All three kids in school :)

The long anticipated day arrived weeks ago. August 15th and 16th. All three kids went to school. Gates is now in 1st grade, Ella in 4K, and Mady Claire 3K. Gates goes all five days, Ella four days and Mady Claire three days. All three did well going to school.

Gates was such a BIG boy. He went off to his new school not knowing anyone. He was super excited. Todd was able to walk him to the door. Gates trotted off into the big school with no fears. Amazing! Todd teared up watching him walk all by himself to class. :)

Ella was very excited to get back to school. She missed her friends. She is a social butterfly. She walked through the school doors as if she hadn't been away for the summer. She was ready and thrilled to be in her new class.

Mady Claire was not too excited about going to school. Well, she was until the first day came. She did ok for her first time ever in school. She let us drop her off and kiss her goodbye. It's the days since then that she hasn't been excited for Todd to leave her.

As for me, I'm a little saddened that the little ones are growing up. I mean the days and years have flown by. Of course they can't stay young forever. I love having some free time. Working on catching up with everything that has been on hold in my life for years...

School Time

 School is back!

Here are only a few photos of our awesome Disney World trip in September 2010. Have so many more pictures to post. Had a lot of fun even with all the work it took with three little ones. Mady Claire was scared of the characters while Gates and Ella LOVED them! We ate until our pants were tight...all because we got the dining plan for free :) Monique (my sister) and her family and Granna and Granddaddy (Todd's parents) joined us for our vacation.

Ethan's 7

When the Hughes Family came to visit for Thanksgiving we had Ethan a mini party for his 7th birthday. The first picture has most of the kids acting "normal". The second picture Gates jumped in and we asked the kids to be "silly". Love how silly they all look. Mady only in her diaper is probably the funniest thing to me. She LOVES to run around in her diaper. The last picture is Ethan's homemade cookie cake. Yummy in my tummy! Ethan is offically 7 and Monique is offically old :)

Ella's 3!

Ella turned 3 years old on November 21st. She had a Little Mermaid party. What a ball she had celebrating her third birthday. As you can see Ella LOVED the cake-cake!

Fall Festival

We have Princess Belle, Strong Spiderman and Ariel the Little Mermaid. The kids had a ball dressing up and attending our church Fall Festival. Will post more pictures tomorrow. Todd and I dressed up too, you'll have to check back tomorrow to find out who we were...