My how time flies....

I can't believe that my McKenna is old enough to go to school. Today was her first day of Kindergarten! She was so excited and just a bit nervous. Her prayers the last few days have been, "Please bless that I won't be so nervous and that my teacher will let me sit by my friends." I just love kids' prayers. They are always so perfect. Anywho...we got up early which for us is a struggle sometimes but I am glad that she is in the morning so that we get up and get going. She looked so cute in her little uniform!



Then we were off to school! The Kindergarten classes all met in the cafeteria to get everyone together. Luckily McKenna is in the same class with her two little friends Carine on the left and Shelbie on the right. That made it much easier on her.

I only saw a bit of concern on her face as she was sitting there waiting to go.




Then they all had to get in line to follow their teacher to class....

...one last little wave.....

and just like that she was all grown up and gone.

She will do so great and I am so proud of her, but I will for sure miss her while she is gone.

Home for Sale

We are selling our home and I made a blog so that if you or anyone you know may be interested they can go there and see pictures and find out contact info. Please help me spread the word. The blog address is http://hillhome4sale.blogspot.com/ Thanks!

Today I Love....

...squishy babies. Most people that know me know that I am not a morning person to say the least. But there are times that I am really glad that I got up and got out of bed and today was one of those days. I woke up with Travis and got him off to work and I REALLY wanted to just crawl back in bed, but as I was walking back to my room I could hear the faint cooing of my sweet baby girl. So instead of crawling back in my comfy bed that was SCREAMING my name, I walked into her room to find the happiest smiling face one could see. Megan has such a sweet spirit about her and I swear she has a direct line to heaven. At least that is the way she makes me feel. So I got her out of bed and gave her a bath. It was really nice because I don't get very much one on one time with her with the demands of my older two girls. So these moments are few and far between. As I got her out of the bath I couldn't help but kiss all her sweet rolls and squishiness and I wanted to make sure that I wouldn't forget how yummy she is right now. So today, I love my squishy baby....

Makes me smile :)

Wow! I just came across this little gem and I think it's about the funniest picture I have seen in a very long time. Bahahahahahaha!! He makes me smile.

Wednesday's Word

I know I have been seriously lacking in the blogging department for about a month now. It seems like I have been running around like a chicken with my head cut off and can't seem to find two minutes to really do anything that I would like to. I ireally don't know how all these amazing women find time to do their blogs almost every day. Anywho....todays word of advice is Take Time to Stop and Play! Today I really needed to be getting some things done, like laundry, practicing the guitar for a couple of gigs we have next week, filing office stuff, and about a million other things. But my girls wanted to do something fun. And I know that I need to take advantage of these moments because one day they will all be to busy to hang out with their mom and just be silly. As hard as it is some days, I will miss them being so young and fun, with no inhibitions and have unconditional love for their far from perfect mom. So we got out the fingernail polish and did their nails and then they were models for me! McKenna saw an episode of America's Next Top Model and loved how they were taking pictures. We don't watch that show anymore for obvious reasons, but for some reason she loved it and loves to pose. I love he silly shots we got and am so glad I knew what was the most important thing on my to do list today.

Fun Friends!

Some of our most favorite friends came into town last week. Erica Diddy has been my friend since we were born. Friends like that are pretty rare being that we are now 29 and have lived in different places, had different experiences and through it all we have stayed amazing friends. It is also so great that our husbands are pretty much the same person just in different bodies. So they get along great! I didn't really get any pictures the first day, but Thursday night we roasted hot dogs for dinner after swimming that day.

I LOVE the ketchup faces!

Then that night we were having tons of fan just having a little dance party in the living room, rocking out to Hannah Montana, and thanks to one of my great moves with Colson his poor little elbow came out of socket. So we spent the next 5 hours in the Ontario ER! Needless to say it was a long night. And the next morning we had to go to the doctor to check it. And Matt, being the good dad that he is, hopped on an airplane and came to be with his son. (Glad I could get you here Matt :) )

So after the doctor we all hopped in the car to go pick up Matt and take a little stop at Build-a-Bear Workshop. The kids LOVED it and it's kind of a tradition with us when Hailey and Colson come to visit.


Saturday we spent all day swimming (thanks to some great friends of ours) and BBQ'd for lunch and went swimming some more. Sooo much fun.












Then we rounded out the weekend with the Drive In Theatre in Parma. We say Dispicable Me (which is HILARIOUS by the way if you haven't seen it) and A Team.



The boys had the futon up on the tool box of the truck for a great view and a comfy seat!

The girls were loving the bed in the back of Erica's car with their blankets and snacks. Colson slept through both entire movies. We wore the poor little guy out.

Thanks for coming Diddy's! It was sooooo much fun. Can't wait for you to come again!

My McKenna

It's hard to believe that my baby is going to be registering for Kindergarten here in the next couple of weeks. The last 5 years have pretty much flown by. And when I snapped these pictures the other day she showed just how old she really is. I think she just looks so grown up. She is such a great help to me with her younger sisters that I really don't know what I would do without her. So I just wanted to do a little post for this special girl of mine. Love you McKenna!