Update on the Letter Swap...

I received my letter swap person... she seems like a lovely person from England, I think she has three kids and hand makes good using her own artwork. Take a peek... http://pipany-poltiskofarm.blogspot.com/ What I'm find interesting is seeing bits and pieces of others lives. We are very similar. Liking to make goods, kids, staying at home with them... I need to get busy and get that letter to her... have to admit... a little intimidating... she writes so eloquently.

The first... the Fair and the Bees...

get comfy... we are doing the marathon blog to catch up... I'm so behind

The First Day of School... it was a first day of school for both but a first-first for Miss Caley... first day of Kindergarten! Of course we had to drive (that would be me needing to drive them) I had to take first day pictures... so we all loaded up in the car and headed off. As you can see from the first picture the first day is a bit busier than most, we had to walk a ways to get there. McKenna was the first drop off, her teacher from kindergarten was looping with them to first grade which made it a breeze going into the first grade. We love Mrs. K.



Miss Caley Olson... she cracks me up! This is the bench that the kids sit on waiting for her class to open. Her teacher was out front greeting all the new students and handing out tags that get attached to their backpacks... bus routes, etc. I sat there next to Caley attaching her info making sure all was correct... asked her how she was... fine.... asked if she was nervous.... no... asked her if she'd like her Mom to get out of her space........................she nudges me and says "just get out of here" yep, I think my girl is going to be fine on her first day... nuff said!




So since I had to be there in the am for the photo op and couldn't let them ride the bus to school, I told them they could ride home from school. Below you will see Daddy proudly waiting for the bus to arrive. There was a little snafu with the bus that afternoon and sadly have to say there are no pics. I had to chase down the bus. All it was, was the confusion of the first day of school.

The Puyallup State Fair... another first for the family. This time it was the little misters first trip to the fair. He was a trooper, most of the day he was stuck in the stroller with eyes glued on everything. Also, his first corn dog! He couldn't decide what was the best way to eat it (or attack it)

The girls are really coming out of their scardy stage. Ken started coming out of that shell last year but this year Miss Caley made me so proud. Kenna was off riding something with her Dad, Caley, Jack and I were off on our own and she piped up and said "I want to ride the carousel" By yourself?!?! yep. I'm thinking to myself this isn't going to work, she'll get on there and freak, I can't go on with her, having Jack... She did it. Climbed on, they strapped her in and there she went, riding the most beautiful horse on the whole merri-go-round! So darn proud of her and the best part... she really enjoyed it. She went on a second time with Ken and myself. Caley road the horse, Ken road the bench seat :)

We learned our lesson this year... like everything else ... the fair is so EXPENSIVE! We learned that on certain days you can buy the wrist band that lets them ride whatever, whenever for as many times as they want... we all had such a good day, we stayed till 9:30 at night!

Daddy getting in on the action!

Like I said... Mister was a trooper!

Had to add in this snapshot of my piano man. He looks like a natural doesn't he?

Watch out Billy Joel

A Mess of Bees..... Yes, this is my man! Looking oh so sexy.... and so brave, not to mention how distinguished he looks suiting up to go out and brave the giant nest of bees we have under our shed. He is our protector! We had such a good laugh getting him ready for battle. I'm sure that when the neighbors saw him jumping around our yard they may have had a second look and probably a chuckle or two. We sure did...

This is him in battle. There were thousands of them and they were not nice bees. If you take note of the shed in the background... it is falling apart in front of our eyes.... wait till you see what a future blog hold....that's all I'm gonna say for now...