First Day of 4th Grade

I can not believe my first baby girl is in 4th grade already. Where has the time gone? 

Caroline was excited about starting her new school today!

Caroline with her 4th grade teacher.

Caroline had a great day at school, she said it was fun and she liked all the kids in her class (there are 4 including her). While Caroline was at school we were at a loss of what to do... even her kitten was not sure where she was supposed to be... we found her in our dog Angel's, food bowl!

Kittens and Concert

We have talked about getting kittens for the farm to help keep down the mice and snakes out there but have just not found the right ones yet... well this Saturday as we drove to a store we went by Walmart and in the parking lot was a truck that held a sign saying kittens.... we drove by went to the store we planned to go to but the kids were ready to look at those kittens. After the store we went to check out the kittens in the truck. They had 5 kittens... 

So we have Eli with Spider-Man (the only boy kitten they had)

Caroline with Sugar

and Lizzy with Cherry Cinnamon!

They are pretty cute. They are starting to get used to us and play with us. Sugar is definitely the sweetest of the kittens... she loves to just be held. Spider Man is the most playful and Cherry is the scaredy cat... it takes her a bit longer to warm up to people.

The day we got the kittens we took the kids to their first concert... there's no better way to celebrate a first concert than with a big cookie cake!

Caroline is on the right with her friend watching the concert. There were 6 bands at the concert but the kids were most excited to see Jaime Grace...

however she was last to perform... they made it through one maybe two of her songs before this is how they looked...Eli is the only one with open eyes...

two minutes later this is how they looked. We ended up not getting home til a little before midnight. 

We had a pretty lazy day after church today and were able to have some good kitty playing time.

they loved playing with in our pool towels hanging on the side of the tub.

Cherry walked around the back of my head and settled on my shoulder to take a quick cat nap

while Sugar took a nap on Caroline's lap and Spider-Man hung out next to Caroline.

Catch-Up

Caroline was super excited that we finally agreed to let her drive the 4-wheeler by herself. We had her drive with us on it and now we put it in second gear and let her go... with instructions to stay in the open areas. She has done  a pretty good job.

No one loves to work in the yard unless you get a good wheel-barrel ride!!! 

The kids are much more likely to help you work when they know they get to ride in the wheel-barrel after its empty.

Sweet Eli loves a good mo-hawk... so sweet Mrs. Montes fixed his hair up good after cutting it... although it did give a good scare to his daddy when he thought Mrs. Montes might have actually cut his hair to be in a mo-hawk.

Hard to resist taking a picture of my sweet girl  "matching" her doll.

We got a babysitter and went on a big couples date night. We met some people at a resturant in Fort Worth and had a great time catching up. We celebrated my friend Tricia's (on the right of me) birthday and my friend Shelly's (on the left) anniversary.