Thursday, August 26, 2010

Kindergarten!!


Pey's locker

Outside of school

SO EXCITED!!!
This week Peyton started Kindergarten---I can't believe it!! She has been so excited for weeks now and was looking forward to going to school every day. The 1st morning of school she came downstairs and said "I slept in my clothes last night because I thought it would speed things up!" Now I put her to bed in her pj's--she must of changed! She has been very excited about recess, assemblies--because she is w/ the "big" kids-I try to tell her she is a big kid now but I guess she doesn't believe me. It makes me a little sad that my baby is already in kindergarten--but I'm excited for her too.. This is my 1st day of just Jackson and I --kind of strange --and he misses Pey Pey a lot..but we'll have lots of fun together.



Sunday, August 15, 2010

Zoo




Looking at the fish above him

One hot....One excited! Can you guess which is which??



Posing in the jungle vines


Across the rope bridge






The long awaited train ride


Petting the goats


Cooling off in the "mister"






Look at the bear!



We liked the big grumpy gorilla



The desert



We had one last hurrah to the zoo before school starts. The Omaha Zoo is pretty big and a great zoo! We walked and walked and walked in the 90 plus weather for about 6 hours it took us to get through the zoo...so although hot we had lots of fun! Peyton and Jack loved looking at the animals, riding the train, and running through the sprinklers. It was fun to spend time as a family as we haven't been able to go on many trips this summer!

Pedal Pull 2010


Pedal Peyton Pedal!!




Once again Peyton decided to be in the Pedal Pull contest at our county fair...she placed 2nd in her age group and will be headed on to state at the Corn Palace! Her skinny little legs are pretty strong!

Butterflies!

Relaxing in the butterfly house



Its hot in here!


All of the cocoons--pretty cool

Butterflies eating the fruit

Trying to catch them (sideways!)

Trying to get the water

Hmm..I wonder what this butterfly is?

1st time eating corn on the cob--He loves it!!

We went to the butterfly house as a treat to Peyton who has wanted to go there all year...we finally made it! Sioux Falls has a great one w/ hundred's of butterflies flying all around you. Jackson was more interested in trying to climb into the water and catch the butterflies..but Pey thought they were all pretty neat!