Sister love!
The girls were off to Dead Lake on Friday to have one last hurrah before school starts on Thursday of this week.
Christel came to visit for the weekend and we had a fun time out on the town on Friday night. While at The Toasted Frog we decided to do a pizza tour around downtown. This was our first pizza at The Frog. It was sooo good.
Our second stop was Blackbird Woodfire. I love their Lumberjack pizza there.
By the time we got to Rhombus Guys, we were kind of getting pizza-ed out. There are actually two other really good pizza places downtown that we could have included in the tour, but we could only handle so much. So, we opted for the s'mores pizza at Rhombus which was also really good.
The Friday night rooftop movie was Ferris Bueller's Day Off. Winner! I love that movie!
I missed the actual solar eclipse yesterday, but we celebrated at my office with eclipse cookies!
Though it was nice to get a good start on packing this weekend and we had fun going out to eat a lot, by last night I was really sad missing the girls. It seemed like they were gone such a long time. I know they had fun, though. (Thanks again to Grandpa and Grandma for having them!) Grandpa and Grandma dropped them off at Hope this morning so we finally saw them when we got home after work today. We had a lot of good kisses and squeezes.
Brynn starts school on Thursday of this week, so she made it back home just in time for back to school night tonight. With our move, she will actually be zoned for a different school, closer to the new house, of course. The schools told us she was welcome to start the school year at either school. We even went last week to tour Bennett (the other school), but alas the fear of change won out and she will be starting the school year at Centennial. :-) If she wants to stay at Centennial once we move, we'll need to petition for her to do so. We'll see how it all goes once we move as I will need to drop her off each day then.
She got her school supplies put away in her desk tonight. She was really shy about me taking any pictures....or maybe it was stubbornness.
Checking to see if I'm still stalking her with my camera. Of course I was!
She has a male teacher for the first time, Mr. Johnson. He said he had been teaching at Centennial for 18 years. He seemed very nice and Brynn already said she really likes him. She noticed from the desk name tags a few familiar classmates.
We went to put her paint shirt in her locker and her third grade teacher, Mrs. Smith, saw Brynn and had to come give her a big hug. Brynn had lamented to me several times throughout the summer how she wished she could have Mrs. Smith again this year. I think she'll enjoy being in Mr. Johnson's class though too.
Again with dodging my camera. Stinker.
Mrs. Hoots, the art teacher, put up this neat collage that the kids could paint as they were passing through. Brynn grabbed a brush and added her touch to it. A couple of her friends from Hope noticed her; they were pretty excited to see one another.
They were serving Dippin' Dots outside, so we snagged a bowl. Then we took an extra couple of minutes to snap a pic in front of the school sign. This is the first year I've gotten a pic of her with the sign which now I am kicking myself that I hadn't done before because I think it would have been so neat to see how much she's grown.
Brynn has been into her bracelet bands again this summer.
Brynn is really excited for school to start. I'm glad that she is looking forward to it. More pics to come from the first day!
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