First Day Of School

 It is hard to believe that I have a third grader!  Grace began third grade at Smithland.  Her teachers are Mrs. Hill and Mrs. Woods.  She is doing very well and loving grade three so far.

 It is also hard to believe that I have a first grader!  Glen began first grade at Smithland.  His teachers are Mrs. Skelton and Mrs. Romero.  He is loving first grade and doing really well this year.

Welcome to a new school year, I hope it is a great one!

Rockingham County Fair

 The end of summer always brings with it the county fair.  This year we had one night where we bought the kids ride bracelets.  In the past we bought a certain amount of tickets and told the kids they could choose one or two rides for the whole night.

 This year with the bracelets they could go on as many rides as they wanted, and they could go on the rides as many times as they wanted.  This huge slide that you see them coming down, they went on that ride at least 5 times.  I think they enjoyed having a bit more freedom with the rides this year.

 Just like in the past, we entered a few things in the fair to be judged.  Glen baked some chocolate chip cookies.  He got second place!

 Grace entered a painting (seen above) and got second place, two photos and got second and third place, a pot holder and got second, and some cheesecake cookie bars but she did not place with those.

I also entered a drawing that I had made of Grace and Glen sitting on the word love, drawn on the dicitionary page that has the word love on it.  I got second!

The fair is always a nice way to end a great summer and get ready for school to start.

Highland Camp

 Grace went to Highland again for her second year the end of July.  She was in Hemlock cabin.  Her counselors were a set of sisters that Grace enjoyed a whole lot!

 She met a lot of new friends, had a great time.  And I think that I as mom, felt a tiny bit more comfortable with her going and I did not worry every minute she was gone (just every other minute...)

 She was able to go to a full week camp, but we were at the beach that week.  So she went to mini camp which was three days and two nights.

 She can not wait to go to full week camp.  But whether it is a full week or a half week, I think that she is just happy to go to camp.

She said her favorite part was hiking and swiming.