Wednesday, August 20, 2008

1st Bus Ride & Birthday!!!


Ashton turned 5 officially today!!!

Ashton rode the bus for his second day of school!!!! Yes, I cried all the way to work!

Monday, August 18, 2008

First Day of School!!!


There's "Squinty" on his first day of school with his teacher Ms. Futch!!! He had a great first day, but he gets the next two off thanks to TS/Hurricane Fay!!!! Thursday will be the bus!!!!
(I would have seen that squint, that is Daddy's photography!!! Mommy had to be unloading her Pre-Kers this morning!)

Sunday, August 17, 2008

We miss you Tsugumi!!!



Our final day with Tsugu!!! Church, grocery store, relax at home and Flying Tigers baseball game!!!! An end to whirlwind ten days! We enjoyed every minute of her and we already miss her!!! Thanks for staying with us and come back anytime!!!


Saturday, August 16, 2008

Fort DeSoto Beach






Ashton's 5th B-Day Party!!!


Ashton celebrates his 5th birthdays, which is Wednesday with friends and family!



Rock-Paper-Scissors & Oragami



Mayor Ochi from Imabari Japan came to visiit Lakeland. Ashton had the chance to play "rock, paper, scissor" with him for a bike! He also watched some Japenese students make oragami animals out of towels! What a fun experience!


Tsugumi, is our student and she is pictured with Lakeland Mayor, Buddy Fletcher!

Tuesday, August 05, 2008

We have not dropped off the face of the Earth...

I am just back in the working world a week early!!!

I have a new position with the school board as a Resource Teacher for Headstart. I will be going between two schools and have 7 classes of 18 students to work with and 2 teachers in each class of 3 & 4 year olds!!! I am so excited to be doing something new and working with the little ones to prepare them for Kindergarten!!!

Ashton had Five Day of Fun Sports Camp at church that he had a blast at!!! He starts Kindergarten in less than two week and will be 5 in two weeks!!!!

Serioulsy, someone pleace tell me where the last five years have gone?!?!? I cannot believe that I am the mom of a kindergartner!!!