Math Night at Sue Buel Elementary

Brooklyn and Noah having lots of fun demonstrating their math skillz! :-)







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Our Big Spelling "B" Champion! :-)

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Brooklyn's Grampa Mason

This is a story that Brooklyn wrote about her Grampa Mason, along with the paper doll she made of him. It's quite a similar likeness, if I do say so myself. :-)

School pictures of my babies!

2 full-day students = 1 happy mom :-)

Brooklyn and Noah started school today. B is in 5th grade, and N is in 1st, which means I won't see him until after 2:30!! Yeah!! I mean. . . I'm sad that I won't have my wonderful children home with me all day long. *sniff, sniff*

But seriously. :-)

They're both old pros with the whole going-to-school thing so there weren't any tears, just happy smiles!

Brooklyn's 10 year old pictures

I just realized I haven't posted these yet, so without further ado. . .


Brooklyn just cut her hair for Locks of Love, so it was fun having a little different look for her 10 year old pictures!



I knew that Steve would LOVE this last picture so we bought it just for him! This is the look she gives him whenever he's being a crazy dad, which is always. It's now hanging above his desk, and still makes us laugh whenever we look at it! It's Classic Brooklyn! =oD


We sure love you, Sister Brooklyn Mary Poppins!

Brooklyn's Locks of Love

Brooklyn's been growing her hair out so that she could one day cut it and donate it to Locks of Love. Her hair had finally grown the required length so she decided she wanted to cut it before school started. So today we did it.

Here she is before.



Here's the first cut!


And it's off!


We decided on a very cute a-line hairstyle cut.



And here she is after.



Good job, Baby-Girl! You look beautiful! :-)

My Honor Student Can Beat Up Your Honor Student. . . okay not really. :)

So Brooklyn brought home her report card today.

She made Student of the Month, AND the Honor Roll.

I sure love this kid!

Brooklyn's 9th Birthday Pictures

We hit Picture People today to get Brooklyn's birthday pictures taken. Once again, they were all so stinkin' cute that it was really hard to decide which ones I wanted, but I was finally able to narrow it down. Here are the winners! :)



This is exactly how she looks at home all the time. :)


Just had to have pictures with Dumbo-baby. :)


Brooklyn picked this one out for herself. We even bought a really cute picture frame for it and it'll be hung in her room. So cute! :)

Brooklyn AND Noah's first day at school!

Today is the first day of school here in Biola. Brooklyn is starting 4th grade, and my baby Noah. . . *sniff*. . . is starting Kindergarten. (Just kidding, I didn't cry. :) They're both attending Biola-Pershing Elementary, which is where Brooklyn went last year.

We started our morning out with Mickey Mouse pancakes and fresh peaches. Yum!


And of course we had to take some first-day-of-school pictures.




Brooklyn was excited to see her friend, Carmen.


And Noah had no problems whatsoever going into his class.



Here's hoping for an awesome first day!

Our day of park-hopping!

Since I had spent most of Brooklyn's Spring Break car shopping, and now finally have a car, I decided to spend today doing the one thing the kids had asked me to do with them these past two weeks.

GO TO THE PARK!!

I thought, what better way than to hit as many parks as possible, letting the kids play as long as they wanted at each, and also decide when to move on to the next one on the list. Both kids were very excited about this plan, so we packed up some snacks, hit Wendy's for some lunch, and headed to our first park.

Logan Park was the very first park we went to after moving to Fresno. It's just a few miles away from the apartments we first lived at, and believe me, we search long and hard to find it that first time, so we've got lots of memories there.







Next, we went to Oso de Oro Lake Park. This is the park we learned about from our friends in our first ward. It's got lots of different fun places to play, including a maze and a lake where you can feed the ducks!







This last park is one we haven't gone to much. We learned about it just before moving to Biola, which put us far enough away that it's just not as convenient as some others, but we still like it because of the super tall, twisty slide!




We had so much fun today, that we'll probably do it again someday soon! :)