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My super cool sister-in-law, Kelli, took pictures of Allie and Luke when we visited them in Carson City a couple months ago. She put Allie’s photos on her blog and Luke’s will probably be up tomorrow. Check out her Photography blog. I LOVE the pictures she took! She really knows how to capture their personalities. She is so much fun and my kids adore her. Thanks Kelli for sharing your amazing talent with us.

This is officially my last year with my little girl before she goes to all day kindergarten. I’m getting a glimpse of what it will be like now that she is in preschool 3 days a week for 4 hours. She had her first official preschool day today and although I couldn’t get much out of her on how the day went, I think she had a great time.

It was really weird not having her home. I should have gotten a lot done but somehow I didn’t. I found myself watching the time pass wondering what Allie was doing then, if she was enjoying it and if she was getting along with the other kids. I did, however, blog while she was gone (two blogs in one day…what the?) Anyway, hopefully I’ll become more efficient and productive with my time while she is gone so that I can focus on her when she gets home. Luke naps in the morning so I will be getting a lot of “me” time (although I’m not sure how long that will last since he is going from two to one nap).

Here is my sweetheart right before preschool:

Things I learned (I’m a novice at this preschool parenting stuff):
Send her with socks: she hated getting sand in her shoes at the playground and they wouldn’t allow her to take her shoes off.
Get her a backpack: she came home with like 10 different papers/flyers.
Pay tuition before the 10th: I just assumed that they would take the tuition on the FIRST day of school with out any fees, but I was wrong. It was due YESTERDAY! I was a little embarrassed and frustrated that I had to pay a late fee as were five other parents who assumed the same thing.

All in all, it was a good day for both of us and we are excited for the preschool year.

Here are some photos of our trip to Sacramento, Carson City and San Diego last month. For some reason, I didn’t get a whole lot of pictures from our reunion in San Diego (so family members, please feel free to send me some). I was having too much fun to get the camera out. Anyway, we had a wonderful summer. Allie started preschool today and will go 3 days a week. She’s super excited about it. Maybe I’ll have more time to blog. Don’t bet money on it though.