First Day of School

Today is Savannah's and Zachary's first day of school.  I managed to get both to school on time.  Zachary barely... traffic was  awful.  It took 15 minutes to drive 1/2 mile.  We could have walked, but no sidewalks and no place to walk.  I dropped them both off extremely nervous.  I am hoping they each are having a great day.  


For me on the other hand, the day has been quiet.  I have cleaned out Kyle's closet and mine.  Quite a productive day.  I have some more cleaning to do then off to pick up the kids.  This is a big year for both.  Zachary's first year in middle school and Savannah's first in high school.  


I am already missing the lazy days of summer.

Zachary's Birthday Part 2

This is the present Zachary held all afternoon, trying to guess what it was.  When Kyle got off work, this is the first present he grabbed.  The waiting is finally over!

Can you see the joy on his face?

Here is the nerf gun he has been talking about for weeks.  Isabel had Zachary's name at Christmas and decided that Zachary needed a nerf gun.  Now Zachary is all about the nerf guns.  LOVES them!

What is a birthday with out Pokemon?

Can't go wrong with this either.  Thanks to all the grandparents, Zachary gets to go shopping for more nerf bullets and Halo toys.

Finally it is time for cake.  Or lemon pie, in this case.  As you can see, my picture problems continued throughout the day.  This is all I have of his cake/pie.  He blew the candles out as soon as I got to him with it.  No picture, but if his wish comes true, I guess it doesn't matter, huh?

I think Zachary had a great birthday, he got out of school early, had steak, opened presents and got to stay up late because he is now out for the summer. 

Birthday Boy and Elementary School Graduate

Today is Zachary's birthday.  Zachary is holding one of his presents at the moment, waiting for his dad to quit working so that he can open them.   He had to change one present for another as he is wearing the wrapping paper down and it is starting to tear. 


Zachary also graduated from elementary school today.  We went to his 5th grade graduation.  Sadly, it took longer for him to graduate from elementary school than it did for Hannah to graduate from high school.  Might I add that the bleachers we were sitting on didn't help the matter. I will just say up front that I was having camera difficulties today. Or maybe they were Jennifer difficulties.  Either way I didn't get the pictures that I wanted and some were just a blur.  Maybe I'll have better luck tomorrow, when we get to repeat the experience again for Savannah to graduate form middle school and move on to high school.  That makes her dad really nervous!

Zachary going to line up for his diploma.

waiting for his name to be called

Mrs. Schuh  getting ready to call for Zachary

I am ready to get out of here!

5th grade is over!  Middle school here I come!

As you can tell, the shots I missed were of him getting his certificate and shaking the principal's hand.  Oh well.

Hours later...

I had to put this post on hold while we went out to dinner.  Zachary wanted steak and since we can't seem to get enough rain around here, grilling was out.  We let him open his presents and headed out to dinner for some steak.  It has been a long day, so I'll have to post more birthday pictures later.  And yes, I am still having picture issues :(