First Day of School

Today was a big day!! Crosby is going to her first day of Kindergarten at Lowell in Mrs. Macias' class! The same place big sister Adler and her mommy went for all of our grade school years. We talked about sending her to Whittier this year, just because we thought it would be a good experience for her to try a new school to see if there were anythings we liked better about it...but OH NO! Cros insisted on going to Lowell and we didn't have any real reason to not let her. So it was off to Lowel she would go! She got up and ready really fast this morning ready to rock! She also insisted on taking her lunch today in her new lunch box!

***UPDATE***She likes it just fine so far. Winfield schools are going from 8:00-3:30 this year which is a long day as it is...especially if you are crosby and have been going to preschool for the last 3 years for only 2 1/2 hours a day!!! It's a big switch for her. She is very serious about school and everything they are doing. We read EVERY night even though she only has to read every other. She is just like Adler was about her reading!!!



Adler is back at the Winfield Intermediate School (aka the WIS) this year. She is in 6th grade in Mrs. See's class and couldn't have been MORE ready for school to start. She had been ready and anxious for WEEKS!! She even has a LOCKER this year! FUN!

I was lucky to be able to go to school a little late this morning so I could take my girls to their first day!!! Such an exciting time!!

Little Bunny Foo Foo

Crosby had her Easter Party at school today and she decided she wanted to go as a BUNNY so she had me put her hair in piggy tails for bunny ears and we drew whiskers on her cheeks, and Grammy "pinked" her nose with lipstick.  She was so excited to go to school as a bunny for her party (I thought it was sooo CUTE cause it wasn't a dress up party, she wanted to do it 'just because'!),  She LOVESLOVES her school and is really going to miss it next year but I KNOW she will LOVE kindergarten just as much!  Her teachers told Grammy the other day that they didn't know what they were going to do next year without Crosby there since she has been going to Montessouri for THREE years now!!!

Are you ready for some Pictures???

One of the Greatest things ---I think-- about leading a CrAzY busy life is that there are tons of opportunities to TAKE PICTURES!!! So grab a icy cold beverage and pull up a seat cause I have a ton to show off!!

First off Heath and Chelo went with Miss Crosby (With an "R"... Uncle Randy was SURE her name was COSBY!!) to the St. Jude Trike-a-thon at her school Friday. The preschoolers ride bikes, trikes, scooters around the school/church to collect pledges. Grammy had her pounding the pavement asking for donations----it was soo sweet (i was tearing up a little watching from the front window) to see her all by herself ringing the neighbor's doorbells and asking for pledges. I love that my girls have self confidence to do things like that. Her sisters are the same way. Chelo can be a little timid but if her sisters are with her she is GOLDEN!!! So when I asked Big #11 how many laps she did she looked at me and said "26" and smiled!!! I looked at her daddy and he just shrugged and said I wasn't keeping track! It looks like we each owe $26 Grammy!!! All three girls had soccer games--my cousin Kami and I went to watch. Here they are getting warmed up. Look how tiny my baby girl is compared to all of the other kids!!! Reagan has a whole head on Crosby!!! She is the youngest on the team, you can hear parents in the stands cheering for her and they will say "go Little One" it is sooo sweet!

After the game Cros, Chel and I went to get groceries. The girls were STARVING--after all, it was probably 12:30 by the time we were finished shopping!!!! I let them pick donuts from the bakery and they were in HEAVEN!!!! When we were standing there deciding what donuts they wanted Chelo looked at me and said "Mom, are these free???" I looked at her and replied, honey if these were free we would come here EVERY morning for breakfast!!! We both just started laughing!! They thought these were the best donuts EVER!! I didn't even get one---I am soo weird about food cravings, didn't even sound good at the time. But I am KICKING myself wishing i had one with me now!!

I left Heath with the girls plus one (Adler had Bri spend the night on Friday and Chelo had Kara over Saturday night) and headed to my favorite spot in the world (besides Stage 5... oh and the beach of course!!) ScrapFunattic in Andover to meet my Lindsay and Steffie for an ALL night Crop!!!! Yep, that is right once a month we get together and crop from 5pm to 5am. We had a blast----we laughed our Booties off!!! Lindsay and I even came up with a new line of Jolies for the Attic to carry ;) Don't worry if that one doesn't make sense!!! I got a few pages done, mostly a lot of playing around for my National Scrapbook Day demo at the store. Lindsay got like 8 or more pages done. Mostly of her St. Patty's trip to Boston I think she was seeing green when she left. She made some really cute pages... she is AWESOME for a beginner!!! I know talent when I see it by Golly!!! Lindsay is my newest recruit into the secret society of scrapbooking. Heath SWEARS it is a cult but I feel the same way about golf!!!!

On Sunday we had another full day on the books. Since I didn't get to bed until almost 7am (when I got home Crosby had a tummy ache and was up for about 30 minutes!!!) I slept until about 12:30. I got ready and we headed to the Episcopal church for the Durbin (my mom's family) Family Reunion. We rolled in at about 1:30 and since it started at 1pm we were the last ones there. Since we were bringing all of the table service EVERYONE was sooo happy to see us. There was soo much good food and above all it was WONDERFUL to get to sit and spend time with everyone. I miss them soo much especially Uncle Randy, Aunt Nancy, Nathan, and Kami!! We really missed Landon, Shannon, and baby girl Brynna but hopefully they are coming for a visit in May!!!

Grammy and the girls

Nathan and I

Aunt Nancy and Adler. Adler was the STAR of the reunion. Everyone just loved her. Her personality really shines when she is around a group of adults!!!

Mom with my Aunts and Uncles

the cousins...Nathan, Kami and I---brother we needed you!!! Look at my 4 month tummy!!! Time to post more baby bump pictures!!!

Crosby pooped out!!! ...and of course RM was having a BLAST!!!!!

Our family

Dustin's cameo!!

My Sweet Cousin Kami and I

Was that everything???... oh yeah Heath took the girls to a skating party at 4:30!!! And Kami came over in the evening and we looked at scrapbooks. That was pretty much it, just a quiet little weekend for the Curtis'!!!