Lily's 1st Day

Lily started Pre-school this last week! Just look at how BIG she is. I still cannot believe my baby girl will be 5 in less than 2 months and this is our last year with her at home more than she is at school! People told me you blink and they are grown, but I didn't believe it, now I'm looking at the proof.
They grow up TOO fast!

First Day of School

The kids Started school today. Neither one really wanted to go, but both came home very excited and full of information to tell me! It's not the best picture of Jack, but we were in a hurry and wanted to catch a quick one of their first day! Meg's in Mrs. Hall's 2nd grade class (Jack had her as well) and Jack is in Mrs. Barglowski's 4th grade class. We went to church with Mrs. B and she was also in a life group with us, so we are very excited about a really fun year with both teachers! So the RAT RACE begins!!!

Megan and the Treadmill

So, Megan, Lily and our neighbors daugther Veronica were down in the basement playing, when I hear a horrible noise...I rush down to see what has happened and Megan is screaming while Lily and Veronica are wide eyed. I asked what happened and this is what they tell me...
Megan though it would be fun to "run" on the treadmill, (this is against the rules and the key to the treadmill is up high, but they climbed to get it), so all THREE girls get in the treadmill, Veronica in front at the controls, Lily in the middle and Megan in back, Veronica decided it wasn't going fast enough so she cranked up the speed to full blast! She and Lily were able to get off, but because Megan was in the back, she fell and got pretty banged up and burned by the tread. Moral to the story, mommy isn't trying to be mean by not letting me play on the exercise equipment, mommy is trying to protect me from getting hurt!

She's fine, but I do think she learned a very valuable lesson...

Going to the Chapel and We're Gonna get Married...

No Scott and I are not "renewing our Vows" (Although, I would like to someday!), But....I told my Mom I would announce it on my Blog, she's getting married!!! NEXT Weekend! She is marrying Bob Brake on Friday August 22nd, and yes we are all very excited for her, we really love Bob and know that he will take good care of mom!!!!

A little taste of our Weekend

We really had a fun weekend! Lily did great at the game and can you say "stinkin' cute!" Our Hike was fun...just right for our kids. The "beach" was fun too. We were exhausted by the end of the day, but it was fun and we're so glad we did it. Up next is the BIG event, Emily and Mike's wedding. I will try and post pictures when I return on Monday!

Busy

We are so busy. Scott asked me last night on our way home from Jack's baseball game, "doesn't it feel like we're on the go all the time?" I just laughed, because it's so true. We are heading in to One week before Emily's wedding and the weekend and next week will be VERY busy getting ready to go. Here's our weekend run down:

Friday - Meet Cousin Erin in Castlerock to take her her dress for the wedding and to swim at her mom's pool, (thanks Aunt Debbie), Head back home to get Lily ready to cheer at the Sky Sox Baseball game, watch her cheer and watch the fireworks! Get home and pack lunches for hike and swimming tomorrow! It will be a busy, but fun day :)

Saturday - Meet our friends Rhett and Jeanne and their kiddo's to hike Helen Hunt Falls and then shoot over to prospect lake for a picnic and a swim. Go home, clean up, go to Ryan and Keely's for dinner. Again, a fun day, but VERY busy.

Sunday - Church, then for me, my friend Jeanne is taking me to a movie (Mamma Mia) during the afternoon and Scott is watching kids, and working on his motorcycle. WOW, not much for this day, but a nice relief from all the weekend activities!

Does this resemble anyone else's schedule? CRAZY Busy, never slow down kind of life??

Megan Turned 7!!!!

Ok, I'm going to try and go in order of the big events since Father's day! Megan turned 7 on the 7th this year! We celebrated on July 4th because we had Grannie, Gram, Grandad, Aunt Emmy and (soon to be) Uncle Mike all in town, so we thought it was prime time to celebrate! We have this neat park here in town that's a "spray" park, with all kinds of fun sprinkler type things to run and play in and the best part is it was FREE! So here's a lot of pictures and I'm not really good at posting them, so if they're all over the place, I'm sorry, but here goes.

Sisters!

The whole Gang!

Jack, Lily, Meg, Elisabeth and Colby

Elisabeth (my niece) and Meg

The Cake (or Cupcakes to be Exact)

Birthday Party Gang!

Gift Time!

Meg and Emma "Jammin" Meg's New IPOD!
That's Grannie (my mom) in the front there!

Umm...They say a picture is worth a Thousand Words
(This is one of my Friend Jeanne's Twins Ian, I think..)

Here's Scott and That's Future
Uncle Mike in the Hat and Sunglasses!

Emmy and Scott

Whew! I told you it was a lot! I'll post more soon! But for now here's the birthday party!