Sunday, August 16, 2009

Goodbye to Summer

Well summer is over as tomorrow is my first day back to work. Although I love my job and my precious kiddos at school I will miss my summer vacation. Since my last blog a very exciting thing has happened....we have been waiting 9 months on our new baby girl niece and she finally came...welcome to the world, Avery LizBeth! She is absolutely adorable and we all love her very much. Emma is especially excited because now she has a girl to play with.

Besides our beach vacation we didn't do much other than go swimming, playing outside, camping and shopping. A couple of weekends ago we stayed in Dallas. Eric played in a softball tournament so this was a great opportunity for us to get in some back to school clothes shopping for myself and Emma. Emma really thought she was on another vacation. Anytime we stay in a hotel she thinks that is a vacation and loves to order room service and swim. Eric bought a new jeep wrangler so we have had some fun driving that around town.

Now it is time to get back in a scheduled routine and get to bed early and wake up early...yuck! This year Emma starts kindergarten and is officially a big girl! I don't know who is going to be crying more come Monday morning, me or Eric. I do think Eric. These next 2 years will be okay for me because she will be in the same building as me but when she goes off to 2nd grade she will be at a different campus...a little bittersweet then. I keep telling myself that I will be just fine because I will see her and be with her during the day, but it will really take some getting used to her actually being in school. Don't fret I will post some pics of her first day of school next week. That is all for now but will let you all know how next week goes for all of us!!