School Days!

My Will is a kindergartner! I am embarrassed to admit I have been looking forward to this day for quite some time, for my "always have to be busy" boy. But when it came right down to it, I was about ready to follow the bus to school and hold his hand to his classroom. He is for sure too young to be on his own in a big kid school, isn't he? Apparently not! He was cool as a cucumber. And loved everything about it (except listening to the teacher for a long time, that was boring).

He was halfway up our hill to the bus stop before I could even get Charlie in the stroller.

Turns out it only takes us about 5 min. to walk to the bus stop, not the 15 I had planned. No need to leave the house at the crack of dawn. Good to know! As soon as the other kids got there I was informed by Will, "I could go now". The bus driver, Mrs. Speth was also Trevor's bus driver growing up, she says Will looks just like his dad. That is small town for ya. I love it!!

Charlie insisted on his backpack and sunglasses to walk to the bus stop to pick up Will. He cracks me up.

Camping and Bear Lake

My cute mom is all about doing fun things with the boys. She is honestly amazing! She planned a camping trip last week to Tony's Grove and then to Bear Lake for the day. Although I am not the best camper, we had a lot of fun and I know the boys LOVED it!! Memories were made!

The boys and the "camp" dog Mr. Claude. (you can tell my kids are deprived of animals at our house, they keep talking about the camp dogs and how they miss them. Who knew dogs would be the highlight of a camping trip)

I forget how fun Bear Lake is and I am for sure taking my kids there several times next summer. They had a blast playing in the sand and wading in the water, that seemed like it stayed shallow forever.

It is a rare moment that my boys hold hands, this picture is not even posed!

Kent the camper. My dad is darling, he even kept his cool and patience after driving us all clear up to Minatonka cave just to find out there weren't anymore tours for 4 hours. Needless to say, we did not experience the cave on this trip.

Swim Lessons

Will has been taking swim lessons at our neighbor's house. Karen and her daughter Mariah are the best teachers. Will is usually pretty shy about new experiences and everyday he would jump out of the car and head right into class (which sounds pretty simple but in most cases I would have to go with him and coax him to stay) he loved it and he learned so much. In 2 weeks he went from being timid of the water to full on jumping off the diving board, I was so proud of him!

Lagoon

Trevor's work had Lagoon day last Thursday, Trevor couldn't go so my mom and I took the boys. We had so much fun! Will is tall enough to ride almost all of the rides and is pretty daring, and Charlie was a little hesitant so we mainly stuck with the kid rides. The day was great quality time with my kids and the boys didn't fight at all, which is rare lately!



My mom and the boys


Will and I on the Lady Bug Bop, I hate the dropping from high places thing, Will of course loved it!

Charlie's favorite ride was the airplanes, he kept saying "we go higher, higher, higher!".