First day of 3rd Grade

Today was Sophie's first day of third grade. She is very excited to be in Mrs. Clayton's classroom. Her day started off with a yummy breakfast of waffles, eggs, strawberries, and turkey bacon. Her day ended with Eclairs. But, the best part was in the middle of the day when she got to see all her friends from last year. She was excited to share her "STAR" notebook for all her homework. I think this will be a great year.

Eat your vegetables!

I made this really yummy Cous-cous salad (inspired by our friends at a BBQ last weekend) for lunch. Whole wheat cous-cous with black beluga lentils, tomato and cayenne pepper seasoning. I also sautéed zucchini and bell peppers and mixed it all together topped of with some parmesan cheese. It was yummy. Olivia loved it, especially the "black beetle lentils." however, she decide that the veggies were optional. We have a "you must eat your veggies rule." After about thirty minutes we were sick of her whining so we sent her outside to eat in solitude.

By the way, she did eventually finish ALL of her veggies!

East Fork Hike

Today we went hiking with some friends up East Fork. It was a beautiful day complete with a picnic and some "fishing" with pine cones.

Molly

Sophie got a big gift for her 8th birthday. She got to pick out her own cat. Molly is a shelter cat, about a year old, and is very shy and tiny. She is starting to come out of her shell, but is terrified of Dogs. Brutus will have to behave himself.

Monterey CA, take two

A few more pictures from our trip.

Monterey CA

GG-ma, GG-pa, Matt, Sophie and Olivia looking out over the Pacific ocean. This was at one of the observation decks at the Aquarium.
Sophie is spying some Sea lions.


Matt & GG-pa on their way to start their golf game at Pebble Beach. Aren't they a handsome duo! (I know what Matt is going to look like 50 years)

Olivia & Sophie Skating

Ice skating and other stuff.

A beautiful sisters picture, but in order to get it, I had to agree to take a gross picture (see below)

Here we are at the ice rink. We lasted about 90min. Not bad for a first timer!

We had a four day weekend, so we asked the girls what they wanted to do. Ice Skating? Why...I have no idea, but here we go. I'm going to try to post the videos of them.

some pictures

This is Olivia's Goofy Grin. We don't know where she picked it up, but we think it is pretty hilarious.

Ooops...caught me!