First Days of School 2008

Wow, it has been a while since I have posted anything.... sorry for the long delay. I have been busy getting settled in and adjusting to life in CO! Well, we are finally settled and the boys are now starting school. Luke started last week at a small Lutheran preschool 2 days a week. He absolutely loves it! He asks every day if it is a "school" day. He will be so ready for kindergarten next year! Cole started 1st grade today. His school is very nice and much smaller than his school last year. His teacher seems great and he said he had a fun first day. He said he was nervous, but once he started making some friends he liked it a lot. He even said they had 3 recess times and that was awesome! I know he is going to do great.

Here are some pics of the boys enjoying school. I will try to start updating this site regularly.

Beach vacation 2008

We all had a blast at the beach. We swam, relaxed and enjoyed not having a schedule at all! The only thing kind of annoying was the sea weed that was everywhere in the beach and water... we kept saying, "At least it's not jellyfish!" The boys loved everything about the beach. Their favorite thing was a boogie board that they took turns riding the waves on. Our best friends, Kevin & Leslie, with their kids, Taryn & Dawson, actually planned to go to the beach at the same time. We spent several days with them on the beach and then my parents came for a few days at the end of the week. The boys loved having friends and Nanna & Poppa to play with them! We went crab hunting at night and found lots of crabs. We went out on a fishing pier to see what people were catching. In one of the pictures the boys are touching a baby shark (Luke very reluctantly!) that someone caught. At the end of our trip we went into Corpus to the Aquarium. That was fun for all of us! Over all we had a great vacation and are thankful we had a safe trip. We are now working on getting us packed and moved to Colorado. We will post our adventures in moving once we get the computer hooked up again.

Cole reads to Luke

Cole is doing really well with his reading. He is finally able to sit down with Luke and read him books. It is so cute to see them together and so interested. Luke is very patient as Cole is still learning to pronounce and sound out words. We are very proud of Cole. I bought a complete Hooked on Phonics set for him off of Craiglist. I plan to use it to work with him over the summer to improve his reading for first grade.

Saying Goodbye to Kindergarten

We are amazed it is almost the end of kindergarten for Cole. He has had a fun year and made some great friends. His teacher has been wonderful and made school "fun" to go to every day. It is hard to think of starting again at a new school next year in Colorado, but I know God will lead us to a school that will be just perfect for Cole in first grade.

The pictures are from his kindergarten end of the year program and his last field trip. For the program Cole was the only child in his class that didn't have his class shirt on (I can't find it anywhere). It makes it easy to spot him, though! His class was the Mrs. Lichtenberger Longhorns so we put him in a UT shirt. They sang songs and each class was "spotlighted" for one song. The song they sung was hilarious! I tried to upload a video of it, but my computer is so slow it would take all day to do.

After the program they went on their fieldtrip to Pease Park then to Gattitown (crazy!) Cole had a great day and lots of fun for his hard work this year! In the picture with Cole are some of his pals (best friend, Mark to his right, Christian by Mark and Karsen to Cole's left).

Now we have a first grader... wow!

The end of a fun season

We are nearing the end of spring soccer and tee ball. Luke had his last soccer game last Saturday. He earned a medal for participating and is very proud of it! He learned a lot and loved going to each game with his new friends! In the video I posted I decided not to put him in his shin guards because all he did was complain about them being itchy. Well, this game he actually needed them... poor guy. He was fine though.

Cole is nearing the end of tee ball. He has been doing so well and loving it! We are very proud of him for trying his best at every game. They are in their end of the season tournament this week. If they lose one game they are done for the season. If they keep winning they will play in the championship Saturday morning. In yesterday's game Cole hit 2 home runs and got 2 outs! He did very well paying attention to where the play was and where the ball needed to go. He has learned a lot this season and had a great time with his friends! I posted a video of one of his home runs. We'll let you know how the week goes!

Graduation photos

Here's some photos from graduation. There is a group shot of everyone who attended (except my friend Leslie who had to leave early). There is a shot of my 2 best friends from my class, Mary on the left and Linda on the right, who helped me through school and are going to be awesome nurses! Luke was so handsome all dressed up... I had to get a photo of my little man. Cole had track and field day at school and did not want to leave so he was not there.

Wow, it's all over now~

Graduation!

Wow! I can't believe it is over! Here's a video clip of me actually graduating in case anyone doubted I could do it! Just kidding...
I am so happy to be done and getting closer to moving to CO!