My little boy is gone all day!

My sweet Jason is in 1st grade now and gone pretty much all day. I thought it was going to be hard with him gone, especially for Andie since she is losing her best playmate, but it has actually been the opposite. Andie happily plays all morning by herself and then takes a nap. She doesn't have to fight with anyone and she gets lots of attention from me, she couldn't be happier!

So handsome!

Jason has already made lots of friends and loves going to school. We are all trying to get used to waking up early! I feel like now I'm a real mom, having to wake up and get my kid ready for school. I don't think I was quite ready for it yet, I hate waking up to an alarm clock! I'm used to waking up at 8:30-ish by my kids. The alarm just isn't as cute! Oh, well, I guess it had to happen sometime.

Road Trip 2009

Playing Uncle Kris's drums.

With Uncle Tim and Aunt Conny.

Awww. How cute! Andie nearly loved this kitty to death.

We had to have Conny give us all hair cuts while we were there because she is so good!

Andie loved having her hair cut by her Aunt. Thanks Conny!

Wamego, Kansas. Home of the Wizard of Oz museum and my new favorite small town. I could live there for sure.

So for some reason Kevan and I thought it would be fun for me and the kids to fly out to Nashville and drive home with him. We started asking ourselves "What were we thinking?" about 2 days before we left. But, it turned out to be a lot of fun. I'm pretty sure we have the best traveling children in the world! They were so great! Thanks goodness for DVD players. It took us 3 days, pretty much driving all day every day. We saw a lot of the U.S. we've never seen before, made a few fun stops and ate a lot of fast food! Good times!