Sealing Day! : )

Pictures on finalization day...

YEAH!  The finalization of sweet Preston Reginald took place last week.  We are so grateful for this sweet boy and grateful for the special way that our family has come together.  Here are some pictures...

First Day of SCHOOL! : )

We're home and I have other pictures to post but I'm going to skip right to the big event--Benjamin started kindergarten!!!  He was SOOO excited and so brave.  And he's so ready, which made it a lot easier for me.  I thought I would be fine, really.  I loaded Hunter and Preston up in the van and we waited at the end of the drive where the bus picked him up.  I gave him a brave send-off and then followed the bus.  : )  And then David called and I answered the phone.  And I totally lost it.  : )  I love this my sweet little boy beyond my ability to express and I'm so excited for him to cotinue to grow and experience life, but moments like that first day of school always make us appreciate how precious time is--and how fast it flies! (And since it's already four days into school, here's the update...he's doing GREAT and has already come home with two green notes--positive feedback from the teacher.  Yeah, Benjamin!)

SO, here are a few pictures of the day...

Breakfast:  waffles, homemade applesauce and strawberry milk.  (Benjamin's request).

We made play dough and passed some of the time playing with that (he's in afternoon kindergarten)...

(Hunter was cute-made a bunch of "worms" and layed them in a row side by side and said "party")

Before school pictures...

Onto the bus!!!

At the school--top picture is his teacher, Mrs. Frey...

Two friends from our ward (at church) are in  his class...

Neuschwanstein Castle

We spent a Saturday going to visit this castle--Neuschwanstein.   It's the castle that Disney patterned it's Cinderella castle after.  (And according to a tour guide that we met Disney pays a hefty amount each year for rights.  These castles bring in so much money!!!)  Some of the pictures are just of the view from the castle--which was incredible.  Some are great shots of the castle from a bridge that you can hike to.  You're not allowed to take pictures inside, so I don't have any of the inside.  Anyway, it was spectacular!

 And you have to finish off each outing like this with ICE CREAM!

We're home!

We are home, happy and safe in our comfortable home.  : )  The quick version of our trip home was that the boys were great and the 10 hour flight honestly seemed to pass rather quickly.  

SO, now I want to continue to share some of our trip with the pictures that were still on my camera. (However, that was also broken during the last two weeks of the trip.  Yep, not good luck with the technology.)

These pictures are just on a morning outing during the week.  I took the boys to a historical area downtown and to the English Garden--large, beautiful park in the center of Munich.

 This man was playing "Memory" on the cello and it was BEAUTIFUL!!!  I literally stood there with the boys and just cried.  I LOVED this moment.  : )

To be continued.....

Our laptop was dropped and now the internal hard drive is not working.  SOOOO, all of my pictures are on there.  I'm REALLY hoping that it can be salvaged once we get home.  In the meantime, this is David's laptop and we're not allowed to upload pictures on it.   We get home in a little over a week, and I'll get to work on posting more pictures as soon as I can. 
We are still having a good time and I'm anxious to post about our weekend trip to Salzburg and to the incredible Neuschwanstein Castle.   It's the castle that Disney has used as a pattern for it's Cinderella castle. 
During the week the boys and I go to parks, explore a little bit, do laundry and groceries, ocassionally have an outing with friends that we've made at church and get naptime in during the afternoon. There's a quick update.  : ) 

Happy Preston