Summer's Over?

Wow! I can’t believe summer is already gone. It just flew by too fast. We did have tons of fun in the sun though. And I can finally say that Wesley has overcome his complete fear of pools and swimming. He improved so much this year. After his drowning scare last spring I am finally able to breathe again when he’s in the water. Thanks to my dear friend Melissa and her expert swim lessons. You’re awesome!! And Devon has taken up rollerblading, very cool! Allie has expertly turned the entire upstairs into a store, school, bedroom, spa all for her Barbies and dolls. Kailey has finally mastered running. And let me tell you, that’s not a good thing. That busy baby!!

Well Bryan surprised me with tickets to the American Idol Live Concert for our anniversary!! Totally awesome! But our camera was broken just a couple days before and my crazy mom brain forgot about it until we were leaving for the concert. I got a few videos and pictures on my crummy phone, so maybe I’ll have something to post on that soon. But the concert was so cool! David Archuleta was AWESOME!!! And CARLY!!! Everyone was so much better than on the show. I’m sure performing every night will help with that. But poor Ramielle was not good at all. David Cook was great too, but he’s just not my favorite. I’m sure if I had caught one of the 20 guitar picks he threw out to the crowd I would’ve thought he was much more cool! Thanks Bryan, You’re so fun!

School started 2 weeks ago, so yes, I’m a big slacker for not getting to this yet. The AI Concert was the night before school started so I had to have everything ready to go ahead of time. Thank you, Thank you to Lisa who watched the kids that night. But it was all excitement that morning. I love it when I don’t even have to tell the kids what to do in the morning. Maybe they should make it the first day at least once a week. The drop off wasn’t bad at all. I went in to walk the kids to their classes and Devon was just so grown up and didn’t even need me. It was a very good morning!

The pickup line was another story. So the kids are at a new elementary this year. So the picking up plan was just not set up good at all. There’s a new middle school next to the elementary so it was quite the mess. Why can’t they just have buses? Ahhh! You have to live 2 miles from the school to be bused. Why isn’t 1.7 miles far enough. I’m sorry but that .3 of a mile isn’t going to make it close enough for my kids to walk or ride a bike. And so we all should just waste our gas and sit for 30 min. in a car line. Good plan. Anyway, I just thought it’d be funny to look back and see a picture of the car line. That first day I didn’t get my kids until 3:45. Those poor kids were waiting 45 min after school was out. And it wasn’t my fault. I had been waiting 45 min too! O.k. time to get off my soap box. I really am glad they’re at the new school. It’s going to be a great year.