Carving Pumpkins October 30, 2009

Last Saturday we had planned to go to the Apple Barn, but Megan still had a fever.  She was feeling fine, so the girls decided they wanted to carve the pumpkins we had gotten at the pumpkin patch the week before.  The weather was beautiful and we had so much fun carving.  After carving, we raked some leaves and the kids played in them!  Correction.  The kids and dogs played in the leaves.  They loved having two others to play in the leaves with them.  Gavin and Buster had a blast – especially Buster!!!  He didn’t want to get out of the leaves.  Ha ha.

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Our furbabies October 30, 2009

I finally got the camera out to take a few pics of our furbabies Hailey, Sox, Gavin and Buster.   They were pretty rambunctious that day in the house (last week) so not the greatest pictures, but still cute if I may so myself

Cheering at the football game October 30, 2009

Kylie attends school cheer camp twice a year — once for the basketball game and once for the football game.  Of course for the football game it is always cold, windy AND rainy!  And yes, you guessed it!  This year was no different.  The only difference was Ryan and Megan could not come as Megan was running a fever.  So yes, dear mom braved the weather and watched her little girl do so well with cheering.  It was worth coming home a drenched rat!  lol.

Oh!  I did notice one difference this year — they only did one cheer instead of three like last year.  Enjoy the pictures and video!

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The girls “fall” parties at school October 29, 2009

Friday was the girls fall parties at school.  The day first started out with Kylie’s party in the morning.  She had a great party and we both enjoyed ourselves.  The next thing was I rushed back home to eat lunch with my hubby   and then after that it was off to school to Megan’s party.  Whew!  Yes, I was exhausted by the end of the day!

Here are some pics from their parties.   Only one negative thing from Friday – As we were leaving Megan’s class party, I realized she had a fever.  We got home and I took her temp – yep!  101.9!  So I knew she wasn’t going to be able to go to the football game to watch sissy cheer!  (see that in another post).

Videos from cruise and Georgia October 22, 2009

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Video from Pumpkin Patch October 21, 2009

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Pumpkin Patch 2009 October 21, 2009

We went to the Robinson Family Farm last weekend for our annual pumpkin patch fix.  This is our third year of attending and we love that place.  It seems, like everything else in this economy, prices were higher there and you got less for your money, lol, but we had a great time.  A few pics below – the rest are on our website.

We will be going to the Apple Barn this weekend.

I know it’s been awhile since I’ve last blogged.  I have most of our cruise pics up on our website, but my BIL just sent me 600+ more to look through and get put up on the site and I’ll let you know when I do   I so wish we were back on that cruise again.  sigh.

October is just faring too well – giving me the winter blues.

The girls are keeping us so busy.  Gymnastics on weekends, homework during the week.  With holidays fast approaching we are constantly going here or there.   The dogs and cats are keeping us busy as well.   Buster got back from boot camp last Thursday and he’s been such a good boy.   He has only made a few messes in the house (I’ll take that over many, lol).  He is listening to us more.  He is not whining in his crate all night.  So we have made lots of progress to living more comfortably with our pups.  Ryan and I installed a fence and that has made it a lot better for the dogs, too, they aren’t crated or on tie-outs anymore.  Once winter really hits, though, they’ll be inside more which since they don’t have free rein of the house at the moment, they won’t like so well.

Life is definitely getting busier at the Nation house!

About our cruise – we are back October 2, 2009

Ah, I’m too tired to talk about the trip now.  ROFL.  I did, however, put pictures on our website – so go take a look at them.  We had an awesome time!