First Day of Pre K

Braydon started Pre K today! It's hard to believe he is old enough for school, didn't I just have him yesterday? LOL! He goes to school in the afternoon session and couldn't wait to get there. When it was finally time to go he was out the door in a flash!

I was wondering if he would cry when I dropped him off, but nope not a tear! :( I actually got teary eyed dropping him off!

Chris came with me to pick Braydon up as a surprise. We got there a little early and they where outside playing. Each kid had art work in their cubby, we picked it up and him. He sat quietly and waited for the teacher to call his name to go home. He was so happy to see Mommy and Daddy and wouldn't stop talking about his school day. Can't wait to see how he does on Monday!

Preschool Orientation

Today Braydon had his orientation for preschool. He was a little upset because we only stayed for an hour! There are going to be 19 maybe 20 kids in his class with two teachers. I picked the Freedom Center Preschool because I liked how intimate the class was. We do swim lessons in the same building and the people are so nice it made me like the school too!

The orientation didn't have all of his classmates just half. There is already one boy who I can see as being an issue. This kid wouldn't listen to the teachers and his parents just ignored him and his bad behavior. He thought it was alright to run out the door, to throw pencils at people, and to dump all the legos out when the Teacher said not to. The kicker is that this all happened in a 30 time span!!

He will start this coming Friday. Crazy that he will be starting school on Friday the 13th! Is that a bad omen? Can't wait to see how that goes!

Water sliding fun!

Sunday is usually our rest day. We hang around the house and get laundry done and prepare for our week. But since Monday was a holiday we had other things to do. Some of our neighbors where hosting a little block party with the theme of bacon. Chris made his bacon wrapped jalapenos and everyone loved them! I didn't eat them because I would have been in way too much pain from them. They had an awesome inflatable water slide for the kids. Braydon couldn't wait all day just to get over there and go on the water slide.

I have to admit I was quite jealous of the amount of fun the kids seemed to be having on it. I didn't get a chance to stay and watch them play too long because I had a wedding to shoot.

My girlfriend does mostly wedding photography and she needed a second shooter for a wedding she was doing. I had never done photography for a wedding so I said I would join her. I have to admit that I was very nervous and prayed that I would do good.

The wedding was in Alexandria at the Carlyle Club and was absolutely beautiful. I enjoyed the experience of shooting the wedding, but I have to admit it may not be my cup of tea. I like having my weekends with my family. If I decide to do a photo shoot it only is a few hours not my whole day. That being said if I am offered the chance to shoot a wedding I will, but I'm not going to make it my life's work.