Fresh Eggs!

Yes!!! Our chickens started laying eggs! Can I tell you how excited the kids have been? (Okay, me too!) We get 1-2 a day and the kids love checking for them. I'm thinking it's like Easter only everyday. Luke and Sadie even added "get eggs" to their chore chart themselves!

Soccer Season!

Luke and Katie Belle had their first soccer games of the season on Saturday! My camera died before Luke's game so no pictures of him this week. =( He did get one of only two goals their team made! They get goalies this year so that made things fun too! Katie Belle was pretty much just running around kicking the ball in whatever direction she happened to be heading at the time. Hopefully once she catches on to the point of the game she'll do better. The high screeches in the video were Katie Belle. She thought the kids falling down were soooo funny that she told us all about it when she got to take a break!

First day of School

I know I'm behind in posting but things finally seem to be slowing down. Hopefully I'll get caught up! Here are pictures of the kids' first day of school. Katie Belle got to go to kindergarten this year and she's been so excited to be able to ride the bus! Here are all my school kids. Can you see how excited she is?
Here is her teacher!

Once she sat down and eyed the puzzle we didn't matter anymore, she was happy!

THEN I picked her up from school. I had to post the video because it just made me laugh. Her first day...

Katie Belle is 5!!

Okay folks, this was the birthday we'd all been waiting for...Katie Belle is now five years old! This meant that she could go to school and she has been SOOOO excited to go to school. We spent the day having fun. We decorated for a party and went swimming and then came home to make a birthday cake. Now Katie Belle had seen a wedding cake at a store and wanted that for her birthday cake...but she still wanted chocolate, that's my girl! So that explains the layers of cake. =)

The girls then decorated their own wands. I was surprised how good Maia was at glueing her sequins on! You can see the concentration. All in all we had fun! Happy Birthday Katie Belle, we love you!

The Hawkes in Idaho!!!

Yup, it's been awhile but Casey's brother and his family came to visit last month. It was so nice to see them and now our kids know their cousins from California! They brought their little dog Roxie with them and you should've seen Maia. She spent every possible moment with the dog. She loves dogs and that's why Roxie had to be in the pictures too. What a neat thing to be able to talk and get to know them better. We were surprised to find out that they have chickens too! It's always comforting to know that one is not alone in such craziness. =) They just stayed overnight and we were all sad to see them go. Katie Belle was in tears and didn't even want to say goodbye because she didn't want them to go. I think that's how we all felt. I hope you know how much we love you and hope we'll see you again soon!