School has started at our house!! No more late nights, sleeping in, or lounging at the pool! No more cereal for dinner! We're back to bedtime by 9, homework, carpool, lots of laundry, and my best buddy mr. crockpot (i did miss you). I wasn't ready yet, but here we go!!!
Natalie--1st day of 5th grade!!
Wow! I can't believe she is that old, I remember being in 5th grade like it was just the other day.
She brought her teacher an apple from our tree on the first day. He ate it and told her to bring another one tomorrow!! This is the first time she has had a guy teacher and she loves it because "he doesn't put up with anyone's crap."
My little Austin started Kindergarten and I'm a bit sad about it! He was very excited and has loved it so far, but today asked me when he could take a vacation. Poor kid doesn't know what he's gotten into!
Here is Austin hanging up his backpack on the first day.
Sitting at his desk, and waiting for Mom to leave. :(
Here is Makenna ready for the first day of school, she brought her backpack and everything!!
And here she is when she found out she wasn't staying!!
She and Austin are such good pals and she has really missed him. The sad part for me is that next year she really will be going to preschool and I'll be left all alone, at least for a couple of hours. At least I'll have my never-ending piles of laundry and mr.crockpot to keep me company!
Danny took us to a horse sale the other night. I'm pretty sure he knew we wouldn't be able to resist bringing a baby home when we saw how cute they were. We didn't plan on buying a horse, and didn't even bring the horse trailer...well guess what...it's a boy!!! Yep, Danny knew what he was doing all along.
After much debate, we named him Dollar. (John Wayne had a horse named Dollar as any cowboy would know.) Other suggestions were 7-up, Football, or Hoss Cartwright (from Austin), Hee-Hee or Kenna (yep, from Makenna), and way too many suggestions to mention from Natalie. She has a 2 page list of great horse names which will come in handy when she becomes a vet and buys her 1000 acre ranch. She is planning to hire Danny as her assistant and he will "do all the gross stuff."
I'm excited for Danny to be able to show the kids what is involved in training and breaking a horse starting from when it's a colt, which is something he loves to do. So far they have already got a halter on him and have taught him to lead.
It will be about year before Danny can start riding him but I think this will be a great project for him and the kids. They are all so excited!!
