Cliches

I wonder how many cliches I can use in this post. How about 'where did the summer go?' or 'they grow up so fast' but seriously, cliches exist for a reason. Really, where did the summer go? Yesterday I walked into the extended day office to sign Kieffer out and it felt like I had never stopped going.

I can also remember bringing both of them home from the hospital and here we are almost 7 years later. I couldn't be any prouder of the two of them. I think God rewarded me with the best kids in the World because I took on the Dwayne project. Just kidding Dwayne :D

Here are a couple of pics. from their first day of school (school year 2009-2010).

Hard to believe that Kayla is starting pre-K and Kieffer is headed into the first grade. Where has the summer gone? What's also hard to believe is how two kids can be so different in personality when they've essentially been raised the same.

I had no idea how much my mom loved me until I had kids of my own.

I've been very neglectful of this blog lately. I can only blame it on the craziness of life right now. However, I have still been taking pictures and searching for fun, cheap things to do. With how hot it has been this summer, we've been doing alot of swimming and going to the beach. Of course, since my last post, we've had Kieffer's last day of school (cowboy day), Kayla's 4th birthday and our ultrasound of baby #3 (which we've decided not to find out what it is :D)

So I totally blew my 'what can we do for free' this past weekend. We went to Disney... enough said :D However, my mom and sister flew down from NY so we had to go. For the most part I don't regret leaving NY to move to FL; but I do miss my mom. Here are some pics from our trip.

So this weekend we deviated from the 'free' philosophy; however the activities were 'relatively inexpensive'. Saturday we went to the Jacksonville zoo. We are zoo members so we didn't have to pay to get in but we do have to pay once a year for this priveledge. It was a members only preview weekend so we got to see the new kimodo dragon exhibit. The jax zoo is really nice. Saturday night we went to the monster truck show. We sat in the $15 seats and I don't think there's a bad seat in the house. The show was great, especially the halftime show where the junker cars pulled trailers and raced. So funny!!

This past weekend we went to the mounted cowboy shooting competition at the Jacksonville Equestrian Center and it was pretty cool. Definitely recommend it.

Sunday we went to the Palencia park that has the wooden ship playground. I vote this the best park in Jacksonville.... although do not recommend spinning your kids on the tire swing until they both throw up.

This past weekend we headed to Washington Oak Garden State Park, which has a neat coquina shell beach instead of sand. However, the drive is a bit far and I'm not sure if we would go back.

The pictures of the pier were taken at sunrise in Jacksonville Beach.