A Season of Change

This fall marks a season of great change for our family! All three of my children are embarking on new adventures as they each start new chapters in their lives. I do not want to forget this time in our lives together so before everybody headed out, we had a little family photo session that I wanted to share.

My soon to be college girl... spreading her wings and learning to fly!!


Grant starting an exciting new chapter in his life and starting his sophomore year in high school. He is making some incredible and mature decisions in his life and I am very proud of how hard this young man has worked to get himself where he is now.


She likes to think her mom knows nothing... and I may be lacking in some brain cells that have slowly been lost to all the challenges these children have blessed me with... but I am so excited for this new chapter in our life as mother and daughter... becoming less the person who tells her what to do with her life and more the confidant who supports her in her decisions as a young adult.

One baby girl is already lamenting the fact that Sissy is going away and will not be home every day to kiss goodnight. How blessed are they to be sisters??


I love my family... just the four of us...

So, without any more words... here are my three greatest blessings in my life.

Kindergarten, Here I Come!

I can hardly believe it... my baby girl is going to KINDERGARTEN! She was SOOOO excited for her first day of school and can hardly wait for all the fun!

Here she is with her backpack that is nearly as big as she is on her first morning of school.


Her school mascot is the Dolphin!!


And, even though they are in different classes, her BFF who she has been in daycare with since they were tiny babies, are at the same school together! See how tiny my girl is?


We celebrated the first day of school with a trip to Build A Bear. She was so excited to make her pink bear and named her "Sissy Bear" so she can hug her at night whenever she misses her real Sissy.



And, in case you were wondering... the Boo Hoo Breakfast was well attended. There were a few tears shed, but amazingly, not me this morning. I cried my fair share when I delivered my oldest baby off at college and then turned the car around and drove back home without her. But, I loved the poem they gave out with the little packet of kleenex.