Dear Santa

Mackenzie has already written her letter to Santa and sealed it in an envelope.
(I had to open it.) This is what she wrote:

XOXOX
DeAR SANtA
FoR CRiSMAS
i WANt A FURBY
A GAMe BOY
With A CARtRAGe
A BiG CARe BeAR
ANOtheR MY LitteL
PONY Set. im SORRy
i SteeLd CANDY
i CANt heLP it
LOVe MACKeNZie

Hut, Hut, Hike!

School has started and so have the sports. Matt's playing flag football, but they wear equipment. Not for protection, but cuz they look so darn cute in it! Everyone's playing soccer. The girl's are in Brownies and Christina wants to sign up for karate, swimming, cheerleading, basketball and lacrosse.

First Day of School

Everyone was ready to go at 8:00 a.m. this morning, but first bell doesn't ring until 9:15. Okay, we weren't the only ones there really early. We deposited Mackenzie at her classroom first with a 5-second goodbye (or else one of us was going to start crying), then got Matthew to his room and Courtney right across the hall to hers. Christina insisted we go back outside and enter again where the 3rd graders go in (even though it added another half mile to our trek to find her classroom.) On the way back John and I peeked in at the 1st grade classes to find Mackenzie happy and smiling, Courtney sitting next to her old pal Brandon and Matthew having a scissor fight with the boy next to him.

We went CaMPiNG!!!

Yes, we got John out in the woods and sleeping in a tent! The kids loved it, and the campground was close to Atlantis Marine World and right by the Big Duck.