Kindergarten, here I come!

I can't believe how the time has flown. Karsten started Kindergarten today!! Really, we just went and met his teacher, explored the classroom, met some of his classmates and came home. The "real" first day is tomorrow. Karsten and I got to go together this morning and had a fun little time. He likes his teacher and is excited about all the fun things he'll get to do in his classroom. We are so grateful for a WONDERFUL preschool teacher (thank you Sister Bryner!!)who prepared him for this day. I give her more credit than I can take for where he is today.

Karsten is in morning Kindergarten which begins at 8:15a. I am dreading getting him ready on time in the morning, but today I was pleasantly surprised. He woke up before his alarm and got dressed before he came downstairs. He ate breakfast quickly (usually it takes him a good 30 minutes to finish his 3+ bowls of cereal) and was ready to go with 30 minutes to spare! WOW- Amazing (it really was :)- ) I hope this trend continues....

Anyhow, here are some pictures from this morning:

(In order: In front of school, before we left home- Karsten and then Karsten & Morgan, at His locker, the "1st" day of school, exploring the library, at the bug table in his classroom)

Garrett playing and Morgan dancing

To our Runner Friends

My sister showed me a cool website where you can measure how far you've ran/biked, etc. I haven't spent much time using it yet, but it could be helpful for those faithful runners or bikers. Perhaps this is old news and I'm just the last to hear about it, but if not you should check it out! www.mapmyrun.com

Garrett Smiles

These are the best I've been able to capture so far...

First Day of work

Today is Theron's first day of work!! I had to take a few momentous, yet unexciting photos this morning...
Eating Breakfast. His last meal before he starts his first real job. Isn't that exciting : )
Off he goes! (boo hoo for us..we've enjoyed having him around all month!!!)

We love you Theron and hope all this training has been worth it! Hope your first day is great!

IT'S OFFICIAL!

ODE to Theron...

Theron has officially graduated from Residency!! I am so proud of his huge accomplishment!! He graduated the last weekend in June and has the month of July "off". He starts working in his practice on August 1st so we have been enjoying having him around and exploring everything amoungst the cornfields that surround us :)

Here are a few pictures from Graduation weekend. We were lucky to have Theron's dad and brother with us. (And THANK YOU to 1) my parents for watching Karsten and Morgan for the weekend AND 2) to the Gibson's for allowing us to camp out at their place!)

And a cute photo of the kids the week after graduation

Motorhome Mania

Karsten has been quite interested in Motorhomes and Campers lately. Mimi, Papa and Ashley took him and Morgan to a dealership to check out the Motorhomes. They were given a specific list of poses that they needed to come home with since I was not going along. They did pretty good thanks to Aunt Ashley's photography skills. Here are a few to share-->