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Today was Crystal's first day of First grade. We had blueberry pancakes for breakfast. I was really excited this morning because we were all up, fed and dressed and even to school early, and the best part was that it was very stress less. We just picked up on our routine from last year, with the exception of James is an addition to the morning routine that we have some kinks to work on. Thanks to my great husband for the help with James this morning. It was raining so Crystal had inside recess. It was a little sad for me seeing her walk into the school, but she was so excited and ready to start school. She is much more ready to grow up then I am to let her grow up. Clayton was upset because he didn't get to go to school today. He has to wait two more weeks before he heads off to pre-school. They are all growing so fast. James will be 4 months old the end of the week and he has been rolling over for about two weeks. Joe and I are just busy keeping things going and working on the garage. We now have two sides of the garage completely done and the third is about 90% done. I can't wait until we are all done and start parking in it.

Hey all, it has been a while. Here is an update on the garage. After much delay we have the roof done, we only had to order additional shingles 3 times. the walls are all complete, the doors and windows are all in. Now all we need is the siding then the exterior will be finished. Then we have to wait for more money to insulate and sheet rock the inside, we already have some wire and Iknow a good electrician that work for cheap, for me anyway ;) so we can be working on that during the winter. I can't wait to park in there, just imagine not having to scape the hundreds of windows on the suburban. Thanks to all the friends and family who have come and helped on our project this summer.

Crystal is preparing for 1st grade, she starts in two weeks.
Clayton is so excited to be getting ready for pre-school he starts the 10th of September.
James is just growing and getting cuter by the day. He is now 25.5 inches long and even.
Joe is on his last week of his summer hours and will be grateful to be having work start at 8 next week.
I am busy keeping things together and running, getting the kids to their activities, feeding the helpers on the garage, taking care of all the sick kids we have had at our house this week.

Busy as ever and hoping that school starting and the garage wrapping up will help slow things down a little.

We have been to multiple reunion this summer, and as much as we loved seeing everyone we are grateful to be home and on a some what normal routine. We love you and appreciate all our friends and family.