Luke's first day of first grade

It was Luke's first day of 1st grade today. I can't believe he is old enough to be in first grade! He switched schools this year so he now goes to Southland Elementary, which will be fun because a lot of the boys his age in the neighborhood go there. He is starting the Chinese immersion program and I am excited to see how he likes it. He will have two teachers, one for the English half of the day and one for the Chinese half. His English teacher's name is Mrs. Chapman and his Chinese teacher is Ms. McGeary. I have heard great things about both teachers. 

It is going to be so weird having him gone all day now! I will definitely miss my guy and having him home with me. Halle and I took him to school and waited out by his line for his teacher to come get the class and take them inside. I may have shed a few tears as he walked off into the school with his class. Halle was confused at why I was crying :). My boy is growing up!

Growing up

Luke starts first grade tomorrow. I can't believe it! He is growing up so fast. I'm sad he will be gone at school all day now and don't know what I'll do without him! But I am excited for him, too. It's so fun watching him grow up and I'm always sad to have him move onto new stages, but every stage is fun and I love watching him learn and grow. 

Yesterday while Halle was at preschool Luke and I had a few hours to ourselves so I told him we would go to a fun ice cream place for a special mommy/son afternoon before he starts school again. We went to Leatherbys in Draper and Luke really enjoyed his giant cookie ice cream sunday! 

I sure love my boy. 

It's a...

BOY and GIRL!

We are all so excited!

Cory and I found out what they were at the ultrasound but kept it a secret until that night. To make it fun for the kids we had some cupcakes made up at a bakery, one with a blue filling for the boy and one with pink filling for the girl. My family was also there. We ate dinner and then let the kids both chose one of the two gender reveal cupcakes. We didn't know which was which - it just so happened that Luke chose the boy cupcake and Halle chose the girl cupcake. Then we told them to takes bites and show us what they found out. Yay! It was so fun and the kids were both so excited. 

I was really hoping they would be boy/girl. This way Luke and Halle both get what they wanted...Of course Luke wanted a brother and Halle wanted a sister. Luke especially would have been disappointed I'd he didn't get a brother, and I'm so glad Halle will get to have a sister. And I really thought it would be fun to have the experience of having both a boy and a girl again. Plus, I think having them boy/girl this takes away a lot of the "twin rivalry" worries. Of course we would have been happy with any outcome, but we couldn't be more happy with this news :). So fun! Can't wait for a new brother and sister to join our family. 

Daddy's work party

Cory's work had a summer party tonight at Sugarhouse park. We ate yummy BBQ food for dinner and had root beer floats. Then afterward they had some fun games for the kids like gunny sack races, fishing for toys, and a haystack candy/toy dive. The kids had lots of fun! Luke is so competitive, in the gunny sack race he won! Then whoever was in charge realized the littler kids needed to be broke into a separate group, so they had another race for 5 years and under, and Halle won that! What can I say, our kids are just so athletic :). 

Bike riding

Having fun watching Luke ride his bike over dirt jump hills in the empty lot across the street and cracking up while he hums his own theme music to himself as he goes, in between repeatedly assuring me "mom, this is completely safe!"

Fun temple

Today Luke spent a lot of time building a "fun temple."  I thought it was very cute and creative. It has a pool, a diving board, and a gold basketball man statue, just like there's an angel Moroni on the LDS temples. Also, as you will see from the sign, inside the temple we must be reverent :). He has such a great imagination.