FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL!

Today, we walked the kids to Golden View for their first day of Second Grade and Kindergarten!

My Little Man is growing up too fast :(

Oh look! Omneya ~ Gregory's Preschool teacher! Her daughter is in Gregory's class (and they sit next to each other too! A familiar face!)

Sitting in line waiting to walk to the classroom.

After dropping Gregory off,
we have 15 minutes until Bailey starts school!

Daphne and Aleeza
Two of Bailey's best buddies from first grade are in her class this year!

All smiles for the first day of school!

Gregory's "Meet and Greet" his NEW TEACHER!

This afternoon Gregory got to meet his new kindergarten teacher, Mrs. Judice!  He will be one of ten kindergarteners in a K/1 combo class.  We are quite excited about the upcoming school year!  It's going to be a fun one!

Bailey also found out she has TWO teachers this year.  She will be in Mrs. Stifter and Mrs. Pardo's second grade class.  We hear Mrs. Stifter is a very sweet teacher and we are sooo happy to be in her class.  Mrs. Pardo will work one day a week in her class and we think two days in kindergarten. (??)

Tomorrow is the big first day of school!  We laid out our outfits, we have our backpack hanging on our hook, Daddy took the day off and we are all looking forward to walking to school tomorrow morning!  School starts at 8:20am for Gregory and 8:35am for Bailey so Mommy better go to bed early so she can wake up!

Special Dessert Day!

While the boys tore up our backyard, Bailey and I decided to make a special dessert!

Daddy's not happy with our backyard. 
So he wants to start from scratch. 
Now he and Gregory have to remove all the plants,
flagstone and deck so they can start anew. 
(This is gonna take a LONG time!)

Back to our dessert ~ We took graham pie crust...



...filled them with melted chocolate chips...



...added some ice cream ~ popped them in the freezer...



...and topped them with marshmallows.



And let Daddy toast them along with a
creme brûlée I made earlier.



Daddy having too much fun with the torch.



Smore ice cream pie!



YUM!



Happy 11th Anniversary, Daddy! :)

End of Summer Fun

Summer is quickly coming to an end so today we had a mishmash day of fun! This morning we ran to Walmart to pick up some school supplies and the kids wanted to stop off at Joann's to pick up an art project.

 

Bailey got a tea set kit.

Gregory got a foam flyer kit.

They painted...



...and painted...

...until Bailey had her tea set complete
and Gregory had four planes decorated.





Side photo ~
Gregory went to visit the farm last school year and
brought home a pitiful tomato and basil plant. 
We never expected it to live.  But, it's HUGE and
has lots of tomatoes.  The basil is in the center
(we didn't even bother to separate them!)



We planted a bunch of pumpkins a few weeks ago ~
only two have sprouted so far. 
Hopefully, we will get at least two pumpkins!

While Bailey was busy reading, Gregory
and I made some chocolate mint ice cream!

A few marshmallows and soy creamer.



Microwave a bit.



Oh shoot! 
I just realized we didn't add the oil!



Freezing up nicely in our ice cream maker.



"Sweets" tasting our creation.




We only used 1/2 the recommended amount
of peppermint oil and boy is it minty!



Last Trip of the Summer

Well, summer is coming to an end.  We have one more week of summer vacation and the kids will go back to school on the 28th!  We were able to squeeze in one more trip to LA before we pop back into our normal routine!  As always, we had a great time.  Saturday we took the kids to the California Science Center.  This was our first time there and the kids LOVED it!  What a perfect place to visit.  AND so much to do!  We spent over three hours there and we could've stayed much longer if Daddy and Mommy weren't so tired.  After visiting the center we went to Bachan and Grandpa's house and had the most fun with everyone!  Auntie Lynn and Bachan made a yummy dinner and Auntie had a couple craft projects for us too!  Sunday we had breakfast with Mrs. Takahashi and even got to see Uncle Scotty and his family for a bit too!  We had lunch at Bachan and Grandpa's and headed back home around 3pm.  It was a jam packed fun weekend ~ a perfect way for us to end the summer!

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