I seriously feel like this day has been anticipated for the last two years. It’s been a long time coming and it went well for everyone!

Lindsay has been really excited to go ever since she met her teacher and saw her classroom last week. Her teacher’s name is Mrs. Butterfield. I mean, honestly, doesn’t that sound like a name a teacher would have in a little kids book? Too cute. She’s been teaching for 8 years and has a child Lindsay’s age, which I take a lot of comfort in because she really knows how 5 year olds are.

Lindsay set her outfit out on the floor the night before and when I got up this morning she was already dressed and ready for breakfast. We had french toast and I made her take her cute clothes off because that would have really ruined our morning if she spilled syrup on her new clothes, and she happily took them off. She’s good like that. We took lots and lots of pictures of the morning.

We got there like 20 minutes early so that we could take some pictures in front of the school and whatnot, which took roughly 4 minutes, so then they had 15 minutes to play on the playground before school, which was awesome. That’s when we learned that Logan could do the monkey bars. I didn’t know that, did you?? He’s constantly surprising me.

Lindsay after getting ready. She’s wearing the cutest skirt EVER. Seriously.

Walking to get in the car

In the car, ready to go.

In front of the school

Sitting on the school sign.

A cute girl and her little brother who is going to miss her while she’s at school.


Playing on the playground.


Thank goodness for the little shorts under skirts!


Giving Logan a hug. He dropped from the monkey bars and was sad that Jeffy didn’t catch him. Oh dear.

Lining up. Seriously, so many pictures.

Seeing someone from her soccer team in the other teacher’s line.

My new favorite picture. For many reasons.

Lindsay going in, with Mrs. Butterfield saying hello.

Sitting in her seat.

When we went to pick her up, I envisioned getting a great picture of her walking out of class with a huge smile on her face, and jumping with joy. This is what I got…

She looks so confused and unsure about things right at that moment. I was like, Hey! How was it? And she answered with a calm little, It was fun. Then I had to remember who I was talking to. Oh, right, this is Lindsay. My child who can get so easily distracted. What did I expect, she walked out of her classroom onto the playground where the older kids were having recess. She REALLY wanted to go play and really didn’t want to tell me anything. And she didn’t tell me anything about it until we got home. She’s funny that way. But she had a blast and actually wished that she had more homework to do. She’s funny that way, too. She can’t wait to go again!

I’m so proud of this little girl and of everything she’s accomplished in her almost 6 years. She’s amazing and we love her so much!

I will never understand why watching cars crash into each other is so fun, but by golly it is! We went to our first Demolition Derby a couple of weeks ago and we had a lot of fun. We knew it wouldn’t be as loud as the Monster trucks, but it was still loud enough for Lindsay to be screaming hysterically that she wants to go home. Poor thing. I think we’ll just leave her home next time. Logan enjoyed every minute of it, but I think he enjoyed the tow trucks and the backhoe tractor in between each heat just a little bit more than the cars crashing. And once we got some ear plugs in Lindsay’s ears AND either Jeff or I had our hands covering her ears, she seemed to enjoy it just fine. In fact, she didn’t want to leave when it was time to go. She’s such a girl. We left after 2 hours of crashing goodness and the thing still went on for another 2 hours! Crazy! The kids never would have lasted that long! It was a lot of fun though, especially spending time with Laney and Kelly. Thanks for the invite guys!

Us before the hysterical screaming began.

Logan’s favorite car because it looked like Lightning McQueen.

A cute girl and her awesome daddy.

Just fun!

The destruction.



Logan could not stop watching the tow trucks and tractors.