First Day of School

Today was our first day of school and the boys

had a great time.

 

 

Walker LOVES Kindergarten and Mrs. Tobie.

He said he was ready to go back tomorrow.

 Will woke up about 4:30 am and was ready to go. 
When I picked him up he said "Mrs. Renee is awesome!" 

Open House

I can't believe school starts tomorrow.  Last night was open house so we went and checked out the boys new classes. 

 

 

                                              Will and his homeroom/reading teacher, Mrs. Renee

                   Walker checking out his locker.  I can't believe my baby is starting Kindergarten.

Walker with his teacher, Mrs. Tobie.  He woke up Monday morning and said "Two days until Kindergarten".  Hoping tomorrow goes great - for them and Mommy!

Will & Walker's Day

Usually the day or so before school starts we have Will & Walker's Day, where the boys get to pick whatever they want to do.  This year however we had to combine Will & Walker's Day with mommy needs school clothes shopping.

This past Saturday, we made a trip to OpryMill's.  While I shopped Shannon and the boys went to see Smurf's 2 in 3D.  They loved it and had to tell me every detail when we met up for lunch.

Our last shopping place was of course Bass Pro.  We happen to run into these guys and had to take a little photo op.

 
While we didn't do anything too exciting, we enjoyed our last few days of summer break. 

Summer Fun

I'm finally getting close to having summer pictures updated just in time for school to start.  Here are a few pictures that didn't go with the other updates.

Walker and Katie participated in the Little Ms. and Mr. at the fair.

While they didn't place, they got a trophy for participating.  I know I'm bias, but they are adorable!

Cousin Time

Alexa and Owen came over to play.

Owen and Will

Owen, Alexa, Walker & Will

I can't believe I got all four of them to take a nap at the same time.  Here are Will and Owen passed out on the couch.

Celebrating the 4th

We got to go to the water park on two different occasions this summer. 

Walker LOVED the little slides

The boys had a great time playing at the water park with Weston and I enjoyed catching up with Mrs. Marcy.

On another day we went with Alyssa, Mason & Carson.  I'm so glad that Will and Mason will be in the same class this year and Carson and Walker will be in the same Kindergarten class together.

Mason and Will LOVED the big slides.  This is the first time Mason was on the big slides.

Walker and Carson on the lazy river.

I finally got a picture of all four boys just as the bucked dumped.  We had to try several times to get this picture.

Swim Conference 2013

Swim Conference was Saturday, July 27th at Knox County.  Which meant we got to get up really early, 4:00 a.m.!  The boys swam in the morning to qualify for finals, which were to be swam in the afternoon.  The top 16 times got to swim in finals and place 17&18 got to be alternates.  Both boys qualified to swim in conference finals.  Yay!  The Rays placed 3rd overall.  Great swim season!

Walker with his Ray all ready to swim!  Both boys did awesome! 

 

They both got sticks that said "I cut my time!" and then got to get a prize out of the prize box. 

Will

Walker

 

Here are the final results:
6 & U 25 m Freestyle - Walker placed 5th
6 & U 25 m Backstroke - Walker placed 11th
7 & 8 25 m Freestyle - Will placed 13th
7 & 8  25 m Backstroke - Will was an alternate
6 & U 100 m Relay - Walkers team got 3rd
7 & 8 100 m Relay - Will's team got 4th

VBS - Catch Up Part 4

Our church did VBS a little different this year. We had VBS for one night, July 19th, from 5:00-midnight.  I think we made it to around 9:30.  Here are a few pics from that night.

Will invited Lucas and Blake

 

Here they are working on a scavenger hunt Bible verse.

Such sweeties.  L-R Jake, Katie, Walker and Maddox

Tug-a-war

 

Playing another game

All of the kiddo on the "island".

Jumpy house

The obstacle course inflatable

 

Roasting marshmallows

All-Stars - Summer Catch Up part 3

We finished our All-Star season last weekend.  Between swim and baseball, we've been very busy.  Here are a few pictures from the season.

One of my favorite pictures of Will.  I love the look on his sweet face!

Group pic
 

pic from Little League

Just hangin' out!

So proud of our MVP
Will got MVP of the 2013 Battle on Green River Tournament
He was chosen by the people who hosted the tournament.  Great Job Will!

Had to throw in a pic of Walker.  Here is Walker batting for the Parent/Coaches vs. All-Stars Game they played one day at practice.  They had so much fun, and Walker was glad he got to be part of it!

And as always, we must take a goofy picture.

Will receiving his all-star team medal from Coach Dad