It's Back to School Time!!

Hee hee hee.  I love this video!

What it takes to send a preschool, 3rd grader and 5th grader off to another year!

Reece was excited his supply list included feathers and pom poms.

Landon not so much since his list had 8 spiral notebooks and 2 reams of "wide ruled" lined paper.












Look what I made last week .....

I framed these cute photos of my babes and placed a little hook under each one so that they will have a place for their backpacks and school stuff.

For today it is holding all their supplies.  Tomorrow-homework, art projects and library books. It's an attempt to stay "on top" of all their stuff.

Reece was really excited to show his luggage tag? in his Preschool Back to School Photo.  Okay buddy, whatever makes you happy!

Here Reecer man is showing his back to school supplies!

His bags were so heavy he could barely lift them.

Dayton chose the sporty look for his 1st day of 3rd Grade

Strong arming his school supplies!

Posing for back to school pictures is old news for Landon since he will be a "upper classmen" going into the 5th grade today!

Not even breaking a sweat with all those notebooks.

One final "group" shot before we pile in the car.

Mom was informed by 3rd grader and 5th grader that NO PICTURE taking would be allowed at their school so I'll move on to the preschooler who doesn't know better yet.  

I'm excited for Reece and he is excited to be "big enough" for school.  He had a great 1st day of Pre-K! Look there is his name on the door!  Welcome Reece!

Who wouldn't want to go to preschool again?  Look how fun!

Well mom and dad were sad to see them all go back to school but we know we have to cut the cord sometime :)

Sadie is thinking "I can't believe my brother's left me with these crazies"

It wasn't long before dad was back to doing this...

And mom and Sadie went and did this with the other mom's that were sad to see their kids head back to school.

Sadie and her girlfriends still a bit in shock of what all this means.  Hopefully everyone had a great back to school day AND has a Fabulous year!

Reece preschool party!

Reece had an end of the year preschool party where we went to a puppet play and then the Spaghetti Factory after for lunch. It started out okay but then....

Reece started in with one of these......
then this......
and finally this....
Sadie is like her mom and doesn't have much of a poker face and wasn't impressed. Can you tell?
Finally ending with all the preschoolers running amok at the restaurant. Sounds pretty much like what you would expect. Good times had by all.

Reece's 3 year old preschool

Even though there were only a few months left in the school year Reece needed something fun to do so when we got to Arizona we signed him up for preschool at the Peace Lutheran preschool. He loved it and he had a great teacher Ms. Shuster. He will return there in August for the "official" 4 year old preschool. He wanted me to do his hair "spiky" so even though it was a bit long I did. He is cute no matter what!

Mesa Temple visit

Travis, Landon and myself were lucky enough to be able to attend a broadcast of the Gila Valley Temple dedication here in Arizona. I've been to a few dedications and it is always such a wonderful thing. The next day while Landon and Dayton were still in school I decided to take the littles and visit the Mesa temple grounds. It was a beautiful day.