Summer break over, school starts

Summer break is officially over, but the Texas weather did not get the memo. We are still "enjoying" 100+ temperatures most days.

How did we do with our summer philosophies?! Glad you asked! We can report that we did great at behaving like our home was a beach house! We now have much work to do so Sam can crawl around without being the baby version of the swiffer sweeper! We have learned more about the fruit of the Spirit and the blessings that come from trying to bless others with our efforts and actions. Going to keep on pursing this one! The beach house philosophy has to go soon though - if we could just get some cooler temps to help us with that would be great!

Emma's first day of 3rd grade

Sam "stuffed" into his swim gear!
Norah - our newest little fish - can now swim the length of the pool by herself.

We are excited to see what the new school year holds for the girls. Emma loves her teacher and is excited. Norah is beginning to get excited, but also remembers how 'boring' nap/rest time was! Sam is going to be in shock and withdrawl without his 2 biggest entertainers for 3 days a week!

1st Birthday, Picture day, Haircut day, & Bat night

Our little man is 1! Okay, so he's not so little, but he is 1! We find out on Friday just how "healthy!" he is. Socially correct way to say he is BIG!

Finally took the kiddos in for some updated pictures. Here are just a couple to catch you up.

Emma gets a BIG haircut! Once again she donated her hair to help others. 8 inches this time for the Pantene Beautiful Lengths program. The wigs are donated to cancer patients.

BEFORE:
AFTER: Emma quote " I plan to donate at least 2 more times before age 2o."

We took a quick trip to Austin this past weekend to see the BATS! Emma learned about bats in 1st grade @ Grove with Mrs. Carlock's class. She has been crazy about them ever since. Soooo naturally Norah has picked up on this interest too. Since we are only 3 1/2 hours from a city that has about 1.5 million bats under a bridge, we had to go! The girls loved it! Sam wasn't too sure what all the fuss was about!

So we are 19 days away from school starting. Still too quick for this mom! We continue to live as though our home is a beach house. Based on the debris on Sam's hands and knees after crawling around, I'd say we are doing a pretty good job of it! I just hope I haven't let the pendulum swing so far in the non cleaning direction that we can never recover. Ah well, we will find out when school starts.

Enjoy the rest of summer yall!