Back to school

The kids are back in school. Megan is in kindergarten, Ryan in 2nd, Annie in 3rd and Rachel in 6th grade, her first year at middle school.

 Megan has been looking forward to kindergarten for so long. This is the first year they're doing the full day kinder in our school district and I thought that might be a little hard on her since she's kind of a momma's girl and doesn't like it when I leave for mutual or other meetings. But she's been loving it so much.

 One of the biggest things she was looking forward to was riding the bus. I stopped taking her to the bus stop last school year because she would cry every time we walked home saying she wanted to ride the bus.

 She was a little upset that I took them to school the first day and she couldn't ride the bus. So when the bus came the next day she was super ready to get on.

With Megan in school all day, my days have opened up quite a bit. I thought I would have more free time than I do. Funny how days fill up fast. Between volunteering two different days in the kids classes (one per week per class), other volunteer needs at the schools, teacher appreciation committee, grocery and other shopping, YW meetings, going to the temple, workout group, and now Ukelele club, I'm home a lot less than I thought I'd be.

The first week of school we had a group of ladies, mostly ones that go to workout group, go to the Beads of Courage office to make monkey beads. It was a lot of fun and some of them did a really great job, being creative and all. I did the standard one they showed us how to do and called it good enough since I'm not super artsy. I think maybe one of the green and yellow ones was mine? We did 5-10, but when we took the picture many were still in the oven baking.

 The Saturday after school started, Peyton got baptized. We love having cousins close by so we can attend baptisms and such.