September 1st

The first week of school, we had to put together this poster for Charlie's room. When I asked him what he wanted to be when he grows up he said, "A grandma... a giant robot... a monster to cheer you up." Josie points at Grandma on her way to Charlie's room.

August 31st - Trouble

This one is going to be trouble. I can't believe that she can almost reach the water dispenser.

August 24th - Orion Crew Module

After dropping all of the kids off for their first day of school, Ronny headed to the airport for the rest of the week to go to the Michoud Assembly Facility for meetings about the Orion Crew Module Ground Test Article.

August 23rd - First Day of School

Today was the first day of the school year - Jack's first day of kindergarten. It was Josie's first day at preschool and Charlie's first day in a new room at preschool. Ronny and I walked Jack to school and into his new classroom. He did great! When I picked him up in the afternoon, he said, "I LOVED IT!" before I could even ask how his day was.

August 14th - Basketball

Today was Jack's last basketball game. He and Sami had fun, although Jack gets easily distracted during the game. Nana and Papa came to watch. Charlie and Zach had fun playing on iPods and Josie ran around the other gym.

August 13th - End of summer party

Charlie had an end-of-summer party at school today. It was also fairy tale dress up day. I'm not sure which fairy tale has cowboys, but whatever. Grandma and I brought Josie to the party and Charlie took great care of her, feeding her snacks from his plate.

August 8th - Birthday party #2

Today we met up with the Baccus family at Nana and Papa's house for another birthday party. We celebrated all of the August birthdays (including Papa's today and Nana's coming up on Thursday), but concentrated mostly on Ronny since he is hitting a milestone.

The party was a Star Wars theme, complete with goodie bags for the kids and Star Wars pez dispensers for Ronny.

All kids love Dolf and Josie was no exception.

Melanie gave Josie this adorable Texas A&M cheerleader outfit. Cuteness!

Dolf was great at getting some pictures of me this weekend, which is very rare. :)

Jack voted himself the funniest boy in class. Here he is walking around with a trash can on his head. The other kids thought this was HILARIOUS!

August 8th - Glamour girl

August 7th - Party time

We had a big party to celebrate Ronny's 40th birthday. We had 50 guests including 22 kids. We had a great time visiting with friends and neighbors. It was interesting to see that some of our friends knew some of our neighbors.

The girls were very cute - pretending that Ava was a baby and putting her to sleep.

August 7th - Ah, the love

August 6th - Dolf arrives

Surprise! Ronny was happily surprised when Dolf showed up after dinner on his birthday weekend. A bounce house arrived too - all ready for an early test drive before tomorrow's party.

August 5th - Charlie's last basketball session

August 3rd - She likes to move it move it

August 1st - Happy Birthday to me!

Ronny made a great cake for my birthday. The boys helped to decorate it with lots of sprinkles. Jack couldn't help but assist me in blowing out my candles.

My mother seemed somewhat shocked that I was just going to let Josie eat the cake and frosting with her fingers and get all messy. No good mother would let her kids get messy with chocolate frosting! The horror!

Not too bad for 39, although you can't see the wrinkles around my eyes with this shot.