A Surprise for the Girls

Well, actually Kelli knew about it before hand. On the 3rd, Amy & I took Delaney, Kelli & Morgan to see High School Musical on Ice. My friend Carrie had bought tickets for us to take Kelli & Sami. She bought them like 5 months ago, long before Drew lost his job and they had to move to Richmond. So, I bought the tickets from her and asked Amy & Delaney to go. And as a birthday present to Morgan, Jeff bought her a ticket right near us so she got to go. She actually got to sit beside us since no one else showed up to sit beside us. The girls had a blast. Kelli was up dancing and bopping to the music. She had a blast. Delaney didn't feel to good, her asthma was bothering her, but she had a good time. Morgan was thrilled. She loved it. She had been bugging Jeff to let her go for 3 months. We didn't tell her where we were going, we just went, so it was a nice surprise for her. Here are a few pictures I took. It was a great show. I actually enjoyed it myself more than I thought I would.

I felt kind of bad that Adrienne didn't get to go, but I don't think she would have sat still for it. But, we found out that Sesame Street Live is coming at the end of November, and she already has front row seats, courtesy of daddy. Jeff & I think she is going to love it, that or be petrified and scream her head off the whole time. I'll have to let you know.

We have been trying to figure out Halloween costumes, as that time is fast approaching. Well, Kelli informed Jeff & I that she wants to be Hammy, the squirrel from Over the Hedge. I knew there was no way we would find a squirrel costume around here. We did find a monkey costume for Adrienne. So Kelli is going to be Jasmine. She got this incredible costume for her birthday. Jeff bought it when we took the kids to Disney over the summer. So, we are going to put a vest and a fez on Adrienne in her monkey costume, and she can be Abo. Or I'm going to put a rainbow W on her front and make her a Webkinz. If you don't know what a Webkinz is, it's a stuffed animal you buy, and it comes with a code. You go to a website and put in the code, and you get to play with a virtual pet online. It's actually really cute. There are all kinds of things you can do. You have to feed it, and bathe it. You have to play games to win money to buy it food and clothes. You have to take it to the vet for check ups and if it's sick. Kelli has fun with her. Morgan is getting one from Amy for her birthday. So she'll have one to play with soon too.

I've been trying to organize my area upstairs where I work on scrapbooks and hopefully/eventually sewing and other crafty stuff. Well, I got a small bookshelf to put some of my books on to get them out of boxes. Yes, we've been here a year and I STILL have boxes I haven't unpacked. Well, Adrienne decided to help me assemble the bookshelf as you can see.

She thinks she is quite the little carpenter. She was trying anyway. She even helped me put it in place and start putting all my books on it. Then she decided that the white was too plain and tried to add a little color to it. Blue, I think it was. Fortunately, her crayons are washable.

The Germains came in this past weekend. Kelli was so excited to see Sami when she got here. They came down of Friday night. They actually got to the house before I did. Carrie called me as they were driving past to tell me that they beat me to the house. Hannah, one of the kids from daycare, and her mom & dad came over for a couple of hours. Sami and Kelli were so excited to see her. And of course Adrienne was thrilled that Zach was here. After the Mixons (Hannah and her parents), we got the little ones in bed. It took us until 11:30pm to get Kelli and Sami to quit talking and playing and go to sleep. We got up Saturday and went to Keegan's birthday party at the skating rink. Keegan is another one of the daycare crew. The girls had a good time. Even Zach & Adrienne had a good time, although they got a little bored towards the end.

We took the girls back to the house, then Carrie & I took the little ones to AC Moore for a little while. When we got back, Morgan, Kelli, Sami and the boys across the street were washing Jeff's truck. Kelli & Sami were soaked head to toe, but they were having a blast. Jeff went to the store and got steaks for all the adults & Morgan for dinner. They were great! We actually got the girls in bed and asleep by about 10:00. We were impressed. Jeff, Carrie & I sat up watching football until 11:30. There were some great college games on. We got up on Sunday and Jeff made everyone omlets. YUM! He makes great omlets! While Carrie was trying to pack, Zach & Adrienne decided to jump and play on Morgan's bed. They had a blast. They were so cute in their matching Little Einstein pajamas. It's hard to see from these pictures, but Adriennes has

June and Annie (the two girls) on hers. And Zach has Quincy and Leo (the two boys) on his. Both sets have Rocket all over them. They both love wearing their "Rocket" PJ's.

When it was time for the Germains to leave, Adrienne started crying. She wasn't ready for Zach to leave. Fortunately, she took her nap, and wasn't quite so upset when she got up.

Jeff took Kelli to softball on Sunday. She loved having him all to herself and especially at softball.

I had to stay home from work today. Adrienne woke up with a bad cough. She has actually had it off and on for the last couple of weeks, but it seemed worse this morning. So I stayed home with her and took her to the doctor. Turns out it was a good thing I did. She has an ear infection. I guess we caught it early enough this time.

Tomorrow it's back to the routine.

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