Soccer and birthday party weekend

We had a fun-filled weekend of our first soccer game (go Cougars!) and celebrating Mac's 3rd birthday. Our friend Anna Claire is on our soccer team, so her momma and I are now officially Soccer Mom's! We had a super time at Celebration Town with buddies from our playgroup. Happy birtdhay, Mac!

Wordless Wednesday

Soccer!

It's hard to believe what big kids Mary & Jack have become. They start soccer this week and couldn't wait to try out their new equipment!

Parents' Night at Preschool

Last night was Parents' Night at Bethany Child Development Center. We really love their school and their teachers and are thrilled that everything is working out so well. Somehow, each child ended up with the PERFECT teacher for them! This whole separation deal turned out to be no big deal.

Mary's teacher marvels at her organizational skills and "prissiness" and lets Mary remind her if there's something that still needs to be done. Nothing could make that child happier! Cutting out her big red paper apple was taking too long yesterday, so Mary was charged with reminding Ms. Harris to let her finish before school ended. With great delight she did so and it was hanging with everyone else's on the board last night. Also, 4 of the children in this 4-year-old class are either already 5 or about to turn 5 -- and that works great with Mary. She will have no problem keeping up and no doubt will love the challenge. She's already writing her name and doing some basic reading.

Jack's teacher so clearly adores him -- everything about him! As Ms. Walters led the parent group through the typical day and discussed their class in general, she turned to us and laughed about Jack at least 4 times! Apparently he loves to build things in this class and will use anything, even pretzels, to do so. On the board, each child had a list of favorites and aspirations. Jack apparently aspires to be a dump truck driver. Yeah! Hope he aims higher someday, but for now we are thrilled that he is in such a loving, happy environment and is learning so much. His writing skills have soared as has his nearly-reading ability.

We left with joy in our hearts and headed straight to Oscars (with our coupon!) for a YUMMY date night dinner.

Labor Day Weekend at the Beach House

We had a SUPER time this past weekend with our friends from church, Billy & Laura Jones and their two boys, Aaron & Ethan. Here's a picture of some beach fun with all four kids.

Thurdless Wordsday

What fun we had today with so many of our priends!

Thursday Thirteen

Howdy, Folks! Just thought I'd saunter on over to this here computer and punch in the Thursday 13 for this week.

Thirteen Things we did at the Dude Ranch
1. Ate -- lots! Food was plentiful and yummy.
2. Rode horses/ponies. Make for some sore booties!
3. Fished in the streams.
4. Caught trout in said streams.
5. Saw the trout "dressed" next to the streams (that's actually "undressed" in case you don't know).
6. Played with cousins.
7. Read lots of books at the recreation center.
8. Watched the Kid Rodeo. Fun!
9. Saw antelope.
10. Saw mule deer.
11. Played with the cute ranch dogs that looked like Georgia.
12. Flew on 6 different airplanes. Did some serious praying there!
13. Missed our friends at home!