Birthdays and School Daze

This week has been a whirl wind of fun changes for our family. Grace started preschool on Monday and was so excited. She loves telling you that the letter A says "aaaaaachoo". There are four of us who are doing a little preschool with our kids and Grace thinks it is awesome. She starts dance next wednesday so I'll post pics then.


Then yesterday was my birthday! I have officially started the last year of my twenties! Cory was really sweet and sent me an e-mail first thing in the morning then I had lots of friends and neighbors who called or stopped by. My kids weren't quite as happy when they helped me pick out my birthday cake. Jade thought I should get the Thomas one and Grace wanted me to get the Little Mermaid one. I finally chose a butterfly one(lots of icing mom) We went to Tacanos for dinner(kids under 6 eat free)! Then we came back around 8:30 for cake and ice cream.


Then today Jaden started kindergarten. Jaden was super excited. His dad gave him a father's blessing last night which helped mom get rid of all the tears so I would be ready this morning. Jaden wanted me to walk him in and help him find his chair. His teacher is incredible(she gave seminars at the National Kindergarten Convention, who knew they had one?). He was so cute and ready to go. He obviously wouldn't let me give him a hug or a kiss to say goodbye so I left him to his happiness.
This is Jade's idea of posing for a picture!
This is Jade hanging up his backpack!
This is his teacher Mrs.Tischner bringing the class out to be picked up! But let me back up and tell you the adventure between the time I dropped Jaden off and the time I picked him up!


I left my other two kids in the car with a friend of mine to watch them. I left the car going so she could let them and her little ones watch the DVD player and have the air on. I was only gone about 3 minutes so when I got back we chatted for a second about preschool and then she left. My other friend was coming out of the school and told me she had got some pics of Jaden in his class(another thing he wouldn't let me do). As I was talking to her, my car started sputtering and then quit. Yes, I ran out of gas. In my defense I've only ever done it one other time(remember Laura). I hadn't driven my car for the last 40 miles or so that it has been driven so I wasn't aware of the low gas problem. Needless to say, my friend went to get gas for me and I didn't officially leave Jaden at Kindergarten until about 50 minutes into his first day. I was just praying he wouldn't come outside with his class to see his mom still parked there. I'm sure she would have thought I was a paranoid first-time mom!
This is Grace "patiently" waiting for me to get gas for the car!