back to school...

The time has come! We had a great summer...very busy, noisy, and well...busy and noisy, but a great summer nonetheless. I am ready for the routine that comes with the school year...and it is here!



We had our annual "Back to School" scavenger hunt. It is
a fun event for the kids, and it helps me out, too. I can go
get all of the supplies...and they get to be surprised! It is
so much easier to get things and surprise them than it is to
take them all along and let them pick out their own things.

We added more clues this year, and tried to make them harder.
They still seemed to find them pretty quickly, though! It is
always fun to watch them. We thought maybe Rockie (13),
and Jessie-girl (12), would think doing a scavenger hunt was
"kid stuff" this year...but they said they still think it is fun.
And I am glad for that.




Here they are, all ready for school...
...they all did a great job getting into
the routine again. Our goal was to be
in the car at 7:30...and we made it by 7:28!

I didn't get a picture of Rockie and Jessie-girl going into the junior high...it is a mess at that school! Cars everywhere...kids darting in the road...impatient cars honking if you don't move fast enough. Crazy!

They are growing up... I got a little sad when I got the sign out, and realized there were no longer any pre-school or kindergarten tags...