2nd grade girls soccer

Morgan started soccer today. Kirk has helped coach in the past when a coach is out of town but this year they asked him to be a head coach - we are in a new district so he wasn't certain about the rules but he has an assistant coach who has coached numerous teams in the past so that is helping him figure it out-hope we have a good year!

Labor Day weekend 2009

We always rent cabins at an Ohio State Park for Memorial Day and Labor Day weekends with Kirk's family. This year we congregated at Dillon State Park, almost in Zanesville.( Actually, prior to kids, we had a pop-up camper, some tent-camped and some stayed in the lodge). The finer aspects of renting cabins with real running water and flushing toilets, stoves and microwaves, comfy beds become more appealing as you add children to the family. We always have a lot of fun and take lots of pictures. Being so close to Morgan and Bradley's birthdays, we celebrated their birthdays with their aunts, uncles, cousins(which they finally have!), and grandparents. We also try to be crafty while there so we attempted the tye-dye fun! Loved how they turned out, however, we need to learn how to perfect maintaining the bright colors - with limited resources, I am not sure we did such a good job on our first attempt!

Can't take all the credit!

I have several blogs I love and I believe this was from Thrifty Decor Chick or Just a Girl- so thanks! They had this wonderful, simple artwork as an idea and I thought it would be perfect to duplicate for Morgan's room - artistic, I am not! Some might think Morgan painted these in art class. If you look at the bottom one, that is the one that DID NOT make the cut - I tried again for the skinny tree because I felt my original skinny tree was much too fat - it looked like Bradley fingerpainted the tree and then pressed his thumbs down for the ends - like the redo better but will never attempt anything harder than this!

Nanni Bubbles

We love our Nanni Bubbles(and no it's not her stage name :) - way back when Morgan could only say a couple of words, she could say "nanny" and "bubbles" and Kirk's mom wanted to be differentiated from Nanny Cherry at the time who was just "nanny" so she said "how about Nanni Bubbles" and so it began! She lives in Greensboro so we don't see her as much as we'd like but were THRILLED to have her come stay with us during the kids birthdays and the following week. Kirk's brother and wife were due to have their first baby that week so she came up for all of it so we got some great quality time with her while she waited for Tom and Tara to get home from the hospital. Thanks Nanni Bubbles!

Morgan's First Day(of 2nd grade)

I have got to hand it to my daughter and her lack of fear/anxiety over a new situation. I still don't handle things as smoothly as she does. I was nervous for her to start a new school district, since she wouldn't know anyone at this school or on the bus. However, the night before, she said she couldn't wait to go and got on the bus without any hesitation. So proud of her! (and she loved it-still does)

Morgan and Bradley's Birthday

We celebrate Morgan and Bradley's birthdays together each year since they are usually family parties with mutual friends. Morgan turned 8 on August 23 and Bradley turned 4 on August 24 so they are back to back. We did a fun "outback adventure" theme stolen from Family Fun's website. We took the kids on a walk thru the woods near our home in search of reptiles(fake plastic snakes and lizards we hid before they walked through) They had so much fun and unfortunately my photo files when downloaded are mostly screwed up! What the heck - they look so bizarre in my photo software so I may not get them back to normal so here are a few of the good ones!

Annie - The Musical

The best value in the Entertainment Book in our area is to use the coupon for La Comedia - you can use buy one, get one free and save $56 immediately and the book only costs $30 so my mom and I try to take Morgan each year to whatever the child-friendly musical is. We loved that the Humphrey ladies joined us this year - their first time and I think they were impressed with the place! Good food and this year, the girls in the musical (and the grown-ups) were amazing! We did the whole autography thing and pictures of the girls with the characters.