Only 17 more days until...

...our Disney cruise!!  Ben and Anna are so excited, even though they only have an inkling of how much fun a cruise with Mickey and Minnie mouse and all the friends will be! We made this fun countdown calendar yesterday, and will take a link off the chain every day until the big day gets here.

Birthday Girl

Anna had a BIG time celebrating her 4th birthday!  First we had a "Fireman Sam" party for her at our house.   

She wore her fire fighter boots & shirt, and mommy made her a fire truck cake, just like from her favorite show!

A big surprise for her that day was a fire truck bouncy slide that we rented for the party...it was a huge hit, of course.  

The kids played games, ate cake, and had a ball.  

On her actual birthday, she had a great day at school.  

Minion cupcakes for the class, and Daddy came, too.

Then it was off to Chuck E Cheese for a pizza dinner and fun games with the family.

Whew!  What a fun day for our sweet girl!

Birthday Boy

Just a little belated...but I wanted to share. In keeping with Ben's obsession with garbage trucks lately, he had a garbage truck-themed party at our local Hand's On Museum.  We had a few party games, dug into Ben's garbage truck cake and then everybody had a ball running around the museum playing. Perfect party!!

Here is Anna, pinning the garbage bag on the trash truck!

Ben and his best buddy Jaxon.

Later at home on the actual day, we celebrated more!  A fun trip to the library for Touch a Truck Day, and then dinner with tech while family where they serve his favorite dessert - a cookie in a skillet with ice cream...yum!

Late Summer Project

Farmer Ben and Farmer Anna have been working hard!  Daddy made a planter box out of some old shelving we had, and we planted carrot and spinach seeds in it. 

I sure hope they grow because these kids are excited!!

Maybe growing their own will be enough motivation to eat spinach!!

First Day of School 2015

Big day for these sweet little ones!  Ben's first day of Kindergarten at his new school, Towne Acres, was today.   Anna is at Central Baptist Preschool again with her new teacher Mrs. Linda.

Ben was such a big boy today - I was WAY more nervous than him!  

First we went to the cafeteria and waited for all the kindergartners that were assigned to come to school today.

(He's giving me "hug".)

Then we went to one of the kindergarten teachers classroom where we stayed for about 10 minutes. Ben ran right over and started playing with the toys, Legos, and made a friend playing with an airplane.

Then it was time to go!  He said he had a really fun first day… Crafts, reading, and playing on the playground. I'm so proud of him, and I know he's going to have a great kindergarten year!

After that I took Anna to school and you'd never know it was the first day. She ran around like it was old hat. I'm so proud of my sweet girl, too!

The Last Week of Summer Vacation

As summer is coming to an end. We've been busy having fun!  It rained yesterday and the first thing they wanted to do was put their bathing suits on and rather bikes in the rain. It wasn't thundering, so they did!

Earlier this week we had a fun visit to Gastonia. It was very excited about getting to take out the trash, of course!

We went to the Schiele museum and saw a fun exhibit on Tony's ice cream shop, and an outer space exhibit, too.

They always love looking at all the animals, and here it was all fun and games until Ben tried to take his head out of the alligator's mouth. He actually did end up crying a little bit when a tooth scratched him.

These kids are pooped!

T-ball Fun

Ben and Anna have been having so much fun playing t-ball. Uncle Tom is their coach, making it even better!!  They even won their first game last night. Here they are, ready to play ball!