Tree huggers

Rick and Finn's summer project was to build a tree house in the backyard. I have always, always wanted a tree house ever since my childhood obsession with the movie Swiss Family Robinson. Rick felt like every little boy needed a tree house so the building began. Honestly, I had never seen Rick build anything before so my expectations for the tree house were pretty low. It actually turned out pretty great. Rick stained it burnt orange in an homage to the Longhorns and we hung a cow skull and a howdy sign on the door. Finn was hoping to hang a No Girls Allowed sign, but that wouldn't be fair to the little miss.

School is back in session

Wayyyy late on these....but wanted to post some pictures from the kids' first day of school. We were all really sad about summer ending but excited that Finn would get to go see his friends again. Finn was assigned one of the school's sweetest teachers (well, I actually had a little say), but none of his close buddies from last year were in his class. He is still adjusting to not being with his besties, but is making friends in his new class. Sloane fit right in to her new class. She has one of her same teachers and only one of the same classmates. All of her buddies from last year's class moved up to the three year old room. Sloane is now one of the oldest in her classroom and does really well as a leader (of course). Sloane will always do well when she gets to be the boss. Her teachers keep telling me that Sloane is meant to be a big sister and has really shown her compassionate and nurturing side with the younger kids in the class. We will have to see about that...