our little school girl

Today was Grace's first day of school! The school system here starts at age 3, so we thought we'd enroll her, but only 2 days a week. Thanks to ExxonMobil, she gets to attend a fantastic private girls school and her studies will include: classical ballet lessons, Italian, German, & Chinese language classes, art, pottery, music, horticulture, PE, and yoga.

She had a great first day and was as sweet and friendly as could be!

She also has a PE uniform. I'll post pics of her in that next week. It's super cute, too :)

Prince William & The Australian Open

Bruce and I got to go on a fantastic date last night. Thanks to ExxonMobil & its affiliates, we got corporate tickets to The Australian Open and got to watch the world tennis champion, Roger Federer play! How fun is that?! Also, as if the night wasn't already exciting enough, mid-way thru the match in walks Prince William and his Royal Entourage....talk about bringing the house down! I've never heard so much applause in my entire life. It was very exciting - especially because Prince William sat only two sections away from us.

Very, very cool!

Our seats were amazing! Only 4 rows from the court.

Prince William (front row, second from the left of the woman in the orange jacket) and the Royal Entourage all around and behind him.




Roger Federer after his win taking off his sweatband and throwing it into the crowd.

big changes for little girls

Today was a big day for Gracie and Haylee....Grace went to Sunbeams and Haylee braved going to nursery without her big sis. Grace did fantastic in Sunbeams and Haylee did okay without Grace. Her nursery leader said she kept circling the room saying, "Where Grace?" I'm sure she'll be fine within the next couple weeks of church.

Here's us right before I took them into Primary:

Gracie the Sunbeam! I asked her after church if she had fun in her class and she said, "Sure! I had fun and I not pee pee in my undies!" What a big girl :)

gets me every time...

We've lived here almost two years now and I still get a good laugh at the sale prices:

grace's birthday party

i still can't believe my baby gracie is 3!! we had a really fun birthday party for her at our friends, the stewart's, house. we had a yummy bbq dinner, a choo-choo train cake, and lots of swimming in their pool! i love my big 3 year old!

i love that miss haylee is helping blow out the candles

opening presents...haylee got some, too :)

ava was such a happy little party girl! she's such a good baby

i love this! what's so sweet about it is that grace put her arm around bruce before i took the picture. what a sweetie!!!

her most favorite present...her first jewlery box! she loves it so much. it's a wind-up music box and the little ballerina dances to swan lake. grace thinks the ballerina is amazing! very cute.