Off to Kindergarten

On Tuesday we were lucky enough to sneak in a tour of Paisley's new school. We saw her classroom and met her teacher, Mrs. Pacey. Paisley instantly loved her, and she loved Paisley. She looked all around the room and loved it. We saw all over the school including, the gym, art class, music class, the library, and computer lab. We were very impressed with all the great programs the school offers. This made paisley super excited to start today!

Here we are heading out the door to school. For the first 2 weeks they have half day Kindergarten so the class is split into AM and PM. Paisley is in PM kindergarten. Starting September 1st we will go full day.

Paisley in front of her classroom. Jarom couldn't stand to not be by his best friend in the picture!!

Paisley and Mrs. Pacey. She instantly went to hug her and was so excited to see her again. She knew right where to put her backpack and then sat down at a table to do play dough.

Paisley got to play with play dough while they waited for everyone else to arrive. She sat next to a girl named Ashley. Maybe they will be best friends!

Paisley was having so much fun she barely had time to say goodbye to us. Jarom on the other hand started screaming and did not want to leave Paisley at school. Jarom's crying then made me and nana start to cry. I can't believe 5 1/2 years have gone by and it's time to go to school. She is such a big girl!

House Update

I don't do house updates, because nothing really new is going on, but since Marti just asked here it is (although she won't be reading this for a month!) :)

When we got home from the family reunion the next day I went shopping for a new realtor. I didn't know if it would make a difference in our small town, because everyone who has wanted to see our house has and almost every realtor has been in it several times. Well I was on a mission to get an aggressive agent who was going to work for the commission and I found her! Her name is Carmella Leach and so far I love her!! Within this first week of having her as an agent we have rearranged all the furniture in the house, she has brought in a lot of her own things to cuten the place up (we were 4 days from closing, I am COMPLETELY packed) and we have painted our office. There is painted Venetian plaster in there but I guess you are supposed to put a glaze on top of it, so we did. Carmella specializes in Venetian plaster so she knew just what to do. A jar and a half of glaze, 2 days and some very sore arms later we were ready for our open house that was today.

I have received a very good report from her on the open house. Of all the people that came, 4 couples are sincerely interested. 2 have to sell before they can buy, and 2 are able to buy when they are ready. We are obviously cheering for the later 2! We hope to have happy house news soon! It has been hard trying to get back into the swing of things here, when I was checked out of this house and this town. Yesterday we registered Paisley in school, which was excited and sad at the same time. As great as the school is here, I hope she only attends for a short time because we are ready to live in Missouri!!

Stefanie, The blog looks absolutely beautiful. I love your wallpaper. I'm so glad to see Jen and Lewis posting. Thanks for keeping us up to date. I'm a month late to read, but I'm glad to get caught up.

Stef, you aren't posting about your house? What's the status?

We are enjoying our last few weeks of summer break. I'm getting my eyes lasered tomorrow! I'm very happy about that. I await Mom and Dad's visit. I love you all. Have a great week.