School Begins

We attended a wedding this weekend.  We all really enjoyed it.  This is our good friend who went with us.

This is the first time I have been asked to make cookies for a wedding.  I think maybe they had my chocolate chip cookies in mind, but I needed to make 240....so Mexican wedding cookies it became.  They were actually quite popular.  The kids were glad they there were a few left over so we could bring them home :)

I am so thankful for these girls that take Regan in.  The morning of the wedding they took Regan for a walk and made all kinds of great videos.  I'm so glad that she has a handful of young ladies that she can look up to and who provide a good example for her.

This little one was in awe over the ENTIRE wedding!  You would think that we were attending the wedding of Prince William and Princess Kate! She has been in planning mode ever since (and practicing...since she was asked to be a flower girl in a few weeks at another friend's wedding). 

Here is the bride throwing her flowers.  I have been to a couple weddings now and so far none have been the same.  This one seemed to be a little more "western" than others I have been to.

These two got to take another belt test!

So excited to have yellow and green belt kids :)  Katherine and Lauren will start taking in a few weeks.  They have all decided that it looks fun.

WE found a little pizza restaurant that just opened up.  We decided to try it out after the kids' had their taekwondo performance.  It was pretty good....just a little on the fancy side for pizza ;)

Here is the newly finished school room/ art room/ sewing room/ reading room/ whatever it needs to be room.  I really like it.  It has been a great place for the kids to do schoolwork and to read in the bean bag.  Sometimes I hear Lauren singing her ABC's and I find her in the bean bag looking at the alphabet near the ceiling.  I'm glad everyone can use it!

Here's our most recent family picture :)  It was a little hard to get one with everyone's eyes open and smiling because the sun was a little bright at the time.

Since school started on Monday and Lauren is the only one that is in local schools this year, I took her out for a Mommy/Daughter date.  She really wanted to have her nails done, so that's what we did.

She also finally spent her birthday money from March!  She has been saving her "special American monies" for "something special"  She just had not found the right thing.  Well, it appears that this stuffed kitty was the "special thing" because she finally spent her money :)

After getting our nails done we had lunch.  It was her choice...and yes, this girl is going to pick jaozi over McDonald's any day of the week.

And here it is!  The first day of school!  They can officially say they are 5th grade, 4th grade, 1st grade, and Kindergarten.  They sure have grown a lot over the summer!  We are looking forward to another great year of school.