First Day of School

Griffin's first day of 4K

Meeting big brother after his first day of school!

He made it!

Getting on the bus for the first time.

Well another school year is well underway. Carter is enjoying 2nd grade and loving riding the bus! We love his school so much, this year, they had to bring their own bibles as part of their school supplies, I love that!!

Griffin is in 4 year old Kindergarten and enjoys it as well. It is at the same church he has preschool at last year. This year is going to be a year of a lot of growth and maturity for Griffin as they really focus on preparing the children for Kindergarten.

That leaves me and Lily four mornings a week, it is very quiet around here.We keep busy with errands, and play dates. I hired a sitter to come over every Tuesday morning to watch Lily. This was motivated by two reasons, my desire for some time to myself, to get some things done around town, meet a friend for coffee or just enjoy some time alone. Also, Lily is extremely attached to me so this will be good for her as well. Today was week two and she did so much better than last week, only cried for a minute when I left! I enjoyed myself a lot this morning. Now we have to work on her staying in the nursery at church and during my bible study! She is at a very fun age right now, her personality is really showing! It has been interesting having her in a playgroup with 1 and 2 year old kids, she does not know about kids her age and does not like it when they pull her, push her, or take things from her. This will be good for her and for me! I am meeting some new friends with little ones and anybody who knows me knows how I like to meet new people!

I also starting serving on our high school ministry team. This experience is going to change me forever, already has in just 2 weeks! Watching 15, 16 and 17 year olds in love with Jesus, praising Him and trusting Him in ways I just learned to do, is so inspiring! I wish I had known what they know at their ages. I have a lot to share with them but so much more to learn from them.

More Summer pictures!

I took each of the boys out on a "date" before school started. Love one-on-one time with them.

So happy I captured this picture, priceless!

Griffin and his lemonade stand, he also had a thrift sale, made $40 dollars!

Lily, 5 months home!!

Wrapping up Summer

Dad took the boys on a surprise trip to Lego Discovery in Chicago, BIG hit!!

It is hard to get a picture of all three of them. this was just by accident!

Lily loves the beach, she loves the water of course the boys do too!

I know it is already a few weeks into the school year but this post is going to be about wrapping up our summer!

We enjoyed a few camping trips this summer, Lily was not a big fan of camping, but the rest of us really like it! We are so blessed by Ty's parents in so many ways, they offered to keep Lily for a weekend in August so we could enjoy a camping trip with the boys and 5 other families! And enjoy it we did! The weather was perfect and all 15 kids had a great time. The 12 parents all had fun as well. We are so blessed by so many wonderful friendships! That was our last camping trip in our camper, it went up for sale the day after we got home. It is a nice camper and I have no plans of tenting it in the future but have decided that we may hold off on camping for a couple years until Lily is a little older. We will take the boys here and there in the years to come but for now we plan on selling the camper. We hope to get a different one some day as camping is a lot of fun.

It was a fun summer, having three kids at home to entertain was challenging at times but we figured it out. The boys enjoy playing with one another which is good because I am quite busy with Lily lately. She loves her big brothers so having them around was fun for her!

We are ready for the Fall but not so much the winter!