I'm a BIG girl now!

August brought us many big events this year! Katie turned 5 and we made the decision to send our smallest sprout to kindergarten. (Literally, she's 1% for height!)... Here's the big girl on her first day of school... Riding the bus with the bus driver. He's waited 2 years to get her on his bus. He loves Katie and begged us to take a picture..
So excited to be waiting for the bus. And after 3 days of school a little girl joined Katie at the all boy bus stop.. That really made her day, now she has a best friend!

Back to School

Summer flew by fast and we've been back at school for a week or so. Alex is now a 4th grader, wow I remember his first day of Kindergarten! His favorite things are still football, birds, and airplanes. He's become quite an artist and loves to draw pictures of birds that he sees. He is developing his responsibility and maturity. Sammy is entering 3rd grade. He has a male teacher that he really likes. His favorite things are reading, legos, legos and drawing lego batman characters. Sammy is a sponge for information and is always asking "what does this mean" and it's usually a word I have to think about or look up! Katie just turned 5, (birthday pics soon!) and was very eager for Kindergarten roll in today. She's very social, happy and eager to have friends. She is excited to ride the bus to school and stay there all day. I'm still at the high school and it's a break working with a different age group of kids. Maybe I'll have all the secrets by the time my own kids become teenagers, yep that age will scare me for sure!

Disneyland Vacation

Thanks to a great last minute deal from Alaska Airlines, we just got back from a week at Disneyland... We took the boys down about 4 years ago, and they are still of an age where it was exciting to go. I didn't tell them what was going on, until I woke them up in the middle of the night to catch the plane. The day prior to the trip, I gave them a writing assignment to see if they could guess a big surprise, as a reward for filling their reading logs. Alex actually guessed an airplane trip to California. Sammy guessed a Lego toy day, where he could buy all the legos they wanted...

Our last trip was in April, where fireworks were weekly and characters few and far between. Wow! In August there are 2 parades a day, many shows at night, and characters at every turn...

Katie loves Princess Tianna and Minnie Mouse was her favorite.

Alex is a big Donald Duck fan..The boys are now tall enough to ride any ride, and they each had their favorites. Sammy loved the Haunted Mansion and Fantasia, one of the nightly water shows... Alex was roller coasters all the way....

It's a buggy life....

We did one character breakfast at Goofy's Kitchen and it was well worth the money as we had characters at our table the entire meal... Katie was treated like a princess and had a dance with Aladdin.

The kids were a great age to truly enjoy all the park had to offer. Truly glad we had the chance to go before the boys got too old to not think it was cool...