competition season is on

Competing always made me nervous- 

but camiron seems to love it.

She gets excited to get ready, so excited for her leotard, and loves doing her routines

She is so dang cute.  oh and she loves loves loves the medals.  

here are a few pics from her first 3 meets

cam and vivian

cam and sierra

with jillian and cloe

Sanford Gymnastics Academy

Camiron has been bumped up to team level 3 this year.

She loves it.  We love that she loves it.  It is exhausting for us. 

She loves that she is the youngest- and only 5 year old.  :)  It seems to be 

a badge of honor for her.  

she is at the gym 2-3 days a week for 3 1/2 hours each lesson. 

phew.  it is 3 1/2 hours that I spend trying to keep emory off the floor.  

if the gym wasn't 35 min away we could leave her- but it is just too far.  

good thing she loves it.  Did i mention she loves it?  

both classes of level 3's.

this little rugrat has the run of the house while the big kids are at school.

and she loves it.  sort of.  

she misses them and gets so excited to get them at the end of the day

but she loves a little extra attention at the end of the day.

first day of school

B's first day of 2nd grade went great.  he was stoked about his teacher

He jumped for joy when he found out Mrs. Freddricks was going to be his teacher.

I jumped for joy because she is amazing... and last years teacher of the year.  

She does a great job of challenging each student and keeping them on the move.

she loves to do projects in class so they have hands on learning, but not too much homework.

I love it.... he loves it.

cam had her "assessment" on the first day of school.

so she didn't get to go to school for the first 5 days while they decided on kindergarten placements.

she was super bumbed.... 

these are cam's first real day :)

she was placed with Ms. Bruner and loves kindergarten.

I walked her to class, she hugged me and said goodbye.  She jumped right into 

kindergarten like a pro and hasn't looked back.  We are so proud of her

and I had to giggle the other day when she came home and said she doesn't 

really need to go to kindergarten because she already knows everything they are teaching her.   

a new nc ride

when we got back from utah little emory finally got to bump up a seat size...

everyone was very excited about it. 

turns out emory turned into a little turd once she could see me. 

she wants something or to hand me something at all times.  

She spends every drive saying "MOM... MOM... MOM... MOM" 

its nonstop the whole drive.  good thing she is so cute, because it is a half hour everywhere we 

go and it sure makes it a long drive! 

While troy was backpacking i was able to get together with some of my dearest friends 

andy roo- chad and amy, hady and katy and mark and krista.  Somehow we managed to not take any pictures at all.  It makes me sad!  

but roo wanted to catch troy  since he didn't get to come- so I managed to catch one quick shot :) 

andy roo we love you and always happy to see you.

the mates

We are so grateful to the nuggents who hosted another get together

for us so we had a chance to see the rugby mates.  

It is hard to catch everyone while we are in town so when we can get a whole get together it is great and so much fun!

these boys are still little kids at heart.  when they get together and the stories get going...

its pretty great.  

the huishes, dickmans, nuggent, andersons, and meeces.