Our A+ Student...

Here's some of Jaedin's recent school work. We couldn't be more proud of her!!!

This is her mid-quarter progress report...she got rewarded for this!

Here favorite part of Kdg is "snack". :-)

She does love job (centers) time.

She was very proud of this...she got to show the whole class!

She would do art all day long!

She takes great pride in her animated literacy drawings.

Zac Brown!

We headed to Independence, MO on a Thursday night to watch an amazing musician & band. There was a large group of us that got tickets together so that made it even more fun!

Happy Grandfriends Day 2009!!!

Nana & Papa were able to visit Jaedin & Paige's school for Grandfriends Day. Everyone started out in the gym where the Kindergartners and 1st graders sang a couple of songs and then the students took their grandfriends back to the classrooms to do an activity. Nana & Papa took turns and got to visit both Ms. Johnson (Jaedin's class) and Mrs. Besler's (Paige's class) classrooms. The girls were beyond excited to have them visit their school.

Goodbye Brunette Locks...

Jaedin has been begging to get her hair cut shorter for awhile now. Her daddy loves her long, brown hair and has always talked her out of it. After many promises, she finally won and got her hair cut! I really don't think it has been this short since she was a toddler. She loves it!

Our future Wildcats!

Don't they look great in purple???

1011 Laramie

Really, who hasn't lived in this house?

Ironically, all 3 of us lived in this same house at different times while attending KSU...and it's still standing!!!

Good ole Manhappiness...

What's better than a trip to Manhattan? A Wildcat victory over the Jayhawks!!! We loaded up the 1978 Minnie-Winnie and 7 Wildcat fans headed down Hwy 24 for the Little Apple. We got right outside of Manhattan and got a flat tire. Luckily, we had a spare...but no jack! Glad we had lots of food & drinks with us. The "boys" decided we could make it to the stadium and they would change it there. We made it just fine and they were able to put on the spare. We had tons of fun tailgating before the game (yummy food too!) but we had even more fun during the Sunflower Showdown football game. GO CATS!!! Final score...KSU 17 KU 10. After the game, we loaded up the trusty minnie-winnie and headed to our hotel to check in. Once we were checked in, we headed to the 'ville (Aggieville). We had a great BBQ dinner and then enjoyed some Manhattan night life. What a fun crew, what a memorable trip, and what a victory!!!

A little library fun...

To prepare for the big game, I asked some 3rd grade students to color Powercats to decorate the library. They loved it...even those that are Jayhawk fans. I left the library windows looking like this...


I had a feeling it would be tampered with and I was right. Here's what it looked like the next day...


Regardless, the final score stayed the same!

Halloween

Ta-da...pictures from our fun Halloween! We loved having it on a Saturday and the weather could not have been more perfect! We were able to make it to all the neighbors before Remi & Talin wore out and headed back to nana's house. We then took Jaedin around Perry to get some extra goods...as if she didn't have enough!

Jaedin ~ Dorthy

Talin ~ Firefighter (although if you ask him, he was also a "worker")

Remingtin ~ Sweet Princess Witch

Halloween at School

Jaedin had a lot of fun at her 1st Kindergarten classroom party of the year. It was an extra fun day because Eric worked from home that day and was able to join her for lunch and then come back to the classroom party & school parade.