Back to School 2017

 Tuesday Sept 5th arrived and it was time to head back to school. This year I had a FOURTH Grader and a KINDERGARTEN! How is that possible?

 Lets see how the backpacks do this year. I scored one with Max's name on it for him this year.

 This little boy might not have his daddy to take him to school but he was all daddy.. Carhatt shirt and jeans. The camo boots are all his idea, but he follows the idea of quite a few of his favorite farmers who wear boots.

 This girl is getting so big.  She was so excite to head off to school

 We did stop for donuts and ate them in my classroom before the bell rang.

 First day of school classroom pictures

 We did post school ice cream. Growing up my mom would always bake a special dessert. It's not possible for me to do that, so we decided ice cream at Wedl's was our tradition :)

 Then this happened! 

A peek into kindergarten. A little rest time. I miss this little guy but so happy that i can see both him and his sister through out the day.

Catholic Schools week

Catholic schools week came and went. it was so busy and crazy that it was hard to remember everything that happened. Bella was sick so naturally she missed most of it. I juggled her being sick with working. Of course classes were all different and sickness was running around school, so it was some fun time. LOL

Roller skating on friday

The staff team for the volleyball team... We won!

Max didn't last long as it was too loud for him

POMS preformed

We went to a friends birthday party and got to ride in a fire truck

Aunt Diane came to see Bella perform . we also got to have lunch with her.

Bella did a reading at Sunday Mass

PJ day at school. The boys were having fun

an hour later she would be burning up with a fever. :(

My poor sick little girl

Getting ready for farmer day.. just like daddy

Doesn't he look just like his daddy :)

Just a random cute picture.. Carmel not sure what to make of the chickens

Thursday the fever broke and she finally started to act like Bella again. she was still stuck in her room, so lucky she had gotten a craft kit in the mail that day. 

Christmas Concert

So this year for the christmas concert, SJB performed Polar Express. The Pre-K's did there own thing. We got front row seats this year and it was so nice, until Max had to use the potty. lol

Life happening

 I don't want to forget life when we first moved into the new house. But it's been so busy between, work, school, unpacking and the holidays that it all seemed to flow into one long day.

I broke down and bought a fake tree this year. it was too much stress to figure out how i was goin to cut down a tree and get it home in my car. I'm not very confident with the trailer and struggle with trying to find someone to help me. So we pulled in to menards and picked out a fake tree. Lucky for me it was on sale and rebate. :) I will say its been a lot easier to take care of and it came lit. 

we slowlly put on the oranments since i couldn't locate them all right away. 

the start of decorating for xmas :)

 

So the 2nd night we slept in the new house, Max slept in his new tractor bed. It probably helped that St. Nick was coming. 

 So we managed to dig out enough christmas decorations for our stockings and stocking holders. St. Nick was able to come and bring the kids new John Deere jammies and a movie.

The 3rd graders and 7th graders decorated cookies to be handed out to those who could use a little extra holiday cheer. Here's my silly girl! 

Gingerbread duck!

The next weekend before the huge snow fall, we went to make cookies at my sister's house. This was about the only time my kids did cookies. 

Gingerbread house

Then we went to see Drew in Elf Jr:the musical. he played Buddy the elf's brother. 

matching carhartt camo hoodies! 

Snow fun!

One of hte last picutres i have of Josh was in his skidsteer moving snow. The man was pretty miserable, but he wanted to move snow, so we let him. This was the first real big snow. I cleared out the driveway once and had a guy come plow it the 2nd time. We got like 8 or 9 inches of snow in 24 hours! 

We walked out to the mail box to mail letters.. I pulled Max in the sled. It was tiring! 

We then made some more hay stack cookies since keeping xmas cookies until xmas is hard

The snow came! It looked so pretty..until it froze and then craziness happened. Trying to haul buckets of water from my house to the cows was hard and long. Thankfully after a day i got it all working again. I then had to get a plumber to fix the leak the pipes created when it froze. Ugh! but proud to say everything is working now and still working.. 

So our one cat has had some troubles adjusting to the new house. This meant she took out the tree skirt to do her business and got the presents that the kids bought. So we had to have xmas a little early. Bella got Max a thomas dvd, Max got bella a new horse and i got an angel nightlight. 

Bella rehearsing for the xmas program at school. I do like the perk of being able to see her during the day

We got more snow! and out of school and hour early

The girls in class... i was subbing for an hour and we were playing game

Fresh water means happy cows

Max and lily

This girl and her duck

Legos are a big hit again. its been so nice to get out old toys and have room to play with them

Aunt Diane came to visit and see the new house. She also brought with wonderful presents. The kids were so excited! it was so nice to be able to catch up with her too, since i missed that at Max's birthday

Aunt Diane is always known to find the fun little random toys... even ones that just don't work are fun

Our Advent wreath...we made it two years ago with josh ;)

He wanted his monster truck and slept with his monster truck!

Max rehersing. I got to sub in his class too. It was fun to see him playing with his classmates and it's always entertaining with the 3 year old class.