First day of preschool and this is the smile that I get! Hard to believe I have a son old enough to be in school. I know this is just the beginning, but I hate this growing up stuff!  This has been a huge milestone for us though and we are so proud of Cohen.  The boys have always been home while Chris and I have worked. We have grandparents come one day a week and a family friend another day a week.  Not once has Cohen made it through a church service in his little class without crying and we were pretty sure preschool would be the same way.  A couple weeks before school started we were trying to get him excited about meeting new friends and learning new things.  He wanted nothing to do with it. He kept saying " I don't like my teacher, I don't like my new friends."  It actually broke my heart to hear this come out of him.  This is supposed to be the best time for a kid.  So the first day Chris and I take him and were both prepared to put a smile on our face, be strong and walk away while we listen to him scream!  To our surprise, he walked in, looked at us for a second, the teacher picked him up and not a sound out of him! We kept our phones close the next two hours sure they would call us.................they didn't!!!!! When we picked him up he had a huge smile on his face and said "I had so much fun at school, can I come back tomorrow?" We were so relieved!  Now I have to explain to him why he can't go to school seven days a week. Thank you Jesus that he loves it!!!!!

Chris found a praying mantis in our backyard and it crawled all over Cohen.  Easton wanted nothing to do with it! I don't think I've ever seen one close up, he was really cute!  I'm sure I will be seeing many more bugs now that I've got boys!

Our first camping trip as a family of four. As you can see from the pictures Cohen thought it was great, Easton on the other hand had a rough weekend! We did end up going again and had a lot more fun with cousins and friends.

I have to share my camping story, a kind of scary one!  Easton had gone to sleep around 8 and Cohen shortly after.  Chris and I stayed up for awhile enjoying the camp fire. Finally by 10 I was falling asleep so I crept into the tent and crashed. Easton woke up around midnight and I held him until he fell back asleep trying not to wake up Cohen. Fifteen minutes later he was up again.  This went on for the next hour and a half.  Finally after the last time I had to go to the bathroom and could not wait any longer.  I am always to afraid to walk to the bathrooms so I just find a spot outside! So, as I'm going to the bathroom I swear I can see someone walking pretty close to our campsite. I know I'm not just tired because I've been awake the last hour and a half. I freak out for a minute but convince myself it was just my imagination.  I get back inside the tent and try to fall asleep.  Get up the next morning and I start looking for some granola bars that I had packed.  I can't find them anywhere and decide that they may have accidentally got thrown away by Easton. Chris is making breakfast and I am getting stuff out of the cooler and notice things missing.  I am missing several cheeses, lunch meat, hot dogs, and the chocolate from smores the night before.  It clicks and I realize we got robbed last night.  I did see someone in our campsite and they stole food from our cooler.  I couldn't believe it.  I was really annoyed at first and then very thankful they didn't hurt my family or steel anything else that was of real value.