Busy, Busy!

I cannot believe September is almost over. Justin in seventh grade, Eric in 1st, Hadley my kinder and Madilynn she's in the "terrible twos' Class. Madilynn and I just got back from a trip to the dr's for a stubborn head cold and I walked out with a diagnosis of Rheumatoid (sp) Arthritis. I'm shocked, but it explains so much of my pain and life over the last 2.5 years.I'm certainly going to learn all I can to keep my body in the best shape it can be.

On a side note, last night at bedtime I was admiring Marc's dedication to the kids and reading the book of Mormon stories to them. It was so cute. Madilynn sure gave daddy bunches of love afterwards in appreciation! :)

Sanctuary

Today I was able to get out and go to the bird and wildlife refuge. My girls love going and are learning that if they are quiet the birds stick around. We saw Herons, blackbirds, pipers, dunlins,deer and all sorts of others. I love it! Here are a few pictures from our drive.

More hairdos

>Well, today I finally realized I wasn't going to be able to afford a professional cut and color, SO I did both myself. Tell me what you think, be honest! :)
Terrible blurry picture by the way :) Deleted the picture, I decided it was too embarrassing!

Haircuts and Hairdo's

Today I started cutting Hadley's hair and got so frustrated, every time I would snip she would move it was getting shorter and shorter. So I called my friend Heidi who is a hairdresser we ran down the street bare feet and all and got Hadley's hair fixed which turned out quite cute!

I also put Madilynn's hair up in her first set of real piggytails! Adorable aren't they?!

Eric is getting along well at school. His teachers said she sees lots of imporvements over the summer and feels confident he'll makes a lot of social improvements this year. Not that Autism goes away, but they can learn coping mechanisms :)

Fall is officially here in our home

Eric started school yesterday-he's not so happy about it. He was so tired when he got home at 12 that his eyes were rolling back in his head when I was talking to him asking him questions about his first day as first grader.

Hadley is anxiously awaiting starting school on the 10th. She's excited about taking her own lunches. I however wonder if she's going to survive a full day of school without at least one of her famous screams.

I have a lot of photo work to do so I suppose I must go and take care of that so I can feel and be productive today! :)

Third Attempt

Here is my third attempt at a blog for our family. My friend Kymberly was trying to help me, but low and behold she was instructing me on this site and I had signed up at another site :) Wow!

Life has been fun and busy. Today was was fun, Eric, Hadley and I went to a bbq at Kymberly & Mac's while Marc stayed home and set up the swing set for the kids. They are soooo excited! Thank you Kymberly!

Yesterday I had fun taking pictures for the McIntosh clan, it was a lot of fun and super good experience for me! :)

Well tomorrow is the first day of school for Eric so I had better go and make sure we have everything we need.

Night~