Christmas at the Canton Square

I always look forward to taking the kids to ride the carousel and see the lights on the Square at Christmas! We had so much fun! It really puts me in the Christmas spirit~

CA Thanksgiving Feast and Play

Cooper's 5th Birthday Party

Super Cooper had a great time at his 5th Birthday party. It was a superhero party and his friends dressed up as their favorite superhero. It was a super fun time!!

K4 Cowboy Day

We had a great time at Cowboy Day with Cooper's class today. They went to different stations, had hotdogs outside, and smores. I loved spending the morning with my little guy and his friends.

Riding Horses

Sara Kennedy LOVES horses. She has adored them since she was a little bitty thing. Today we went to Aunt Shirley and Uncle Gary's house and she & Cooper got to ride one of their horses, Goldie. We had such a fun day visiting with them, Nana, Dede and Aunt Ann. The weather was beautiful and I loved seeing the huge grin on SK's sweet face when she was with Goldie.

Go Rebs!

Will and the kids ready to cheer on the Rebels!

CA Panther Celebration

WOW~ what a busy day we had at CA today. The 1st and 2nd graders performed a cheer and dance at the pep rally this morning. Then, at 2:00 the 1st and 2nd graders had a tailgate party on the playground. At 6:00 we tailgated before the CA football game and at 6:45 they performed on the field. We had a fun day! Go PANTHERS!!!

First Day of School

We are so blessed to have two AWESOME teachers! Sara Kennedy is so excited to be in Mrs. Strong's class! And to say Cooper is "smitten" with Mrs. Hammett is an understatement- how cute is she? The pics of the kids with their teachers is at Meet the Teacher. The pics to the far right are the first full day of school. The kids were fine- I, on the other hand, cried like a baby!!

Lake Caroline
We had a blast out on Will's Dad's (Pepaw's) pontoon boat today. The Webbs and Ellises came with us. The kids are fearless. They've been unjoying the summer on the boat and had a blast with Mary Brieten and Zan. Even Jean Elaine, Noel and I got in on the action. Jean Elaine showed off some stellar standing moves until Pepaw threw her off. What a fun day!

New Orleans with the Kids

Will and I took Sara Kennedy and Cooper to New Orleans this past weekend (thanks Memaw & Pepaw for keeping Harper)! We went to the Aquarium, Cooper loved the sharks and SK loved touching a stingray. We went to the Louisiana Children's Museum where the kids got to shop in a kid sized grocery store (complete with real cash registers) and load cargo onto a kid sized barge. We walked around Jackson Square and ate at Cafe du Monde, swam in the rooftop pool at the hotel, went to the Insectarium (Cooper ate a chocolate covered worm & SK ate a chocolate chip cookie with crickets on top) and took the St. Charles trolley (my favorite part) down St. Charles and got to admire all of the old architecture and see some really pretty homes. It was too hot for the zoo and it started raining and we didn't get to ride the ferry. We'll have to plan another trip soon!

July 4th

On our way to Will's parent's house for their awesome 4th cookout. I snapped these pictures before we left and didn't get a single picture while we were at the cookout. I have to do better about actually taking pictures when we get to where we're going!

My LIttle Swimmers

Sara Kennedy and Cooper just finished swim lessons with Mrs. Debra. This was Sara Kennedy's last year to take~ she "graduated." Makes me sad~ she's been going to swim lessons since she was 2. She is a great little swimmer. Cooper learned how to jump off the diving board and is swimming all over the pool. Lots of swimming in our future this summer!

1st grade skating

Some of Sara Kennedy's classmates were able to go skating today. We had so much fun UNTIL poor Toni fell and broke her leg in 2 places :( She was such a tropper!
Pics L to R:
1) Sheila & Cody 2) Abbey Grace 3) Blair, Abbie, Sara Kennedy & Abbey Grace 4) Karin & Abbey Grace 5) Me & SK 6) Jack about to fall 7) Kristi & Blair 8) Abbey 9( Allie 10) Eli & Teresa 11) SK 12) Allie, Toni & Abbey before Toni's fall 13) Blair & SK 14) Jack & Regina 15) Cody, Allie, Abbey, Sara Kennedy, Abbey Grace, Jack, Blair & Eli~ what a sweet bunch of kids!!!

Grandparent's Day at CA

CA had Grandparent's Day. Nana and Memaw were able to go (Pepaw was out of town for work). Sara Kennedy had so much fun and made them the cutest pictures and wrote her favorite things to do with them. Baby Harper was so sweet during the program and Sara Kennedy LOVED showing her off to her class.

First Cereal

Harper had her first cereal. She wasn't quite sure what to think about it. I think we got more on her face than in her tummy.