First Day of School!

Today was the first day of school in Iowa City. Which also means the end of summer holiday, so I'm going to sort through the summer pics and gather together all the fun times we had into one big photo spread.

Now on to the first day of school picture! Max was super excited to start second grade. He has a new homeroom teacher who he likes very much.

Riley also wanted his pictured taken with Max so I actually got a picture of them still and together.



Jered starts classes on Monday so then we will be back in the swing of things and on schedule again. In some ways it's nice and in another I'm sad summer went so quickly!

Stargazing cards

Constellations

Out of our 50 things we are doing this summer, stargazing has to be one of my favorites. It also helps that my parents have a beautiful house outside of town, away from light pollution, so you can really see the stars on clear summer nights. To get ready to find the constellations with the boys I made some stargazing cards to help us locate them.

These cards were super easy to make. I just painted a dark blue background on card stock and then added the stars for each constellation. Hand lettering the name of the constellation of the bottom of the card and you are done. For these cards I just picked only the Summer and Circumpolar constellations since this is the time of year you can see these in Iowa.

Summer constellations

My plan is to take the boys out with a little flash light and a blanket to try and find all of these star groups in the night sky.

Stargazing Cards