First Day of Kindergarten

Reed's first day of Kindergarten is today!  He wasn't very excited a few weeks ago but he gained his excitement lately.  We got a new backpack and went back to school shopping which made him excited.  He kept asking in the past week about when he starts school.

Just Reed and I went Back to School shopping last Monday night.  We got him a haircut, went out to dinner and shopped for clothes and supplies.  We both had a blast!  He asked to have that special date each year and I'm happy to do it!

Last Thursday night was Back to School night.  We saw his desk in his new classroom, he got a box of supplies to keep at school, and a folder with some "homework" and info.  He thought it was awesome!

 I remember doing this as a kid in kindergarten! He made a little guy to look like him.  Could he be more of a typical white boy?  He made this completely on his own.

 Moving up classrooms means he leaves the previous teacher. We LOVE Miss Max!  She was Nora's first teacher, when she was only 12 weeks old.  Nora loves her still and Miss Max visited Nora every single day -still.  But she skipped up out of infants for the summer (and for a little while) and got Reed for the summer!  Reed began to love her just as much as Nora!  

 Nora had to say goodbye to her teacher Laura.  This school has such awesome teachers! 

 First day of school picture on the front porch!

 Doing some weird pose.

 I also treated them to First Day of School Donuts!

 Reed's new classroom.  How cute is this?

 Reed in his seat.

 How cute is this picture?  Love that adorable kid!

 Learning how the day will go.  They did roll call.  Miss Nila is Reed's teacher.  She said "you can say either 'here' or 'present' when I call your name.  It started with "here!", then a few kids said "present!".  Two kids said "president" and one kid said "turkey".  Luckily Reed chose to say present.

 All the little kids.  Reed is the second in on the left.

 One last sneaky pic before I left (yep, I was that parent!).  

I can't wait to hear how the day went and how he feels about it.  Now, I need to get on the track of helping him with his homework.  Yikes!

City of Rocks

This past weekend we went to the City of Rocks in Idaho with my brother and his girlfriend, the Scrip family and a few of the Search and Rescue guys.  We had a blast, of course, it's one of my favorite places to go.  The weather was looking sketchy but ended up being fine.  It rained when we first got there pretty hard but then it cleared up and luckily didn't rain any more the rest of the weekend.  We had cooler temps then usual but it was clear and beautiful!  In fact, it was nice that it was a bit cooler, made climbing nice to not be melting.

Here are a ton of pictures.

 These three.  I just love, love, love that they are buddies.  Gracie, Reed and Nora.  Reed has done a good job of being a big brother to Gracie.  And Nora and Gracie are starting to play together really well.

 Reed wanted to climb and did a lot of it actually.  He did a pretty good job for wearing skate shoes that kept falling off.

 Nora wanted to give it a try too.  She didn't go much farther than this but seemed to have fun.

 I was walking to a different climb and saw Fogg on the horizon, cool pics!

 Adorbs.

 Exploring the cave together.

 My brother leading up the first climb.

 Reed giving another climb a try.  I lead this one, totally fun!

 We got to bring London with us.  He was a good campsite dog, laying around most of the time.  He was guarding the camper for us.

 Nora taking a ride on the horse.

 Can you say cuteness?  Hanging by the fire.

 Second morning, Gordon near the top there.

 Leigha giving it a try.

 Hard to see but middle of the picture, Fogg took Reed on a "multipitch" climb.

 How cute is that?

Great weekend in one of my favorite places!!

Colorado Camping

Hey there!

Again, I've been a slacker at posting!  Anyway, I have a couple of different posts today.

So last weekend, we drove to Colorado to meet up with Fogg's best friend from Ohio who was going there for a dirt bike trip with his brother and his brother's friends.  We loaded up the bikes and the camper and took several days off work and headed out.  Meanwhile, Fogg's friend ran into car trouble and bailed on the trip!  We still decided to keep going and dirt bike anyway.  It was a great time.  A long freaking drive but fun anyway.  We went near Gunnison and Crested Butte, to a place called Taylor Park.  We camped way up in the mountains but we had a lot of comforts with our pop up camper and the other people has huge campers and lots of food to share.

The first day we just set up camp and hung out.  The next morning, some other ladies watched the kids for me so I could go dirt biking with Fogg and the boys.  It was such a beautiful, challenging and fun ride.  The next day, the boys went on another ride and I took the kids over to Crested Butte to play, have lunch and check out the town.  It's a cute ski town, I let them pick out a small toy and get a chocolate treat then we headed back to the campsite for dinner.

Each night a big fire was made and everyone enjoyed hanging out, having drinks, chatting and roasting marshmallows.  The kids loved running around, getting super dirty, exploring.

 This is a really cool playground in Crested Butte, it was a pirate ship and the kids just played pirates for a long time, saying "argh!" and "ahoy matey".  Hilarious. 

 Passed out on the way home.

Paci Fairy

I asked Nora's teacher how we could easily get her off of the pacifier.  Nora was pretty attached to it, sucking on it all day if we let her.  We went down to only night time for awhile but she wanted it a lot.  Her teacher suggested doing a Paci Fairy.  We build up a time to send them back and then pack em up.  The Paci Fairy will come get them and give them to new babies.  We involved Nora in the decision, asking her when she wanted to do it.  "Today?" no.  "Tomorrow?" no.  "Sunday after church?" yes.  So each day, we would tell her how much longer till we send them away.

After church this week, I piled up all the paci's on the counter and got her a box.  I had her do everything.  She put all of them in the box and put the top on.  "bye-bye paci's!" she said.  Then we taped up the box and addressed it.

 Then we walked out to the mailbox and she put them in.  The next morning we checked and they were gone!

Only once that night did she ask for her paci and I reminded her that they were off to the fairy.  She rolled over and went to sleep after that!  Hasn't asked not one time since!  I'm so proud of baby girl!

Yesterday was my first day of work for Alpin Sales.  So far so good!  I got to work in my basement office with my coffee and Marmot mug.  This week is going to be nuts!

Cheers~