The First Day of First Grade

Luke starts First Grade today. He's really excited. Some new changes for Luke between Kindergarten and First Grade are sitting at a desk, a longer day, and eating lunch at school. He used to get out before lunch and now he's there until 3pm. Today Henry told me he missed his brother.

Fort Bragg Summer Vacation 2016

Here's our pics from our beach trip to Fort Bragg this summer...

Skunk Train

Skunk Train

Glass Beach

Soccer Camp

School is out and soccer camp has begun. Here's a picture of the boy's first day of soccer camp.

Last Day of Kindergarten

Today is Luke's last day of Kindergarten. The most exciting thing is he's begun reading. Feel free to send him (and Henry) a card, and he'll read it! If you asked him if he loved school he'd tell you yes, and I never once heard him say he didn't want to go. Every day he was excited. We met lots of new people, and prayed for his class. He'll be in First Grade this August.

May Open House

In May, Kindergarten was getting ready to be done for the year and Luke had his first Open House Night. We all came to his class and he showed us some of the things he'd done throughout the year.

The Hungry Caterpillar (Luke's writing)

Luke's classroom

The art display in the high school gym

Luke painted that tree behind him

Henry at the school playground

Luke and his kindergarten teacher

January 2016

This month Jared built some garage shelving for us, and a work bench. Luke had his ear tag from birth removed surgically at the hospital, and it went very well. Luke did great, and his ear is healing well. Jared's grandfather Warren also passed away, and we all went to see him before he passed. Jared, myself, and our boys plus Jared's sister's husband and kids, plus Jared's dad were there. Warren was his mother's father and last living grandparent. 

New garage shelves

new handmade work bench

Ear surgery

Ear surgery 

Our kids and their cousins (Henry & Micah both 3, Luke 6, Violet 2)

Luke's 6th Birthday

Luke got a birthday hat and book from his kindergarten teacher. We had a party at our house. Star wars themed, with a Darth Vader pinata hit with life sabers. He got a bunch of pirate presents because he likes pirates right now and he had it on his wishlist. I didn't connect the dots and make it a pirate party; I saw Star Wars party supplies and thought it'd be fun. He had a great birthday; he loves having people over. 

Luke's hat & book present from school

The pinata line

Luke's brownie cake

Blowing out candles

Halloween 2015

Luke is 5 years old, Henry 3. We carved pumpkins; Henry's pumpkin was a pirate (carved by Ginger), Ginger's was decorative (Ginger with a power drill), Jared & Luke's were jack-o-lanterns (carved by each of them; Luke's 1st year carving all by himself). Luke had to make a homemade "Luke-sized" scarecrow for kindergarten, so he colored the hair red with a marker and we put his clothes on it. Luke got to go to a pumpkin patch at a farm for a school field trip (no pics here), but we also went to a pumpkin patch with our family. Jared's work had a western theme for Halloween this year, so we had all the boys dress up as cowboys (we like group costumes). We went trick-or-treating in our friend's neighborhood and had fun! Here's the pics...

The day we carved the pumpkins

Luke making coloring red hair on his scarecrow

Taking the scarecrow to school

At the pumpkin patch

At the pumpkin patch

At the pumpkin patch

Our carved pumpkins

Our carved pumpkins

Cowboy Luke

At school

At school with a friend

Cowboys at work

The trick-or-treating group

Cowboys