Oh my goodness!!

It seems like everything has been sooooo busy I haven't even had time to blog in awhile.  So I have a lot of catch up to do!

 

Mikayla officially started dance lessons with a dance studio near our house.  She loves it so much!  It is so great to see her continuing to learn more!

 

 

 

 

Our little swimmer has been teaching herself cartwheels and handstands in the water.

 

 

 

 

 

 

One Friday, at the last minute we were able to meet our cousin Chris, we went to one of my favorite restaurants that has all you can eat pickles!!  I was in heaven!!!  Then we visited the Water Wall.  That was a great time too, we were able to witness a family and friend gathering, we thought it was just a party.... a man pulled this group all together.. to propose to his girlfriend......  it was very touching! 

 

It was cool to be able to witness that!  WOW and how neat of him to make arrangements with their friends/family to come out to celebrate and watch too! 

 

Mikayla LOVES playing in the mist of the waterfall. 

 

 

 

 

These are cell phone pictures, I like how the artsy ones below came out :)

 

 

 

 

 

 

It's been busy but it's been good (more to come) :)

Little Flowers is back in session!

We had our first official meeting last Friday, it was so fun!

 

 

 

Lesson time.

 

 

Craft time.

 

 

 

I'm telling you these girls were WILD that night.  Even Fr. Sean came down from his office when the noise was a dull roar.... to see what was going on down on our end of the hall.

 

Then on Sunday at mass we had the "blessing of the stems" (little flowers....stems) ceremony. 

 

 

 

It is just so nice for the girls to be recognized and acknowledged.  (now I just need to sew the whole season's worth of patches...whoops).  Mikayla is exceptionally excited that this is her school now too, she's beefing up with campus pride for sure!!

 

We're gearing up to have a group of up to 25 girls this year... so that will be fun!! 

 

Settling in

I guess we're settling back into a school routine.  I still can't believe Mikayla is in third grade and we can almost share shoes..... actually one pair of her school shoes do fit me!

 

She is fired up about school though, she loves her laptop and can't wait to do more projects/learning on it.

We had some cousin fun this weekend celebrating Ron's birthday!  Mikayla is quite the little mermaid.

 

 

 

 

Here's hoping the next few weeks move us out of transition back into routine and fun! 

 

Salute!

My dad came on Friday to take Mikayla to school (and go to the dedication mass).

 

 

Then she was sort of at the right place at the right time and was able to help put the flags up for the day - she loved helping!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

She is so happy to help!!!!  We made it through our first full day - and it was FUN!  yay!!!  I pray the rest of the year goes this way too!

 

Happy Monday!!!

It seems like so much has happened since school started.  Mikaya LOVES her new teacher she says she is JUST like Ms. K from last year but is totally different.   um... ok.

 

She also says that the teacher said she won't give much homework.... I totally don't believe that but I'm not about to be the bearer of bad news!

 

On Friday they had the dedication mass for the new school.  It was amazing!  There were seven priests-deacons presiding the mass. It was just impressive to see it all come together.

 

I was glad not to be the only mom that needed Kleenex.  It was a great service. Fr. Sean did the mass for the kids, and really brought a lot of fun into the service.  Even more fun for us is that Fr. Sean used to do the mass for our niece and nephew at a different school. 

 

Today is the first full day of school, I am sure she'll have a great day but will be tired tonight.

 

So my Sunday night fridge now looks like this again - lunch for two ready to go!  (Michael usually grabs lunch out/with his clients)

 

 

This is Mikayla this morning - she was so happy I let her have a doughnut!  Ha!

 

 

And feeling no pain on the way to school, she was singing into her microphone (aka phone charger) and having a blast on the way to school!

 

 

 

I love when mornings are like this!!!

First Day of Third Grade!

Let me start by saying that we are thrilled to be able to attend our own home parish church school!!  I remember saying that back when Mikayla started school how much I wished our church had a school!  and now.... here it is!!!!

 

It's amazing that we have the opportunity to go to school in this brand new amazing facility. 

 

 

Here's my girl this morning.

 

 

The other night we had parent orientation and I have to tell you I boo hoo'd from the opening prayer and about five times throughout.... it's just amazing to see something that began as an idea about 8 years ago...it came to reality.  When Father Sean choked up declaring for the very first time "school is open"..... just wow.  We left orientation humbled, honored, excited, touched, wow'd, amazed and every single word in between.  We are beyond thrilled to take this new adventure with the brand new school in it's very first year.  Just WOW!  Seriously WOW!!!!!

 

Mikayla's ready!!!!!  She's been nervous this whole time about new school, the new schools very first day of existence.... new everything (including all technology learning to enhance text book learning)even though she already knows two teachers there and 4 other kids in her class ...she was nervous. 

 

until....

 

yesterday at back to school-meet the teacher (which we already met at the popsicle party but whatever) she was PUMPED and ready to be back in the game.  She wants to join the choir so I signed her up and we'll see what happens from here.  There are several other options for after school programs but for now choir is the thing to do!!!

 

So here we are.... first day of third grade!!!

 

 

 

Goof ball picture of course! 

 

 

 

WAAAAAAAA!!!  how did  get THIS grown up on me?

 

 

 

Statue of Liberty

 

ok, we're here now.... we were early.... and as anxious as the principal was for the carpool to start... NOT one car went through car pool - ha ha ha  every single parent walked their kids in today.  They had hoped for up to 120 kids to enroll.... currently enrolled there are 169 kids, K-4 and adding a grade each year through 8th grade.

 

 

Our beloved teacher from last year!  Getting that first hug - then our soon to be beloved teacher for this year got the second hug.

 

 

Mom...don't you have enough pictures yet...I don't have any smiles left for the camera....

 

 

 

and just like that..... they're off to new adventures, new learning.... new everything.....

 

 

I have a 3rd grader..... wow. 

 

 

A flash back.......waaaaaaa where has the time gone, I don't know why but third grade is hitting me right in the heart this year.  HARD!!!!  I needed to go to breakfast with the boo hoo kinder moms this year.

 

Just to twist my momma heart a little here's a little refresher of our first days of school so far.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It's official.... and a lot of wow... just wow!