1st Day of School!!

 Well school officially started today!! I know that I was ready for it to start, but in some ways I was a little sad cause Kode starts school at a different school, where he rides the bus. This is where I have to cut the apron strings and let him become independent. Its so hard to see how much he has grown up over the years. But he was so excited for school. Anyway here is how their day went!

Kode ready to start the 5th grade at Flag View Intermediate School!

He has been so excited to start school for about a week now. He made sure he had his cloths picked out the night before. His shoes were ready to be slipped on in the garage and his back pack was hanging on the chair in the kitchen just waiting for him to grab it as he walked out the door.

He was up at 6:45 to brush his teeth, get dressed and down stairs shortly after that to eat some breakfast.

 Some of the neighbor kids were knocking on the door at 7:20 this morning. (the bus doesn't even pick them up until 8:05, but they wanted to make sure they gave them selves enough time to get to the bus stop before the bus showed up)

(I had Kode and some of the neighbor buddies take a walk down to the bus stop to see how long it would take them and they timed it and it took them 4 minutes and 43 seconds. So 45 minutes was a little extreme but what ever they wanted)

 

 Anyway, after hanging out at our house for 10 minutes they were on their way to the bus stop!

(hey I have to say I did great! I didn't even cry when I was watching them walk down the street to catch their bus. I am so proud of myself)

 

 So here they are on their way home from their day at school. The kids said their walk is a little brutal up hill in 95 degree weather but they made it!

Kode said he had a great day! He really enjoyed riding the bus and the school lunch was great! He ate a hot dog and 2 pieces of fruit! (that's great for him since hes such a picky eater)

He said he thinks he is going to like his teacher and he has a few friends from last year in his class. So that made him feel a little better to go to class. So I think its going to be a good year!! 

 

 So here's Bry! He is somewhat ready for 3rd grade! He on the other hand is not as excited as Kode. He had a rough morning. He actually got out of bed very well. (I was a little concerned cause most of the summer he has been getting out of bed around 11:30. So 7:00 am was asking a lot from him) But after the neighbor kids knocked on the door for Kode he got very emotional. He cried and cried and cried most of the morning. He just wanted to go to school with them. He wanted to ride the bus and he just didn't want to go to the baby school any more. He kept telling me! When it was time to drop him off he really wouldn't say goodbye cause he was a little upset at me. (we have been talking about Kode going to a different school then he goes to now all summer. So its not like this is a new thing) Anyway he had a great day. When I picked him up from school he said he likes his teacher, and he has some friends in his class that he had last year. So all in all its going to be a great year for him to!

 

So when he got home he had some homework to do and I had to fill out some paperwork for the school. Well on a few of the documents he had to sign them to. So I read what he would be signing then asked him if he would sign on the line. He said "no I really don't agree with any of that and I don't want to sign it" I looked at him and started to laugh. Luckily he was just joking. I swear he is Mac's kid. I sure didn't give my parents any flack!

 

Anyway so here begins a new school year! I feel its going to be a good one! 

all ready to go

 Kode is so excited for his first day of school that he has everything ready the night before! Its too funny!!

 

his cloths are laying on his bedroom floor.

(even his watch is ready to be slipped on)

 

his shoes are ready on the stairs. just waiting to be slipped on!

 his backpack is hanging on the chair ready to be grabbed as he walks to the front door!

 

I am so glad he is this excited for school. It makes me happy! I hope he has a great 1st day!

 

Cake Decorating

So I decided to take a cake decorating class at Jo~Anns the other day! I have never really done anything like this before and it was fun. It was a 4 day class. (not 4 days in a row. The classes were spread out over 2 weeks. Which worked out great!) I was not able to attend the very first class. We had some other things going on. Anyway here is what I did in the classes!

First we had to make our own cakes. I didn't read the directions very well and my first batch of cakes flopped. They were a mess when they came out of the oven. This was not a great start to my new found hobby! 

