The Apple Junkies Don't Fall Far from the Tree

The highly anticipated opening of the Apple store in WLR was today! Though we did not camp out or fight the early morning crowds to get a free T-shirt, we did make it a family event this evening. Ashley made a friend in this sales guy who was impressed with her mad iPhone skills. We all enjoyed playing with the gadgets and taking funny PhotoBooth pictures. Apple is definitely doing their part to stimulate the local economy! Now if we can just get Macy's...









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Wet and Wild Weekend

What's better than having your own pool? Having friends with pools! Well, maybe it's not better, but it's lots of fun and much less work. We were invited over for swimming and dinner with friends on both Friday and Saturday nights. (Thanks again!) No pics from Friday night at the Collins' house, but here are two from Saturday night at the Shroyer's: first the boys and then the little sisters.

First Day of School!

6:00am came early today...way too early! While I've not had as much time off as everyone else in my household this summer, at least I've only been responsible for getting myself ready and out the door on time in the mornings. Not so today! Since the tardy bell rings at 7:40am, we all had to rise and shine. (Well, at least "rise" - not a whole lot of "shine" going on that early!)

My 1/2 grown little man started 3rd grade today. He has a teacher who is new to the school and a just couple of friends in his class. He seems excited, and we're hoping for a good year. He didn't really want us to walk him to class today, but I insisted.

Ashley started Kindergarten today! Since she has already been through Pre-K at the same school, starting "real" school was far less traumatic on Jeff and me that when Nathan started Kindergarten. Here she is with her adorable teacher both wearing her new favorite color - purple! Ashley's best school friend, Brooke, is sadly not in her class this year, but she does have several of her other Pre-K friends and lots of Fellowship kids in with her.

Two Rivers Park

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So Long Summer!

Trying to pack as much fun into our summer as possible, we brought 4 extra boys home with us for a sleepover after "Meet Your Teacher Night" on Thursday. Jeff did the grocery shopping beforehand so the menu consisted of healthy treats such as Bagel Bites, tater tots, and mini corndogs. There were lots of light saber battles and, thankfully, no injuries!

On Saturday night, Ashley had a friend over for their own sleepover. Good times! Now it's time to get the house cleaned, the laundry finished, and get back into the school day routine. I'm worn out just thinking about it...

The luckiest kid..

So yesterday me and J were shopping at wal-Mart and he found a Disney gift card laying there. It said it had $200 on it. I told him it was probably an empty card that someone was keeping for a souvenir and not to get his hopes up.

So when we got online to check the balance we couldn't believe that it actually had $200 on it!!!!!! We called wal-mart to see if anybody had reported it lost and they hadn't. I told the manager that if no one called by the end of the day I was going to let J keep it. No one ever called so they got to go on a shopping spree!!! They had so much fun!!








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Phineas and Ferb Party

The kids had kind of been off of their Phineas and Ferb obsession throughout the school year, but this summer, it's been full blown P&F mania! Last night was the premier of the "Phineas and Ferb The Movie" so we had our own little watch party. The menu included P&F Sandwiches from a recipe that I found here, Platypus Punch, and a huge Perry the Platypus dessert. (It's amazing what you can do with some blue food coloring, a really sharp knife, and a touch of neurosis!)

J's first tattoo

Don't worry, it's Henna!!



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Micah lost his first tooth finally!!

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Lily got feathers!!

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Finally got my meatballs!!!

Any guesses where I am? I've waited 5 years for these meatballs. They were good but the mashed potatoes were amazing!!



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Heat Advisory

I have tried not to complain too much about the triple digit temps, but when the color-coded weather map goes beyond orange/red to pink/white you know it's REALLY hot!!!

UPDATE: It actually reached 114 degrees on Wednesday in Little Rock!!! That's an all-time record high!!!

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South Carolina with Marco

So J is in S. Carolina with his friend Marco for eight days!!! It's his first big trip without his family. So far so good, but it's only day 3.....






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