Back To School... (Already??!!!) :(

I was so not ready for the kids to go back to school yet. :(  I knew they went back earlier than every other single school across America, here.  :/  I guess in my mind I kept thinking, "We still have another month.."  Even though I knew otherwise. Sigh...   They started (officially) yesterday.  I was so confused about when they were actually starting. I knew Eon  went back on Thursday.  But when I looked at the school website for Eli, it said he went back on Tuesday.  I was so irritated, thinking, "Why can't they all start on the same day?!!" I could not find anything out from any of the school websites. I even "liked" the school site on facebook (only so I can find information out I need to know, because I DO NOT like the schools here!!)...    I finally figured out that the school websites calendars are for LAST YEAR??  And they both were supposed to go on Thursday. But...   (No one told me this either..)  It was only to pick up their schedules.  Grrrr!!! Every other school we have gone to they send out papers home, or email you ahead of time. I couldn't find anything out until last minute here.    I also still had not recieved Eons report card from fifth grade yet. And here it was, the next school year.   And I thought Nevada schools were bad... (They were in the Top Ten Worst Schools Nationwide list, but I can tell you the schools here are worse!)    Sorry for that rant...  

I had to beg, bribe, and sweeten the deal with cookies, to get them to let me take their pictures for the first day of school.  Lol.  They do not want their pictures taken...   But I got them.    I didn't realize they were so blurry. :(  I did get two more, but I haven't uploaded them to my computer yet..       This is Eli's last year of high school. (I can't believe it!!...)  Duke says, "I want to go to school, too.."  ;P

And Eon is a sixth grader now.  My baby is a sixth grader...

This isn't the best picture (I don't want to freak the mama bird out; so I try to hurry and take pictures, and I can't see what I am doing half the time, it's so bright out...)  But these are the baby birds so far. I was almost afraid to look (in case they all didn't make it) ~ But they are all alive and well! : They were looking at me. (I think they were afraid..)   I still cannot tell what kind of birds they are. The mama bird is a tan/brown bird, she looks like a sparrow, or a house finch.  I only catch her flying away when I open the door. One time I was pulling out of the driveway and got a better look.    They all have such little beaks, they are so cute...    I wanted to get some bird seed last night, and I forgot.