1st Day of School Pictures

Here are my cutie pies on their first day of school. We are already 3 weeks in if you can believe it! I also had a birthday on the 11th of August but the pictures were so fuzzy and bad that I can't share them with you! You'll thank me later. :>

Crazy faces

with Book Bags

Grif at desk

Mary by door

Helen by door

School Begins!

Well, school is back in here in the desert. We had a great time at the open house to meet the kids teachers. The girls are pros but I am a little nervous about Griffin. Kindergarten will be quite the change for him. We will see how the first week goes. The girls both knew lots of kids in their classes so they were excited to see their friends today but I didn't recognize any names in Griffin's classroom so he will have to make new friends! His teacher seems like she will be great. She was recommended by the principal as a teacher who can handle very active boys (his wife was Griffin's pre-school teacher.) So it is just me and Lewy here at home for the next 4 years. Poor kid is gonna be a mommas boy! My plan is to get back into scrapbooking by cleaning off the mess on the desk and being productive while he is napping. He takes 3 hour naps so I should be able to get it something done with that amount of time. Here are the kids with their teachers feel free to try and pronounce their names! :>

Griff & Mrs. Levandowski

Helen and Mrs. Vick

Mary and Mrs. Szaszfai

Lake Powell

Lake Powell was a blast. We were there with almost perfect weather. It clouded up a couple of times but we didn't get any rain. We had fun with the sea doo's, tube, and just jumping off the houseboat. We climbed Sand Mountain, one of Brad's old favorites from when he was a boy. He and Griffin had lots of fun rolling down. Aleksia did cartwheels down and Malcolm, Cedric & my girls ran down as fast as they could. I was happy to sit in the boat (I hate getting all sandy) The girls wish we could stay forever but Grammy and Pap only let them stay a week. :>


Helen and Amie on tube

Anika, Malcolm & Griffin on tube

Griffin sleeping on boat

Brad and Griffin in blue shirts--way up on top

Mary, Leksi, Malcolm & Helen reach the bottom