First Day of Kindergarten for Brady and back to PDO for Kinley

Today was Brady's first day at Kindergarten. He was so excited. He walked right into class and like it was nothing new. I even did pretty good! I made it all the way back to my car before I broke down into tears. I know God's plan is for us to raise our children to be independent adults and this is the first major step in letting go.

I picked Brady up from school today and he was all smiles. He said "I LOVE IT!" He is so excited to go back tomorrow. He went on and on about his whole day. It seemed like a success.

Kinley has Brady's teacher from this last year in PDO. We really love her teacher and it was so easy to let her go somewhere we felt so comfortable with. The only thing we were sad about is that her playground playmate was no longer there (Brady and Kinley played on the playground every day that they were in PDO this summer). She had a great day, too.

Outside Brady School:

Outside Brady's door at school:

Brady in his seat in his class:

Kinley's back at Trinity PDO:

Kinley was quick to play with her friends from her last class:

My sweet angels...

Matt's family genes are very dominant

Matt just came back from Houston with lots of pictures. We were looking at some of the pictures and realize how much our kids look like Matt's side of the family. Below is a picture of Matt when he was young (top) and a recent picture of Brady (bottom):

Below is Matt's mom Patricia (top) and a recent picture of Kinley (bottom).

We tried to find a similar of picture of Kinley with her mouth closed but seeing Kinley with a closed mouth is almost imposssible :) (I have recently started calling her motor mouth).

Kinley's dance costume and our new water slide

Kinley's dance recital is coming up June 8th. They are dancing to a tap number named "I'm a little Teddy Bear." Kinley is only kind of interested in dance so this may be our only dance class but at least she looks cute! It has been clost to 100 degrees in Lubbock the last couple of days so I decided we needed something to cool the kids down. Kmart had this water slide on sale so we bought it and have had the best time.

My first vegetable garden

I have always wanted to have a vegetable garden and this year we finally did it. I am so excited! Matt built me two garden boxes and we fenced off the area to keep the dogs out. The area still needs some work (weeding and the fence) but I think it turned out really nice. We also got a dwarf fuji apple tree. It will probably be next year before we have apples but I can't wait. Here are some pics:

Some time at the park...

We finally have some warm weather. Of course, most days there is plenty of wind to go right with the warmer temperatures (good old Lubbock). On Tuesday it was absolutely gorgeous, so the kids and I went to the park. It was so hot (90's), however, that the kids wore out pretty quick. This picture was taken as we were leaving and their faces are very red from the heat. We had a lot of fun!

New Pics of my kids

Arent' they getting big??? I just can't believe my babies are 5 1/2 and 3 1/2. This Thursday we register Brady for kindergarten. It is gonna be so hard on all of us. Brady is such a home body, Kinley will be bored without her playmate and of course, I miss him terribly. What a joy they are to us.