Going Out of Town...

Jeff is pheasant hunting today, I am trying to get the house in order because I need to travel to Florida for work Monday am. Tonight we have tickets to Metallica, next week we will see Rain at the Civic Center for my birthday. Last night was Logan's 4th birthday party.

Cooper's last football game was Saturday morning. He scored a touchdown, and got several flags on defense. I missed it, I stayed home with the kids because I thought it would be too cold to take them out. Cooper is working on his first major school project, he needs to recreate a continent with land forms they have been studying. Daddy has been helping him and it is coming along nicely.

Lexi moves to a new room at daycare next week. She will be a grasshopper. Brody pushed her off the steps and she has a battle wound on her forehead.

Brody doesn't think much of wearing his Barney costume. We tried a test fitting yesterday and it didn't go well. Hopefully he will warm up to it by Thursday.

Catching up...

It's been awhile since I have updated. I took Cooper to see Walking with Dinosaurs at the beginning of the month. The live show of the BBC tv series. He quickly surmised the large dinosaurs were mechanical, but the smaller ones were more convincing. It was a good show, the official review from the seven year old - The teradachtyl was lame, and there should have been more dinosaur fights and kills.

Jay and Jessi had a small wedding at the Rose Garden at Greenwood Park. I helped out by taking pictures that day.


I needed to take Brody to the ER because he couldn't walk. We couldn't figure out what was wrong and it didn't get better so after a good dose of Codeine, xrays, blood work, and 4 hours in the ER, he miraculously started walking after not for two days. Final diagnosis was no broken bones, and some sort of inflammation in his hip. He is all better now...

We had the softball team and lots of others over to the house for a party. Small keg and lots of Jello shots made with some fine Hawkeye vodka, a cornhole challenge, and just hanging out to celebrate the end of the softball season.

Lexi started walking! Cooper rocks at spelling, needs to work on math. One more football game left. He was asked to be on a basketball team, need to decide if we will do that. Here are some pictures from the pumpkin patch.

Halloween Costumes

I got Lexi's costume in the mail Friday. She is going to be an Octopus for Halloween, we tried it on, and it didn't bother her at all. I was trying to find something for her and Brody to be together but let's face it he will not wear anything I choose, so if I have a chance of him wearing any kind of costume, I am going to try for Barney. The kid is a freak about Barney. They watch videos in the afternoon and that is how he knows who Barney is, problem is...Barney is not popular. You can't go out and buy a Barney costume or a Barney toy. Barney is so...1991. That is why someone invented Ebay I guess. Cooper is going to be Janga Fett for halloween. I guess the money I saved last year buying his costume on clearance, I just spent this year on discontinued costumes for the little ones. Here they are last year. Cooper loves to "help" me scrapbook his pages. He helps me pick pictures and tells me to move stuff around. When I realized a while ago, who I was scrapping for, and unfinished pages are never printed and seen, it makes me want to try to keep getting layouts actually completed.

In other news we played three ballgames tonight. We took 3rd place in the end of season tournament. I slid into second base and scraped up my leg and I am already stiff. Oh well we have all winter to rest up for next season.

Tired...

I took Lexi and Brody to Target this morning to have their one year \ two year pictures taken. Of course Brody was a wild man and would not sit anywhere near Lexi. So they didn't get any of them together, but she was able to get some good ones of them individually.

In other news, Jeff got a new contract last week with an insurance company, so he will be finishing up at the State next week.

We will be getting bids soon to remodel the dining room, I found some french doors that will work for the entry way, need to find new light fixtures and decide on a paint color and carpet.

Cubs made the playoffs, Go Cubs Go!

We got tickets for Metallica this week, and Jeff is taking Cooper to his first concert in November - AC\DC.

Here are some new layouts, not feeling particularly creative so these are some quick and easy ones. I would probably have a heart attack if all three kids actually sat together, looked at the camera and smiled at the same time. Oh well, it is fall so I am on my quest for a picture suitable for a Christmas card.

Disney

We went to Orlando in April. I had a work conference, so the babies stayed with grandma and Jeff and Cooper flew down to Florida with me for a few days before the conference started. We did a Gator day, a day at Disney and a day at Universal. They are already planning out what activities we are going to do next spring when we go again. I have quite a few in layouts started but here are some that I have done so far.

Second Grade

Here is Cooper on the first day of school. They have a meet and greet before school starts and the kids get to take their school supplies in, meet the teacher, organize their desk and locker so it is not so hectic on the first day of school. There are four sections of 2nd grade at his school, so his best buddies are not in his class this year, but he knows everybody in his class and already has new best friends, and still gets to play with his other friends at recess and after school.

September is here!

Cooper had his first football game today and he scored his first touchdown. He was so happy! Fall set in this week, the days are cool. I had to dig out the warm weather clothes. Brody is set with a complete winter wardrobe, but I was caught unprepared for Cooper and Lexi. She needs pants and a jacket. Cooper needs some workout pants that aren't 3 inches too short.

I need to get busy on the baby books. I am doing pretty good on Brody's but I need to do a lot of layouts for Lexi. I don't know if I will ever go back and redo Cooper's, I would need to scan in all of the pictures I have from his first years before I switched to a digital camera. I was paper scrapping then, so at least he has something.
I am not sure why but I struggle to do birthday layouts, so I wanted to get this one done before the double birthday party next week. I also got Lexi's grow layout done. I am so glad I did these for each of the kids.