Ella's First Day!

The wait is finally over! What did Chrissy and Eric decide to do with Ella in the Fall? Well, with much stress and thought, we decided to go ahead and put her in Kindergarten! But it's more like a practice Kindergarten, Pre-K that we don't pay for. With most schools around here going full day, we happen to live in the boundaries of a half day kindergarten. Two and half hours, barely! That was what we were going to do for preschool, so this just saves a lot of money. We have already decided that when we move she'll repeat Kindergarten again in the new school so her age will be like the others. We hope because of the changes in environment that she won't mind. So far she has really liked it! First day of school, she walked right in and was good to go. I didn't even get a chance to get choked up! There's a few things that I worry about, but so far she has been doing great! We have a meet the teacher night tomorrow, I'll let you know how that goes!

Chloe has made sure not to be left out of the fun.

Catch up!

Sorry for the lack of post! We have had some news worthy events, I've just been too lazy to tell you about them! Here's a few post to make up for it!

We recently checked off another of our "things to do in NYC before we leave" list and with some friends walked across the Brooklyn Bridge. Well, almost! We made it half way and decided that was good enough and went and got in line at Grimaldi's Pizza instead. Eric was not a big fan of the height mixed with traffic below us and keeping up with four kids. The weather couldn't have been better though and the views were amazing! In the pictures, Ella is posing as the Statue of Liberty, so that will need to be our next family outing. We brought the pizza to a park right on the water and the kids played for hours. It was a perfect day!

Camping Fun!

It was a big weekend for Ella! She has been waiting all summer and finally she got to go on her first camping trip! This weekend was the ward camp out and we decided to just have Eric take Ella up for Friday and then Chloe and I would join in the fun on Saturday. (Chloe would not have had any fun on Saturday without getting her full nights sleep, so her first camping trip will have a wait.) Poor Chloe was very unhappy that Ella was leaving without her though. I tried to make it up to her with a fun night with mom. They had a great time and Ella loved every minute of it. Eric was a ready for a nap by the time I saw them at 9am, but he had a good time too. On Saturday we played on the beach (Chloe's beach skills are much improved since the beginning of summer!), splashed in the lake, and Ella even had her first canoe ride! She looked so tiny sitting in the canoe. She was so brave and even went without us! We thought today would be bad due to the lack of sleep on Friday and busy day on Saturday, but she's been doing just fine! Too bad we don't live near Gaby and Cody, then we could go all the time! (Right, Gaby?)