Saturday, October 24, 2009

Jumpin into 5!

What a week!! Our baby girl is about to turn FIVE!! On Saturday we celebrated Riley's birthday at All Smiles - All American Gymnastics with a ton of her friends! Riley surprised us all by enjoying being the center of attention and doing everything asked of her on all the gymnastics equipment! She had a blast, as did all of her friends and brother! Riley received sooo many wonderful gifts and loved spending time with Grandma, Papa, Bebe, and Aunt Becky. Thank you Everyone for making her birthday so special!

We are now in Halloween mode and will have tons of pix of our little Bride and Frog!!



















Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Birthday beginnings

The birthday frenzy continues! Riley had a blast at Pump It Up again on Saturday and Kyle had just as much fun at a separate birthday party at Romp N Roll too! Unfortunately, was cold and wet all weekend so t-ball was cancelled, but that gave Riley even more time to enjoy with Bebe and Eric as they shopped Toy-R-Us for Ri's 5th birthday and had a nice dinner out together!

Kyle had a fun play date with his buddy, Cerys on Sunday while Tracy and Riley shopped for a new leotard to get ready for Riley's gymnastics birthday party this Saturday!!

The weather has finally cleared up and the kids enjoyed playing tennis today - we hope there are a few more nice afternoons for biking and tennis still before the real winter comes in!! Between Halloween events and Riley's birthday party events, we will have TONs of pix coming soon!

Riley at dance with her teacher, Ms. Amy.
Ms. Amy commented this week how impressed she is with how much Riley retains!
We've always said, she has the mind of an elephant!
Kyle under the parachute at Romp-n-roll

The following are beach pix from our vacation to Emerald Isle in September... it took me this long to get them off my camera and organize them!












Monday, October 12, 2009

You're My Hugabuga!

Fall is officially here and it began with our annual trip to the Ashland Berry Farm to pick pumpkins! For the 1st time in 5 years, the weather was perfect for pumpkin picking and fresh donuts! The Lamberts and O'Sullivans joined us and we had a great morning on the tractor, in the fields and running through the maze/obstacle course!

The week was a busy one! Riley is loving dance and tball is still... fun! Actually, her shyness is getting better and she is starting to really nail the ball. Kyle is still upset at every practice and game b/c he doesn't get to play, but a Cars sticker book seems to have distracted him pretty well.

On Friday we visited the local airport to watch the planes come in... however due to wind, we only saw one plane take off. None the less, the kids had a blast and we had time to catch up with old friends. That afternoon we celebrated Emory's 4th birthday with the Sprouls! Saturday was the neighborhood yard sale and we are now free of all baby items!! Riley also had the 1st of a month and a half string of Saturday b-day parties! Pump It Up was as much fun as always and then she headed off to tball. After church on Sunday, Tracy, Ri, & Kyle headed up to Kings Dominion while Eric watched the Steelers WIN!! Go Steelers!

Needless to say, the week before was just as busy but we also took a trip up to Arlington Cemetery, plus Tracy was out of town the entire week. Wait, the most exciting news - we can officially say that Kyle is potty trained! He requires very few reminders and loves his Cars big boy pants! ok, ok, enough - on to the good stuff... pix!
Riley, year 5, at the pumpkin patch - to check out the past 4 years:
Riley and Eric on the tractor
Kyle with his Women, Ivy and Cerys

Kyle doing a happy dance!
Riley and Aiden (courtesy of Amanda!)
Tracy, Eric, Riley, Lexa and Kyle


The annual pix at Ashland Berry Farm
Ri playing ball in front of our house
At Arlington Cemetery