Fall is here

I walked around the house with the girls yesterday and took a few pictures of all the "fall" around the house.

My baby turns 6!!

Last Friday my 5 lb 9 oz bundle of joy turned 6. My, where has time gone. She was so little when we brought her home. Now she is still little just taller. She spent the evening at the bowling alley with some of her friends. I surprised her with a new Hannah Montana room. She seems to be into her for the time being. Hope it lasts a little while, Hannah charges a pretty penny for her stuff. Any hoo, she had a great evening and enjoyed all the gifts she got.

Happy Birthday Baby Girl!! Mommys little sweet pea.

I pooped in the pot mom

The picture says it all. Potty training is the pits or the poops. Ha Ha!!

Oops!!

I guess Sydney didn't want to wait for breakfast. She got into the lucky charms and had them all over the floor.

Not Much

Not much as been happening since my last post. Its been pretty mundane around here. Wake up, get Brooke ready for school, feed Sydney (a lot), feed the animals, house work, etc... Right now it looks like it is getting ready to rain again.

Fall starts Monday. I am looking forward to the cooler weather. I will be able to leave the windows open longer than 2 days. Snuggly sweatshirts come out again and hot chocolate tasted real good again and the leaves change. But that also means Christmas is just around the corner. Great.

Scaredy Cat

Last night we had a little storm go through. When I was heading off to bed, I noticed that Chase apparently got a little scared with all the thunder and lightning. He was curled up with Brooke. Like a sleeping 5 year old is going to protect him.

Look - Twins

For the last two days, I have watched Sydney's boyfriend Evan. He is such a delightful little boy and Syd just adores him. They play so well together as you can see. It felt a little like having twins. It funny how kids can get on the same schedule. When one pooped the other soon did. I was changing diapers all day it seemed. When one wanted a snack, so did the other.

Rainy day

It rained all day today. How comes when it rains, you just feel like sitting on the couch and stuffing you face. Well I sat on the couch today. Didn't do much eating though. I did get all my fall stuff out this morning. Sydney helped. Now the sun has gone down and the kids need bath's, the horses fed, and the rest of the house put to bed. Aaron is gone on his golf trip for the weekend. He'll be back Sunday sometime. This gives me time to clean the house without him here. Now I need to get the girls in the bath. Good night world.

New friends

We had some old friends come over Saturday to watch football and hang out for a while. They have a 2 year old son Nick. Brooke I think fell in love with him. She took him around and played with him and had a ball. Sydney had someone to talk with who like everyone else could not understand her. Any way, here are a few shots from the afternoon. The third hairy one is Hank.

Breakfast time

Sydney insists on feeding herself. She does very well doing it also. He only problem is she likes to wipe her face on her sleeve. But its soooo cute.

The weekend

Cory had his 30th Birthday party on Saturday. It started out a nice quite party with us old people but by the end of the night the younger crowd had taken over. I stayed until about 1am. Some people made it until about 4:30. I was tucked nicely in bed at that time. We all had a good time. Sunday was a day of rest. I didn't even clean out the barn. Just fed the horses and went back to bed. In the afternoon, after Sydney's nap we went down to the Kincaid community Pool (aka - Pat and Stan's house). We sat around there and conversed some REAL interesting conversations. I was still not feeling all that well but managed to choke down a few beers. Here are a few pics from Saturday.

Day of cleaning

I have spent the last two days cleaning this house from top to bottom. Some of it still looks like I never touched it. Others look 200% better. Now I need to start going though all the junk and get rid of it. The basement storage room I will start to tackle next week. It needs cleaned up sooo bad.

Brooke is enjoying kindergarten. So far she is eating the school lunch and not complaining.

1st Day of Kindergarten

Today was the first day of kindergarten. Brooke was not too excited about this. I think that her nerves were getting the better of her. Maybe we were making too big of a deal about it. Anyway, she got ready and we went out to wait for the bus.

Maybe it is a Farm??

I am starting to feel like I live on a farm. With all the critters we seem to accumulate, I wonder if we could collect a farm credit. Lets see I have... 2 dogs, 5 cats, 2 horses, 3 turtles, 4 goldfish, 2 little girls, and one husband. I could start a petting farm. I would probably have to pay people to pet the last one though.

Ring the bell - School's In

My baby is starting Kindergarden tomorrow. Where has time gone. She is starting to get a little nervous now. I think that all day thing will get to her. Trying to get her to bed will also be a challenge. She's never tired to know. We are going to get a hair trim today and get the last few things she need before the big day. I just can't wait I think.

Canoe Trip '08

Cory with the waiter

Lambert's

Me and Christina

Cory, Brad, Aaron

What a great time we all had on the canoe trip. No fights, no trips to the jail, nothing major. Almost kinda boring. Oh well. The weather was great, the water felt nice. On Sunday we always stop at Lambert's and eat. Boy do you get your moneys worth. Here are a few pics from the weekend.

Home at Last

We finally made it home. Back to work.

Sunday

Today was by for the best weather day here. The sun actually came out. So I loaded up the girls and went over to Caladesi Island. We took the ferry over to the island where we spent about 3 hours playing on the beach and eating ice cream. Shania really enjoyed herself.

