Back on the radar!

Wow, Time flies and I fell off the blog radar here recently! School is well under way and Hannah think her teacher is "awesome". You don't get many better reports than that. She loves going to school each day and has lots of little friends in her  class. Life is good.

Drew is back at Goddard, and is in his prek2 class. He is already asking when he can go to kindergarten. 2 more years little buddy! He seems to be happy to have some play time back with this little friends, life is good for Drew too.

After school, the activities have started! Hannah is doing year round swimming, minus the long weekend meets. She has practice on Monday and Wednesday. On Tuesdays she has softball that starts this week. She is very excited as two of her good friends Camden and MacKenzie  ( mac n cheese  ) are on her team this year.   Drew is playing t-ball this fall. It is a little coed team at the church, he couldn't be more excited about this! He loves to go outside and practice hitting. I think he will actually be a little bummed when he realizes it is on a tee and not pitched. He loves hitting in the front yard from our pitches!

Other than that, our weekends have been filled with family fun and family work. We have been trying to clean out toys, organize, do a little work in the basement with paint, built in etc. In between, we go to the pool before it gets too cold, and have seen the Disney movie "planes" twice already.

Here is a little summer fun, Lila, Camden and Hannah at the pool.

Hannah and Drew hugging it out at Peidmont Park one saturday afternoon. We met a friend for lunch in midtown and let the kids run around the park for a little while. And what midtown is known for... loved when the kids asked why guys were holding hands?!? I said they were brothers :)

This Friday night we took the kids to "pigs and peaches" festival in kennesaw. It is there annual festival and bbq contest. All kinds a bbq's camp out over night to try to win the bbq contest with the pork cooking all night long. They had a huge kids area with the bungees and bounce houses the kids loved. They asked if we could go there every weekend :)

Today Todd actually had to go into work for a little while, I am taking the kids to a birthday party, and I am sure make our 10th visit to home depot in the last week for some odds and ends for the basement. In between that, some laundry, grocery shopping and getting ready for the week to start. We are already looking forward to labor day weekend, we have a whole lot of nothing planned, cannot wait. I always look forward to a little down time!!

Hannah's 1st Day of School - 1st Grade!

Here is my little 1st grader. I can't believe it. She was SO excited last night getting ready for bed, literally bouncing off the walls. I love her enthusiasm, hope that continues each year :)

We made a big deal about Drew going back to school today too! He is pre-pre K. 2 more years until he can ride the bus and is off to kindergarten.

And, many parents didn't know, but the bus comes at 6:58am this year, vs last year was 7:04am. A few of Hannah's friends missed the bus and caught it on the way out of the neighborhood. Whoops. So it was a much smaller group this year as everyone was running for the bus!

And there she goes, my little sweet heart. Such a big girl now, I can't wait to hear all about her day today!

Grandpa Steinemann Visits!

Grandpa Steinemann came for a short visit. He arrived Sunday and is already leaving to go back to PA first thing tomorrow morning. He went to FL last week to see Sean's college graduation. Todd met him there and brought him back to Atlanta. We have had a nice time visiting with Grandpa. He brought some of Todd's old toys with him and they included legos and match box cars. Drew is in heaven.

The kids took some super cute photos with him. They don't get to see him very often living so far away so I am glad they got this time to visit together

We thank him so much for visiting, and putting up with these little stinkers :) Two little ones are a lot for any grandpa to handle, but he did a great job with the chaos.  We hope that the time between visits is shorter this time!!  Thank you Grandpa!!

Summer Fun with Tessy Bear!

Meet Tess! She is Hannah and Drew's nanny, and is a true saint. We love our "Tessy Bear" as the kids call her.   She starting watching the kids almost exactly a year ago when school started from 2-6pm Mon - Thurs, and helped the kids with homework and ran them around to all their activities. This summer Tess was full time every day, and I honestly don't know what we would do with out her. Thanks to Tess, the kids had an amazing summer, and I felt so happy about all the fun things they were able to do together this summer. All these pictures are sent to my from Tess during the work day, and always make me smile knowing they are having a good time. There are more of Drew than Hannah as Hannah was busy doing little camps with her friends that Drew is still too little for.

 Tess's sister Abby is the nanny for Camden and Alexandra. It makes it so fun that they could all spend time together!!  In the pictures above they were able to play at the park one afternoon.

And they went bowling...

Played laser tag.. Poor Drew was too little to play, so he got to play video games, which he thought was equally as cool.

While Hannah was at a camp, Tess took Drew to Build a Bear where he picked out a pug puppy and dressed him in a gator shirt!

A play date with his favorite gal Lundy!!

Lego land..

The Zoo!

Today's finale, the day before school starts was a trip to the aquarium.  I guess outside the aquarium Toyota was setting up for an event, and Drew - well anyone that knows Drew knows his obsession for monster trucks. Apparently he screamed with excitement!

They had a great time at the aquarium

After that, they went on the all new "atlanta eye" which was just built in Atlanta. I didn't even know about it??

Tess said they went around about 20 times, and the kids absolutely loved it. Drew swears he could see our house. It right over Olympic Park. Tonight Drew told me that today he went to sea world and saw the olympics :)

Hannah said today was her favorite day of summer and had the best day ever. It makes me so happy to Tess loves Hannah and Drew like her own family and cares for them the same way I do. Makes leaving for work each day a little better knowing they are in such good hands and loved.

Hannah had such a fun summer, Vacation Bible School, Swim Team, Gymnastics Camp, Chatahooche Nature Center Camp ( her favorite) and Tennis Camp. There was rarely a dull moment. In between all those camps, she spent A LOT of time with her little neighborhood friends at the pool and more playmates than I can count. It is so fun watching her grow up, she is getting so big, so fast.

This weekend the pool was packed Friday night and Sunday with all the young families knowing this was the last weekend before school starts. It was so fun watching all the kids play together. What a fun neighborhood for them to grow up in, we couldn't be luckier. Sunday there were about 15 little girls, and about 4 boys at the pool playing. Poor Drew. Although once day he may not think this is all bad :)

Summer time fun is coming to and end, and school starts tomorrow. I need to clock to stop for just a little bit. I am not ready for this again yet.