Back to School Fun

We were all ready for school to start today. Anna layed out her outfit to wear the night before, and before I even went to wake her up she got dressed and hurried out for breakfast. She was excited! (and a little nervous).

We drove her in for the first day. David was excited too, he wanted his own backpack. Megan also met with her Kindergarten teacher this morning. She was kind of silly and talkative. I realized that was her way of dealing with being nervous. Anna is quiet and timid when she is nervous.

We found Anna's desk on the front row! She is going to have a great year with a really nice teacher who lives in our ward, and some good friends in her class.

In the afternoon Megan and I made some special sugar cookies for Anna when she got home. Lots of fun!

A Great Summer!

Well its back to school time for us, school starts this Thursday! We are excited and ready, but we have had a GREAT summer! I've been terrible about taking pictures but we have had lots of fun, so I thought I better write it down so we'd remember anyway.
We had two weeks of swimming lessons: Anna and Megan had fun with their cousins and learned a lot! They have also been swimming in our pool almost every day. We've invited cousins and friends over to enjoy it with us, its always more fun with friends! They learned how to make a 'wave pool' and a 'swirl pool'. And there is always lots of jumping off the ladder.
They are both much more comfortable in the water and learning to glide and swim around under the water comfortablly.
We have also had fun camping in our trailer. David loves going to the 'tall mountains!'. And the girls have so much fun playing with family and friends exploring in the woods. We even had a little BBQ with some friends this week and really enjoyed it. So its sad to see summer coming to an end, but we are looking forward to lots of fun this school year with Anna in 2nd grade, Megan in Kindergarten and David in preschool. I'm going to be driving lots!