Walk To School Day

This week in Irvine is RED Ribbon Week. What is that you ask? Red Ribbon Week is all about teaching the kids to make healthy choices for their bodies (ie. NO DRUGS OR ALCOHOL). There are fun theme days and all week long the kids bring pennies for "Pennies for Prevention". We saved up our pennies all summer long and finally brought them to school!
Today was walk to school day! Now, we walk to school everyday so it seems silly to drive to a park to then walk to school from there, but the boys REALLY wanted to be a part of their school spirit. Two elementary schools plus our local jr. high were represented at Northwood Community Park (aka-Castle Park) at 7:15am- yes, you read correctly- 7:15am. Dan ended up taking the car to work so we ended up walking all the way to the park and then walking from the park to school. We were tired and cold, but it was a great way to start the day!!

Unfortunately as we were crossing our last street to get to the park, Nathan tripped and fell right on his forehead (SMACK- I heard him hit the concrete). So, he cried the last steps to the park and thankfully a first aid kit was near by (Thanks Mr. Maynard).
To makes things even better, tomorrow is picture day!! Why is it that before a family photo shoot or the school photo someone ends up getting a boo boo on their face? CHEESE!!