Young Party of Four

This weekend is typically when we consider it to be the "unofficial" start of summer. Something about Memorial Day just makes us think of summer. First and foremost though we remember those brave people that fought for our freedom and paid the ultimate sacrifice doing so. I spent some time explaining Memorial Day to Kenzie a couple of weeks back when I put our American flag inspired wreath on the door. We want the kids to know that this weekend isn't technically about cookouts and pool time despite the fact that we spend time doing that because we have a 3 day weekend. It's about those men and women that didn't come home but went to fight for us knowing that anyway. Thank you to them and prayers for their family and friends that have an empty chair at dinner or a missing person in a family photo. This weekend was super busy for us. We started bright and early on Friday. Friday was Kenzie's last day of school which you can read about HERE if you are inte...

Bear with me... this post is not only about Kenzie's final day at school but all the crazy things (they are just crazy to me because I can't believe that little 7 lbs 6 oz baby is about to be in kindergarten) leading up to it that are preparing her for being a kindergartener so it is a bit long. Aaaaannnnndddd... That's it. We have reached the end of an era for Kenzie. At least the end of a stage of sorts. We have officially left behind the preschool stage and are getting ready to embark on the "school age" section of her life. These last few weeks have been... emotional. About three weeks ago we took our happy selves over to the elementary school and attended the kindergarten orientation for our baby girl. Who isn't actually much of a "baby" anymore despite my protests. We were able to take a tour of the school and see some of the kindergarten classrooms, the specials classrooms, cafeteria, clinic, and media center. The kids were all given t...