Football, Fish, and Family

We went to the lake for friday night football and a fish fry. Here are the highlights of the trip.

Mason loves his friday night football. Here he is on the side lines waiting for the game to start.

Mason's favorite high school team and his favorite coach!!
Ryley loves fish!
Getting the taters ready to cook.
Obi Wan and Annikan fight it out before lunch. Thanks Uncle Tommy for being a big kid! Mason loves it.

No idea what Mason is doing here, but the picture was funny!

Jodie getting into trouble!

We love going to the lake to see our families, and look forward to coming back down very soon!

First Day of Kindergarten

The first day of Kindergarten... Sunday night it hit me that my baby was going to have to leave me and go to school on Thursday. I cried and cried worrying about all those things that could happen (what if he got nervous, or wet his pants, or didn't eat his lunch, or didn't play at recess). So when Thursday came I was quite worried that I wouldn't be able to keep it together to get him off to school. Ryan took the entire day off so that he could come for the drop off and the pick up. Thursday morning it was raining and raining so Ryan stayed in the van with the girls and Mason and I went into the school. I was prepared for him to have tears, or be really upset, however, he was fine. A little nervous but overall he did great. He gave me one big hug when his teacher came and then he was off. I didn't cry at all because he was so excited to be going to school. Isn't it amazing that our children can keep us calm, by just being excited! Ryan was upset having to leave him, because he has never really had to leave him at school before. We went to get him after school and he said he had a great day. He loved it and was excited about going back. We all went to get ice cream and the day turned out great.

Here he is showing his big muscles before we left.

This is when we first walked into his school. I felt really bad because his feet were wet from having to walk in the rain.
Here he his waiting for his teacher and taking in all that was going on around him.
This is him in his line getting ready to leave for his classroom. He was so excited!
Here is Mason when we came to get him. He is wearing his green camo jacket, and his teacher is the one on the left in the polka dot dress.

I asked him to stop so I could take his picture, but he really wanted to go and get ice cream.

So the first day went great and the second day he almost broke my heart. I walked him to the playground and he tried to run off without giving me a hug, luckily he came back and gave me a quick hug, and kissed his sisters. He then ran off to the playground to find his friends and he didn't look back. UGH! I am so happy that he is adjusting to school so great, but I find myself having a hard time letting go. Ah the joys of being a parent! The only time you can see your heart walking around outside your body.

The Next Generation

For those of you who have read the Twilight Saga you will appreciate this and for those of you who haven't read these books you are really missing out. Thanks Jess for telling me (several times) to read them. Ryley wanted to be like me and this is what I have been doing for the last several weeks. I am not sure what she needed the flashlight for, but the pictures are cute.
She must be to an exciting part of the book (the Voluturi maybe!?!)

VBS: Power Lab

This week we had Vacation Bible School at our church. I forgot to bring the camera every night except the last one. Luckily, I was able to get a few cute pictures of the kids singing. They both sang and performed with their class and they did a great job. The theme was Power Lab:"God gives us the power to...be helpful, be brave, tell others about him, be thankful, and to pray. It was so neat and the kids had a great time.

This was the "power song". Mason loves showing off his muscles!

How sweet is this?!?

This is the game room. Ryley is really sleepy!

Random Pictures

Sorry for not posting pictures in a while. Here are a few I have taken in the last few weeks.

The big kids wanted mohawks like Andrew and Austin, so I did my best.

Jodie has learned to pull up to everything so she always stands in her crib and shakes the bars.

Bath time. We don't normally bathe them together but they wanted to take a bath with Jodie so we let them.