Summer Fun & Back to School

We had such a fun and busy summer.  We traveled.  We visited with family and friends.  And we swam.  A lot.  

Experiencing the solar eclipse was pretty amazing for the kids.

We've had many tooth fairy visits.

It was fun meeting their new teachers and getting ready for their first day.  The first day can be nerve wrecking.  After finding out Sterling didn't get Xander's Kindergarten teacher, she was pretty nervous to go to school.  After meeting her teacher, she was ready.  I'm so glad they both received awesome teachers.

Play dates with friends are always fun.  Especially if you meet at a park.  

Field day was in the fall this year and it was especially fun.

Xander found a turtle in our backyard and loved it for a day.

Field trips are always fun when you go to a pumpkin farm with all your friends.

On Halloween Sterling was sick.  We only went to a couple houses and called it a win.

The Christmas tree went up really early this year.

to be continued...

14 months later

I'm coming back to blogging here and I'm excited!  I'll start by recapping the past 14 months over a couple posts.  We have some exciting, yet scary, things happening with our family.  I'll save those details for a later post ;)

Let's do this...

We had an unseasonably warm winter/spring last year so we spent a lot of time outside.  The kids started swim school and did awesomely.

Sterling turned 5!  On her birthday, I took her to American Girl and she had a dreamy day.  We ate lunch with her dolls and had fun shopping for new accessories for them.  We also had a friends party for her at Michael's Craft stores.  She had the best time and it was the easiest party ever.  

For career day, she wanted to be a gymnastics Olympic gold medalist.  

Xander turned 6!  He's such a snuggle bear that we took him to build-a-bear with his friends for a party.  It was the best idea ever!  

We registered Sterling for Kindergarten and she was so excited!

Attending the White House Easter Egg Roll was such a fun event.  It ended up being really hot, so we were a bit miserable at the end, but we still had a great time!  There were so many characters and games for the kids.  I'd highly recommend it.

Sterling graduated preschool and Xander finished Kindergarten.  We celebrated with Sweet Frog.

Sterling had her dance recital and she was the star of the show.  Front and center with a big smile.

We celebrated father's day and then headed to GA.

We picked up my niece and she stayed with us for the summer.  We had a great time with her staying with us.  She's such a sweet girl.

We hosted a fun Independence Day celebration.

We had sick days, rainy days jumping in muddy puddles, some fun trips, and lots of snuggles.

to be continued...

We're still kicking

As you've probably noticed, blogging every day just is not going to happen.  I wish it would work out since I basically keep our little blog going for our own family memories.  But, I'm not going to stress over it and will update it when I can.  So today, I'm going to give update our past three weeks.  And it's been a good one!

Sterling is still dressing in her Christmas attire.  Today she's wearing her chevron holiday dress.  

I organized my office in the middle of January and it's still cleaned and organized.  Majesty (the horse) has her own "stable" in my office too.

Sterling loves to take my makeup brushes after I do my makeup and uses them too.  She also went through a phase of wearing a set of "rainbow" headbands.  

Parents were allowed in the dance room to watch dance practice.  Sterling thought this was a performance and loved every minute of it!

Tall socks are the new pants.

Xander had kindness week at school and he was powered with kindness through superman.

We had a crazy last week.  I won't share every detail because it might scare some people, but here's one incident that was odd.  When Nick took out our garbage, he found this tree knocked down.  How in the world?!  It's been windy, but not that windy where it'd knock down a tree.  So I thought.

Xander went to a birthday party for a friend at Chuck E. Cheese.  He had a blast!

We had snow for the second time.  I loved how it covered our trees!

I took a parenting webinar.  I'm not a perfect parent, never claim to be, and never will be.  But, I'm trying to be better.

Three days after his fun birthday party, he was sick.  He came home from school with a fever and was out on Thursday and Friday.  He still had to tag along to take Sterling to school and speech.  We played superhero I-spy while waiting.

I put the kids' bunk beds back together while Nick was at work.  Their room is huge so now they have a larger space to make a mess.  Haha!  Just keeping it real :)

We've been working on class Valentine's and Sterling's are hilarious.  She hasn't conquered writing small yet, so she's spacing them all out and putting letters where ever they will fit.

It's 74 degrees today so we walked to pick up Bubba and the kids are playing while I write this post.

Have a great day!