First day of school

I'm a bit behind..I know...it's been INSANELY busy.

Here are the pictures from the first day of school

I have a big kindergartner now!

Megan outside her school on the first day. 

 Mom can't believe she has a kindergartner already!

My big 9th grader

She's too cool to take a pic right by the building (not that I blame her!)

So we resorted to just outside the car door

The girls started not only new grades (and therefore new schools), but new in a school district as well as we've moved.  We didn't close on the new house until the 4th day of school, consequently, we had an hour long commute to school the first 4 days of school.  It was not fun for anyone involved.

Bluebonnet Pictures

As promised....here are the pics....

Ladybug on a bluebonnet

My teen beauty

My preschool beauty

My girls

(who didn't really want to take pictures together)

Happy Halloween

The church where Megan's school is had a Trunk or Treat so we took the girls up there last night...

our sweet innocent "witch"

Haha! Fool you...

Our sweet prom princess

who has sass...

And the two together!

SD Trip

The trip to SD went well. The girls did FANTASTIC in the car--which is 100% a miracle considering the day after we got back they couldn't even make it the 5 minute drive home from Rachel's school without a tiff. Ah, back to "real life".

Glow sticks made the last hour of the trip just FLY by. It was the best $1 investment I made for the ENTIRE trip!

Rachel & Ashley had a fashion show for us

More fashions...
And "where was Megan while the "big" girls had the fashion show?" you may be asking.

Well, outside playing football with Uncle Keith & Brady, of course!!!
My little football player girl...

And the fashion show continues...

A cousin picture: Brady, Megan, Rachel, Ashley
We were unable to get ALL the SD cousins together on this trip with the short notice.

Papaw and Grandma drove to come see us at Nana's as well.

The "girls"
Megan, Rachel, Brooklyn & Baby Brea (the newest cousin)

The return trip went well. We did have a HUGE miracle (besides the girls not fighting the entire way home, that is). I ended up with a flat 2 days after we got back. Come to find out I needed all new tires. It was only by God's grace and protection it didn't happen on the trip. I thank and praise God it did not!!!

Shaving Cream fun!

This morning Megan asked if she could play with shaving cream, so we got it out and Rachel decided she wanted to try it out, too. Needless to say, they BOTH made a huge mess...but had tons of fun that lasted about 30 minutes. I don't know why they felt it needed to paint it all over their faces, but thankfully they did NOT get it in their eyes.

A Nana Visit

Nana came for a visit this past week and the girls had TONS of fun! Rachel especially LOVED spending time with Nana.

Rachel & Nana working on bracelets & beads

(Something they did a LOT of)

It happened to be the balloon festival at the local regional airport, so we went out there for a little while. This was keeping the girls busy before the balloons flew in.

Enjoying a game of Candy!and before bedtime

Girls

My girls snuggling & giggling on the couch.

Snuggling in the chair.

The girls have had so much fun together the last few days! They are doing so well together.