I love how excited my kids are on the first day of school and hope that all their expectations are met and they stay this excited. Fingers crossed. What a lame mom that just never got a picture of my ninth grader. Justin has a crazy schedule. He goes to the high school for math in the morning and then races over to get to Junior high late for his first hour there and then gets bussed to a differed junior high for high school swim team. I will have to re-create his first day another time.
Clara is all lined up and ready to go to school all day, can i handle it? I think Eliza misses her.
Susanna is with all of her best friends and two of her cousins and has the best teacher in the school so she is very excited for fourth grade.
Nathan is in sixth grade and has just a couple of friends in his class. (you only need one right). Here he is with cousin Jack getting ready for the day.
Here is Eliza as she lines up outside and poses for her picture on the first day of school.
This is Eliza when she realized that everyone was going to school EXCEPT her. It was a very sad moment for her. 
Clara Jane lining up for her first day of kindergarten. She is very excited to be going to school and meeting so many new friends. She is in her aunt Jill's cousin's class which is kind of fun.
Nathan is in fifth grade and just wants to have friends over 24/7. He loves school and really likes his teacher. He is excited to play violin in school since his mom has been lame about keeping up with lessons. He has some really good friends so far this year.
Last but not least Justin is starting 8th grade. He saved money for about a year to buy this bike with his own money. He is proud of it and is already trying to figure out how he can trick it out more.