Maddy's 3rd Birthday Party

We attended Maddy Young's third Birthday Party On September 29th. As always Bradley had a blast - they painted T-shirts, had cake and ice cream and opened gifts. Here are a few pictures of the event. Thanks Stephanie for a very fun time.

Wesley's accomplishments

I don't have any pictures because it happened so fast and I ran and got the video camera instead of the still camera - but Wesley rolled over yesterday. He has been trying so hard for the past several weeks and he finally made it over. I put him on the bed to help Bradley with something and when I turned around he was on his stomach. So yes I missed it. But as any mother would do I turned him back over and watched him do it 5 more times. And of course by the time I thought I should get the video camera he decided he was done with that trick and I didn't even get it on video. Typical.

Who Do They Look Like???

My Little Mountaineers

Well it's that time again - FOOTBALL SEASON! Hopefully it will be a good one - after the start of the Marshall game I was beginning to think differently. They scared us there for a minute but in the end the Mounties prevailed. Here are the boys the past two weekends all decked out.

WVU vs. Western Michigan

WVU vs. Marshall

Bradley's First Day of Preschool

On September 5th Bradley went to his first day of Preschool. It is kinda cool because he started school at the same building that I started school. Grant it mine was Kindergarten at Arthur I Boreman Elementary School and his is Preschool at the Tyler Mountain YMCA - however it is the same building, they just closed the Elementary school and turned it into the Y. His classroom is actually where I attended 6th grade (Mr. Rider's room) but it has changed a lot since I went there - OH and it looks so small compared to when I was there - but I think that is just the fact that my perspective has changed now that I am in my 30's and not 5. :-)

Mom got some pictures of him outside the building - I didn't have time to take them when I dropped him off so she took some when she picked him up. These were before we left the house.

Our Friday Night Ritual

Well when you have kids and work - you tend to do things that are easy and familiar on the weekends (one to avoid a melt down along the way - and ) to spend as much quality time with the kids as possible but also not feel like you are confined to the house. SO our Friday night ritual is Mexican with friends. These are a few pictures I thought were cute, we went out to eat to Mexican (fast but not "Fast Food") and then back to Brian and Missy's house for the kids to play. Reece just got his big boy bed set up so Bradley (middle) Reece (right) and Tanner (left) had to try it out and see how many could fit comfortably.

Our 2007 Beach Trip

OK Well I finally got some pictures of the beach trip - We had a great time and did not want to come back. We went August 11th - 18th and we have already been trying to plan our trip for next year. Here is the house we stayed at - very nice but the bathroom situation wasn't ideal so we probably won't go back here - we have been looking for a different place for next year - there were 5 bedrooms a master (which Jeremy and I were lucky to get) since we had the kids and then the four rooms downstairs had jack and jill baths (2 rooms shared one bath room) so when you have four people (Jim, Wendy, Nick and Nicki) sharing one room and three people (Pat, Donna and Kourtney Tinsley) sharing the other room you have 7 adults sharing one bathroom. Not really ideal.

Aunt Wendy bought Bradley and Wesley matching swim trunks so we went out on the beach one morning to take some pictures - needless to say Bradley wasn't very cooperative and Wesley can't sit up by himself so there were only a couple of really good ones.

I was surprised but Bradley LOVED The beach - there were a ton more pictures but I thought I would spare you the 550+ that mom sent me on an album and just post this one that pretty much said it all.

He also really enjoyed the pool - He did really good we were all so proud of him. Again I am only posting a few pics.

And here is Wesley - he didn't get out much - I didn't even put him in the ocean or pool - It was so sunny everyday I was afraid to get him out from under his cover to take him down there for even a minute for fear he would get sun - As you can see in the second pic. he did get some sun even though we were very careful to always have him covered.

And here is the rest of the family - proof we were all there - and that it is not ALL about the kids.