Wednesday, August 25, 2010

Good times!



Gabi was loving me up the morning before her first day of preschool. She had woken up way too early, so by the time Preschool was starting, she was ready for a nap and wouldn't take any good pics! Hey...I'll take all the loving I can get. When we went to meet her teacher a couple of days before, she said, "Mom, can you just drop me off and go get lunch with Dad or something?" No love on Tuesday, but lots of love on Thursday when it was drop off time!



Papi and Grandma came to watch the girls while K.C. and I had our meeting. We took them to our favorite breakfast place, Egg Plantation and the girls basically ate all of Papi's strawberry french toast! Thanks for sharing!



Liv at school after her first day of Kindergarten. Look at that bookbag baby!



Grandma after I drug her to Cardio Barre...she is looking HOT in that workout stuff:) Our girls sure miss you!



Big Girl Gabi hydrating at school. This girl was walking around like she owned the school with her water bottle in one hand and her sunglasses in the other. Feeling good! She is such a happy little girl!



How cute are these two? They are just the best of friends...where there is one, there is the other!



We took the girls to Santa Monica to the LA Temple. We picked up dinner and were able to go through the new visitor's center. It is unbelieveable! They have a whole area for the kids and tons of interactive learning tools about the Temple, Service that the Church provides all over the World and quotes surrounding the whole place from Prophets. They also have The Christus set up right in front of huge open windows so its the first thing you see pulling up. Talk about a place to feel the Spirit! The girls just loved it. We walked all around the temple grounds singing songs and looking at all the beautiful details all around the Temple. I'm so thankful we live close enough to a Temple to go and do these types of things!





Our lives are so busy but when we snuggle up at night as a family before bed...we feel so grateful for all we have been blessed with....A Healthy Family!

Thursday, August 12, 2010

Olivia goes to KINDERGARTEN!

Today was my little Angel's first day of kindergarten. I was a little nervous considering Liv prefers to wake up around 9 and she had to be in her classroom at 7:50! We don't even pick her up until 1:45...long day for a little girl!

It was seriously the cutest thing to see her get dressed, put on this huge backpack that is almost as big as her, make her a lunch with her favorite things and see her basically ignore K.C. and I while we were in her classroom. She is already claiming her independence at age 4! She had such a fun time and we love her teacher, Mrs. Bague.



Start with a healthy breakfast...BRAIN POWER!





We had to get all angles of her new backpack...that thing is HUGE! Seriously, why would a kindergarten student need a bookbag that big?? But, I'm just following instructions:)










Gabi was sad to see her Sister leave her, but we took her to a special breakfast to make up for it. She couldn't even come with us to drop her off, but she came to pick Liv up. She was so cute looking for Olivia everywhere! So sweet!





The walk to school is up a huge hill...hey, a little extra exercise is good for us! From now on, we have to just drop her off in front of the gate...we can't take her to her classroom...Crazy how times have changed!!



Liv in her classroom...23 KIDS, 1 TEACHER! WOW...we will be volunteering A LOT!





We had just come back to the classroom after an orientation. We had to stand on the line! The teacher asked us if the orientation was fun and K.C. blurts out, "No, not at all!" I mean, really? I wanted to crawl under a rock and hide. I told him he wasn't allowed to stand by me anymore:) All the parents laughed and when the teacher went back in the classroom, they all agreed, it was NOT fun! Count on K.C. to say what everyone is thinking...Oh My!



We did get a little wave as Liv walked out of class to go play. Other than that, she was trying to shy away from us...just being a big girl, doing her thing at school. When we picked her up, we asked her what she learned and she said, "RECESS!" LOVE IT! Can't wait to hear about all the fun things she will learn this year:)