First Grade Fall Picture

Well, they're better than last years Kindergarten picture!  At least she did smiled this time.  I like the crooked grin!  I still can't believe this kid is a first grader!

Western Day

To celebrate the start of the Fort Bend County Fair we had a Go Western Day at school.  Here's Brenna all decked out in her cowgirl get-up!

The Run Down

As time goes on I like instagram more and more.  It allows me to capture the small things that I wouldn't normally haul the big camera out for and all those impromptu moments of fun with friends.  It's fun, easy, and convenient.  So, here's the instagram run down for August and Septermber!

First Day of First Grade

How did it get here so fast?  We counted down the days until summer vacation and in the blink of an eye we were right back to this!  The new school is very nice.  Brenna moved over with lots of friends, so there was no concerns about starting something new.  We're adjusting to the new standard of homework that is more time consuming than I expected.  She hoped right back into the routine without any bumps, which is always a blessing!  We've got our fall schedule rolling with school activities, weekly gymnastics classes, weekday soccer practice, and weekend soccer games!  Also so another school year begins!

Lemonade for Sale

Brenna has requested to have a lemonade stand for a long time.  During the school year I assured her that we would have one in the summer.  With so much stuff going on during the summer, we were coming down to the wire and still hadn't done it.  She got a make-your-own lemonade stand for her birthday.  So together we sat down and assembled it and on the Wednesday before school started we had a Lemonade Sale.

It started off with Brenna supervising Matt and Tyler.  However the boys didn't last long and ditched the stand to ride bikes up and down the street instead.  That's was ok, because Brenna quickly replaced them with Brooke and Bailey and together these three managed all the orders.  They even served as car-hops for some of our drive-up customers.  We have wonderful neighbors and our stand quickly turned into a block party.  At one count we had more than 15 kids running around the yard.  Brenna stood strong for over an hour and then even she abandoned it to join the other kids in our back yard.  After some good playtime the lemonade flowed freely to the kids and then we closed up shop.

As we counted our money that night, I told Brenna that she did pretty good to make to make $25 dollars on 25 cent lemonade.  She said "But most people gave me a $1!" to which I replied "Did you give them back their change?" She said "Oops!"  I'm not sure how many of our friends she ripped off!

The Summer She Learned to Swim

The day after Brenna's birthday, she and I packed up and headed to Mom and Dads for a few days.  Like always, Brenna enjoys her visits to Mississippi because she never hears the word "no" while we're there.  She gets to do all the things that she enjoys with an ever attentive audience.  Mawmaw says yes to things like eating Chef-Boyardee in the living room while watching her favorite show and drinking pink lemonade (big no-no at our house).

Brenna's 6th Birthday

I can't believe how quickly the years are going by!  One delay in this post was because of some necessary maintenance that forced me to work on some early posts from the beginnings of this blog.  Knowing that I had this posting waiting in the wings, I've been looking through the pictures and videos of when she was two and wondering where did that kid go?  How did she get so tall and independent?  Has that much time gone by that she's really changed that much?

At 6 years old Brenna is a beautiful and smart little girl!  Her personality has blossomed over the past year! She's loving and compassionate with her friends.  She still gets excited about even the smallest things and she loves to laugh.  She's very engineering and enjoys building anything.  She has an ability to take random items from the around the house and use them to create something new!  She stays active in every sense of the word, since still and quite time is not on her to-do list.  She loves playing with her friends and since we have so many that are so close we spend alot of time in the street, just having fun.  When she's on her own she likes to put on different shows that include dancing, jump roping, skip hops, and the ribbon dancing.  She loves music and frequently makes up her own songs.  She's become very independent and wants to manage all the small stuff on her own, like making her own sandwiches, washing her own hair, and getting her own snacks and water.  She's such a gorgeous girl inside and out and she's the biggest blessing God has given me and Jacob.

This year Brenna has a love for all things My Little Pony and it was easily chosen as her party theme.  At her request, we had her party at a bouncy house called Monkey Joe's.  The kids loved the bounce stations and a herd of girls with a sprinkle of boys ran from bouncer to bouncer with Brenna in the lead laughing all the way.  After a lengthy play time the kids headed into the party room for pizza and presents.  Brenna was one happy little girl with all her friends there to share in her birthday celebration!  Here's some pictures from her big day!