First Day of School 2011

I can't believe it is school time already!   Boy we aren't ready for it this year.  We've been practicing rodeoing so well, sometimes even twice a day, it's going to be hard not to be able to do that.
This morning both kids reluctantly drug themselves out of bed and off to school they went.  Ty's only excited because his good friend J.T. is going to be in Dunning with him this year, so I'm expecting a few detention slips!  Chantelle has a really hard course load this year, including Physics, Pre-Calculus, and Spanish.  Luckily she has sports practice at the end of day to look forward to.  Ty's 8th grade class is made up of 5 boys and 1 girl, Chantelle's Junior class is 9 boys, 2 girls.

Since Ty's football practice doesn't start until next week, he was home at 4:10.  Chantelle got home from volleyball practice around 6:30, just in time to get on her horse.  After roping for awhile, and after I'd spent 3 hours cooking, we finally sat down to our annual first day of school supper around 8:30.  Every year we eat supper by candlelight on the good china to celebrate the start of a new school year.   This year we had chicken fried steak, mashed potatoes, fried eggplant, cheesy garlic beer bread, and home made chocolate pudding!   Luckily no homework the first night!