Chris's good friend, John, has a jeep that's geared up for some serious off-roading, and the other day he kindly took Chris, Jonathan and Catherine to the nearby mountains for a morning ride.  It appears they had a GRAND time.  Everyone's excited to go again!

They didn't spend the entire time in the jeep, but were able to get out, hike around and climb some rocks. 

Here's the trail they started on, but soon ventured off for some real off-roading experience:

Looks like they're having fun to me!

Catherine starts Pre-Kindergarten

Ever since Jonathan started school, Catherine has been asking when she would go... well, the day finally arrived as yesterday she officially started "Pre-K!"  She was so excited to go that I wasn't able to get a good picture- you should see the others.  I thought it especially cute that she wanted to "dress-up" for her first day, so she picked out a skirt and asked me to put her hair in a ponytail (a very rare occassion for her).

  When I picked her up she was all smiles:

 Though, the picture might not appear that way. (She's saying "I love school!" on her own accord, I might add)

Here's her classroom, which she took off into without even saying good-bye or see ya later or I love you or anything....  She'll be here on Monday, Wednesday, Friday mornings at the same time Jonathan is at Kindergarten.  Three days of the week it will just be me and Abby in the mornings- I should be able to get a lot of things done with just one kiddo.  :-)

Yesterday afternoon she asked if we could celebrate her first day of school with an ice cream cone at McDonald's and then some play on the play place."  How could I refuse this face??