Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Zing! Zang! Zoom!

Last night the girls got to go to the opening night of the circus! This year is I think better then any other year because the girls were able to really get into it! And everything is still very magical to both of them :D We got there early enough where we could go down onto the floor and watch things up really close. Charle just loved the clowns and Rachel loved "the pretty lady on the ropes." We had a lot of fun :)We got back to our seat to wait for the show to start and as you can see were very excited to be at the circus! Once again they both got their own seats sure that ended up being a waste of money but thats okay! (Both girls fell asleep at the end of ths show haha)
Charle LOVED the elephants expecially when they stood up and put their front legs on eachothers backs she just thought that was the coolest thing she has ever seen! As you cann see from her face above she was very excited by them :) My favorite part by far was just watching the girls :) Mainly Charle she got into it a lot more then Rachel did. It was such a great time and I hope that we can go again next year!

Kindergarten

My "baby" is now in Kindergarten. Here she is on her very first day of school! Which was yesterday the 10th :) She was so excited to go!Its a new bus driver this year not our favorite Ms. Anne but thats okay :) SHe also ridea anew bus this year seems like there has been a lot of changes this year for her! Here she is getting on the bus!Charle girl is VERY upset that she didnt get to go to 'chool on the bus. So Im going to be doing some homeschooling with her. She did get to eat her lunch out of a lunch bag though! ANd that of course was really cool and fun!

Rachel really enjoyed her first day of school and she says shes one of the only kids that didnt get ANY frowny faces. (you get frowny faces for not being good) this of course makes me soooo proud of her. She is in class with her besteset friend Hailey and she has made a few new ones too she just doesnt remeber any of their names :)

The Kangaroo Petting Zoo!!!!

One of the really cool attractions here in Arlington is the Outback Petting Zoo! This place is just amazing has a bunch of super cool animals! And you get to go and pet and feed almost all of them! Click here for more information on it:) One of the fun little things if you dance the dance from Madagascar you get to feed these little guys. They are called "leaping" lemurs. Rachel and her cousin Katie danced the best so here's Rachel feeding one of them.
Here Rachel and CHarle are feeding a Wallabee...you can buy these from them! The girls plan to ask Santa for one....sadly Santa doesnt have these at the North Pole though! They sure do like feeding them and petting and hugging them it is so cool . I'll admit I love doing it too they are so soft! I think if we owned a house Santa might just have one in the North Pole someday ;)Spending the day with the cousins is the best part I think! Here they are petting a wallabee.They also got to feed Alpacas....you do it by putting food in your mouth and they take it out of your mouth! This was a favorite :)

Granny and Grandpa's!

In August we went to go visit Granny and Grandpa Hawkins in New York! The girls each got to sit in their very own seat on the plane which of course is just the coolest thing in the whole world! Even better then that we rode JetBlue which gives you your very own TV to watch! So they got to pick anything to watch and it didnt have to be the same thing!

They also got to pick fresh corn from Grandps'a garden! This was I think their favorite thing to do besides go to the lake LOL. My girls are both corn lovers! One night Charle ate 2 whole ears of corn and Rachel ate 3!! They even got to attempt to shuck the corn with Grandpa. Which was fun for them too :P
I think the coolest thing is Granny and Grandpa live in a barn! This is the back view but from looking at it from teh front you wouldnt know anyone lives there! It is really cool and just a beautiful place to play and live!
Another fun thing was going to the lake. Great Grandma and Great Grandpa Hawkins have a cottage on Kueka Lake. So we went down there almost everyday to swim, have a picnic and even eat down there. Both the girls were so brave! They would go out and swim with just wings on! They loved it and just had so much fun! They can't wait to go back to the lake again next summer! Its all they talk about still!