First day of school

My Second Grader

My Kindergartener

Great day for me too in my new classroom. None of preschoolers cried coming to speech class. That is always a great first day!!!

Fun in the Sun

A new haircut for my soon to be new Kindergartener!


We have the greatest back yard and love our neighbors with horses. (They love our apples...)

My snorkeling maniac.

My diving board addict- since this pic. no longer wears her vest.


Life is good....

Not a fun day.

Our 7 year old beautiful rhodesian ridgeback died in our back yard yesterday. The vet thinks she had a seizure, stroke, or heartattack causing her to be immobile and to die of heat stroke in the sun. She was outside for less than 2 hours with plenty of water and shade so that is their best guess. I am better today, but with the preg. hormones it was a bit rough yesterday (not to mention my husband was out of town so I had to handle all of it...) We got her as a puppy before the kids came along. She was a sweet (despite her 85 pounds) girl and was so great with all of our kids.

The kids have a great attitude. They told me "Now she can play with Lukie (our other dog that died of cancer last fall) in heaven! They will be so happy to see each other again!" with smiles on their sweet little faces.