It's the most wonderful time of the year

This weekend marked the beginning of football season!!!!! This is the day we have been waiting for all summer. Everyone got up and dressed in their best Gator attire and sat down to watch the game. The girls learned how to celebrate a touchdown (something we didn't get much practice with last year) and the good guys one this week. Hopefully the rest of the year goes the same way.

 Doing the touchdown celebration!

The final celebration after another Gator victory.

First day of Shining Star Preschool!

Allie started her last year of preschool this year at Shining Star preschool with Miss Lori.  To say that she was excited would be an understatement. 

 She goes Tuesday through Thursday from noon to 2:30. 

 It is crazy to think that she will be a full-time elementary school girl next year!  She asks all the time when she will be able to start kindergarten, I think she will be so ready.

 This picture is significant in 2 ways - it shows our new van we bought so I didn't have to ride my bike in 115 degree weather 9 months pregnant to take Allie to school and it is the last picture of me before I had Miles, about 3 weeks later. 

Here's to an awesome year at school!

We were a slipin' and a sliddin'

Well it was time for the yearly Phelps family slip n slide event. This is one of the highlights of the back to school season, and everyone was ready for the fun. Unfortunately this year, Rach was not able to participate in the festivities (since she felt that sliding down a giant hill on her belly was a bad idea when 8 months pregnant). That meant that I had to be the designated slip n slide pusher (since the girls can't seem to figure out how to run and slide down a giant slide by themselves).

This is how I spent half of the evening. 

Pushing my children down the hill.

 

I guess on the plus side it was a good work out.

 Later they decided that it would be better if I went down with them 

(that way they could go a little faster).

Eventually they discovered that superman style was by far the fastest way down the hill!

(Don't worry, we only took out a few kids on the way down)

We spent the other half of the night using dad as a human toboggan!

It is a good thing these girls are so cute, otherwise I would not have been up for all that sliding.

It was a wonderful FHE with family.

Laundry Fail to Dress Success

One day I left the laundry in the washer a bit too long and I had our library book bag in it which has a green bottom of a white bag.  Well, I guess that fabric wasn't color-fast because it stained one of Mike's work shirts and after like 8 more washes and everything else I could think of, it still was stained green on some parts.  Well, me being one not to waste a good piece of fabric, I transformed it into a dress for Allie only using the fabric from the shirt.  Not to toot my own horn, I can't help it, I love it! I took the original collar from the shirt and used that and used the original hem as well.  I took my time with this one and made sure all seams were finished correctly and it is really cute!

(we are now at the awkward smiling stage of childhood) :)

First Day of Dance Class

Allie loves dancing, as in we have multiple dance sessions a day at our house just for fun.  She really wanted to do ballet like Angelina Ballerina so we signed her up for a combo dance class at Jeanne's school of dance which has 20 min of tap, 25 min ballet, & 15 min tumbling with her teacher miss Jennifer. She was SOOO excited for her class and kept asking every day if it was dance day.  She now knows that it is the day after Sunday.  Monday is now known as dance day.