Dinner at Mancini's

Last week we had a nice dinner at Mancini's in St. Paul with Ryan's family. His brother Todd was up from Florida and it was fun to all get together to talk and eat some good food!

More Kindergarten Pictures

Here are a few more pictures from Kaylie's first few days of Kindergarten. She absolutely loves it. She loves everything about it- her class, friends, teacher, lunch, and her favorite part of the day- rest time.






Getting off the bus with her friends



Getting off at her bus stop

State Fair

We spent one of the days this weekend at the Minnesota State Fair. It was a nice day but the fair was SUPER busy, as usual! The girls had a great time. They had fun looking at the baby animals, going on rides, and eating yummy treats! I do have to say though, I think their favorite part of the fair was riding the city bus to the fair.



Madelyn relaxing in her stroller.



Kaylie and Mama on the tilt o whirl.



Papa, Madelyn, and Kaylie on the tea cups.

Kaylie and Madelyn on the bumpy trucks.

Of all the yummy fair food they could chose, they

wanted pizza most of all.

First Day of Kindergarten!

Today was Kaylie's first day of Kindergarten at Hillside! She got up bright and early and was super excited about her day ahead. We dropped her off today being it was the first day. It was fun to be able to go and see all the excitement, although Kaylie I think is already embarassed of her parents. She hardly let me take any pictures of her at school. I did get a couple of the back of her head though. I had to sneak some! Kaylie did great at drop off. I was a little leary of how it would go because she gets really nervous in new situations but she hung up her stuff and went right in her room. It helps that she knows several of the kids in her class. I think Maddie was a little sad and doens't know what to do without Kaylie today. She has to hang out with her mom all day, how fun is that!??!!
Here are some pictures from the morning:


Kaylie walking into the school.


Hanging up her backpack in her cubby.



Sisters

First day of Kindergarten

Excited and ready to go!

Obsessed with Wizard of Oz!

Sorry, I guess when I uploaded it, it decided to go sideways. Turn your head or your computer! :)

When Madelyn gets stuck on something, man does she get stuck on it!! We have been watching A LOT of Wizard of Oz lately! WOW! Why are my kids not scared of the flying monkeys?? I think I still am! We went through this phase with Kaylie as well. I wish I could find the video we took of Kaylie when she was 2, saying her lines and her songs from the movie to post here but I couldn't. Its funny to kind of relive the love for the movie through Madelyn. She sings the songs EVERYWHERE. If you are ever in Wal-mart, chances are you will see her skipping around singing some song from the movie. Here is a clip of Maddie singing one of the songs from the movie. See if you can guess what song it is! It's kind of hard to understand!

Can you guess what my children want to be for Halloween?? Maddie says she wants to be Dorothy (which Kaylie was last year) and Kaylie right now says she wants to be Glenda the good witch. We will see if this happens. Seems like they always change their mind!

Fire at Silly Sue and Stevie's

Silly Sue helping Maddie get her marshamallow just right.



Showing off their perfectly roasted marshmallows.



Kaylie not wanting to get too close to the fire!



We enjoyed one of these cool beautiful summer nights at Silly Sue and Stevie's (as Kaylie and Maddie call them) house. They had a fire and the girls were able to do one of their favorite summer things- roast marshmallows and make smores! MMMMMM! Thanks to Stevie, the girls also enjoyed some fireworks, another favorite summer thing of theirs.

The Past Couple Weeks

Celebrating Daddy's birthday at Olive Garden.


Playing at Teddy Bear Park.

More Pictures from Teddy Bear Park

On the "bridge" at Teddy Bear Park.

We have a a fun last couple weeks of summer! I These are a few of the pictures we have taken. It has been a busy summer and I can't believe it's gone!! I have now been back to work for 2 weeks and I miss the little things that I take for granted when I'm off in the summer like sleeping in, doing whatever we want when we want, running errands whenever we want, etc.

Kaylie is off to Kindergarten tomorrow and I think I'm more stressed and sad about it then she is. After her open house last week and her individual orientation appointment with her teacher yesterday, she seems super excited about her class and Kindergarten overall. She says she can't wait to make new friends, eat lunch at school, and ride the bus. I know she will do great, I just need to convince myself that she is almost 6 and VERY ready to go to school. Where does time go??