Austins first conferences!

So last Friday we received Austin's report card in his backpack! He had conferences yesterday. Everything looked great. He has the highest mark you can get on all things academic . . . and he is "nearly meeting expectations" in most of the behavior columns. He seems to be a social butterfly, which did not surprise us. The teacher said that through initial testing this fall he is already well passed the levels they want to see him at next spring. So it is encouraging to know that he is doing so well academically. She said that she can tell his mind is starting to wander when she starts to talk about something that he already understands. (Basically he gets bored because he already knows the information) So, he just needs to work on sitting still and being quiet!  :)  Which is probably pretty standard for most boys his age!

After conferences we went to the bookfair and I let him pick out two books . . . then he won a drawing and received a FREE book. So, he was very excited to get to pick out a 3rd book and couldn't wait to read them when we got home last night. I love his excitement for reading!

Our little ninja!

This past weekend we celebrated Colton's birthday!

We had a wonderful weekend for a birthday party and had some friends over to play party games with the birthday boy. We played "pin the eyeballs on the monster", musical chairs, a balloon popping game and had a nature scavenger hunt.  It was a beautiful day so after the games we put up a bouncy house in the backyard and played Freeze Dance! It was a great time for all the kids and everyone left happy and tired!!

Monster Cake!

And I also made two dozen little monster cupcakes to set on the table.  It turned out super cute and Colton got a kick out of it!

Birthday party friends! It was so nice to spend the day with our friends. (Tate, Austin, Zoey, Macy, Colton, Braxton, Charlee) In this picture Colton is trying to do whatever Zoey is doing. . . just being silly!

And Gavin could not get enough of the bounce house! He loved trying to walk around while the big kids were bouncing. He fell over a lot and would just giggle, smile and get back up for more bouncing action!! In this one he is trying to go down the slide with Tate and Colton!