RAMBLINGS

At 6:10 this morning Tyler, Spencer's brother, flew home.

He came out this weekend for his fifth and sadly last

Ohio State game, while we live here.

That makes five out of

the seven football seasons

we have lived here. What a great brother!

We are down to our final year here

at the great C-BUS,

So everything is "our last"

which gives me a range of emotions...

This is what prompted me to blog tonight.

For all the moments that I think about

never blogging again, which happens a lot,

I remind myself this is the only kind

of journal I have and I can't give it up.

Here is a few random things of late, so I feel "caught up" with my blog.

Hot dogs & smores's

with Tyler & Fullmer family, it seems I like to blog

everything we do with the Fullmer's.

I love trying new places,

so when some friends had a groupon to try out

"The Bang" a piano bar, we were in.

Two piano players go back and forth singing & playing all types of songs.

My girls got to feel what it was like to be a cheerleader for high school

after two mini clinics and

cheering for a quarter of high school game.

It was a big crowd and Avery looked terrified the whole time,

though I think they both loved it.

Let FALL begin!

Fall is officially here,

or so Kayla's teacher told her so.

And as a listen to the sweet sound of my

air conditioner blowing cold air

once again;

it was broken since yesterday.

I have so be honest and say,

I am READY for the cooler days of Fall.

We got the football season started by

going BUCKEYE hunting over labor day

with the Fullmers.

Living here for 5 years and yet

this was my first time actually seeing

the buckeye nut

in nature.

As seen in the next picture,

Evan wearing the final product of are hard labor.

We had fun having Will, Jeff, & the Fullmer family

come watch the game with us.

I wish I could tell you which game,

but I can't... shows how much I really pay attention.

As I said last year,

One of my favorite things about living

here in the C-bus during football season,

is meeting up with old friends

who come to town for a game.

The Manning & Jarivis families came out

for a game over Sept. 11th

I met up the Kortney & Brooke

at the Morgan House, for lunch.

And then had them over to dinner on Sunday.

Though it has been four years since

we lived by eachother, it was just like old times.

Brooke & Kortney

Thanks for the good times guys.

FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL

My 3rd Grader

My Kindergartner

Avery off to afternoon kindergarten,

nap time for...

Four boys that are going to keep me

busy this year.

Aren't they cute!

family pic's

Well my summer officially ended Tuesday,

I have started working "full time"

from my house watching three amazing

little boys, which happen to live next to me.

It was a busy & fun summer

but I love getting back into

a great routine.

The girls start school Tuesday...

I can't believe Kayla will be in third grade.

I remember third grade so well,

it just doesn't seem possible to have

a daughter that old.

I was GIDDY with JOY,

this past week when I received a package

in the mail, containing a CD with our family pic's.

Now I have to figure out which ones to put on the wall.

Here are a few...

Thanks again Kara!!!!!!

I'm a BARBIE girl...

It has been a solid three day of fashion shows

& singing

"I'm a BARBIE girl in a BARBIE world,"

in our house

after taking a day trip to

Indianapolis

(After Evan kept singing it, Spence

taught him to sing "I'm a man" instead.)

to visit the BARBIE exibit

at The Children's Museum of Indianapolis.

A special thanks to the Fullmer family for letting us tag a long.

I got to relive my childhood seeing all the BARBIES

I LOVED to play with.

My personal favortie... BARBIE & The Rockers.

Kayla, Avery, & Isabelle

even got to be part of a

BARBIE Fashion Show,

which they do once a day there.

Though the boys weren't nearly as excited

as us girls,

we found plenty of other fun stuff to keep

them happy too.

Clipper Game

Have you ever noticed when you get free tickets

to something, you seem to justify spending

money on things you never would have.

Like 4 bucks for cotton candy.

It's all good, cause you didn't

have to pay for the tickets.

We did get some great seats to a Clippers game

last Thursday. Spence happen to do a

root canal on the pitcher from the visiting team.

He was such a nice guy... he gave us five

tickets to come watch him.

I think we ate everything on the menu

to get us through 8 of the innings.

It was a fun night.

So Long Thumb... Hello EARINGS

Avery was born

with her thumb in her mouth.

She has had that thumb in her mouth

probably half her life.

So when I told her if she stopped sucking

her thumb she could get her

ears pierced,

(instead of waited until she is eight)

I thought it would never happen.

*Note the pillow & blanket in most of the pic's*

If anyone would prove me wrong

it would be this determined little lady.

After cutting underneath her tongue pretty bad,

she had a hard time sucking without it hurting.

She decided to put away her

pillow & blanket,

(her other half since she was tiny)

&

stop sucking her thumb.

After a solid week,

even checking her in the night,

she has not sucked her thumb.

We went tonight & got her ears pierced!!!

Kayla checked the calendar when we

got home & figured out

Avery will be able to

change her earrings on her

6th birthday...

I can guess what she will be wanting.