Let me just tell you how much Kalee loves school......

So this week is the Scholastic Book Fair at Caleb's Creek and there are some fun events planned around it, one of which took place yesterday morning. It was "Breakfast with Clifford," which I thought sounded like tons of fun, so I purchased us tickets to attend. I got up extra early to get everything together, loaded up the car with Kalee, the babies, and my camera, and off we went. Well, on the way to school, Kalee was asking about whether her whole class would be at breakfast. When I explained to her that only the kids who had an adult going with them were going and that the rest of the class would stay in the room and carry on with the normal routine, SHE REFUSED TO ATTEND!!!!!!!!

ARE YOU KIDDING ME??????

What kid doesn't want to get out of class to go eat donuts and buy stuff at the Book Fair????????

Well, mine, apparently!!!!

Soooo, I got over the fact that Kalee was ditching me for the calendar routine and thought, "Well, at least I can still take the babies, right??" WRONG!!!!!! Kloe screamed like someone was trying to strangle her when Clifford waved to her, and Phillip was practically gnawing through the seatbelt on the wagon to get the h-e-double-hockeysticks away from that giant red dog!!!!!

It was yet another of those moments as a mom where you have such expectations and your dang kids have to go and mess it all up!!!!! (LOL....totally kidding!!!)

Anywho, I just thought that this was a perfect illustration of how in love with Kindergarten Kalee is, and how I had no reason to stress like I did for the past year over her "adjustment!!!!"

Happy Anniversary!!!!!

Although I am a few days late with this post, I wanted to wish my wonderful husband a very happy 7th anniversary!! I can't believe how quickly these 7 years have flown by, and how our life has changed!!!! But I wouldn't trade you or any part of our life together...love ya, baby!!!!!!

Smith Mountain Lake

This past weekend we had the EXTREME good fortune to spend some time at Smith Mountain Lake in Virginia! The best part of all is that it was with Sherry, Kevin, Lindsey, and Bailey! They are so much fun to go away with...we had a blast!!!!!! I really love my family!

But anywho...back to the lake! The mansion, I mean house that we stayed in was A-MAZ-ING, and that is a SERIOUS understatement!! 7 bedrooms, amazing living areas, a gorgeous kitchen, decks and patios galore, the lake in the backyard, a boathouse with docks and lifts....I could seriously go on and on and on!!! It was fabulous...although VERY creepy when I was there by myself!! (By the end of the weekend, us girls were afraid to go anywhere by ourselves!!!!!)

I especially enjoyed taking over 600 pictures with my new camera....heeheehee!!!! I did manage to edit them down to 400, but it was tough! There was just so much beautiful scenery, not to mention my little princesses!! Here are some of my faves.....

10 Months Later.....

Well, here we are, almost 10 months since my last post....sigh!!! So I'm going to make a go of it again and try to keep everyone up to speed on my sweet baby girls!

Probably the biggest development of all is that Kalee has started KINDERGARTEN!!!!! She absolutely loves it and her adjustment to being gone all day wasn't nearly as ugly and horrid as I had feared! As everyone warned me, it was much harder for me than for the little scholar! She loves her teachers and her school, which is brand new and beautifully state of the art! (Seeing all the cool things that they have made me briefly miss teaching...but by briefly I mean less time than it took you to read this sentence!! ;-) I think that Kloe misses Kalee during the day but she is very busy playing with Phillip and napping, so she is surviving!!

Another major milestone is that Kloe is 1!!!! We were at the beach with Grandma, Grandpa, Sherry, Kevin, Lindsey, and Bailey for her birthday, so she had a beach party and then another soiree at home! She is quite the party girl!!! Here are some pics.....

So that is a start...I will post lots more pictures and try to share some of the fun things that we have done in the past few months!