ANOTHER QUICK ONE

I know I'm a broken record, but I do intend on posting a blog soon summarizing what's been up the last month or so. Wanted to put up this one for Mike to see while he's at work. Today was Adrienne's first day riding a school bus! It took a few weeks to get sorted out for a few reasons that I won't go into (boring). So anyway here a few pics:

Colette waiting at the bus stop

Here it comes!

What a big girl!

Mt. Walker and House Pics

These are from a few weeks ago when we went to Mt. Walker. I can't take credit for these, Mike took them:

I love this one:



Haven't posted updated house pics in awhile. These aren't even most current - was going to post these I think about a week ago and didn't get around to it. The sheeting on the outside walls is done as you can see, and sheeting has begun on the roof. A lot more of the roof has been sheeted since these pictures:

Garage/bonus room

Mike's shop

The house

Pictures from Friday

Emma emailed some pictures from Friday. She can correct me if I'm wrong here but I believe this is them on the ferry on the way here. She had said she was excited to be taking the ferry because it had been over a year since her last ride. Aren't they cute? And doesn't Jacob have a pretty eye ;-)

The following pictures were taken in the Applebee's foyer while we waited for the food to-go.

The girls had just met Jacob maybe an hour and a half earlier and already they were sitting on him and giving him kisses and holding hands, etc. My girls went from not caring to boy crazy in an evening.
Colette and Jacob
Adrienne
Emma and Me!

I'm a copycat

So I'm copying Emma...I thought this was cute what she did with Jacob, and asked Adrienne the same questions to see what kinds of responses I'd get:

What country do we live in?
"The only ones I can think of are Paris (she pronounced it like the French do...hehe) and Hawaii."

Who is the president?
"I don't know, but what's Jacob's answer?" Then- "Who is the president?" Me- "George Bush" Adrienne- (puts her hands over her face)

How old is America?
17

What do you want to be when you grow up?
"A teacher."

If you could be any superhero what would you be?
"Super Adrienne"

If you could fly where would you go to?
"Paris" (once again, pronounced French-style)

Another Reunion!

My fellow blogger friend Emma is a an old junior high and high school friend that I'd reconnected with earlier this year after being out of touch since high school!

I was supposed to go see her fight August 18th, but her fight was canceled because of an injury. Then the next weekend was our 10 year high school reunion (on my birthday!), but she couldn't make it to that either because she was still having issues with her knee.

So! We finally got together last night with our families - She, Galen and Jacob came over on the ferry and Adrienne, Colette, and I picked them up (Mike was working on the house - as always). We brought them back to the house and showed them around the house and then we all (including Mike now) piled in the van and went to Applebee's for dinner. But we didn't have time to wait for a table since they were going to have to catch a certain ferry back, so we got the food to-go and took it to a nearby park. While we were waiting for the food Mike ran to Home Depot to pick up some glow sticks for the kids since it was dark by then. It was pretty fun eating at the park in the near-dark (there was a dim light shining on our table) and it was definitely quieter than it would have been in the busy restaurant! We got them back to their ferry in time, and although it was a short visit, it was great and can't wait to do it again!

Adrienne and Colette treated Jacob like a rock star and were fawning all over him, and Adrienne kept trying to kiss him. But I am told this hasn't turned him off completely to my girls and that he's looking forward to another visit.

Emma got a few pics at the restaurant, so when she gets those up on her blog I'll snatch them and put them up here as well.

A much more detailed blog of my goings-on are definitely in order, but once again...not now! I'm tired from route and just put Colette down for her nap, and Adrienne's going to a friend's! - so PEACE and QUIET are calling my name for the next few hours.

Adrienne's Official 1st Day of Kindergarten!

Again, I need to write more later, but more Kindergarten photos for Mike at work first.

Yesterday was sort-of Adrienne's first day of Kindergarten, but not really which made it a little anti-climatic. But I think it was nice - for the kids to have their parents with them the first day they meet their teacher, their classmates, getting to know their classroom and the building and everything. And for the parents to get their questions answered and get a sense of where their kids would be spending their days all year.

So today was her official first day of Kindergarten all on her own. She's still there actually, I will be picking her up later this hour, so I don't know how it's been. I felt really confident that she would be able to find her way to her class, but once I dropped her off I got really nervous she would get lost. I had told her if she needed help to ask a grown-up and she knows her teacher's name, so I'm sure she's fine.

Doing her first homework ever!

UPDATE: So she survived. She found her classroom okay, and it sounds like the only snag in her day was when she couldn't find her desk and nobody heard her asking for help so she cried a little. But she's been talking non-stop about school all day and was actually looking forward to bedtime because it meant that when she wakes up it will be time for school again!

Kindergarten

I am MAJORLY behind on blogging, partly because of being INSANELY busy, but also because I'm getting used to a new computer (more on that later). Right now I just wanted to get some pictures of Adrienne's first day of Kindergarten up so that Mike can see them from work:

Waking up earlier than they're used to
Adrienne would want me to show off her Polly Pocket backpackEnough pictures, let's GO already!Today was an orientation, about 2 hours. Colette and I were there the whole time, so that was sort of a nice transition and tomorrow will be her first day all on her own! After the orientation I am not worried at all.

I'll try to get caught up on what else has been going on soon!