Lucy's First Day of 1st Grade

....one week later.  Not my fault completely we did get a new computer but switched to a Mac.  Adam and I were both a little hesitant to start using it but here I am and I'm loving every minute of it!  Lucy started at a new school this year.  She got into Dealey Montessori School which is a big a achievement.  It is a highly competitive school and we are still so proud.  So far she loves Music and Art classes.  She likes her Gifted and Talented Teacher.  Thinks Ms. Matere, her teacher teacher, is pretty.  But I have to admit she is struggling.  Just tonight she told me she doesn't feel like she has any friends yet.  As we all know Lucy is super shy.  Her class is made up of 1st, 2nd, and 3rd graders.  They are all sweet and kind children at least the one I have met.  But Lucy is not outgoing and it seems like the other children respect her shyness and aren't pushing her.  Little do they know she needs pushing.  I wish I could sit by her at school for a day and help her feel more comfortable because once she does I know she will make lots of friends like she always does.  She has cried two of the six mornings and so have I.  This is going to be a rough year:(  It can only go up from here!

At her desk begging me to stay for just a few more minutes.  NOT loving every minute of it.

Pic of Grey while we were waiting in the auditorium for the bell to ring so Lu could go to class.  He really wanted me to take a picture of his baby.   Its a zebra.  Grey did have a gray pony since birth.  He loved it and took it every where with him.  Some how he or I lost it at the Salt Lake airport on our way home to Texas.  It was a rough few nights before we purchased not one but two replacement zebra babies.  So far so good.

My Grey

Pics of Grey at a friend's 1st bday party.  Swimming and cupcakes perfect combo.  Thanks Katherine for the beautiful pics.

Ruth's New Bike Part 2

I had previously posted my friend Ruth's post about her new bike and our ride around the lake.  Well when she found out, wasn't mad but thought we should each (as in Kristin and I) also write a post about the experience from our own perspective.  So here's mine:

My friend Ruth finally got her new road bike so we for sure had to try it out first thing the next morning.  We needed to start by 7:45 no later so her hubby could make his meetings.  I rode the 4.5 miles from our house to our meeting spot.  I got there EXACTLY on time.  She wasn't there yet.  Kristin rides up a minute later.  Still no Ruth.  Not super surprised cause she is not a morning person.  8 o'clock rolls around and there she is.  FINALLY she shows up a little groggy and very loopy thanks to Benedryl!  So off we go.  It is so fun to finally have friends to ride with.  I get a flat, my first flat on a ride EVER.  But luckily Kristin is there who coincidentally was a bike mechanic before her full time job as Mom.  So yes I did ask her to fix my flat because the last time I did it (which was also the first time) it took me a full hour.  Seriously.  Every time I called Kristin for directions she could not believe that I was still fixing my flat.  Any how I tried to help as in pump the tube a little but it was hard y'all.  I have zero upper body strength.  But I tried to support and encourage her:)  It rocked because all these men kept riding past offering help but we women did NOT need it.  That's right who needs 'em?  So K got it fixed lickity split and off we went.  Oh but the best part which I forgot to mention is that none of us had our kids.  Usually at least one of us has a kid or two in a trailer behind.  So fun to not have any stopping, whining, or fighting: Congrats Ruth on your new bike!  As for pics look below.  #1 The Bike  #2  Ruth and The Bike  #3  Kristin trying to manually inflate the tube and me giving her the "thumbs up great job dude"  #4  Totally me looking like K's slave driver....made me laugh and laugh cause I realized that was probably how I was really acting  #5  K hard at work.  She ROCKS!  #6 Ruth just enjoin' the ride:)

Ok So I'm Stealing:)

So this is my friend Ruth's story about her new road bike and I just had to steal it and post it on my blog. By the way I got a new bike at the beginning of this summer-it ROCKS! Already put over 600 miles on it in 3 months. (patting myself on the back cause we all know how sick Val was just a short time ago and never thought I would or could do biking again). Anyways she just got her new bike and her post made me laugh because she documented the maiden voyage so well and the pics just speak for themselves....ENJOY

I'm in love....

...with my first road bike - a 2009 scattante 660, decked out with Shimano Ultegra parts . (For you nonbikers out there, my old bike was like a honda accord and this bike feels like a porsche).
Here are pix from the inaugural ride with my friends Kristin & Val, who also love road biking. Kristin was the one who got me into biking and took me on my first ride last year when I bought my old bike - a hybrid mongoose crossway 450. So I thought it only appropriate that she come with me again, and Val has been biking all summer on her new road bike and didn't want to miss out, so we made it an event starting promptly at 745 am at the lake.
However, I was so excited the night before the big event that I couldn't sleep. I eventually took 2 Benadryls around 2am. This meant I woke up abruptly at 730 when val called. I was 15 minutes late to my ride, much to val's dismay. I was feeling a little groggy still from the Benadryl, but I did well to not swerve too much or fall off my new bike. Not too far into the ride though, Val got a flat tire. I was of little help as I was still quite loopy and in a very silly mood. Val did help with some of the pumping up the new tire, but Kristin did most of the work while Val supervised and I took pictures.

so we did eventually make it all the way around the lake. can't wait to do it again :P

Technical Difficulties

I have to apologize for my lack of blogging. The summer came and went in a sunny blur. So I FINALLY sat down to catch up on our laptop, ran into the other room, came back into the kitchen and found these weird black plastic squares all over the floor. I couldn't figure out what they were until I sat back at the computer. Yep, that's right, Grey had ripped at least 17 keys off of the key board. Not fixable. So we do have a new computer but with the first crazy week of school (which I will describe later in great detail including how Grey and I are enjoying the 2 hours of drive time to and from school) along with my 11th move in 11 years have not had the time to turn it on. I am actually at a friend's house having a sleepover with the kids so I am able to blog:) Husbands are in Wichita Falls camping out so they can do the Hotter Than Hell Hundred tomorrow morning. Any ways hope to catch up this weekend. Oh but I may not have any pics cause my memory stick has been shoved into the laptop preciously mentioned.