First Day - Part Two

Today was Alli's first day of preschool. Not much is changing for her this year, same room, same teachers, same kids but she was still so excited! And so was I!!! 4 hours all to myself!!! I almost ran her out to the bus when it came!:)

With her backpack that is almost as big as she is!!

First Day of First Grade

Today JJ had his first day of first grade, I was more nervous than he was! I had a much harder time today than I did for kindergarten, it's hard for me to imagine him gone for 8 hours a day. However, a few hours into the day I was thinking, "I could get used to this!" Alli starts on Monday, then I will do a happy dance!:)

Football!!

JJ is playing football this fall. Not sure I'm ready for this!!!

Bear!!

We are in Gatlinburg, TN this week on vacation. I had one goal on this trip (besides having fun and relaxing), I wanted to see a bear. I knew we would be hiking in the mountains and I was just convinced we would find a bear........even though the rest of my family thought I was crazy! Today we were pulled over on the side of the road looking for a geocache and guess what was there............a huge black bear!!


This is a terrible picture but here is the bear trying to get into a house!

And here is the bear right before he started running towards us and we had to jump back in the van! Unbelievable!!!

New Kitchen

I have wanted to redo our bar area in the kitchen for awhile now so a few weeks ago we decided to go ahead and do it. The kids and I were headed out of town for a few days so Ryan decided it was the perfect opportunity. Here are the before pictures.....

And the after......Ryan did a fabulous job!!!

Blueberry Pickin'

This morning the kids and I ventured to Noblesville to pick blueberries. We had gone to pick strawberries in June and had a great time so I thought, "let's go get some blueberries too". The kids started out strong.
And then we all quickly realized it was going to take a lot longer to fill our baskets with blueberries than it did strawberries! They were troopers though and we ended up with 2 full baskets. If you notice Alli's basket is empty, every single berry she picked went into her mouth! All she kept saying was, "So gooood Mama!":)

We rewarded ourselves with some ice cream from the country store. Fun day!!

Camping

Last week we went to McCormicks Creek to camp for a few days. Despite the cold temps and a little rain it was a fun time. We hiked down to the creek, it was just a short hike from our campsite.

Unfortunately, getting back up to our campsite was a little harder!

Because of all the rain we've had the last week the creek was at flood stage so we weren't able to get in the waterfall. But it was still cool to look at!