First Day of 1st Grade

New Do

Yesterday Abigail and I had a mommy-daughter date. I'm hoping to make it a new Back-to-School tradition. First we went to the salon to have our hairs cut by our cute friend, Kristin, who used to be our neighbor and Abigail's Primary teacher, and whom Abigail adores. I think having Kristin do our hair aided in the confidence level remaining high for Abigail to cut her hair short. She had been saying for a week or so that she wanted to do something different and have it "short for once." I was pleased, since she doesn't like to have her hair brushed and it was getting rather nasty with the chlorine and summer sun build up. So she didn't chicken out! And look how cute she looks! (For Alec: you must act surprised when you get home, because she wants to see if you recognize her or if you think she is a neighbor or something.)For lunch after our haircuts Abigail picked "Subway: Eat Fresh" (this is what Abigail calls it, and she was so offended once when her cousin Matthew called it "Subway: Eat Gross"). As another side note, she always orders the Seafood Sensation (imitation crab meat) sandwich. They never know how to ring it up at the register because she gets it in a kids pack, and they don't have a button for that combination apparently. As we walked to the car after lunch, we decided that we had never actually been to lunch just the two of us.

To round out our little date, we went to the mall to find some new sneakers and an outfit for her first day of first grade. She picked out an adorable little knit dress with apples on it and a watch to match. I'm sure we'll have photos of it next week.

As we pulled into the garage after our date, I said the usual date things. "That was so much fun, we should definitely do it again." To which she replied, somewhat unenthusiastically, "Yeah, next year."

Poof!

I'm sick of the computer. It seems as though every time I sit down in front of it, time suddenly vanishes. The Internet has this mesmerizing mind control over me where I can't seem to remember why I sat down to look something up in the first place. How is it that I sat down at least 45 minutes ago to shop for socks for Abigail, and yet none of my open tabs would indicate this? I have my Gmail inbox up and Google Reader of course. But I also have tabs open for overstock.com (not to find socks, but a leather ottoman I've been desiring) and HGTV's website is open to an article on staging your home for sale (not that I'm moving, just for decorating info from a show I saw). Anyway, my question is this...does this happen to anyone else, or am I just simply absent-minded and hypnotized by the inviting glow of the computer screen?

Newport Beach with the Walker Fam

Spending the week at Newport Beach with Alec's family last week was wonderful! Here are some highlights....

Alec's brother, Peter.

Alec's sister, Sarah.

The boys (Alec's Dad, brother-in-law Tyler, and Alec) staking out a prime spot in between the pool and kiddie pool for cribbage and other card games.

Abigail demonstrating the starfish.

Pops taking photos.

Owen hard at work.

Like father like son.

Flying kites.

Searching for shells with Grammy.

The Mud-Slinger.

We tried to get the kids out the wet sand for a photo, but Nate just kept crawling back to the water.

We had so much fun. Can't wait until next time! Thanks, Grammy and Pops!!