school days

back to school! The kids started last week already. And they are LOVING it. Anyone else find it odd that my kids are coming home and doing homework without being asked? Oh, and some of it isn't due for a week?!?!? I'm so glad they are loving it!

Kaycey joined the cross country team. She is already running over 2 miles, no problem! Cal starts soccer practice tomorrow. I'm so glad this school has so much to offer. We also found out yesterday that Cal made one of the select club baseball teams that he tried out for. It's exciting, but it means lots more time playing baseball and being on the road for tournaments next year! They start practice in January already! We're not so sure what to do with Maddie...dance or gymnastics. She is definitely going to do swimming, seeing as she spent so much of her summer in a pool, often doing front flips into the pool, any pool. Off ladders, diving boards, etc...yeah, I think she needs to officially know how to swim, that little daredevil!

First day.

what's the buzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz?

Well this, for one...

That has a home in our tree in front of our house. How we didn't notice it before it got as big as a beach ball is beyond me!!

And this little baby...who is so NOT little anymore!! In fact she is 19 lbs, 10 oz. That's a chunky monkey :) She is a monster...crawling, into everything, standing, crawling some more...

(uh don't mind the dust on my kitchen floor...it's been hard to do much of anything since Sadie is mobile!!) Poor baby isn't feeling so good this week...she has whatever nasty cold I've been trying to get rid of, and she is getting her top four front teeth at once!

OFFICIAL STINKER! Who, me???

Party planning is underway to celebrate Kaycey being cancer free for nearly five years! It's gonna be big! I don't know how I'm going to get everything done...so little time and SO, so, so much to do!

At the end of July we went to Hollandfest, in Mike's hometown. The kids dress up in costume and scrub the streets. Even Sadie got in on it.

Cal & Kaycey didn't want to dress up, but everyone still had fun. Lots of treats and rides! After the fest, we went back to Grandma & Grandpa's for pizza, snacks, and four wheeling.

Cal & Kaycey on the four wheeler

Cal's off to camp for a whole week this year!! Kaycey is officially in charge of his pets, Franklin and Carlos (a tiny turtle and a beta fish...and by the way Kaycey has a little gecko lizard named Skeeter.) SO here they are, right before Cal and I left to go to camp (144 miles away!!!)

We've been on the go, swimming tons, hanging with friends, and having way too much fun. Can't believe school starts in just over two weeks!!