Little Gym

So Aly had her first gymnastics class at The Little Gym last night. We took a break from the mommy and me gymnastics class we were doing in Dacula to try soccer in July. She did the 8 weeks of soccer but didn't really like it. She had some good days but most of the time she wasn't really interested, but we tried and we finished it!!!

So we decided to start gymnastics again. The place in Dacula didn't have any classes for her at this age that would work for us and work schedules so I started looking around. Shannon's daughter goes to the little gym in Snellville and they are really happy there so we thought we would give it a shot.

She is in a class called the Funny bugs and there are about 13 kids in there. She has to do this one without me so I wasn't sure how that was going to go but to my surprise she did awesome! She went right in, listened and followed directions and had a great time. We can sit outside and watch through the window. She ran over to the window a few times to tell me how good she was doing!! It was precious!!! They have themes each week with things to do and this week was the construction site. So they had to pick a tool to use and Aly picked the saw and they built a pool!! It was really cute. I like how they are engaging other skills with the gymnastics! I think it’s going to be a great place for her!!!! Here are a few pictures I took last night:

 

 

Charleston Sept. 2012

Well as most of your know, my sister and her family moved to Charleston, SC in June of this year. We were all so so sad to see them go but we were all excited for the change and new adventures it meant for them. They are all doing really well. Alex started kindergarden and is loving it (they have a super big sand box, LOL) and Asher is doing well at his new school too. Paige is liking her school and the new material teaching regular ed this year. Brandt is at a body shop down there and is doing well, but still wanting to work on his cooking.

We planned to go down there over labor day weekend so we could have an extra day to catch up. We got there Friday afternoon after a pretty good, short 5 hour drive and had lunch in charleston before we headed to their house (we went to a place called Fuel Charleston, it was on diners, drive ins and dives, it was really good!). 

We got to paiges and got unloaded and waited for them to get home. The boys were so excited to see Aly, Alex ran right past me and went straight to her. They all missed there cousins!! They did so great all weekend playing together. We let Aly sleep in there room too so it was a pretty cool treat for all of them. Saturday night we had a baby sitter over to the house so the adults could go out and have some fun. We went to a place called Reds for dinner. It was a huge bar on the water and had really good food. It was the first weekend of college football so there was plenty of football on and tons of people around watching it. We drove to down town Charleston after dinner and went to another bar and just had some drinks and chatted.  Sunday we went to the beach in the morning and let the kiddo play. It wasn't a super sunny day but it was good to get out to the beach one last time for the year. They have found a pretty secluded spot so we had a good spot on the beach to our selfs. Sunday afternoon Paige and I took the kids to a park to have Tarah (brandt's sister) take some pictures of the kids all together. We went to dinner that night at Gilligans and ate a ton of hush puppies, and Aly ate her first corn dog (because thats what Alex had and she has to do everything that he does!).

We made breakfast at the house Monday morning and then got all packed up to head home. It was a great weekend and we all had a blast. It was hard to leave and say goodbye (and it turns out I've turned into quite the cryer in these situations), but we made it home in good time and had a safe trip.

They are coming here for christmas this year so I'm not sure when we will go back but we definatly will!!!!

 The kids doing push ups