Back to School!

Mackayla's first day of 2nd grade on August 20th! She looked beautiful, and was excited to go that day. She had met her teacher the night before, and she seemed really nice.

And a picture showing the new backpack.

Jared came back home to take Mackayla to her first day of school. He did that last year and she loved it.

One more picture.

Second Day ( she had her outfits all planned out for the first week of school)

Third day

Bradley's first day of Kindergarten on August 27th! The Kindergartners start a week later. He was super excited to go!

Jacob had his fist day of Willow Pond preschool that same morning. He was also super excited!

Here they all are! Thank goodness I still had Caitlin to keep my company!

Jared met us at the school to join us in sending Bradley off to class. Bradley did feel a bit ripped off though, because he didn't get to have Daddy drive him to school. He had a great first day of school and loved it. His favorite part was riding the bus home.

Jacob was so excited to go, but when Jared actually walked him in he got a little nervous and said "I actually don't want to stay here today."  After a few minutes Jared left. His teacher said he was only sad for a couple minutes, and then had a great time.

He was so happy when he came out of his school. He said, "I didn't want to stay at first, but it actually turned out to be good!"

Bradley's bus drops him off right on the corner of our house. There are a bunch of kindergartners that get off at this stop also. On the first day, a bunch of the parents were taking pictures of their kids getting off the bus.  Bradley wanted to know right away why I didn't take his picture like the other parents. I just told him I forgot my camera and would do it the next day. :) So, here he is getting off the bus on day two!

What a handsome school boy!

The girls doing the dishes for me.

One afternoon Bradley was shooting and shooting this gun. I finally asked him if his shooting finger was getting tired yet. He replied, "No! Boys' shooting fingers never get tired! I guess you wouldn't know that since you're a girl!" Then went right back to his shooting. I thought is was pretty funny.

Enjoying her swing

Picking peaches off of one of our tree. This was the smaller tree. We picked the other one a couple weeks later.

The boys were helping me wash all of the peaches the next afternoon. There were tons of them. We enjoyed pies, jam, peach ice cream and were able to freeze a lot too.

Caitlin loves putting on any piece of clothing she finds laying around. One morning I was putting away laundry and she ended up with two of Mackayla's underwear on around her waist and some other ones on too. She ended up falling asleep on the floor a short time later (which was VERY unusual) and I found her like this. :)

Jared got all invited to a Bees baseball game, through one of the trades they work with. We had a great time.

On August 31st we got to go to Murray for Sophie's birthday party. They only picture I have from that is of the kids and Papa playing with the neighbor's dog. Papa, Nini, and Great Grandma Jones were in town for Max's baby blessing the next day. It was fun weekend with family.

Papa and Nini came over to our house to hang out with us on Sunday night.

That Monday (Labor Day) we also got to celebrate Mitchell's Day. We got trees and planted them for a neighbor. We really loved having a chance to remember and honor Mitchell.