After taking the remained of the summer off, we are officially back to our blogging duties. Sorry that we disappointed our loyal followers with our brief vacation. We now accept updating our blog as part of our weekly homework. Anyway, Mom's camera is dead and pictures cannot be uploaded at this time. Mom said she promises to help us put some new photos up this weekend.
The rest of our summer flew by! The highlight of our summer was our photo shoot with a photographer from Iowa. Mom tried for six months to book our pictures. They turned out great! If anyone is ever looking for a great photography, we highly recommend Kathy McCloy. She travels all around the country and may end up in your neck of the woods sometime. Check out her photography website at www.kathymccloy.com. The site also has her calendar and contact information on it. She also has a blog and is much better at updating it than we are. Her blog is www.kathymccloy.typepad.com. Mom will try to post some of our pictures from our session here as well. She is truly worth the money. She spent approximately two hours with us and took about 700 pictures. She then edited those down to 40 some for us to pick from. Of course Mom is a sucker for a good picture and bought all of them (well, the digital negatives).
We finished summer school and had a week of rest time before school started again. We hung out at home all week and celebrated Jake's 10th birthday. Mom baked a cake for our private family party. We also got to go out to eat at Red Lobster for the birthday celebration. Good times.
School is off to a great start. Next week is ISTEP+ and Syd gets to take it for the first time. Jake is trying to see if he can maintain his past record of obtaining pass plus status on both sections. Keep your fingers crossed. Syd's teacher is Ms. Jane Tennis and she is SO FUN! Her room is right across the hall from Mom's and she loves to sing and teach us silly cheers and stuff. Remember Schoolhouse Rocks? Ms. Tennis has taught us a lot of the songs from it. Jake's teacher is Mrs. Susan Pickard again this year. In case you are wondering, no I did not flunk the 3rd grade. Mrs. Pickard loved her whole class (especially me) so much that she looped with us. That means she moved to 4th grade with us. Kenna and Owen have started going to daycare for the first time ever. Grandma said she couldn't watch us anymore. We guess that's what happens when you get old. Miss Donna is our new teacher and we LOVE her. She is Dad's friend Brian's (who he works with) mom. She has had a daycare forever. Dad's friend Gary also takes his little boy Ben to Miss Donna's.
Well, stay tuned for more from the Funkhousers. We promise to be better bloggers.
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It's about time. We missed seeing all of you! Seeing as how E is not good with the phone calls lately, she needs the blog to keep her up to date on what's going on in the Funkhouser family. Welcombe back to the world of blogging!
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