Preschool Life

Preschool is up and running (ok so we're almost half way through the year…) for Drew so I thought I would post a few pics and let you know how he is doing. The first few days of school were rough….it's tough to leave mama for the first time. Drew's teacher were awesome with him and by day 3 we had no tears at all!! He's doing great now and loves his teacher "Mrs. Burger-son" (Her name is Mrs. Bergeson but Andrew really likes burgers so the name  came naturally )

Drew with "Percy the Penguin" the class mascot! Percy gets to come home with us ever so often and we get to take him on adventures!!

Smile Percy!

Drew's Halloween Parade….Andrew surprised me with this! Instead of being shy he was the kid that announced every song they were going to sing from across the room! You could see how excited and proud he was to be a "big kid"!! Rachel and Jacob got to see it too which made him very happy

Drew outside of his Penguin class

Skip Its Trip to Asheville

We had a blast a few weekends ago as we travelled to the mountains of Asheville NC with Rachel's Skip Its Team!! These kids amaze me. On day one they performed 3 shows at local elementary schools (30 minutes each), then took a short hike to a waterfall. The next day, they did their parade routine for over a mile through downtown Asheville, then took a 40 minute hike (one way) up to a look out point!! The funniest thing was that on their "down time"  many of them were still jumping. Talk about great shape!

The boys did great cheering their sister on. We were definitely the only family crazy  brave enough to take their 4 small kids : ) And people told us that…..

With all that activity our kids were sure to fall asleep on the way home right?…..right?……..
Nope, with the exception of Matty (who napped for the 1.5 hrs in the parked car while Nathan took the big kids up the mountain hike) the kids were still going strong as we pulled into our driveway at 8 pm Saturday evening.
We were so proud to see Rachel performing with her team-----it is so much fun to watch!!

Getting ready for show #1

Rachel and her buddy Audrey

Beautiful!

Brrrrr……ready for the parade!

Matty looks snuggly doesn't he?

Here they come! We were at the end of the parade route so they were definitely tired but did great!!

Spiderman even shows up at the Asheville parade!

"ummmm Daddy…. I'm tired of walking"
Said Drew about 10 minutes into the 40 minute hike…..

Made it!

Whew!!