Weekend fun!

Friday we decided to have over some neighbors and friends for a back to school get together. It was fun and we are happy with the turn out of friends and kids that came! 

We are missing 3 girls in this picture, including Piper! But I was happy to get this many to sit still for me!

Rachel, Becca, Kira, Grace, Sadie, Carver and Presley

We were up way too late on Friday and all slept really late on Saturday which was fine with me! We got up and cleaned up, Steve headed to work and the girls and I headed to Boston's 7th birthday party!

While Boston was outside with his friends, Jordan was the main event inside! Presley is loving babies right now, it is too cute!

We left the party and headed home to get a snack and change for the wedding we had that night. Steve's coworker Kyle was getting married at Jester Park, which was a super convenient place for us! The girls were pretty good, they both had their moments of boredom and such but they ate a good dinner, each ate a couple cupcakes, ran around on the deck since the weather was amazing and we did a little dancing.

We were out too late again but we slept in late on Sunday morning again (another 10-10:30 wake up time!) Sunday we basically just hung out....the girls played, Steve went to a grocery store and then we had Piper's open house/meet the teacher for her new room at Generation. It is kind of silly for us to go at this point, we know her room, where her locker is, we know the teacher and 95% of the kids in her room.....but it's tradition! :) She is now in the last class at Generation, the oldest kids in the building, it is kind of sad! It's awesome b/c she basically gets another year to prep for kindergarten with Miss Kristy! Piper even gets to start a reading log with the books that we read to her or books she reads to us! It's like big kid, big school stuff that I'm just not ready to start with my baby!

After that, I took Presley to her first volleyball clinic. She seemed a little interested in it last year when our neighbor Collins did it, so I signed her up without really asking her. I got her friend Maris to sign up with her and was able to get them on the same team (just by chance!) Both girls were nervous but they both did really good for never playing volleyball before! It should be an interesting 8 weeks but I am proud of her for trying something new and not complaining about it! :)

Tues/Wed/Thursday

Tuesday Piper slept in and I worked out while Presley played then we got ready to get their hair cut! It had been a LONG time since Piper had hers cut and Presley just needed a trim.

  Before

 After! So much better!

We did lunch and then headed home for a bit before we had meet the teacher! Steve had to work late so he missed out this year! Presley has two of her good friends in her class, so she is excited and her teacher seemed very nice and was not the 'boy' teacher that she didn't want! :)

 Little Miss has one more year before she can claim this as her school!

 After meet the teacher, we ran Presley to gymnastics. They had a photo booth station set up!

Steve met us there and then I ran to meet Sarah to bottle the wine that we had made back in June. It is such a fun process and I hope I can go back again soon. The wine we made takes 21 months before it is 'good', so now I just have to remember that April 2019 I have these 3 bottles of wine to drink! After that we went to The Cheese Bar on Ingersoll http://www.cheesebardsm.com/ and had cheese fondue a couple drinks to end our night!

Wednesday, Steve took Piper to daycare so Presley and I could enjoy the last day of summer vacation together. We got up and she wanted ice cream for breakfast.....it was the last day of summer! How could I say no? :)

We hung out for a while and played Sorry, which she won and then decided to get pedicures! It's a nice relaxing hour for us to hang out and she has to talk to me b/c she can't get up and walk away! HA!

After that we ran to Walmart and then went to Burger King, who was out of chicken nuggets? WTH? How do they run out of chicken nuggets??? Then we picked up her friend Maris (who is playing volleyball with her) to have a play date. We went back home and they played and played for 3 hours. I think they had a good time and I'm glad that we got one play date in this summer!

After we dropped Maris off at home, we picked up Piper from daycare and grabbed some ice cream at Van Dee's before headed to Piper's gymnastics! Steve had to work late so he headed home about 6 to get dinner started for us to eat once we got home.

We did baths and basically got ready for an early bedtime since Presley started school Thursday!

Today. The first day of 3rd grade. Her teacher is Mrs. Jaworski who has taught for 13 years! I dropped Presley off at KTC and without another thought she walked in! So much easier than summer drop-offs! The staff at Wallace know Presley so well and know she can be a tough nut to crack to get her to talk or smile or just be comfortable around them. I love them!

I know Presley is going to shine this year given this summer of courage and change and determination that she has found. Be brave, be nice, speak when people talk to you, listen to others, trust your gut and never doubt yourself Presley Grace!

Monday

I had Mon/Tues/Wed off this week b/c KTC is closed before school starts. Monday both girls stayed home with me and it was rainy. As much as I wanted to do something outside and fun with them, they were whiny and fighting a lot so we didn't go anywhere. They helped me do a little cleaning and they played and they did a lot of playing in the rain! The perfect way to spend a rainy day!

Sunday

Sunday we didn't do much. The girls played and played so well and Steve and I just got stuff done around the house. I LOVE when they just go play, the imagination is awesome and I'm so glad they can do it without us!

We had Brittany come babysit so that we could go back to the fair and the Kid Rock concert that night. We got to enjoy things without the kids, we could walk around and look at stuff and stop and relax. Some nice stranger gave us a drink ticket for the beer/wine place at the top top of the hill so we did that, the weather was perfect. It was just nice!

One of my fav 80's pop stars, Tiffany, was playing on the free stage that night. I convinced Steve to go to the concert a little late so I could see her since both started at 8. It was 8:15 and she was still not on stage and Steve said by 8:30 we had to head to Kid Rock! I ran to the restroom, near the back of the stage and saw her band standing back there....so I might have made my way up a couple steps and saw her talking to some people. I stood there waiting, patiently. She headed to the stage and I called her name and she came over and took her picture with me! I was SO giddy!!!!

 We only stayed for one song and then headed to the concert. It was a really good show! I was worried it might be too political for my liking, but it wasn't at all. It was high energy and a good time! I'm glad Steve talked me into going! ;)