Zach and Emily's First School Day

Zach and Emily had their first day of 4-year-old preschool today.

...just a little excited! =)

One happy girl!

Wow... he looks so grown up!

Izzy's First Day of School (First Bus Ride too!)

Today is Izzy's first day of Kindergarten! She's so excited to start at her new school, and get to ride the bus all by herself as well.

Waiting at the bus stop...

The other kids at our stop.

A HUGE thunderstorm came thru in the 10 min we were waiting for the bus. Loudest thunder and lightning I've heard in a while. I figured it was God's way of saying "Goodbye, and have a great day at school!" =)

Running to the bus in the rain.

There she goes... and of course I followed the bus in my car and parked across the school entrance to make sure she made it into the building ok - which she did.

House Facelift

We've been doing a gradual makeover to the exterior of our house. Here's how everything looked BEFORE: (Notice the very dirty/back trim along the roof and around the windows, as well as the worn, old wood door.)

Old original 1960's wood garage doors.

The NEW look after everything has been completed! Nothing "radical" was changed (besides the garage doors), just cleaning and updating all the pieces.

We replaced all the windows last November. Then this summer we clean and repainted all the trim and doors, put in new gutters and downspouts, and installed a new glass storm door at the front of the house.

Just last week, the final piece was finished - new garage doors!