First day!

Asher started classes at CEC today! I took the opportunity to take first day of school pictures of all three boys. :) These were taken after we'd all gone out to breakfast in Old Town to celebrate the start of the school year, so they were happier than they had been earlier in the morning. (You can click on them to make the photos larger.)

Sniff. They're growing up. Just for comparison, here are their first day pictures from just two years ago:

And if you want to really go back in time, check out this first ever "group first day of school photo" from 2010:

And compare it to this year's group shot:

See?! They're getting so big!!

For the record, then, here's how this year looks:

MICAH will be homeschooling with me full time as an 8th grader. He'll be on a First Lego League team again and continues to do karate and karate demo team. We're still sorting out what else might be included in his year. We'll officially start our school year on Monday.

ASHER will be taking classes at CEC part time as a sophomore this year. He'll also be homeschooling with me part time. (I'll update our curriculum lists on the left sometime before the end of the month.) Meanwhile, he'll still do karate, karate demo team and parkour. He'll also get his driver's license later this fall.

And NOAH is off to CSU next week. He'll be listed as a freshman, though he has his Associates already so won't need to do most any of the general ed stuff. Classes start August 20.

That's it in a nutshell. Whew. I'll leave you with this small sample of the outtake photos I got this morning when I asked them to stand together and let me take a nice picture:

(This one (above) is because I said "get your heads closer together.")

And, in the end, this was my favorite:

Because it's genuine. :)

Yup. Those are my boys. They're growing up, but they're still mine. 

And now I need to wrap this up to go pick up Asher and find out how his first day went...