First Days of School

School Year 2014-2015

It feels like we just finished the last school year...where did the summer go?  I think we all wanted a little bit more time before heading back to the classrooms.  It seems like most people I talked with they felt the same way.  Well here we are ready for 8th grade, 6th grade, 3rd grade and Kindergarten!

Nervous or Giddy?  Ready for 3rd Grade

No big deal...just 8th grade.  At least I'm not a sevie

Definitely giddy!  Let's do this!  Last year at JI-6th Grade here I come!

yah...see ya mom...now get going...you don't have to take a picture!

Hey, what about me???  i would like to go too!

Natalie, Lauren and I had a little more fun after we dropped off the older three.  We went to Mankato, ran a few errands, rode the escalator at Scheels about 5 times, went on the carosel and had lunch at Panera.  One last hoorah before kindergarten

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Kindergarten Here I come!!

all decked out in her "Frozen" attire.  She even wanted her hair like Elsa's!
Too cute and WAY excited!!

her friend Reagan..watch out for these two!

Yes, and then there was one....One cute little girl with no where to be except with her mom meeting some friends at the coffee shop.  Something tells me this is going to happen frequently!

KeeNeeMooSha Year 7!!!!

kee-nee-moo-sha 2014

Getting ready to leave on the long car trip!

Oh how we look forward to this family trip every year.  Meeting up with families that we haven't seen in a year, campfire donuts, tie-dye tshirts, turtle races, ice cream, boating, fishing, the list goes on and on!  Complete relaxation for one whole week-away from our "lives" in St. Peter.  This year however, like last year (boat fire) started off a bit rocky.  We forgot a tub of clothes, particularly mine (swim suits, sweatshirts) and my make up and underwear and all our bathroom items oh and Laurens diapers.  So the bathroom stuff and Laurens diapers not too big of a deal, but my undies and swimsuits?  THANKFULLY, we have good friends, the Wenners that have family members who own a cabin about 25 minutes away.  Heidi got us all set up to have her brother in law bring our basket of stuff up the next morning.  So I was only away from my things for 12 hours or so.  Oh, that made me soooooooo happy!  The rest of the week went smoothly.  We had amazing weather!  Brian, Caitlin Emily Rachel and I all got up on waterski's.  Natalie was a big girl and went a little faster on the tubes and was very brave swimming in the lake.  Lauren did great playing in the sand or in the water or on the playset.  The fishing wasn't great but Brian and the girls didn't fish as much as they had in the past either.  We had just enough though for one small meal and it was delicious!  The week went fast and we were all sad to leave our friends and our little cabin.  We're already counting down the days til next year!