BACK TO SCHOOL

Samnatha started 2nd grade and Connor started Kindergarten. I can't believe that they are both in school. WOW. Samantha was so excitted to start school. She loves her teacher and is so happy she can FINALLY wear her new school clothes. Connor LOVES kindergarten. After the first day he told me that it was EXCELLENT. Connor's kindergarten is an extended day so he goes from 9 am untill 2 pm and Samantha goes from 9am untill 3:30pm. So it is just me and Zach at home. I am so glad that they love school !!
Connor sitting at his desk the first day. Mom's and Dad's go to come to school the first day.
This is what Connor did on the first day. It is "the kissing hand". There is this cute book about a raccoon that goes to school for the first time and the mom kisses his hand and draws a heart and tells him that when ever he gets scared to look at his hand and he will know that his mommy loves him. What was so cute about this was that Samantha knew this story and the night before she drew a heart on Connors hand and had me kiss it, she then told him that if he got scared he could look at his hand and remember mommy loves him. How cute is that.

Lake Arrowhead

Zach likes to put everything on his head when he is eating. So he now has to have a bath after every meal in the sink. In this picture he has beans all over him. What a goof ball.

We went up to Lake Arrowhead this past weekend. We lived in lake arrowhead when I was pregnant with Samantha in 2000. This is where we bought our first home. It was fun to go back and show Samantha her first home. (it has not been taken care of at all). We also stopped by and saw some of our old good friends. They were totally shocked to see us but is was so fun to catch up.

3rd Visitors

Uncle Jon and Auntie Bree came out to visit along with Uncle Peter, Auntie katie and cousin Riley. We had so much fun. We went to Seaworld, the beach, and just hung out. Samantha loves to hang out with her two Aunts she adores them. Sam is the only girl cousin on the Thorpe side so she loves it that katie and Bree have joined the family. Zach and Riley had a lot of fun together. Thanks for coming out and playing with us. We can't wait until you come back in the fall.

2nd Visitors

Grandma and Grandpa Thorpe came out to Visit along with Aunt Alisa and cousin Ray. We had so much fun. We went to Disneyland, the beach, and to the pool. Connor and Ray are best buds and loved being able to see each other again. We are so glad that you guys came out to visit.

Our first Visitors

We were so excited to have our first visitors here in California. Ty's brother Dave and his wife Darleen and their Daughter Emily came out to visit. We had so much fun going swimming with them and playing with them at the movie in the park. They live in Northern California so we should be able to see a lot more of them now.

Fourth of July

Well I hope you all had a great Fourth of July. We went to the city firework show. Okay so I posted three post today so scroll down and see them all. We have been with out internet for the past few weeks so I had to catch up.

THE BIG MOVE

Well we made it! It was a long drive but the kids did GREAT!! Ty drove the Uhaul and towed his truck while I drove my Durango with the three kids. We stopped in Mesquite for the night so it wasn't that bad. What was bad was the amount of money we spent on gas!! HE HE I think the Uhaul got like 9 miles to the gallon. Oh well we made it safe and are all moved in now. It was so nice to have the movers unpack everything that was worth every penny. I think the best part of moving is that you throw away so much!! As you know about 75% of everything we owned had been in storage for a year while we were in that rental so when I unpacked it I felt like we didn't need any of it. I was so used to living with just the necessary items that I didn't want all of that crap!! The kids loved getting all of their toys back.