Last days in Anglesey!

Unky Ackie and daddy!

Views from the top!

Stunning moments

From Kilkenny to the Garn
Across the Irish Sea

zara turned 6 and up 48 pounds! 3 ft and 9 inches!

Embarrassing to admit but this post is so overdue... Since her birthday was over a month ago, but just for the record she celebrated her birthday breakfast in Kilkenny, Ireland, with the Donnelley gals then had lunch on the Irish Sea, and the day was topped off with a birthday cake on the isle of Anglesey in North Wales with the Pendletons.   What a summer it was!  We landed back in the US on August 8th and Zara celebrated with her DC friends at Palisades on the 11th. Nonstop action to say the least.   As I am sure there will most definitely be a summer album, I will only share the fewest pictures here.

Zara loving first grade ...

...and apparently loving a nice classmate too! Last night she prophesied that her best part of her day was that Finn gave her a flower and this morning he did!
A beautiful sunflower from Janney's very first school garden farmers market!

First day of first grade!

Loads to report but Zara seems to have seamlessly entered her first grade classroom!
A beautiful morning for her first day- although her teacher missed the first day - she enjoyed it and ate her entire lunch and snack!
It's a bit odd for mommy not to be with her mommy friends- missing her old crew like Carl - (Joseph's daddy) and others!

Before school started zara went to the beach with gramma and grandpa Zarr! It was a very relaxing and we roamed around lewes as well as the ferry terminal to cape may. We had great accommodations thanks to matt and excellent dinners thanks to Grandpa!

We all had a good laugh because Zara had asked gramma how old she was- when she answered 74, zara then said, "gramma did you start at 1?"

August quiet and wonderful!

Here we are attending a family movie night at American university in the open amphitheater. So nice especially after seeing miss Rockwell at a turtle park play date with her old kindergarten class.

Today we are at the pool and zara suddenly says," mom- when gramma and grandpa zara were little was there colors?" I said what do you mean?" She explained "like were there colors on clothes like a green shirt?"
And I asked, "are you wondering because of old black and white movies? " and she said "yes!"
I just had to write it down so I wouldn't forget another zarrism.