Ready For School

We had one last girls' summer fling before school started. We used our last freebie from the summer reading and went to lunch at Applebees. We had fun talking about school and getting excited about the fact that Natalie had Mrs. "B" for her first grade teacher. (Sarah's wonderful teacher last year.) And Sarah had Mrs. E., whom she was hoping for.

We also had a great time talking about our upcoming trip to Disneyland!!

Mr. Ed* and I booked a trip to Disneyland just a couple days earlier after a LOOOONG, stressful few months of work for him. We all needed some long overdue family time. Notice that not a lot of the pictures or stories include our favorite man of the house for the last few months. I don't know who was more excited about the trip, the adults in our house or the kids. (o:

Anyway, Disneyland was a big topic on this afternoon!

Sitting in front of Applebee's - it was a beautiful day. We were sad to see our summer of carefree-ness coming to a close. Time for early mornings and homework again!
We went on a little walk around Jackson Bottom Wetlands to enjoy the sun a little longer.

This was our project on Labor Day. Out here, Labor Day is always the day before the first day of school. We found this cool project in the Family Fun magazine and thought it would be fun for the girls to have for homework time. The girls had fun picking out their paper and stickers to decorate their cubbies. We found all sorts of fun things to add to them.

Natalie's cubby.

Sarah's cubby.

Angela's cubby.