End of Summer...beginning of school

We have been enjoying these last few days of almost 100degree heat. It won' stay warm for too much longer. Almost everyday has been spent at the pool. Dylan has mastered the dive. Dave and Dylan had a competition the yesterday and honestly Dylan won!!

Dylan also had his first day of kindergarten the other day. He loved it. Here is a picture of him with his teacher Mrs. Zuidervaardt (Mrs. Z) on the first day of school. Dylan loves riding the bus. This is his first morning on the bus. He insists on going to the first bus stop option because it has less people there. I think he go overwhelmed the first time having lots of kids he didn't know there and then all of them being much older. Although they would keep their eye out for him because they were his babysitters!! Oh well we will take him where he prefers to go if that keeps him happy about riding the bus and we don't have to bring him all the way in to school!!

jumping on the bandwagon

Well, I've decided to give it a try. Some of you have been asking me to email you pics of the kids and I would love to but we still have dial-up, so it takes quite awhile to send each email out. I figured this would be a simple way of trying to avoid that and I enjoy looking/reading the blogs of people I know. This is a big deal for us to do because it was only a couple of months ago that we figured out what a blog was. It was such a foreign word/concept. Dave likes to remind us of our age and say that we didn't have computers when we were in school!! Speaking of school Dylan started school this past Thursday. He loved it!!! He is now counting down the number of days until he gets to go back. I have been asked if it was sad to drop him off for the first day...it was more sad to see that he didn't even need me there. He walked right into the room, put his backpack into the cubbie, and walked right back outside to go play. No good-bye. No I love you mom. To say the least, I think he was more than ready to go. David and Dayna had a very peaceful day without the ringleader here to instigate things, but they were definately happy to see him again. I have included just some random pics from this summer. We went to Carpinteria with Dave's family the first week of August. The kids loved it!!!(we did too) David was the only one apprehensive about the waves! Thanks Laura for your help with this thing, although it is still obvious it needs some work.