Going to School

These are some videos of this morning getting ready for school.  Yes, I took video while I was driving, but only in the subdivision and while waiting in line to drop Drew off.  I promise I was safe for all you grandparents.  In order the videos go from top to bottom.

Everyday Stuff

Here are some more videos of the kids around the house.  These videos show how much I'm like my mom and how much my kids are like I was because Evan and Alli aren't wearing any clothes.  I think about half the pictures of me before the age of 4 were of me running around in my underwear.  But, who am I to argue with comfort in the dead heat of summer? 

The First Day of School

Here is a picture of Drew on her first day of first grade. She's so big. Things are going good so far. She seems to have adjusted just fine, and she's really excited that she has a science book this year. Apparently it has some pretty neat pictures. These are also some pictures that she's drawn recently. She made the rainbow all by herself without having to ask what order the colors go in. I was impressed with that. Evan and Alli will be starting in less than a month at their pre-school, which I have mixed feelings about. I have some things I have to get done with my school, like observations and student teaching, so it'll be nice to have an automatic babysitter, but it kills me to think about how old they are. They're excited, though. It took us forever to convince Evan that he was going to school this year. He kept insisting that girls go to school and boys go to work. I guess that's what he sees at home with me in school. Now he says he's going to Alli's school, though. Maybe he'll get it when he sees other boys in his class.

Gatlinburg Trip

This past weekend we went to Gatlinburg with the entire Clark family for Andy's grandmother's 80th birthday. We all stayed in one big house together. These are some pictures from the trip. We walked around and looked at things and rode some rides. Me and Andy and Andy's dad all subjected ourselves to bumper boats so the kids could ride and we got absolutely soaked. At one point I finally had to scream that I was losing my contact so people would quit squirting me in the face, but I found it rolling around in my eye. That ended up being about the funnest thing we did. I laughed so hard. The kids heard about this haunted house that was there, so we had to go check it out. It ended up being a real haunted house. Not real as in real ghosts or anything, but quite a bit scarier than the Haunted Mansion at Disney World. Evan and Alli wouldn't even walk in the driveway, so I sat at the end of the driveway with them. Drew made it up to the hurse sitting in the driveway with Andy before she started crying, and then one of the other little cousins made it to the porch with Andy's dad before she changed her mind. This picture of Evan crying is actually him trying his best to smile while we were waiting for the rest of them to chicken out. I have to admit I was a little scared myself. And, the picture placement on this is kind of out of order because the Blogger website keeps flipping out when I try to move them around, so I give up.

Drew's Birthday

When we asked Drew what she wanted to do for her birthday, she said that she wanted to go to a restaurant where they would sing Happy Birthday to her and then go to the movies to see Monster House, so that's what we did. We had a great time. These are some pictures of her with the birthday cake that we got for the actual day of her birthday. We couldn't do the other stuff until the following Friday when the movie came out. The movie was a bit scarey, though. It was funny to watch it with them. Alli jumped several times, but Drew likes that kind of scarey stuff.