~Kiara's First Day of Kindergarten~

We'd been waiting and waiting and the big day was finally here...Kiara woke up bright and early, ate her special breakfast in bed (Mom's bed...lol) and before you knew it, we were tying her new, much anticipated....and long-coveted Sporty Shorty's and were out the door, heading for the bus-stop around the corner. Kiara had been apprehensive about riding the bus, but I had encouraged her to try it just once...not aware of what we would face later on in the day...

Kiara's favorite, scrambled eggs with cheese melted on top, sausage, toast and fresh peaches...Yum!!

My little diva is so funny when it comes to clothes...she has to look "just so"...she always wants to look like a "ROCK STAR"! lol

Waiting for the bus to arrive.

k Mom, here I go....

Her first bus-ride ever!!



She got to the school all in one piece, yay!!

Now safely headed for her classroom, I could head out on my morning walk... Have fun Kiara!

So upon getting home from my walk I realized it was about time to head to the bus-stop around the corner from our house to pick up Kiara. I called the bus garage and they told me the bus would arrive at about 11:50..I headed there and was there at 11:45 just in case. There was one other lady there, waiting for her granddaughter. We waited...and waited...and waited...and then I started to worry a little bit. So, we called the bus garage...at this point, it was 12:30...they informed us that the bus had left, it was bus #72 and our girls were both on it and it would be there in 15 mins. Immediately after that, bus #72 flew past and there were no kids on it!! Well, 30 mins later, no bus...we finally got our girls, but by the time they arrived, they had been on the bus for 1 and a half hours!! It was sure an exhausting day for Kiara...and she isn't so sure she wants to ride the bus anymore. Hopefully, the bus drivers get used to their routes and I can get Kiara to ride again! All in all, Kiara had a great day and LOVES kindergarten!!

New House=Lots of Landscaping!

So we love our new home, but when we moved in, the backyard, enclosed by a wall, had 5 feet of tumbleweeds stacked  throughout just about the entire yard. In fact, when we would open the backdoor, we couldn't even get outside....the weeds were actually taller than me and I'm almost 6 feet tall!

I should have taken a picture, but I was so irritated by the sight of it, I could never bring myself to do it. I decided to have a "weed burning day"...so I literally burned weeds for almost 6 hours one day and took care of all the tumbleweeds at one time...What a huge job!! But as you can imagine, underneath the tumbleweeds was just about 100million weeds just waiting for the sunlight to hit them so that they could have their turn of taking over my yard!

So, for the rest of the 3 months that we've lived here, I have dug and dug and pulled and pulled weeds until I was about to go crazy! I had been trying to decide if I should put in a sprinkler system, but quickly decided that I could just wait until next year to do that...thanks to some wonderful friends, Kiko and Kelli Arvizu for letting me use their trailor, and Jason and Caitlin Robison for letting me use their tiller, I was able to prepare my ground for some much needed lawn.....So I bought over 500sq feet of sod and took a morning to lay it. It turned out pretty good...not perfect, but way better than the dirt and weeds that had been such an eyesore...what a difference a little bit of lawn can make!

We are enjoying our lawn...makes the yard feel so much larger...YIPEE!!

A New School Year....Lani 3rd Grade, Kiara Kindergarten...Where has the time gone?

So here we are starting the 2011-2012 school year and it's hard to believe my Lani is already in the 3rd grade!! Seems like just yesterday that she was getting on the school bus for the first time. I was lucky to be able to be with her this year for the first school day, because now we live in Cedar City again and I was able to buy a home literally down the road from where Gene and Lani live! So, I was lucky enough to be able to help her get her hair just right before driving both Lani and Kiara to their school...loved every minute of it! This is the reason I moved back here...to be with my little Lani more...

Kiara is also starting Kindergarten this year, so she went to school for her Kindergarten Welcome Day. I cannot believe my baby is starting school!! She has been ready for school since she was 2yrs old...she could say the Pledge of Allegiance and knew all her numbers and letters then, but I didn't realize just how fast the time would fly and I would be getting her ready to catch the bus for school! I'm so thankful we were able to move back to Cedar and find our home so that the girls could be closer to one another and attend the same school...

I am so thankful for my girls...I am truly the luckies Mom in the world to have the two best kids ever....I LOVE YOU LANI AND KIARA!