The forgotten post

In June Aaron and I went to NYC for our 10th anniversary. Our life was so crazy at the time that I never posted anything about the trip. Well, I'm not going to post a bunch of pictures, but I did want to show you just a few.

On the first day there, we went to time square and they had blocked off the road and put out lawn chairs for people to sit in. We decided to sit and take a breather and for me, to people watch (and you can really do a lot of that in NYC). So there I was taking in the gandeur of Time Square and I look over and see this...

Aaron is fast asleep in the middle of Time Square!! If you know Aaron it's almost believable, but come on! Time Suare!! So I took a few pictures of him to remember this moment and to prove that it really can happen. A nearby siren finally woke him up.

I think this sleepy gene comes from Aaron's dad! I swear some of those Stevenson's can fall asleep mid sentance! I always tell Aaron that the sound of my voice can put him to sleep, but he denies it. We were meant for each other. I can blah blah blah forever and he'll just sit and listen (or sleep). Don't you just love him!!

First day of school

The kids had a long summer! They were out of school in May and just started today. We had a fun summer, but we were all ready to get back into a school routine again. We were going to walk to school for the first day, but it was raining so I reluctantly put them on the bus and watched it drive away. It was sad for me :( Their school wants everyone to ride the bus and you can't walk your child to class on the first day. This was a change for me, but I survived. I've been to both of their classrooms with them before school started so at least it wasn't a mystery to me! The bus was late getting home, but it came and the kids were happy and had a great day. I told them to sit on the front of the bus because the back is where the big kids like to sit. I want my little kids to stay little as long as I can :). I'm not sure what they'd learn sitting back there with the older kids. By the way, I was right. Samantha said all the older kids sat back there.

Here are a few picture we took this morning.

I couldn't believe how quiet my house was and how much Carter wanted to play with me! It was nice to spend alone time with him and to finally have a kitchen that stayed clean until 4pm.