Happy Halloween everyone! The kids had the best time trick or treating! Alexander was so cute saying trick or treat and thank you at every house that he was getting extra bags of candy! LOL! What a charmer! He was SO into Halloween this year....on one front porch he was dancing with excitement! We made two trips out....one with Ryan and ( Read more... )

Hi everyone! Been very busy here lately! We have company (Ryan) and lots of activities to do. Julia had her first day of Brownies this week...she loved it! She was beaming!! She is doing so well in school this year too...she really loves learning! She wrote a song for music class and was the only student to do so (teacher asked them to write ( Read more... )

We love FALL! All those apples and pumpkins!! Took mom and the kids to the apple farm the other day and loaded up on apples. Maya was a little under the weather but she had fun playing in the tee-pee and the straw bales. Yesterday Maya's preschool went to Cobblecreek Farm to go on a wagon ride out to the pumpkin patch to choose their own ( Read more... )

Back to school time! I haven't updated since the girls went back to school. Julia began 1st grade and is doing well. She seems to like her teacher and is doing well with her writing. Our only problems/struggles have to do with food and clothing. She does not like any of her choices, clothing or foodwise ( Read more... )

Had a great time visiting you guys yesterday, Ryan! (for those who don't know, my brother was gone for almost a year in Iraq) Hope I didn't hug and kiss you too much, lol! Here is a link to a few pictures. Alexander has not quite perfected that blank video game stare yet, but give him a little more time with you two guys and I think he will ( Read more... )

With these high gas prices, I sure have been second guessing all of my running around, so yesterday the kids and I walked over to Julia's school to see her classroom. It was Alexander's first big boy walk without the stroller and he did wonderful on the way there but was tired on the way home...understandably! We explored Julia's classroom and ( Read more... )

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I am getting so tired of this sticky hot weather!! Tomorrow should be cooler though so the kids and I will be outside while Michael is at work. Today the girls had a cooking class at the Tops Cooking School...they did Storybook food like Itsy Bitsy Spider Cakes and Twinkle Twinkle Little Stars....so cute! They seemed to have fun....I left them ( Read more... )

Hot here again! Another week of 90+ degree days!! We took a spur of the moment camping trip on Sunday to Stonybrook State Park....had so much fun...can't believe we were only there a little over 24 hours. The kids had a blast! Our campsite was right off of the creek so the kids could go right down a little path from out campsite to skip rocks ( Read more... )

Happy 2nd Birthday to Aleander Michael! Our little boy turned 2 on July 19th. He is such a cutie! He is developing quite the personality...loves to dance around and sing, as well as pick on his sisters and throw temper tantrums, lol! Here is a link to all the pictures we took of him...from his weekend party to his real birthday with a piece of ( Read more... )