Back to School and Anniversary Weekend

School started up again on Wednesday this week, and the kids were rip-roarin' ready to go!  Grayson, especially, was excited to get started at Valor and learn what his new school would be like.  As Monica has wonderfully done every year, we got out the first day of school board and snapped a picture of the kids.  Here they all are Wednesday morning.

For the first day, kindergarten had a special late drop off so that parents could get out of the cars with their kids.  We all went after Monica dropped Winry off at school, and got to snag a picture with Grayson before saying goodbye.  I believe we were the very last kindergarten family to get there, and as soon as they took this picture for us they started taking down the backdrop.

Grayson has been loving school, his new class, and his teachers.  He is all in and happy to be there.  Winry has been having an okay time, but has been bored by the slow start as everyone gets back into the swing of things.

Our anniversary is on Monday of next week, so we aimed to do a little celebrating over the weekend.  The Packers were gracious enough to watch our kids overnight, so after school we dropped them all off there.  I had put together a few plans for the evening, but in the end Monica's back was hurting a lot from all the school driving through the week, so we ended up having a stay-cation.  Friday night we went out to dinner, and then stopped at Randall's to get fruit roll ups for a dessert surprise that night.  We also saw a box of assorted clearance pastries, and grabbed those for breakfast.  That plus some other things we had at home made the amazing spread you see before us here.

The next morning we went and tried a new mini-golf placed called Pop Golf.  It's just new to the area, they have them other places.  It's like minigolf, but all the holes are designed to look like regular golf holes.  No windmills or anything crazy like that, and it was a lot of fun.  Also, they had misting fans everywhere and I think we NEED some of those for our back porch.

Monica scored our first hole in one for the day.

And I was able to scrape one out on the second to last hole.

There were actually 2 courses, and we played them both back to back.  It's like an unlimited play day pass kind of place.  We had a lot of fun, and I'd definitely go again.  They also had this jumbotron you could see from everyone on the courses, and the holes were supposed to have automatic hole-in-one detection and it would show your video up there.  I don't think it actually recognized either of ours though, as the hole-in-one's for the day didn't go up after we were there.  There was also a leaderboard, that frankly, I shouldn't have been on.

We picked the kids up a little later in the afternoon, and then things have been pretty normal since then.  Just church and getting ready for a new week of school.  See ya on the other side.