Gettin' ready for dove season!

For our family, opening day of Dove Season is a National holiday right under Christmas and possibly above Thanksgiving. Will has been counting down the days for over a month until opening day. And if Josh is off work on opening day, since it falls on a Wednesday this year, I have already been told Will will be sick that day and HAVE to miss school. Oh well, family time is way more important than learning how to read! This year will be Sam's (our black lab) first year to test out his hunting skills. Watching him retrieve like a pro is almost like watching your kids take their first step. Almost. So.... look out dove. Ready or not, here we come!

piano lessons

Here lately Josh has been teaching Will a few things on the piano. Learning what the notes are and how to walk up from c. Most of the time it goes great and everything I hear is so encouraging. But I think today I have heard "if your figure touches that note again I am going to go get a pair of plyers out of my tool box and pull it off" a couple of times. Of course he is just joking, kind of. SO.... saying that, Josh is offering to teach other precious children piano at no cost! totally JOKING..... All the joking aside, I think this is so sweet and what a great skill he can pass on to our kiddos!

First Day of School!

We had alot of excitement getting ready for the first day of school. I love buying school supplies! I want to buy new sharpened pencils and cute folders and notebooks for myself, but I restrained myself and just got what was on the list for my KIDS. This was a big year. Kate is starting school for the first time and she is in PreK-4. Will is now in first grade and I can't believe it! I think I was more excited than my kids the night before. Not to have them gone from me but for this next phase of their lives. I still had this nervousness because you don't know who is gonna be in their class, who will they sit by, will they have a good connection with their teacher?? Just so many unknowns when you have had years of protecting them and then you send them out of your control to live their own lives. AGHHHH!!!!! But at the end of the day.... they had a great day and loved their teacher! yay! whew..... so here we go... let the year begin!

                             
                                                      Will and Kate ready to head to school!
      

So EXCITED!

 Hannah and Will are in the same class this year! They have been friends since

they were six months old!

Kate standing in front of the pre-school sign. She had to take this picture

because she has seen the exact same one of Will.

Kate and her pre-school teacher