Back to School 2016/Brayden's in Kindergarten

Well our summer has officially come to an end and these two have been super pumped about getting back to school!  We are at the same school that we went to last year and both kids have lots of friends they were excited to see.  Brayden is starting real school KINDERGARTEN this year!!!! Luckily we are in this little gem called four day kinder so I didn't feel too much anxiety about sending my baby, my first born off to the big school for five days a week just yet!  The kids did the little summer program at their school this summer in hopes that they would get to know their teachers a little and spend some time with school friends over the summer.  That worked out well for Brayden and he was able to form a relationship with his teachers before school started and seems to really like Ms. Bobbye and Ms. Amy.  Sterling did not know her teachers Ms. Kim and Ms. Daneel until we met them at meet the teacher but she loved them immediately and is the kind of kid that will do great regardless!  Sterling had a very hard time understanding why Brayden was starting school on Monday and she was not and spent much of the morning in tears saying "I want to go to school too!"  luckily she had gymnastics in the afternoon so that helped heal the pain a bit!  Brayden did awesome on his first day, I could tell he felt super proud like he was really a BIG kid now!  Sterling started on Tuesday and did equally well at drop off, she was so excited to see her friends and teachers and when it was time to go headed off without looking back.  I know I say it all the time but Sterling was just made for school!  I feel such relief that the kids are so comfortable at our little school and I am so confident that they are being well loved and cared for while they are there each day. We are all looking forward to a terrific year!  Here are some pics of their first days of school:

Big kindergartener in clothes of his choice, under armor of course and  a football shirt because he is starting flag football next week!

God, I LOVE this precious child!

Pic courtesy of Sterling Grace!

One of Brayden's faves, Shane!

See the tears?!  She had to get her picture taken too!

More of Brayden's favorites, Cash and Cooper with Ms. Bobbye

We stopped and had a quick sweet treat to celebrate Brayden's first day before we had to head over to gymnastics.  I love this picture, can you tell Sterling really adores her ice-cream cone?!

Seriously LOVE them being at the same school together, what a gift!

And my big three year old all ready for her first day!  She was excited to pick out a purple dress because duh, "purple is my favorite color"!

By Wednesday Brayden was melting down pretty good, Sterling surprisingly held up pretty well through the week.  The summer days of sleeping in and daily three hour naps are long gone and we are probably going to take a couple weeks to recover and get used to this new hectic schedule.  In the meantime, everyone's new bedtime is 6:30 and they are all seriously asleep within five minutes!  Looking forward to a great school year (and some pumpkin spice in my life, FALL is coming!!)

Second Annual Friends Fathers Day Weekend/Port Aransas

Last year we went "camping", this year we decided to spend a weekend at the coast with the Baynhams and the Papes.  Our family had literally just gotten home from Port A days before but we didn't have any complaints packing up and heading back down for a fun weekend with friends!  The kids had a blast getting to spend the weekend together and Brayden LOVED sleeping in the same room as Harlow and Wyatt.  Sterling surprisingly was not upset she did not get to sleep with them and seemed pretty content getting to sleep with Mommy and Daddy for the weekend.

We spent the majority of our weekend at the pool including meals, it was just easier that way and the kids were happy :)

Pizza Night!

Brayden and Wyatt played ALOT of baseball this weekend!

Brayden lost his FIRST tooth!!!!  All of a sudden Saturday morning we looked at him and realized he had a tooth missing and no idea where it was!  We searched his bed and the floor in his bedroom and all of a sudden he says "wait" and runs in the kitchen and looks under the chair he was eating breakfast in.  He found the tooth there on the floor!!! Apparently when he was eating he bit into something hard and just took it out of his mouth and threw it on the FLOOR!  Brian and I both said how glad we were that Mia was not with us this weekend or she probably would have eaten it!  We couldn't believe how painless and drama free his first tooth was!  He was super excited for the tooth fairy to come and he really hoped she would bring him a peppermint patty which of course she did along with a dollar bill.  Can't believe my boy is old enough to start loosing teeth!

New smile!  That tooth had to come out because his new grown up tooth was just growing right in its spot!

The tooth fairy came!  And this boy has the best bed head in the morning!!!

We spent one cloudy morning down at the beach, the kids loved it of course!

Brayden would boogie board ALL day, he loves it!

Popsicles for the win!

SUCH a great weekend with terrific friends making special memories!  Our kids were exhausted!

School's out for the Summer!!!

What a terrific school year we had!  It was Sterling's first year of preschool and Brayden's last year of preschool!  This was our first year at a new school and we could not have been happier with our experience.  Here are some pics of their last day, the day before Brayden's preschool graduation:

Kindergarten here I come!!!

Brayden getting to be an accolade on this last day of chapel was extra special!

He takes it very seriously!

Oh how we will miss this class and special teachers!

Sterling really understood and was seriously very sad about not being in Ms Dawn and Ms Kerries class anymore.  She kept saying at the graduation, "can we go back to my classroom now?!"  poor girl :(

These ladies were the PERFECT teachers for our Sterling and her first year of school

Brayden adored these very special ladies and learned so much from their class this year!

We had such an incredible year, will miss our teachers and classmates but are also super excited for summer!  We don't have too many plans, just looking forward to spending more time together and not being on such a schedule for a couple of months.