Swim meeting

Tonight we had the East Middle swim meeting. I'm not sure what to do because the practices start at 8:50 at night and go til 9:50 and they are at Asbury College. I guess my problem would be that Karissa wouldn't even get home til 10:30 and then by the time she gets a bath/shower it will be 11:00 p.m and then the other problem is that Jason works nights so I would have to get Katie and Kendall out of bed in order to pick her up. She has practices 4 days a week. Now when Dennis and Mary move into our neighborhood in Jan they can help me out for the last 4 weeks. The practices go from Oct through the first week of Feb.

Karissa really wants to do this but I'm not sure I can do it all. I tried to talk her into some other activities, but she only wants to swim. I don't want to disappoint her and tell her no because of Jason's hours. I looked into maybe letting her swim at the Y but she would have to join and then we would have to pay 300.00. I'm not even sure if she would make the Y team.

Our Violinist

The life of Katie

Katie was waiting for me to read her a book in our bed when she fell asleep wearing her cat ears. It's part of her Halloween costume!

Bumbo time

You can't tell it by her expression, but she loves her Bumbo chair. They didn't have this when Karissa and Katie were born.

Fall is in the air...

at least for this week! My girls were so excited that they could finally wear some new clothes! Katie is all about clothes and shoes so today was her day. It is the end of Sept so it is time for the change of season. Katie's shorts were looking like daisy dukes and it's a good thing she is 5 because I wasn't going to buying her new shorts. Karissa's shorts were ok because bermuda shorts are the "in" thing so her long legs were covered!! Karissa looked so grown-up (or aleast like a 6th grader) in her long sleeve purple shirt, jeans and her UGG like boots that my girls call their fuzzy boots. I love those boots!!
Kendall is even in her fall clothes and she looks so cuddly. Kendall for the past 2 days has been wanting to go to bed around 9 and sleeping til 7:00. She is drinking 6oz now and is lasting longer between feedings. She really is a good baby and goes with the flow. All my girls were good babies, it's just when they hit 3 that they had "opinions".

Jason's work week this week will be a little less stressful on me. We at least know his hours and where he will be driving this week unlike being on call where he has an hour to get to work after they call and you have no idea when they will call. One day last week we had just went to bed and 5 mins later they called. I still don't like the hours this week but at least I know when he'll be gone and I can plan my days around it.

Dennis and Mary's house is going up pretty fast and we're excited. I could really use the help so I can't wait til they get here. The girls already have plans to ride their bikes or walk to their house and oddly enough eating breakfast there. I say oddly because neither one of my girls eat breakfast. I have tried everything in order to get them too. I will buy them whatever they want just so they will eat, but it doesn't work -so off they go to school without food in their bellies.

Midterm grades

I know it's early but Karissa's midterm grades were awesome!! She has 7 A's! She is doing so good in school and I hope she keeps it up. We are so proud of her. My mom gives her money for every A she makes and Karissa is saving up for an IPOD Nano so she is excited! She's been saving for awhile. We give the girls allowance and they are great at saving. They even buy presents for everyone at Christmas. They get so excited shopping with their money and love watching everyone open their gifts.

After these 9 weeks pass her electives change and she has Math Lab which I'm worried about. She doesn't like math and I've heard it's hard.

Gatlinburg 2009

We saw.........

A mamma bear and two cubs in the tree at Cades cove!!

Kendall is 3 months old!!

Gatlinburg here we come

We will leave for Gatlinburg as soon as Jason gets off work which he's been driving through the night so it will probably be Sat afternoon before we get there. We have been going to Gatlinburg for Labor day since Karissa was 4. I love that Joe and Krista come too-it's about a 5 hour drive for them and it works out perfectly since we only get to see them maybe 4 times a year.
We usually hang out at the cabin, swim, enjoy the hot tub, walk downtown Gatlinburg and drive to Cades Coves looking for bear, deer and coyotes. One year we actually saw 4 bear -two of which were cubs!! Our trandition is that we say goodbye to Joe and Krista after a great meal at the Apple Barn. We all can't wait to get there!!