Getting Started

Ok, so I'm new to this. I figure this is the easiest way for me to keep up with everyone and let you all keep up with us.

Where to start, well the last month or so has been crazy. My best friend Carrie and her family got transferred to Richmond. Her daughter Sami is Kelli's best friend and her son Zach is Adrienne's best friend. And they have moved away. Fortunately, it's not too far. They had Sami's 6th birthday party here in Roanoke the weekend before Labor day. Well, as we were loading up to go home, Kelli was running around the parking lot, and she hit her head on the door to the hatch on my van and split her forehead open. She ended up with 3 stitches. This

was taken Sunday night (she did it on Sat.) right before we washed her hair. It looks worse than it really is.

She did really good when they put them in, not so good when they took them out a week later. She's doing better now, and it's healing great. In a few weeks, you won't even be able to see where she hit it.

Here's what it looked like the day we got them out. As you can see, its not really all that bad. And it looks even better now (a week later).

I'm trying to get some stuff together to go visit the Germains in Richmond this weekend. We are taking their dog Mitzi to them. They didn't close on their new house until this week, and couldn't have her in the corporate apartment they were staying in, so I voluntered to bring her up this weekend. We are going to take the kids to Build A Bear on Saturday after we get there. Kelli is so excited. I don't know if she's more excited about going to Build A Bear or going to see Sami. Adrienne is excited to go see Zach. She could care less about Build A Bear.

Jeff is playing in a softball tournament up in the Richmond Area on Saturday too, so I am hoping we can go by and see at least one of his games.

The girls started school a few weeks ago. This was their picture on the first day. Kelli loves 1st grade. And it's hard to believe Morgan is in 7th already. At least I still have a few years before Adrienne starts school. The girls are growing up so fast. Of course it's hard to believe that Jeff and I have been married for over 7 years already. It seems like we just started this family a couple of years ago. Here we are 7 years and 2 more kids later. And we haven't killed each other yet. There have been days that it was REALLY tempting (for both of us), but we're hanging in there.

Ok, time to go get the kids cleaned up and ready for bed. And finish packing for our weekend to Richmond.