Sunday, August 17, 2008

Our New Addition


One of the things Dan and I have always talked about was that we wanted both of the girls to learn an instrument. We both think this is so important, "a life essential" so to speak. Of course Dan plays guitar so a natural for Grace was learning the guitar and she did get a guitar last year. Daddy has been teaching her and they are awesome together! They even sing songs and play together. Mimi's has had an interest in the guitar but her hands are sooo small! So, we've been talking about other options and she chose the violin. I had no idea they made such small violins! We started looking and they really do come in all sizes (the first one we found Grace told Mimi it looked like an American Girl Doll size!) We ended up finding one on "Craig's List" and it's a perfect fit...the lady we bought it from was even nice enough to send us a chart for fitting Mimi perfectly so we didn't make a mistake starting her out. We all drove out to Douglasville (almost to Carrolton...it was "out there") yesterday to pick up the violin. Through a friend we found out that Due West Methodist church is offering a program (music and arts) for the community. Mimi will be taking individual violin lessons from a very nice girl who has a master's degree in violin and we were able to set it up right after school. The contact is Glen Conger @ 770 427-3835 if you are interested in this great new program for the community. Let the concert begin!!

Wednesday, August 13, 2008

First Day of School

Today is the first day of school! Mimi starts full day kindergarten and Grace starts 2nd grade. We went to our family celebration and party on Monday and everyone was thrilled to be back. We have been at Mt. Paran for four years and the great thing is the "family feel". We all "know each other" and this makes starting back to school very low anxiety for the kids. Grace's parapro from last year finally got her own class (2nd grade) and Grace has her for her teacher this year....Grace is thrilled! Mimi is going to fit right in and told us to tell the teacher "that she may be a little embarrassed that she is so smart in math"... I think they will adjust! As for Dan and I, we both are ready for a routine and we sat last night at 8:15PM and watched the Olympics by ourselves!

6:30AM - still sleeping!

Grace is awake early and can't wait to get movin!

Ready to go by 6:45AM - now that was easy!

I love my girls - they are so happy to be together in the lower school, down the hall from each other but the best thing is they get to be picked up in carpool together, finally!

Sunday, August 10, 2008

Summer's End!

As our summer closes, we all feel very blessed by the fun we shared these past several months. To sum up our summer, we "grew", we got very close to each other and enjoyed our time together.


We spent many hours at the barn, riding and hanging out!

Grace is a natural horse person....looks just like me when I was her age.

We visited the Braves museum and went to a game.

Grace is a fan!

We brought home a couple of Indians from Tennessee!

Mimi is an Indian too!

Grace has been working very hard on her guitar, thanks to daddy!

The best times were on the boat...these smiles tell it all!