251 My, How You Have Grown!

The DQ got her school pictures today. I can't believe how grown up she looks!!!

She is growing into such a beautiful young woman.

And on the topic of growing up, she is off at her first night time babysitting job! She was really excited to do it. Luckily she's a street away if anything goes wrong, but I am fully confident tonight will be a success!

250 Like I Needed a Reason

The LT offered cookies to someone in his office as a thank you. The Cpt declined, saying "Na, no worries" to which the LT replied, "My wife was going to make these pumpkin chocolate chip..." "Ok, sure!" (before the LT could even finish the sentence.

So I happily obliged since I don't have to send all of the cookies into the office.

These are my absolute favorites and I am so excited that it's fall and pumpkin is back en vouge for the season!

(If you want some of these delicious bites for yourself, you can find the recipe here.)

249 Scientifically Minded

We ventured out to the Columbus Public Library today. I can't believe we've lived here a whole year and this is the first we've visited it. It's a beautiful library and the girls are excited to come back each week.

When we got home, Bean decided to go outside to observe things, and the DQ started reading a book she picked up today.

I love how much initiative they are taking already!!

248 Big Change

After much thought and deliberation, we have decided to homeschool the girls.

Something I swore I was never capable of.

The main reason behind it is that there is a strong possibility that with all the moving this year, the girls would be in three different schools.

We wanted to have some sort of consistency. 

We weren't going to start right away, but they were really excited, and didn't want to go to school today, so we started today!

247 Happy Birthday!

We celebrated with the girls' favorite non-family babysitter and church teacher today. Her birthday was last week, but Labor Day made for a fun BBQ/gathering day.

246 Neighborhood Gathering

Our great neighbors across the street (who also happen to be in our ward) invited us over for a cookout this evening. They were feeding the missionaries, so they invited pretty much the whole street to come too.

One neighbor (who also is in our ward) has mad decorating skills and brought a huge chocolate chip cookie all decked out in red, white, and blue for a certain presidential candidate.

It was beautiful and delicious.

And the company was great too!

245 Ch, Ch, Cha Changes...

I've been doing a lot of sorting lately... preparing for some changes about to happen in our house...