College Grove Elementary Fall Festival

We attended the kids' school's Fall Festival this past weekend. Wow! We had so much fun! Our PTO did an amazing job! The kids had been looking forward to the festival for weeks and they weren't disappointed.

One of the kids' classmates, Hannah, had her birthday party right before the festival. By night's end, we were beyond worn out!!!

When I have ever dreamed about what a nice, big farm in the rolling hills of Tennessee looked like, Hannah's place would be it. Amazing!!!

 Snow White on the left (Reagan) held her own with the jousting

I did the very best I knew I could do with volunteering. I held the fort down with the Duck Pond... for 30 minutes:-)

Amy handled her 30 pretty well;-)

Ms. Kandace loves her cowgirl boots just as much as Reagan does!

How cool is this icee truck? You get to put all the flavors on yourself!

One of the mom's at school is a photographer and had a set available for free pics! 

 Reagan and Addison

Reagan and Griffin

The night wouldn't have been complete without a little face paint.

The night ended with an awesome fireworks display over the school. Someone on the PTO must have friends in all the right places!

Adventure Science Center

A couple weeks ago, we visited the Adventure Science Center in Nashville. This was not your average, run of the mill museum. This place was awesome!!! Hunter was purely in his element. Reagan, not much of a science fan, had a great time as well!

Bible Verse

Hunter and Reagan have learned their very first bible verse. We found a church that we LOVE and it was the very first church we tried. Their kids program blows me away. It doesn't hurt that worship feels like we're sitting front and center at a concert. Gotta love musical talent living around Nashville:-)

More progress!

Ahhhh it's so awesome seeing the house going up. What I can't figure out is how December is going to get here fast enough?!?!

Walls going up!

Second floor baby!

 Back of house. We really aren't going to know what to do with ourselves not having ANY houses behind us!

House progress

It has started!!! It's so exciting! We've had three homes so far but, we've never had the opportunity to build a house just like we want it. On the exact lot we want! We actually found the neighborhood that we're building in by a google search...when we didn't even know we were moving to TN! It was just on a dream search. One of those web searches that Ryan and I would do at least once a week. Usually on the back patio over a few margaritas. We loved it! We knew we had to do our research once we actually moved here so the kids and I put at least 400 miles on our rental car back in July looking all around Franklin and Nolensville. Nope. Nothing. Nothing compared.

So here we are!! I do have to admit, this is a very exciting process to watch:-)

August 4th

One happy family!

August 17th 

Footings poured!

August 20th

Foundation started!!

Kindergarten!!!

Hunter and Reagan started Kindergarten! As I'm sure every single parent of a Kindergartner asks, I will also...where did the time go??? Seriously! I know before I know it, I'll be dropping them off for middle school. That thought just scares me:-(

They both have different teachers. It's the first time in their lives that they've been apart in a classroom. Hunter doesn't seem to mind but Reagan doesn't like it at all. She not only misses Hunter in class with her but, she really misses her best friend and cousin Trevor. This transition has been much harder on those two (Reagan and Trevor) than I ever thought it would:-(

Okay, okay... on to happier talk!!! The kids are attending College Grove Elementary School which is our zoned school for where we will live once our house is done. I couldn't be more excited about how awesome their school is! It's K-5 with only 270 students. Reagan has 16 kids in her class and Hunter has 17. There are only two Kindergarten classrooms. Gotta love that student/teacher ratio!!

Hunter with Mrs. Richey

Reagan with Ms. Coley

Hunter said to me this morning: "I wish I had Ms. Coley for a teacher." Of course I assumed it's because Reagan is in her class but I still asked him why. He answered: "Because she's soooo cute!" HA!

We made it!

Well... actually we made it here a week and 2 days ago:-) So far, I have to admit, it's been pretty exciting. Other than the lovely apartment living, it's been a bit like being on vacation. Thankfully we got to move to a place that has TONS to offer and visit and see. Most of my time has been spent getting these two kiddos ready for their first days of Kindergarten. Reagan starts this Thursday and Hunter starts Friday. WHOA!!!

Here's some pics from their last weekend before school doing some touristy stuff. Thank goodness for weekends!!

Caney River 

Grand Ole Opry!!! CAN'T wait for a show!!!

Aquarium Restaurant