Back to School

 Summer is over and it is back to school for these boys...

Thatcher is LOVING his 1st grade teacher and class.

Thatch THRIVES on a schedule, so he just eats up school.

He is reading like a maniac and soaking up all that he can already....

he is a smarty pants like his Dad.

He is also SO HAPPY to be back with school friends,

 making up clubs at recess and talking a little too much during carpet times...

takes after me.

Tagg is in a PreK program this year, four days a week, three hours a day.

He is loving it so far.

He loves his cute and super fun teacher Miss Janette.

He loves playing freeze dance and center time.

He also loves seeing lots of his church friends at school!

He told me today that he really likes "Spanish Gary".. 

(Miss Janette's husband who teaches them some Spanish)

and told me that he is "so funny and speaks Spanish SO fast", which totally impressed him.

It's going to be a great year!

Can't wait to see these kiddos learn, progress and grow.

Thatcher

 First day of 1st Grade

August 22, 2011

Taggart 

 First day of PreK

September 1, 2011

We do birthdays big around here y'all...

 ...you know what they say...

go big, or go home.

Tagg is our big 5 year old.

Don't even get me started on how my baby is 5.

These 5 years have gone by in a blink.

Tagg is a little light in our family.

He is so, so funny and makes me laugh all. day. long.

He loves, loves, loves his big brother...

and also loves to fight with him too, but I guess that is what brothers do.

He is the most creative, original, imaginative kid...

he is always making up games, pretending, making imaginary friends, and makes toys and objects talk.

He is confident, charming, loving, kind and very sweet, 

and just really so perfect...

with a few super gigantic tantrums mixed in just for fun.

I could not imagine life without my Tagg.

I'm so glad you are mine forever little boy.

Happy 5th Birthday Tagg!

 Tagg's Pirate Party

Tagg wanted a Jake and the Neverland Pirates Party this year.

It was a fun party to plan and create.

The kids had fun, 

and Tagg loved it.  

 The Last Summer Hoorah 2011

The week of labor day we packed up the Sienna and made the 4.5 hour trip south to that great city San Antonio (which I made the observation this time, is in my opinion, a cross between Tucson and Vegas) 

for some r&r. 

It was blissful.

Heavenly.  

Just what the doctor ordered.

Yes, yes this was the third time we stayed at this resort this summer, okay fine.

But the other two times were more little weekend getaways.

Plus the nights were free to us at this resort using hotel points... 

a little, shall we say, bonus to having a traveling man, who has made a lot of stops...

 for a husband.

Well to sum it all up it was a whole lot of fun.

We were lazy, happy, full, water logged, and rested.

And left summer behind with a bang.

And now to be true to myself...and my roots,
 I will introduce...

Kickin it in San An 2011

TOP TEN MEMORIES

(just because everyone loves a good top ten list)

10.  Being upgraded when we arrived to a suite where the boys had their own room and TV and consequently we got to sleep in, and in a king sized bed...where I didn't touch someone the whole night!  BLISS!  Best sleep ever.  

9.  Todd joining the big kids club, Happy 29th Babe! 

8.  The craziest women on the planet every morning at breakfast.    

7.  Night swimming and having the whole pool and water slide all to ourselves.

6.  Todd's accidental phone call to the front desk... and the long pause.  

5.  Ordering pizza and watching Fox News. 

4.  Bowling, Olive Garden, and Mini Golf, and also the Alamo, and the basement to the Alamo. 

3.  Waisting 2 hours of our lives watching Spy Kids: All the Time in the World...

but the boys loved it, which made it worth it!

2.  The boys trying Sushi and Wasabi for the first time.

1.  Singing along to every single song on my iPhone on the way home.