First Grade

In September Sara got to begin first grade at a new school. We thought that there was a pretty good chance that we would move to the South side of Conroe sometime during her school year so we applied to have her start at the school we thought we would be closest to so she wouldn't have to change. She loved every minute of it. She loves school not for the learning aspect but she absolutely loves to socialize with everyone. Learning is just something she does occasionally in between socializing. In the middle of the year her teacher left to go work for a bank and she got a new teacher and she loves her as much as her last teacher. Now Jason and I spend our days racking our brains about how to make her want to learn and do well in school.

Plus One

At the end of July I sent Jason this picture in the middle of the day while he was at work.

He responded with, "Is this yours?" I guess he thought I liked to take pictures of other peoples pregnancy tests and send it to him at random.
In the next few months we enjoyed sharing the great news with our kids and family that we would be expecting our third child on April 1st of 2012.

Fun Valley 2011

In August we drove to Colorado and spent a week at a camping resort in the mountains. The kids love this place and this was our second year to go. We had so much fun that we already made reservations for next summer. This place is the ultimate family vacation spot.

Fostering Animals.

 

 

 

 

So I recenltly found a way to help out homeless dogs and cats without having to own a million animals. Our local animal shelter has a foster program which allows people to take animals into thier home until they can become adopted. Monday I went to get our dog her shots and discovered that they had a dozen mother cats with new kittens and more coming in every day. So we brought home a mother cat and her three kittens to care for until they are old enough to get adopted. It is also hopefully helping the cat and kittens be more friendly by being a part of our family instead of in a tiny kennell all day. We are having so much fun. The kids are learning the importance of taking care of animals and the best part is we get to try to find them a home with someone else! So far so fun!

And The Race Is On...

 

 

This year our Fourth of July was a little less traditional. It was just the four of us and unfortunately all fireworks were banned in our county because of the severe drought we were in. So we decided to go spend the day in the water watching 8000 ducks race down a water slide and into a lazy river. The kids had so much fun playing in the water park. After we had exhausted all energy from swimming we went to America's best place to eat, Freebirds. After a 20 minute nap in the car on the way home the kids were ready for some more fun so we did what anyone else would do on the Fourth, watched fireworks. Only this time we watched them on our television streamed in from Orlando, Florida, Sydney, Australia, and Washington D.C. All in all it was a pretty good Fourth of July.