First Day of School 2014

The first day of school was different this year without getting to send my kids to school on the bus! (We live just down the road from the school right now, so I take and pick the kids up each day. I have actually enjoyed it!)

Bennett and Mylie were both so excited. I am so glad my kids love school! Mylie was especially excited to start first grade and get to go to school ALL DAY. I don't know if I am as excited about that! These kids grow too fast. It is sad to see them leave their carefree childhood days behind! School is so busy. There isn't near enough time for play anymore! (We have been enjoying our Christmas break, getting to relax and play--although we haven't enjoyed the freezing weather!)

Well back to talking about August and warm weather, here are my two cuties all ready to go. I also love that they love each other. Bennett for weeks would hold Mylie's hand and walk her to her door after I would drop them off in the morning. I would just sit and stare from my minivan with a full heart each morning. I am not sure when it finally stopped, but now they both just run off their separate ways---probably because we are always running super late nowadays.


 
Mylie, of course, had to be super fancy for her first day of school!  
Bennett picked out this new backpack. He loves it!  
First Grade!  
Third Grade! What?

Excited jumps!

Coy's 4th Birthday

Back in August, we celebrated Coy turning 4 years old! We sure love this little boy! He is so funny and just loves life. He is so energetic and gets so excited about so many things. I know I've said it before, but he truly has a "zest" for life. He makes me happy! I love the personality that this boy came with, even if it is a little mischievous at times! At times he loves to make trouble, but can also be the sweetest, most loving boy.


He wanted a Ninja Turtle birthday cake and party. We took it all to my mom's, so we could enjoy her yard since we were living in this apartment.

July 2014

Here is a look back at our July.

Mylie lost her first tooth while eating a bowl of cereal!

  Here are some cute pics of  her sporting her new gap. Also, I was trying to get a few last minute pics of our kids while having natural light in our house. I knew we would be living in a dark apartment soon, which makes it very hard to get good pictures of my kids during everyday life :( It has been hard not being able to just take a cute natural light photo of my kids for the past 6 months. Here was the Fourth of July. We had a fun time going swimming, and we also enjoyed fireworks that night, but I didn't get any pictures.
Here is Nora at 7 months. Once again, I tried to get a few pics of her before we moved, although these weren't the best. At 7 months, she we finding the teeth that Mylie was losing. She was sitting up like a champ, and also getting on her hands and knees. Here are a few more random pics of the kids hanging out around our house those last few days of living there.  
I tried to take a picture of Nora sleeping and... I woke her up. Oops!
Here is moving day. Very bittersweet. Mostly bitter since we still do not have a home to live in. And looking at our yard, makes me depressed thinking we have to totally start over with a new yard.
We went to Lagoon a few days after moving. The weirdest part was getting home late that night and not having a garage to park in. We had to carry the sleeping kids in all individually across the parking lot and into our apartment. We have since done that routine a million times, including last night on New Years. Although last night it was FREEZING! I am looking forward to having a garage again!!!

And here is Nora hanging out in our apartment. I was trying to see what luck I would have taking pictures of her using the little light that comes in sometimes during the day.