First Day of 1st Grade

When July 31 rolled around, we found ourselves at the good old Sleep Inn in Dyersburg, Tennessee. This also happened to be the morning that Navie began 1st grade. I was quite taken aback by the early start date but Navie seems to be adapting to ALL the change in her life well. She is at another school that requires "uniforms." Is this becoming more common? Or are we just lucky? I kinda like it though. And luckily for Navie, she looks adorable no matter what she wears.

This is how she was really acting about starting school.

Of course we needed a picture of the new backpack.

And can't forget about Day 2. You can really see the hotel room in all it's glory. I was so glad that her first day was on a Thursday. A 2 day week of school to kick things off is just right in my book.

Nauvoo

I wanted to make the final weekend before school was supposed to start worthwhile. I saw on the church website that the Nauvoo pageant and thought perfect, we'll check out the pageant and explore Nauvoo. As the weekend drew closer, we decided the late night of the pageant was out for this year but we still wanted to go explore. This was Navie's first time and she was such a good listener to all the presentations. We met up with Aunt Carolyn, Uncle Wes, and Parker. The girls had a great time dressing up and playing pioneer games. The grown ups had a good time as well, of course. Parker did not so much enjoy sitting and listening to the missionaries talk about life in Nauvoo. She did some exploring on her own and found a much more exciting mud puddle. And what trip to Nauvoo would be complete without going up to see the temple. (I should not be in charge of pictures but I am the best we have). We were all hungry by this point so there was not much desire to pose for gorgeous pictures in front of the temple. But we had a great time. Now that we live in the mid-south we can go back again and again.