End of the first week

Isabella decided to wear her school shirt to school on Friday. Her first pose was her “silly” dance and the second one was the “serious” pose. She really likes her school.

Making Bread

While Isabella is at school, Zach and Mommy have a lot more time to spend together. The other day, they made bread. Zach turned on the mixer at the right time, but he accidentally turned in on way to high and a cloud of flour surrounded him. He was delighted... And the bread turned out great.

Having fun with the kids

The last week was the first week of Kindergarten for Isabella. She had a great time, and we had a great time getting to spend time with Zach too and with both of them after school was out. The first day of school, Isabella got to choose where to go out to eat, so she chose Sonic. They both got a "it's a special day" mini-sunday after the meal. Zach had not been feeling real well all weekend long, but he was happy to get the ice cream, as you can see.

Today after school was out, the kids played up in the playroom together. When I heard lots of laughing, I went up to see what they were doing. I came around the corner and saw Zach like this...

After I took his picture, he wanted to see so he pulled his hat up. I snapped another one. He can be such a little cutie.

Isabella was going for the movie star look I think.

Later Zach let Indy try the full body hat look, but she was not as in to it. She actually did put up with it for quite a while though because she is just that good of a dog.

Here Zach was trying the poobah look... or the egyptian king look. I'm not sure. From the top he looked like he had a big flower on his head.

Indy was too cool for all of us and refused to sign autographs. She was, however, ready for her closeup.

First Day of Kindergarten

Ready to go.
Sporting her backpack she got from her Grammie.

A hug and prayers before leaving.
Walking to school.

In her own words...

Outside of class.

Sitting at her desk with her new classmates. There was only one child really crying, but lots of parents. :-) Liza and Zach stayed for "Tea and Tissues" so she could meet some other parents. I hope Isabella has a great day! I can't believe she is already in school. I remember when she was born, people would say, "It goes by so fast." I didn't believe them because the first few months crawled by... but now, poof, she's in school. I guess it's true (from 6 months on.)

Tennis photos

Today Nancy took Isabella to a kid's tennis clinic. She has said she would like to learn and Nancy plays, so Nancy decided to take Isabella. In the pictures, Isabella is wearing Nancy's sunglasses because it was "too bright." I thought I would post the photos and email the Nancy sent to us this evening....

Let me know if you guys want a higher res file on any of these. Otherwise I'll hang on to them until she turns pro and sell them to the tabloids. :) Nancy

Carnival Fun

The first night of the conference we had a family carnival. We all had a great time. The kids started out with a bouncy playscape.

Then it was on to the pony ride.

Isabella wanted to try the bungee trampolines. She really wanted to do a back flip but couldn't quite figure out how to do it. She still had a great time jumping really high.

Next they tried the rock wall.

Isabella talked Liza in to riding the bullet with her. I can say that she enjoyed in much more than her mother did. :-)

Church, then Fun at the splash park

This summer in For Collins has been jam packed with classes, conference meetings, and fun too. The kids had a great time in the Kids Care "school" and also doing some other fun things.
We tried 3 different churches while we were here and ended up going twice to Mountain View Community Church. The second time we were there, all the kids came out to sing some of the songs they had learned in Vacation Bible School. Our kids were not in the VBS, but they got to sing for the church anyway. Here is a little video of them doing the song. Isabella is on the far left in a pink dress, and Zach is in his orange Longhorn's outfit on the right side.

We also enjoyed going to the Canyon Vista park where there is the most amazing play scape I've ever seen, a splash pad, and this very cool red spinny thing. Isabella loved it.

Here's Zach on the biggest kid's swing ever.

Here is Hannah, our niece, and the kids playing at the splash pad.

New friends

Isabella and Zach have made new friends while out here this summer. Here are just a couple...

Here is Zach playing "light savers" with the boys, Jackson and Zachory. They had a lot of fun playing starwars and scooters over the last few weeks.

Isabella and Anna Kate coloring with color wonder. They'll miss each other greatly.

Pictures from today's trip to Rocky Mountain National Park

Today we drove up past Estes Park to the Rocky Mountain National Park. We went to meet some friends of ours from Houston who now live in Denver. They made a great dinner for us and we had lots of fun hanging out, talking and taking pictures.

If you click on the photo below, it will take you to a web album with lots of pictures from the day.

Rocky Mountain Nat'l Park

Pony ride

Today after school we dropped by the local supermarket to take a quick pony ride. At Walmart these cost a quarter, but not at the super discount store. No sir. Here it costs one shiny penny. Can't beat that. :-)