School shopping!

So we're pretty much done with summer...This year, since we have THREE kids in school and in a school district that has no uniform (ugh), Anthony and I took each child to do their school shopping. It was very nice to have time alone with each of them, PLUS, there was no chaos and fighting! NO Tyler, a puppy is NOT on your school supply list! Although all of us have tried to convince Dad it is :(Carli's FIRST SCHOOL SUPPLIES!

We have everything bought for ALL of the kids! Haircuts just done! I believe we're ready!

Pictures tomorrow of Carli's "Meet the teacher" at school, Tyler's schedule pick up and "Meet the teacher, and Austin visiting his classroom.

Happy Birthday Kayce

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MY SISTER IN LAW KAYCE! WE LOVE YOU!

Sweet lunch dates

One of my favorite lil' families were passing through town and so we met up for lunch. (Lindsay and I)
(Olivia and Carli)(Baby Julia)

I'm so happy Carli and I got to see them...we've missed them SO MUCH!

Remembering Grandpa/Great Grandpa

Today marks a year that we lost our Grandpa/Great Grandpa. We miss him so much.
We love him, we want to make him proud, we love each other, and those things are what has kept us strong this past year without him and will continue to do so.Yesterday, the family (this is maybe half of us-we were missing quite a bit) got together to celebrate him. We all had shirts made, ate a wonderful lunch and yummy cake. It was such a nice day! Everyone enjoyed it!Thank you Grandpa AND Grandma for creating this fabulous family!And a big thank you to Kathy, Penelope, and Sonja for dropping off Rapunzel. Carli thought she was so cute sitting by the door!

Girls night out

LOVE LOVE LOVE spending time with my Deyanira!!!
17 years of best friends/sisters!

Winding down/gearing up

Summer is winding down and we are gearing up for back to school. There have been dental check ups, physicals, eye exams. Tyler's school schedule will be picked up next week. School supplies bought and clothes shopping is about to start.

I've taken Carli up to her school a few times to start to get use to it. She loves it. You can see, she has made a friend, a first grader, who's mom is a teacher there. Carli has made herself quite at home and already knows where everything is in the school!She's already met her teacher last week,but today her teacher came to our house. They do home visits, which I'm not use to, but loved it! I'm feeling very comfortable and a little excited about her starting school! Especially since it was my elementary school!

Mother/Son road trip

This past weekend Tyler and I headed to the land of the pears. Ahhh, it was so nice to be back in our old town.We crashed at Rose's house. Roland was celebrating his 13th Birthday. We had a really fun time!
I enjoyed some great laughs/girl time with Rose and Delia. Sad I didn't get any pictures of us!The boys had fun bowling! 13 year old boys could really care less to have their picture taken.These two crazy cuties were pretty hysterical! We all enjoyed some unexpected birthday cupcakes! (lol! Yep, there's a story behind these!)The birthday boy!Rose's ice cream cake! YUMMO!We hated to have to leave...see, even the cat wanted us to stay, so he slept in my bag!
But, we will go back soon. I just HAVE to visit everyone!

Special Dentist Visit

(ME-5yrs.old)
(Shawn-5yrs.old)(Austin-5yrs.old)(Carli-5yrs.old)

What makes a dentist visit so special? The fact that MYSELF, my little brother Shawn, Austin, and now Carli have all gone to the SAME pediatric dentist! Moving back to our hometown has made finding doctors a little easy. So when it was Carli's turn for her dental visit, I knew just where to go!

Her dentist check up was perfect timing, since she lost her first tooth on the bottom already! She already has TWO FULL GROWN ADULT TEETH behind the baby one she just lost and one behind the baby tooth that is next to it which will be out very soon! The dentist said that if that one doesn't come out within a couple of weeks, we need to go ahead and pull it. Also, he said that she should be loosing her top two teeth not long from now, because she's got those adult teeth ready to come through. AND in the next four-six months, she'll be getting her permanent molars! Unbelievable! Not sure what I feel about that?! But I am proud that she is a member of the "NO CAVITY CLUB"! :)

105!

We've been frequenting our favorite snow cone place all summer! That's kind of all you feel like eating when it's 105 outside!

Ramblings

We've been trying to keep cool. Staying indoors. Anthony went back to work this past week after being on vacation for two weeks.
We all enjoyed this smurfy movie on Saturday! These lil' blue peeps are starting to invade our house now.
Wednesday night,I hosted a And that's all the pictures I have...the food came out, margaritas were poured, the scents were being smelled, and the conversations were terrific! Oh the laughter!

I have to show this picture of the ADORABLE Scentsy warmer Carli has. A CUPCAKE!
It just looks perfect in there!I can feel the summer is starting to wind down (a bit). We have less than a month till we start school. This is the week when I start the school shopping, Carli and Tyler each have well check-ups, and Carli has a dentist appointment. But we still have some time left and we will enjoy it!