my little preschooler!

My little Gracie is growing up! She offically started 3 year old preschool today! She did so well! I was ready for big tears, but they never came! She sat down with her class and waited for instructions..

I think it was actually harder on me, than it was on her! I left with a big lump in my throat. I loooove that she is growing up, and doing big girl things! There is a small part of me that just doesnt like the idea of her growing up. At least its only a half a day! I spent the entire morning wondering what she was doing, and checking the clock to see how much longer til i could go get her!

Nick will be taking her on his way to work from now on, and my mother in law (who works at the school) will be bringing her home at lunch time (makes it easy on me!)

Since the little boy who i watch (Parker, Grace's BFF) is back (he wasnt here all summer, his mom is a teacher and had the summer off!!) he came with me to pick her up, he wanted to see where she went to school, and I knew she would be excited to see him! We waited in the hallway for her to come out. She gave her teacher a BIG hug goodbye, which made me smile! Once we got in the car Parker and I were asking her all kinds of questions about what she did, and how it went. All she had to say was "I dont really want to talk about it.....i dont want to tell you".....oh, the attitude of a 3 year old, gotta love it!

So far, so good! :)

some new pics....

nothing else can go wrong.....or, can it?

So, We have had a crazy last few weeks. I'm sure someday we'll look back and laugh at what all went wrong in the summer of 2010. As for right now, i dont think its very funny, and neither does my bank account.

It all started 3 weeks ago, I went to put the blinds (less than a year old....) up in the kitchen and the string broke, causing the blinds to break. Not a big deal....I figured since they were still hanging and looked normal (I just can't put them up anymore) that i would just leave them that way for a while, til i wanted to spend $145 on new wooden blinds.

2 days later, I was warming up food in the microwave (less than 5 years old) when it started to make a crazy noise like it was going to explode. I still have no idea what went wrong with it, but Nick did some research on fixing it, and it was pointless to try and fix, might as well buy a new one. So, over the range microwave was on my list of things to buy, along with blinds.

good bye microwave.....

Hello new......

We go out of town for the weekend to DM. On our way home sunday Nick calls his dad to see how things were with the dog. His dad informs him that our dishwasher (which was not running at all while we were gone) had flooded our kitchen. I dont know how old the dishwasher was, but i'm guessing around 6 or 7 years. That was also unfixable....so, add dishwasher to the list.

Hello, new dishwasher....

At this point, i figured nothing else could go wrong? Right?

The next day I was eating an apple and part of one of my molar teeth cracked off.....it hurt sooo bad, i figured i did it on the apple and that a nerve was exposed or something. So I painfully wait til the next day when the dentist could get me in. It turns out thati didnt chip my tooth on the apple, my tooth had cracked because of the pressure of my wisdom tooth that is now coming it. I'm 27 and my wisdom teeth are now showing up? So.....I'll be getting my wisdom teeth out next friday. 3 wisdom teeth, plus that tooth that was crakced in half will be pulled. It wouldnt be so bad, if our insurance covered getting wisdom teeth out. UGH!

Well, we are now proud owners of a stainless steal dishwasher and over the range microwave. They look a little out of place with our white fridge and stove, but i figure with our luck, those will die soon too, so we might as well upgrade it all. Blinds are still not fixed....they can wait. Teeth come out next friday.

We thought all of the bad luck was finally over.....until nick went to start our lawn mower last night and it wouldnt start....not out of gas....no idea whats wrong with it. SERIOUSLY????? I give up!!!

Trip to the ZOOOO!

We took the girls the the zoo a few weekends ago with my parents. It was way too hot out, but we still had a good time! We also took them to adventurland the next day, but i dont have any pictures from that, my mom took a bunch, i'll get them from her sometime soon! I wish I would have gotten a few pictures of Grace feeding the goats, but i was too busy helping her :( Nick video taped it tho, maybe someday when i figure out how to upload videos from our video camera, i'll do it :)

I truthfully think that Grace's favorite part of the zoo, was the gift shop. She got a lion :)

arent they cute?? :)