Happy New Year!!

Our new years resolution is to keep the blog going and update it more frequently, more than once a year! Our holidays were pretty uneventful. Sickness hit it us at Christmas and didn't leave the house until after the new year. Thankfully now I think that everyone is back to normal. Emily is growing up. She is in first grade! This fall she started taking dance, a jazz and hip hop class. This week she started a musical theater class, they are going to be doing a production of Camp Rock 2.


Claire is getting so big! She has been waving to us for the last month. Her first tooth popped in this week. She is walking tables and trying hard to stand up on her own. She is such a sweet little girl. Jeremy started a new job in August as a outside sales engineer. He is on the road quite a bit and that has taken some getting used to for our family. His job is taking off and he is getting busier. It is exciting to see him being successful in this new adventure in his career. I am still teaching at the same school that I started at when we moved down here 3 1/2 years ago. I can't believe that it has been that long! For Jeremy it is 4 years this month! I teach 4th grade now and I am the leader of Emily's Girl Scout Daisy Troop. It is a lot of work but so much fun! Our family is very busy but we enjoy it(most the time!).

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Going to the Mountains

Yesterday I went into the car to go to the cabin in the mountains. Before we left, I fell down the stairs at home and hurt my arm. We got to the mountains and we went to urgent care. Now I am in a sling and I am feeling better. When I arrived, I looked around the cabin and I kept saying, " It is so awesome!" Then it was finally bedtime. I slept in a bunk bed! Today we woke up and we might go hiking and fishing for trout.

A New Year and a New Start!

A lot of people have been asking mommy to start posting on the blog again. They miss seeing what is happening in our life. So mommy decided to start up again. She said that she will add some pictures this weekend. What has happened since last February when mommy last posted? A LOT!!! We moved into a house in June and we joined the local swim club. We had so much at the pool this summer. We were there almost every weekend. I loved going on the waterslide and playing with my friends. I even had my 5th birthday party there. We went camping with our neighbors. Then at the end of summer my mommy and daddy told me that I was going to be a big sister!!! That was pretty crazy for me. In September we went to Michigan to see Uncle Scott marry my Aunt Janell. I was a flower girl! It was so much fun. In December we found out that I am going to have a sister, due on May 1st. I am so excited. We went back to Michigan at Christmas and we also visited Chicago. Mommy will post some pictures of the past year and then start keeping up with the blog again. See you soon!

Discovery Place in Charlotte

Mommy and I tagged along on daddy's business trip to Charlotte this past week. We stayed the night at Aunt Lois's and Uncle Ron's. It was alot of fun. Mommy took me to the Discovery Place museum in Charlotte. I told mommy it was a beautiful day. We first went into the little kids room and I played a little bit in there and then we explored the rest of the museum. There were a lot of cool exhibits. They had a dinosaur exhibt that looked and sounded real. I was too afraid to walk the whole path because the dinosaurs were moving and making noises! We also saw a puppet show about dinosaurs.


This is me doing the weather report. I stood in front of the blue screen and looked at the camera and then it showed me on t.v. saying the weather report!




They had this really cool circus exhibit. This is me trying to fit in the box. I did it with ease. Mommy did not!!


This barbell was REALLY heavy!!!

I even got to try juggling! That is not as easy as it looks! They also had a high wire that you could walk across and an acrobatic bungee thing but you had to be seven years old and I am not yet!!

We also saw this "experience" show where this guy was playing with fire. He put this liguid that looked like water in a huge water jug and then put a match in it and it made fire in there and made a BIG noise! I jumped and told mommy, "that was so not cool....Let's go!" But mommy made me stay and I was glad that we did. We got to see a man light bubbles on fire!

Daddy's Birthday at Myrtle Beach

We took daddy to Myrtle Beach for his birthday. It was so much fun, the weather was beautiful and suuny. Our hotel had an indoor waterpark and I had so much fun. The first day we played in the lazy river and I went down the waterslides. Then we got dressed and took daddy out to dinner. Daddy wasn't feeling well but he picked Red Lobster anyways and he had soup while mommy and I had shrimp and crab legs. Mommy felt a little guilty but I didn't. Then when we came back to the hotel daddy went to bed, he had a fever and mommy and I went to the other water park. They had two REALLY big waterslides. Mommy and I went on the corkscrew one and that was a lot of fun. Then I wanted to go one the really tall one that had two big hills. Mommy said that one scared her and she didn;t want to go on that one. I went ALL By MYSELF! Mommy said my face at the end was priceless. She said my eyes were so huge. I got off and I told her, "That was so NOT COOL!" The next day we went to the beach and laid out our blankets. We flew a kite and then daddy and I made a sand castle. It was so much fun being there. I am glad that we took daddy to the ocean forhis birthday. I told mommy I wanted to go to the ocean for my birthday too!

Bowling

We had a playdate at the bowling alley on Saturday. I kept telling mommy that I wanted to go real bowling! It was a lot of fun. Daddy bought me a cheeseburger and fries and I had fun with my friends. I think that our scores were better than our parents! Mommy thinks next time that maybe we should have a playdate with a sitter and the adults can go out and try to get better scores!!!