U2 and turning 2

OK, I am turning into a very lame blogger as of late. It's just that I always seem to find something more interesting to do, and blogging has just turned into one of those things on my to-do list (the never-shrinking always getting longer to-do list....) But I did really want to mention a couple notable things that have happened this month. First of all, my little baby Kate turned TWO!! It is still hard for me to grasp the fact that Kate is growing up. She is such a sweet little girl, always concerned about everyone else around her and making sure everything is in it's place (Seriously, she is way more organized than I am.) She loves her big brothers and misses them so much when they are at school. Every afternoon when we go pick Connor up, she says "Boy!" so excitedly the entire way over to the school. Cameron is also "boy," I don't know why she doesn't use their names???? But anyway, she had a good birthday. Keith brought her a bouquet of flowers and she LOVED the fact that they were just for her (he got this idea because she was so enamored with the flowers he got me for our anniversary last month.) So sweet!

And then that same weekend Keith and I went to Chicago to see U2! It was awesome. I have loved U2 since the Joshua Tree, so that's been over 20 years that I have listened to their music. And they know how to put on a show, Soldier Field was packed but with the stage and lights and sound and everything you felt like you were in the front row. It was a great concert!!!

A bunch of pics of the birthday girl:

Kate modeling her cool BYU hat ....

A new dress for Fall.....

The birthday girl!!! So excited to be 2!!

Flowers from daddy!

Busy busy girl......gotta get dinner in the oven and answer all her many phone calls.....

She loves her Madeline doll....

Such a cutie :)

Back to school we go

First week back to school! Cameron started the 1st grade on Tuesday and Connor started 4K (4-year-old kindergarden for you non-Wisconsinites.) Does it make me a bad mother if I say it was a glorious week??? I figure I am due for this, as the last two years I spent the first day of school crying my eyes out. I don't know what was different this year, maybe because not much is changing - Cameron is still going all day like last year, and Connor was in pre-school last year, he'll just be going more often now. So my day consists of getting Cameron out the door to the bus by about 7:40, then I have the entire morning to exercise (uh, that's my intention anyway), get showered and ready for the day. Connor eats lunch at 11 and then I drop him off at school by 11:30 and Kate and I can embark on any adventure we wish.....Target, the mall, the park, whatever we want!! And even when she starts melting down in the grocery store, I can always remind myself that it is only one child melting down, not three (yes, that has happened before...)

I think it's going to be a good year :)

Cameron right before heading out the door to catch the bus - he was SO excited to go, but not so excited to get his picture taken.....

Connor "posing" for his first-day-of-school picture. He is such a ham.

At school with his friend Kyle. He was pretty anxious for me to get going. In fact, I think his exact words were "Go away mom!" Nice.