two cutie patooties....

 Kiddos with Muntz and Nannie...

 Us...

And it wasn't complete without a stop at Yogurtology on the way home....

See the next post for bedtime :0)

Fun...

The kids LOVE their 'staches...

It's all about the stache' when Muntz is visiting...

Painting, painting, painting....the kids (and Muntz) have made many the masterpieces in the past week

1st Grade...Meet the Teacher

The moment we have been waiting for.....

YIPEEEEEEE!!! Ella was SOOOOO happy!!!

She is so excited to start school that she can hardly stand it and she has the teacher that she was desperately wanting!!!!

Today we headed to school for the open house...

Preparing her desk....organizing her pencil box and writing her name on her workbooks... 

Ella and Nolan...

 Logan loved the class fish....Candy

 Ella and Candy

 Ella on the number rug standing on 11 since she has a November birthday...

 Logan...making himself comfortable

 Ella and her teacher....I am incredibly happy that she has Mrs. Gagner

 Bye Candy...see you next week

Papa's Birthday...

Happy Birthday to Papa!!!

Make a wish!!!

 We LOVE you! 

Puzzling Puzzles...

We found some quite puzzles for the kids and had a puzzle challenge...

Nannie and Logan and Angry birds...

 vs. Ella and mommy and Monster High

 We both won!!!

London 2012

We have been enjoying the Olympics and we all were showing our Olympic spirit the day they started! 

Thanks to Jojo, Curtis, Nannie, Muntz, and Grandbill for making sure we had the appropriate attire!