Then I read the directions more carefully and it was amazing how nice the cakes turned out! Then we had a recipe to make our own frosting. The frosting turned out good. I just wish I had the talent that Grandma Paxman has. Her cakes and pastries were to die for!!

 

Anyway, I took the cakes to class and the teacher showed us how to put filling in the middle if we wanted to (I didn't want to cause the kids wont eat the cake if there is filling in the middle) Then the next step was to frost our cake. She showed us a cool way to quickly frost the cake. Then we mixed our own colors in our frosting to decorate our cake.

 

The instructor showed us a few examples of different decorated cakes. So I choose to decorate mine with a fish on it! It was a lot of fun and it really was not all that hard.

When I got home that night from the class the whole neighborhood was over so I fed them each a piece of cake. By then the hole thing was gone. I was so glad. I really didn't want that cake hanging around the house. I really don't need to eat it and I know I would be tempted to have several pieces.

 

 

Class #3

Anyway, our next class we were asked to make a dozen cupcakes. This time the instructor wanted us to fill them with a filling. So I decided to make chocolate cup cakes and use lemon filling. (Yea the boys wont eat anything with filling in them so I just filled 3 of the cupcakes.) I thought that putting a filling into the cake or even the cupcakes was going to be a hard thing, but it really was not hard at all. Then it was time to decorate them.

 

The teacher showed us a few different ways on how to make some flowers. So I practiced on a few of my cupcakes. Decorating cupcakes were lots of fun to.

So the neighbor kids got wind that I was at another cake decorating class. So again they were waiting close to the house for when I came home to have a cupcake. And I was so glad to let them eat them all. I knew that I had another class in a couple of days where I was to make another cake to decorate.

 

Class #4 

So for class #4 we were to bake another cake and make frosting. Then we had to fill it if we wanted to and then frost it before the next class. So I did just that. I was excited for this class. The teacher taught us how to make roses with our frosting. Roses are a little bit tricky to make but I feel I did good. Its amazing what kind of things you can do with frosting and how it changes the look of your cake.I feel that I have learned so much already but there is so much to decorating cakes or cupcakes.

 

 

So this is how my final cake turned out!

I am so glad that I took this class. It was so much fun. Now I am not going to use this cake decorating class as a money maker. I just wanted to learn how to do this to use it as a hobby. I love eat sweets. So now I know how to make my sweets even sweeter.

 (although I have found when I make sweets I really don't want to eat them. So that's a great way to curve that sweet tooth appetite)

 

and here's my certificate for completing course #1

 

So I really enjoyed taking Course 1 so I signed myself up for Course 2. Its not til October but that's OK.

Pretty Fly!!

 So I have been telling Bry for a couple of weeks now that we need to go to the store and get him some new shoes for school. I had already bought Kode some new shoes but Bry has not gotten any new ones. (he just wanted me to go to the store and choose some for him. Aaahhh no I wont just do that. He has to try them on before I purchase anything)  He is just so busy playing with the neighbor kids and cant brake away to go get some new ones. I thought he would be going to school in his old, stinky, worn out high tops. But finally I talked him into going to the store with me to get some new ones.

 

So we got to the store and Bry went straight for the high top area. I am not much for those kind of shoes but he thinks they are way cool! Bry is such a picky person. He has to be stylish and cool. So he tried on about 15 pair of high tops. He found a pair that were very colorful. This is not what I would have chosen but I guess I am not the that has to wear them!

 

 So these were the ones he really wanted but they didn't have it in his size. I was fine with that!!

 

 So then he tried these ones on. He was not much into these ones. So he was off looking for another pair. It could only be high tops though. This kid kills me. I don't ever remember being this picky. Anyway!

 

So finally this is what he decided on and they had one in his size. So after about 1/2 and hour trying on shoes we were off.

 

When we got home Bry went around the neighborhood showing the neighbor kids his new shoes. He came home to tell me that "these shoes are pretty fly MOM! All my friends really like them." Well I guess that is all that natters!! (so he is totally Shawn's kids)