First Day of Preschool

My little girl, all ready to go. She was so nervous this morning that I had a hard time getting her to start getting ready, and she only had one bite of english muffin. "I'm too scared!" she replied to my encouragement to have something in her stomach.

Today is Red Day, so she picked her red teddy bear as her first show-and-tell. We even had some cute red shoes picked out, but of course they didn't fit on Kenzie's feet this morning! Hence the black shoes that don't really match, but Kenzie likes them. It sure felt strange to be taking my first First Day of School picture, since now there will be many more to come!

Cookie Crumbs, Shaving Cream, and Kisses

Yesterday Chris, McKenzie, and Parker were all "shaving" together. Parker was having a great time, and started blowing me kisses. I grabbed my camera to try and get a picture of it.

Every time I said, "Parker, kisses?" he would quickly blow a kiss, but I just couldn't take the picture fast enough!

Argh, so close

He's still puckered, even

Nope, missed it again

Kind of

I think he's taunting me now! Oh, well.

Christmas Meadows

Here's the second installment of backpacking pictures that made the cut. (Sorry ladies, but the picture of Wes's rear end will remain unseen)

Twiggy, the Camp Mascot. You may remember him from last year, but he's still holding their spot.

The beginnings of their fort. I asked if there was an official name, but Fort Arnold was the only suggestion. Maybe next year it'll get more creative, when they return to finish it.

Sometime at night, Karl Malone be lookin' up in sky...

Shrouded in mystery. Or maybe it's fog and an old camera.

Heading home. When Chris opened the door, Kenzie gasped and ran. Parker was in his high chair, but he threw his Teddy Grahams down and yelled!

Now I get to do the laundry. That's true love right there.

Second Annual Backpacking Trip

They always claim they don't coordinate their apparel on purpose, but I'm starting to wonder!

This weekend marked the second year Chris has gone off into the wild with two of his brothers. Us wives were more than willing to send them off - they all needed some time to go be stinky together. Plus I bought a ton of cilantro and cooked everything Chris hates while he was gone.

They managed to find the same spot as last year, even. They claimed they had fun.

No, really. Fun.

Yeah, that's it. Like this.

The scenery always looks nice, though. I'm not jealous, because I require bathrooms to enjoy nature. Showers help, too.

Real showers, I meant.

You can't see in the picture, thankfully, but I'm told the water turned a lovely shade of brown after touching their hair. More pictures to come shortly!

Peek-a-Boo

I realize this is nothing new, all kids do this, but I thought it was sweet. I especially like when he smacks himself in the face!

A Day Without Daddy

Guess who wants to learn to hula hoop, too?

Chris is off backpacking with two of his brothers until tomorrow, so tonight we had a little "party" which involved getting pizza, making cookies, and watching The Little Mermaid. Here's Kenzie assembling the owl cookies. Don't you love the forced "smiles" she gives me in pictures?

All set up watching the movie.

Parker inhaling his pizza (I gave him some of our salad, but he just waved a snow pea around like, "What do you expect me to do with this?"). He liked the first few minutes of the movie, saying, "Wow!" to the shark and then the hurricane, but once the story moved on to the sappy parts he toddled off to push his train around.

I love the owl with the eyes all skiwampus! I think we'll save that one for Daddy.

Look Out World...

... here comes Parker!