First Day of School

 Tori's first day of 2nd grade!  This will make the third new school she has been at in the past three years.  All 3 schools have also been in different states, so I am always impressed at how positive and excited she is every year to start school.  James and Ellie were not so excited to see her go - she has been a fun big sister to them this summer.  The school is suppose to be great and we're very happy that she gets to go here.  My one complaint is that we can't walk to school even though we don't live that far from it.  Apparently North Carolina isn't very fond of sidewalks, so there is really no safe way for us to walk to school.

 James also started a little "joy school" type preschool where I take turns teaching it with some of my friends.  He was very excited to have his own school to go to and loved having it at our house the first day.  He's the only boy with a couple of girls, but he's used to that being the case and I think the girls enjoy the enthusiasm he brings. :)

New rooms and other pictures

One of the kids favorite things about the move was getting to decorate their new rooms.  Above James loves his Cars wall stickers and nightlight.  Below Tori picked out butterfly stickers and loved putting them on herself (with a little help from Dad).  You can't tell a ton from the pictures but she also loves her painted pink room.  Before John and I came out to try and buy a house I spent a lot of time looking online at a ton of different houses.  Tori loved looking at them with me and found a house with a pink room in it that she said she wanted us to buy, because she loved the pink room.  When we found the house we decided to buy they weren't completely done building and painting it, so we asked them to paint this room pink as a surprise for Tori and she loved it the moment she walked in.

 

In Primary at church they have a little bear that the kids get to take home that helps them "Choose The Right".  They are suppose to take pictures of the bear helping them make good choices and then show them to the other kids in primary.  These are a few pictures of Tori and the bear - above she is writing a letter to her cousin on a mission and below she is helping me with dinner

James loved the little bear, too.

I thought Ellie looked cute in her dress, so I wanted to take a few pictures.  Above she's not so thrilled with the idea, but then she found her binki and was okay with life again