Summer Wrap-Up!

Summer is officially winding down here, so I wanted to make sure I got the rest of our summer pics up on the blog before I was inundated with back-to-school pics!

 {Hadley trying on Shelby's old Cinderella costume for size}

 

{hiking at Mount Charleston} 

{post hiking on Mount Charleston} 

{our friends gave us an insane number of peaches from their peach tree, so Hadley helped us make some peach salsa!} 

{showing off new backpacks stuffed with school supplies for the backpack drive at church}

 {thinking he's big stuff at the children's museum!}

 

{Doing big work!! AKA pushing the wheelbarrow of coal at the museum}

{look at that sweet baby in shoes!} 

 {then he decided our stroller needed pushing, too!}

 {water exhibit at the children's museum}

 

{three clean babies in dinosaur jammies!} 

{turned around for one second & found him like this!} 

The next three pictures are some of my absolute faves! The library is seriously one of our family's favorite places & one of our most frequent destinations. One kiddo is reading, one is puzzling, and one is playing!

 

{We met some friends at the splash pad one afternoon, and these three had so much fun playing in the sand together! It's so weird to see Brady in the mix with the big kids now!} 

{Target fun} 

{Brady is really into pushing the shopping cart around lately, but the real reason I included this pic is b/c when I saw it all I could think was that it was a spitting image of Derek's baby pictures!}

 



And the surest sign that summer is nearing an end--meeting the girls' new teachers! Our school hosted a little "Meet and Greet" event on Friday afternoon, and we're all even more excited for school to begin now! Shelby's first grade teacher is the same teacher that she went to for her reading group last year in Kindergarten, so she over the moon to be in her class! Her teacher actually team teaches with another teacher, so I think it will be fun a new experience for Shelby! Their classroom is nothing short of amazing! And coming from a former teacher, I can't even begin to imagine how much time & effort went into it! They actually had to switch classrooms over the summer, so they were starting from scratch--I seriously couldn't believe the transformation! It was waaaaay too crazy to get many pictures on Friday, but hopefully I'll get some on the first day when Daddy will be with us & I'll have more hands, ha! And we are so excited that Hadley will be attending Pre-K at the same school as Shelby this year! I absolutely adore Hadley's lead teacher! Right now, there are only 12 or 13 kids on the roster for her class with 2 teachers + 2 aides!!

{Hadley's classroom}

{Hadley's classroom}

 



{Shelby's classroom}

 



{Shelby's with her new first grade teacher!}

 

 

Summer 2017 was good to us, but we're ready for a new school year!!