first day of school!!!

My big kids started first and second grade today!! I can't believe it....the summer has flown by. So, they were excited and nervous this morning....we had met their teachers last friday and saw their classrooms so everything wasn't totally brand new. When they got home we sat down to brownies and milk and they told me all about their days and did their homework. It seems like they're going to really enjoy their classes. They were really wired when they got home from school....and they had no problems falling asleep tonight. :)

Here is my fashion diva with her little princess sister. Kylie has really gotten into stylish things...she definitely didn't get that from her mother!! And of course, AJ wants to wear everything pink nowadays.....my least favorite color. :)

I've been told that they grow up fast. I am definitely experiencing that firsthand...my first baby is nowhere near being a baby anymore. We were talking in sunday school about God's sovereignty, and related it some to raising children....how to be faithful with the fact that He has entrusted us with these lives to care for....and yet to know that we have no control over or no idea of how they are going to end up. There's a good bit of freedom in that fact....even in the midst of the fears. Kylie is going to go before the session and share her testimony to begin taking communion. She (for almost a year now) has really wanted to take part in the Lord's supper...and we feel she has gotten to a place where she can really articulate her simple and sweet faith. It's exciting stuff this growing up thing!