Bethany's Last Day of Preschool

Snow Day

So we've had A LOT of snow days but here is one where the kids went out to play for awhile and made a "little" snowman. The snow was not packing snow! :(

Gearing up for Christmas!

 

  

  

Halloween

Optimus Prime(Transformer), a Mermaid and a Cheerleader!!!

The kids had fun carving their pumpkins this year. They helped clean out all the goop and then both Brady and Bethany drew their own face on their pumpkins. Brady carved his out all by himself! Georgia thought the pumpkin was interesting!! :)

They were able to load up on candy in the neighborhood and see some friends and teacher s along their journey.

Daddy had to take care of a lot of the festivities. Mommy was very sick with bronchitis(she spent 4 hours in the Urgent Care to get some meds on Sunday-not fun!) :(

Mommy is feeling better now and we have one more place to wear our costumes one more time. Church is having a little kids festival tomorrow. It should be fun.

P.S. Does that cheerleader look familiar? I bet if you go back a few years you would see another one just like this cute one! ;) You should take a peak!

Bethany's 4!

Bethany turned 4 years old today!

We had a wonderful time with our little girl today. She was able to pick where she wanted to eat after church and she picked Applebees. :) The servers came around and sang Happy Birthday to her and gave her a Hot Fudge Sundae! She thought it was really special. We then went home and had a PINK cake that mommy made and opened her gifts. She is so sweet! She loved every one and thought they were the greatest thing ever!
We didn't have a big party for her this year, but we did invite a few friends from church and their mommies for a Mommy/Daughter Mani/Pedi Party! The girls were so excited! They each got to pick out their own nail polish and their own lotion. The moms made an "assembly" line, they each got to soak their feet in a bubble spa, then get exfoliated, cleansed moisturized and finally beautified with color! The girls then ate CHEESE pizza of course and mommy made a fancier dinner for the other mommies. I think everyone had a great time including the mommies!! :)

Ok, lets catch you up with a little bit of info on Bethany!
She has started preschool! She goes 4 days a week, half day. She LOVES it! She's doing really good and I already can tell she's learning so much! She is still into dance. She is taking tap right now. But she has informed us that she wants to be a cheerleader once basketball starts. ;)
Here favorite color is still dark pink, but she also says that purple is ok too. She loves to wear dresses. She's still a girly girl! She loves Polly Pockets and her Barbies. She loves to help us cook. She is getting more into coloring, which makes me very happy. She loves to sing too!
She's a good little girl and we love her very much!!

Bethany's a Preschooler!

(The sun was in her eyes)

Bethany and Elena

Today was Bethany's Official 1st day of preschool(aka no mommy). She was ready to go! No hesitation, no goodbyes-off she went! Although, it did make me a little sad when she trotted off it also made me happy and relieved that she is so excited. I was a bit worried, becasue sometimes Bethany is a bit timid. Her friend Elena is in her same class, it nice to have her there and also Erin and I can swap pick up times and help each other out! :) It seems like yesterday I was bringing this little bundle home from the hospital and now she's off to preschool! Bethany will go 4 days a week, 9am-1pm. She eats lunch there too! She's super excited about that. We decided to send her to the same preschool that Brady went to, Epworth UMC, we had such a good experience with him. He was also super prepared for kindergarten, his kinder teacher said you can definitely tell a difference. That seals the deal for us! It's awfully quiet in the house this morning, it's going to be an adjustment. :)

Summertime Fun!

Brady at bat!


Cooling off in the Sprinkler!

Fun in the Ohio Sun!

Wow, it was an awesome weekend! Gotta love the hottness! We got a lot done around the house and also had some play time. We had soccer and baseball Saturday so it was a busy day, we were all very tired by the time dinner came around.

