The One Where Back to School Became a REALITY

August 2 - 4, 2019

These really are the dog days of summer.  Nothing is really scheduled to happen, yet I find myself unaware of getting nothing done!  I know Kayleigh was here from Texas part of the weekend and though Thursday of the next week.  I know Lara went places with friends and swam in pools  I know all of this, but the specifics have already escaped me!  I will do my best to reconstruct...

Friday afternoon, Lara and her friends Kendall and Erika took a little rod trip south to visit as many record (vinyl) stores as they possibly could.  The started in Edmond, moved on down to Oklahoma City, and I think they visited 4 in all.  I know Lara came home with new records and new stories.  They went to Penn Square Mall to hang out for a bit, then went to Cheesecake Factory for dinner.  Dad tried to prank them with a typical dad joke, and it kind of worked, but we let them off the hook pretty quickly!  They came back to Stillwater and spent the night at Kendall's house.  This was Lara's first foray out of town in her car with friends.  Seems all went well.

As is typical, Emma was all over North Central Oklahoma over the weekend!  She spent some time on Lake Carl Blackwell with her friend Emmie and her family.  She also did a bunch of other things, but she is incredibly hard to keep up with!

Here are a couple pictures from Saturday at Nan's house and out and about (we went shopping for jeans for Lara) in town:

Let's Go Shopping

Cousin Kayleigh is here!

Back to School got real when it was time to make the girls' back to school signs.  Add to that, all next week is enrolment verification and schedule pick up at all the district schools, so we had to make sure we had all our bases covered.  Mom and Dad are Pioneer Booster Club Presidents with year, so we had to man tables at various school sies all week!  We also worked on getting Emma and Lara signed up for the October 26 national ACT test!  WHEW!  THEY ARE GOING TO START SENIOR YEAR VERY SOON!  Like it or not...

And a throwback to when Emma and Lara were 5 and Kayleigh and Jake were newborns:

All of Nana's Grandbabies in one place:

2 weeks (Give or take - Emma has several dates to work with) until school starts!  Let's Go!