Now we are getting ready to head home tomorrow. The week is over and we are all ready to get back I think. I have a ton of laundry to do when I get back.

Saturday

Today we mostly just layed around. It rained again so there was not too much we could do. In the evening, Uncle Justin did come and take Brooke and Shania ice skating for the first time. Shania was a natural. Brooke had a hard time keeping her balance. But in the end she got the hang of it as was skating by herself with the help of an ice walker. She didn't want to leave.

Aaron and I went out with some friends that evening. We didn't get home until about 1am.

Friday

Lets see, yesterday was a lazy day. We did nothing but watch it rain. Today we watched it rain in the afternoon then took the boat out for a spin around the gulf. We ended up going to a small island with lots of shells on it. The girls had a great time finding them and chasing the fish. Sydney just loved being able to run where she wanted too. When we were heading back in we came upon a small pod of dolphins hunting fish. The younger ones would jump up out of the water and chase the fish. They came soo close to the boat that if we wanted to we could have reached out and touched them. Brooke and Shania thought this was the best part of the trip.

After we cleaned up and rested for a short short time we headed off to Chuck E Cheese's where we all got to be kids again. This is the best place to take kids when you want a break. You can let them run and not be afraid of someone running off with them. The kids stamps must be matched up with the parents. Brooke and Shania both came home with lots of junk from there.

Sydney is asleep already and I need to try to get the girls to go to bed. I'm tired. All pictures will be on the website.

Animal Kingdom

Animal Kingdom was a lot of fun. Brooke was in such a mood she really did not enjoy the park until the end of the day. We went to Dino Land first to try to cheer her up but she wanted to do nothing. Shania and I on the other hand rode the ride there and even got Aaron on the Dinosaur ride. He said it reminded him of Cory's driving.

We were all lucky that when we got there because we got "Dream Fastpasses" This means that we didn't have to wait in all of the long lines. The longest we waited was about 15 minutes. Shania and I wrode Everest twice. It was a really cool ride.

The girls got their faces painted once again. Brooke started her Disney pin collection and got more characters autographs.

The park closed at 8 so we left about 7:30.

Day 3

Today we went and got a new computer. The one I am typing on as we speak is about to give up. I don't know if I will be able to transfer everything or not. We took the girls shopping today at the mall. Sydney stayed with Grandma and took a long nap. She is fast asleep in her bed right now.

Tomorrow we are going to Disney's Animal Kingdom. It is the first time any of us have been there.

Day 2

Yesterday we didn't do too much. The girls played in the pool and later in the evening we went to the beach for about a hour. There was no one there so the girls had the run of the beach. Aaron and I did a little shopping and took the computer in for a tune up. I ran into trouble up loading the Busch Gardens pictures, so there will be no pics until we get the computer back. Today will probably be about the same as yesterday, not much going on. Tomorrow we plan on going to Animal Kingdom.

Florida Day 1

Well, we are on our family vacation in sunny Florida. We got here yesterday afternoon after a 2 hour flight from Indy. The ride was nice and quite. Brooke and Shania watched movies and Sydney slept the whole way.

Today we went to Busch Gardens and spent the day riding roller coasters and dodging rain and lightning. See, this is Florida's rainy season. So a few afternoon showers are to be expected. Anyway, Shania and I did most of the riding. Brooke and Grandma played, oh and daddy too. He doesn't like the rides. We saw lots of animals like lions, tigers, elephants, zebra, and chimps, just to name a few. The girls got their faces painted. Brooke got a white tiger and Shania was a cheetah. Sydney was an angel until the end of the day. She was pretty beat like the rest of us. All the pictures will be on the website. Aaron also played games with the girls and won them a few "small" stuffed animals to bring home. Notice the word small. Yea right.

Anyway, we had a great day. Tomorrow we will be sleeping in and maybe going to the beach for a little while.

Good night all!!

Look what I found...

I was heading over to see the horses and happened upon this little turtle laying eggs by the fence. I don't know how long she had been there or how many eggs she laid but she must have been finishing up. She would drop one in the hole and shove it down in there. When she was done she covered them back up with mud.

Its soooooo hot.....

What is the need for all this heat. I mean, it kills all the pretty flowers and grass, you can't go out because of the heat and horse flys. Brooke is driving me crazy with wanting to go outside and play with the kittys. But it is just too flippen hot. Now we are heading to Florida this weekend where it is, you guessed it, HOT. And just think, in a couple of months, I will probably be saying it is too cold outside. I can't be pleased I guess.

Their Here...

We finally got the barn done that I have been working on since early spring. We brought the horses here on Monday. I think that they are adjusting nicely.

The Graduate

Brooke graduated from Pre-K on the 15th. She looked so cute in her red cap and gown. They even got to keep the tassels. It was a long deal. About an hour to go through all the things. Brooke got the Sweet Tart award for being such a sweet kid. All the kids got awards based on what candy the most resembled.

A little snoozer

Sydney fell asleep on the couch the other day. I didn't have the heart to move her.

Toothless

Tuesday was a very exciting day. Brooke lost her first tooth that day. She just played with it so much that it just fell out that night. The tooth fairy was very generous and gave her 4 quarters. She was so excited.