Halloween... a bit late.

Belle

Junior high football cheerleading...

Last night was Alex's last football game, so I took a few pictures. 7th grade lost & 8th grade won. The girls cheer for both games every week. They are all just beautiful!

Can you see her shirt says marissa? She lost her turtleneck... still searching!

Sock monkey.

Abigail wanted me to take pictures of her with her sock monkey today. She is so beautiful!

 

My new hair color... a long overdue post.

Wild Things...

Gavin had his 3rd grade play this week... It was adorable. Thats all I can say!

Im an auntie again...

Yesterday at 4:41 pm, my little sister gave birth to a precious little baby girl.  She weighed 6lbs 9oz. 20.5". She looks just like her big sister. Congrats Nikki & Duane!

Hanging out with Abigail...

Abigail will start preschool in a couple more weeks, so Im trying to enjoy every minute with her.  She wanted me to take some pictures of her today (in a favorite dress).  She just LOVES posing for me. :)

Wicked!

We took the girls to see Wicked at the Ohio Theater this past weekend.  They just loved it!  It was just a good as seeing it in Chicago! What a fun night.

Gavin's 1st day of 3rd grade!

On vacation...

... until August 11th.  Happy Summer!

A homemade life...

Today, I stumbled upon a cute blog called A Lovely Morning  and saw this book! It's called A Homemade Life by Molly Wizenberg.

 I have a love of cookbooks & reading and was tickled to see this.

 I've had quite a busy summer, so blogging hasn't been a priority of mine.  The kids are enjoying their summer, Gavin-playing baseball in the yard & catching frogs in the evenings, Alex- head in computer & ipod (she's 12, need I say more??), and Abigail- playing with her barbies & helping me bake cookies.

I've been taking pictures, occasionally working as an RN, and just hanging out with my family (oh, and Im in this fabulous womens "living room" bible study, by Kelly Minter).

We are going to New York in about a week... excited to get out of Ohio for a while.  No beach for us, until October this year (Disney & beach vacation).

I hope everyone is having a great summer.  Fall will be here before we know it, so get out the bikini and get your fannies to the POOL!