First day of school...

This year the first day of school happened to land right on my birthday. The reason for it? All Clark County schools switched to 9 month. I was especially excited about this. For Natalie's Kindergarten, 1st grade, and 2nd grades we experienced year round schools. Not fun! At least not for me. The breaks were nice but Natalie would forget a lot of the things she learned. So switching to 9 month will be especially good for her. Kylie really didn't have as much of an issue as Natalie did. Kylie picked up on reading a lot faster than Natalie and loves it more than Natalie does.

This year Natalie started 3rd grade. Can you believe that?? I can't! It's still a shock to have them all grown up.

It is, however, quite nice that they can get their own breakfasts and can get themselves ready on their own. When Kenzi starts school I'm afraid I'm going to be the one getting her ready. That will change though. =)

Kylie started 1st grade! I can't believe that either. They are growing up so quick. She seems to love school. Which I'm happy for. I don't think Natalie likes it as much as Kylie does.

I just have a feeling that Kenzi will be just like me when it comes to school. If you know how I was than you know what I'm talking about. I hated school. From the first moment I went, I hated it. But I am trying to get Kenzi to like it. We do worksheets almost everyday. She knows how to do a lot but after a while she doesn't want to do them anymore. I especially like the days when she brings her work pages to me and says we have to do school now.

The rest of us are doing great. Although this past weekend one of our toilets decided to explode. So we went down to Home Depot and picked out a new toilet. It is one of those duel flush technology ones. It took us at least half the day to put it in, and at least 5 trips back to Home Depot for something we forgot. Let me tell you....NOT fun! But we finally got everything together and we didn't need to go anywhere else...or so I thought.

It was getting close to dinner so I started to cook the meat and all I had were the instant potatoes (which are pretty good) but I needed milk for them. I had just run out of milk that morning and I was thinking, "I can do without it." Rolling my eyes I said to myself, "It's gonna taste so much better with it, FINE! I'll go to the store." So, yet another trip to the store. Luckily it wasn't to Home Depot. When I got home from getting milk I told Matt, "I am not going anywhere else tonight. Anything else we need will have to wait for tomorrow!!"

Other than the many trips to Home Depot and the one trip to Smiths, it was a pretty good day. Unfortunately it wasn't relaxing like I was hoping it'd be. But we got what we needed done.