Last Two Weeks of Summer Vacation

That's right.  Today is the last day of our summer vacation!  Where did it go?  Apparently when you move, go on week long beach trips - twice, take two weeks of swim lessons, and one week of VBS the summer just flies by.  Tomorrow the girls will go to their first day of Pre-K.  (I am totally not counting the "schooling" that they did in VA as it really was more mother's day out than anything else).  They will be wearing little uniforms, riding the bus at a quarter til 8 in the morning, eating breakfast and lunch there, and will be riding the bus home - scheduled to arrive at 4pm.  They are excited.  Especially about the bus.  And hugging each other on the bus.  Though I am not sure that they totally get that they are going to be gone basically all day, every day.  Tomorrow I will certainly have some cute pictures of the first day.

But today I thought I would recap our busiest last two weeks. 

Last Monday D and I had preschool orientation.  It was great!  We are very excited about the year.  When it was time to split up and go with the teacher's to get specific information about each class, D went for Audrey and I went for Brooke.  The teachers seem to be awesome and they are right next door to each other.  Audrey's teacher is a little more sweet and mom-like which I think will be great for her.  Brooke's teacher is Mrs. Favaloro and Audrey's teacher is Mrs. Mestayer....which is pronounced - wait for it.....Mat-ee-ay.   How kids in Louisiana ever learn to pronounce things phonetically, I'll never know!

Last week we also had a quick visit Monday to Wednesday from my sister Amy and one of her sons John David.  We swam, went to the zoo, went to the capitol, went to the mall to ride the carousel and of course watched the Olympics!

Then Thursday we had a fun night out at the circus.  The girls were still talking about the circus from last year so we really thought that they would love it again.  And they did!  D and I did not think it was that great this year as it was on a much smaller scale and seemed to be themed toward side show type acts.  Audrey's favorite act was the motorcycles that drove around in a ball.  Brooke's favorite was the strong man - he laid on the ground and had a board placed on him and a jeep holding 7 people drove over him.

That weekend we had our friends from Houston, the Bridges, come to visit.  We had a great time hanging out (and of course watching the Olympics).  It is so great to have friends that you can pick right up with - even if it has been years since you've seen each other!

Monday to Wednesday, the girls and I headed to MS to see the grandparents for a quick trip before school started.  One of the highlights of the trip was going to the Children's Museum - which is surprisingly great.  Audrey had been talking for weeks about going to the museum with the turtle and she was thrilled to do it first.  The girls LOVED moving the logs.  They did it several times and did it for quite a while each time.  They also discovered a love for Uno.  And we played it (as Brooke would say) a million times! One of my highlights was getting to see my friend Vallie from high school.  She was in town from CA visiting family too!  Very serendipitous for me.

We drove home Wednesday so the girls could go to their meet and greet.  They both liked their classes and seemed to like the school overall. I have been trying to coach them on their teacher's names.  Unfortunately they frequently will name each other's teacher.  Hopefully they will get it all straightened out soon.

Wednesday was also the first day back for Wednesday night services at church (can you tell we are going to a Baptist church?)  The girls and I ate dinner there.  Then the girls had choir practice (how cute is that?) and then they had Mission Friends....which I am helping to teach!  We shall see how that goes :)

And that brings us back to today...our last day of summer vacation!