Trip to Illinois

Wow, it's been a little while since I've posted on here. It has been crazy! During the beginning of Brady's Spring Break we decided to take a quick trip to IL to visit family. It had been WAY to long since we had gotten back there. We had a wonderful time(minus the not-so-fun cold I decided to obtain).
We were able to see both sides of my family. We went over to my Aunt Patty's house and spend time with her family as well as my grandpa and grandpa Cherry. We hadn't met my cousin Sara's daughter Ellie yet. She is such a cutie and a little pistol! My cousin Tracy's daughter Brooke was there also, it was amazing to see how tall she was! We missed Clayten he was at a sleepover at a friends house. It was so great just to sit with them and catch up on stuff. We missed my other Aunts and cousins but we hope to see them really soon!!


Tracy, Ellie, and Patty


Patty, Tracy, Ellie, and Bethany

We then decide to try and take in one Lincoln Site since we didn't have time to do all of them. So we went over to Lincoln's Tomb. In the parking lot we got an extra treat though! A mini Oscar Mayer Weiner Mobile had stopped so we got our picture taken by it. We walked on up to the tomb and walked around, Brady seemed pretty interested. We each took turns rubbing Abe's nose for good luck and snapped some pictures. A nice man even took our very first family of 5 photograph!! :)



Lincoln's Tomb


Kirk and Brady rubbing Honest Abe's nose




Bethany rubbing Abe's nose(well kinda)


"Angry" Georgia with Abe (she'll like it when she's older)


Family of 5!!

After we went site-seeing we headed over to meet the Birches for dinner. Almost everyone was there, except my Aunt Barb and Uncle Dean and their kids David, Val and Sarah, and Nathan(my Uncle Jeff's son) wasn't there , Oh and Holly and Aaron BUT we'll get to those two in a few. We were able to finally meet Nevan, Stephanie's son-can you say Wild Man! haha He's a cutie!!
The kids had a blast running around with him and playing with Pappy's tractors and trucks. Grandma had a nice spread as always. Yeah my dairy-free diet went right out the door(luckily we had the ok)!
The next day we went out to eat with Grandma and Pappy and then went over to see Tim and Lana's new house and then over to Jeff's new house. Both were very nice!! We then headed out to the farm and went to the new shed/building that Jeff built. Wow, it's huge! So great! Brady got a ride with Uncle Jeff from the farm to the shed on a BIG tractor, he was in heaven!! Once they got to the shed they sat on every tractor, truck, 4-wheeler you name it! I wish we were closer so Brady could be out there more, he loves it. I remember my memories of the farm and riding with Pappy in the tractors, I think I rode more than I walked!!! It was great!

Jeff and Brady


Jeff and Bethany





Once we left the farm it was time to start heading homeward. We headed over to my cousin Holly and her husband Aaron's house in Champaign to spend the night. On the way we ran up on fields of wind turbines. It was so Awesome! We have always seen them on tv but never up close. There were so many and so many more being built! We took some pictures.



We had a nice visit with Holly and Aaron, they happened to be pet-sitting another dog too(they have 2 dogs themselves). It was crazy, the kids loved it though! haha We were able to go out to eat dinner with them and saw Elvis re-incarnated at the local Walgreens. I wish I had my camera!

Before we left for Ohio the next morning we drove around U of I and then went to IHOP for breakfast. This was Brady's one request for our mini vacation. I don't think he realizes that IHOPS are in OH too, he just remembers going there when we were at David and Val's wedding a few years back. Anyway, we went had some yummy pancakes and then headed home.

We had a terrific time with everyone. We wish we had more time to stay longer but hopefully we will be able to make it back this summer for an extended time. There are so many family and friends we still need to see and want to see again.
We love you all very much!!!

Some Big Changes...

We have had some big changes at the Cameron household recently...

We'll start with the youngest...Georgia has started to smile at us! She has the cutest smile! She is doing really good, gaining weight, getting long, I think we may soon be out of her 3 mths clothes. I have still yet to get a picture of her smiling, I'm trying to have a camera nearby so I can catch it! Here is one though to keep your Georgia fix up.


On to Bethany, well I'll just show you the pictures...


Here you see it...


Now you don't!



And finally Brady, He lost not one but two teeth this weekend! The first at school on Friday and the second Saturday night.

Snow!

Kirk took the kids out on Sunday for a little snow time. It was too icy to make anything but they still had fun running around with Daddy!