First Day of School!

Today starts a new chapter in my life as a Mommy. Both of my kids started school today! Dylan is now a BIG Kindergartner and Ally is is pre-school 2 days a week! Here are a few pictures of the first day of school!

Happy Birthday Darrin!

We celebrated my wonderful husbands birthday tonight. I am so thankful to have such an amazing man as my husband and the father of my children, we are all so blessed! Happy Birthday Darrin!

Power Tools Performance!

Power Tools is the kids choir at church that Dylan has been involved in. They have already had one performance this summer when we had Church in the Park. Today they had a "traveling" engagement! Our church has 3 services and the choir got to perform for all 3 today! The kids did a great job!!! Here is a video from one of the services, enjoy!

Happy Birthday Poppa!

Tonight we went out and celebrated Poppa's Birthday! We had a yummy dinner at McGraths which was followed up with the waitresses singing Happy Birthday and a fish had adorning my father's head!

After that we headed back to our house where I had made a YUMMY homemade Carrot Cake with homemade cream cheese frosting (go me!)

After stuffing ourselves we finished up celebrating with Wi.i Bowling! Fun.Family.Birthday.

Hot Air Balloons!

Tonight we headed over to the Art and Air Festival for some good old fashioned family fun! Poppa, Grandma, Uncle Eric, and Aunt Cagney came down to join us. The kids LOVE the kids craft area and talked about it in the car all the way there. So that is the first thing we did. They made bracelets, crazy headbands, and picture frames!

After that they climbed around on a really BIG gun.

We then decided to go put our extra stuff on our blanket and the kids caught sight of the playground and they were off! Grandma went and bought them(me) an elephant ear and after it cooled a little they came and gobbled it down. Off to the playground they went again. After playing for awhile longer we decided to go check out the booths. There were so many cool photos/paintings that I would have loved to have gotten, some though gave me inspiration of things I could photograph! After browsing for a little while we decided it was time to go claim our spot on our blanket and watch as they set up for the Night Glow.

The night glow is THE BEST part in my opinion, they blow up 6 hot air balloons and when it gets dark they light them up.

They do fun things like the wave and popcorn, but my favorite is full burn, when they light all the balloons up at once!

I am hoping that this will be an annual event for our family, we have gone the last two years and LOVED it!