Cole's New School

Since we moved to Ft. Worth I had to find a new pre-school for Cole to go to. We loved the Learning Tree so it was hard to have to find a new one. I looked at a few that I did not like at all. The week before school started I finally found one that I really liked. So now Cole goes to the Holy Shephard Lutheran Church and Pre-School. His first day was Sept 1st.He goes every Monday and Wednesday for 5 hours. There are thirteen girls and three boys in his class along with two teachers. He went in his first day like a champ. He was very excited because they have a tree house inside the classroom. At the end of his first day we went and had a treat at Tutti Fruiti. That is a yogurt place near our house. then for dinner I made him Spaghetti Tacos. Only if you regularly watch the show iCarly would you know what that was. Be glad you don't. Its going to be a long fun filled year. I am excited because his class will be taking a trip to a local pumpkin patch. As many of you know, I really like pumpkins. For those of you that don't know, I really like pumpkins so I'm going on that field trip. I already have all my pumpkin decorations out. Anyway they have many fun things planned for the school year. Cole has lots to learn this year to be ready for Kindergarten. This year he also had to have a backpack and a lunchbox. He got to choose which ones he wanted. As you will be able to see he chose an Iron man backpack and a Star wars lunchbox.







Spaghetti Tacos, literally a taco shell with spaghetti in it.

The big move

So sorry it has been so long since I posted anything new. We have been a bit busy. The month of July and August went by very fast for us. We put our house on the market in July. Within two weeks we had an offer on it. That meant we had to find a new place for us. We moved to Ft. Worth, well Haslet is where we moved. That is North Ft. Worth. It is still growing out here. Anyway we found a great house within a week of looking. Signed all paperwork and then the wait was on for closing. Our closing date on the old house and the new house was Aug. 24th. We had to be out of our house that same day. Once the inspections and appraisals were done then the packing began. We decided, because we didn't want to make multiple trips, to rent a 26 ft. uhaul. Cole was so excite about getting to ride in the uhaul to our new house. Almost everything fit into the uhaul. There were a couple are vehicles that were loaded down as well. Everything went so well. We were lucky to close on the day they told us we would. It was touch and go for a few hours but everything worked out just fine. I found a place for Cole to play his first year of flag football and finally found a place for him to go to preschool. More on those two later. Here are just a few pictures of the outside of our new house. Pictures of the inside will come when there are not boxes all over the place.

Thank you to all of you that made our move a lot easier!

Hiking

I little while ago we took the boys hiking which is one of our favorite things to do. I always get tired before Mitchell and Cole but always hang in till the end. Mitchell insists we explore every path possible even if it's not really supposed to be a path. Amazingly we have never gotten lost. I'm sure that we will one day. With Cole around to share our love of hiking, with him, we normally spend most of our time at whatever water we come across. His favorite thing is throwing stuff in the water. It must be a little boy thing. Well, maybe a big boy thing as well.

Anniversary Party

Well I did not take many pictures at our anniversary party. Normally I would have but I guess I was just too busy that day. It was a good day. The wind was blowing so it was not too hot out. Thank you to all of you that came out to celebrate with us. We had a great day.

Here is Baby Eberhart #2's first picture. The baby is down at the very bottom. You cannot really tell, right now the baby just looks like a blob. If you look closely the doctor made little cross marks where the baby starts and ends. In about seven weeks I will have a new picture to share. Hopefully we will know if the baby is a boy or a girl. For now this is what you get. Enjoy.

Family Reunion

A few weeks ago we all went to a family reunion. A Pollard Family Reunion which was the maiden name of my mom's mom. 146 people showed up. Mitchell and I left Thursday with plans to camp all weekend at the park where the reunion was being held. Things did not turn out the way we had them planned. When we got to the park the place looked a little run down. Well, it took us three tries to find a campsite that would work. The first site the electric box did not work. The second site when Mitchell opened the electric box most of it fell out onto the ground. The third site seemed ok so we started setting up camp. Cole had to use the bathroom so him and Mitchell walked to the restrooms. Mitchell came back and said, "Do not go use the restrooms!" That's a lot coming from him, guys will pee anywhere. Well the picnic table for our site was over in another site so we had to drag it back, when we started moving it there were hundreds of daddy longs legs come out of it. Cole freaked out. We still were looking on the bright side and decided to get in the truck and go scope out the swimming area. There was no swimming area, or at least the area they called the swimming area was very scary. It was just a rock cliff that had a wooden ladder going down to the water. When we got out to take a closer look it looked and smelled like sewage. Kendall and Tasha let Ayden get in up to his feet. Kendall said he would have to sanitize his feet for a week. That is when we decided to pack it up and move thirty minutes away to the state park. The reunion itself was good. It was a little long and a little hot and lots of people there. I loved seeing the family members that I knew. There was a family t-shirt contest. Tasha did a fabulous job designing ours and everyone wore them without complaint. By that I mean Mitchell. They never did announce who won but we are all pretty sure it was ours. We could not stay for dinner because it was BBQ and the smell of BBQ makes me sick. They say that next year the reunion will be at a much better place. Here's hoping.

End of the Year

Cole has completed his first year of Pre-K. His school had a little end of the year program. All the three year old classes got up on stage and sang three songs. Then all the four year old classes got up and sang three songs. Then all the kids sang one song together. After that each kid walked across the stage to receive their certificates of completion. For those of you that could not come, don't worry, you didn't miss anything. Cole just stood there and did not do a thing through the whole program. He should have done well. He had been singing those songs at home for weeks. Oh well.




Cole and his teacher Mrs. Christian.