Quiet and Peaceful

This doesn't happen very much anymore but when it does it's priceless!

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! :(

Brady's Christmas Program

 

  

 

Gearing up for Christmas!

 

  

  

Brady's 8!

Wow, Brady is now an 8 year old!!!!

Where did the time go?

We had a birthday party for him at his choice of restaurant and that would be Mi Jalepeno! He really wanted to get whipped cream smashed in his face!  We had a wonderful time with friends and family and appreciate all of you coming to celebrate with us!!

 

He is a wonderful boy! He has grown so much this past year! He loves to read and is excelling way above average for 2nd grade! We are so proud of him!

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!

1st day of 2nd grade!

Today was Brady's 1st day of 2nd grade! He was very excited! We were able to go to his classroom last night and drop off his school supplies. We love his teacher Mrs. Strine. (Kirk actually taught with her at Ridgedale for a short time) He has quite a few friends in his class and a couple from his baseball team too. Mommy can't believe how fast the summer flew by!

Summertime Fun!

Brady at bat!


Cooling off in the Sprinkler!

School's Out!

Brady is an official 2nd grader!!!

He had a pretty good year, he loved his teacher Mrs. Peterson! He has learned to read so well. We love listening to him read to Bethany. He's a whiz at math just like his dad(not like his mom). I think he is ready for a little school break but he is excited to start the 2nd grade in the fall!

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!

Brady's 7!!

Well, Brady's 7 today! SEVEN!! It's crazy to think he's that old!!!! He was able to read most of his cards this year by himself. He's really doing well, sounding out the words and figuring them out. At times he gets frustrated, but that's to be expected.

We had a birthday party with four of his friends on Friday. We went bowling. It was fun! It was interesting with 5 boys. Whew!! They all bowled very well and had a great time. I know Brady really enjoyed it! Bethany even bowled too, the ball went Verrrrry slowly. I keep telling everyone think of the scene on Uncle Buck! hahaha

Today after church we went out to eat Brady's choice. He either wanted to go to KFC or Long John Silver's/A&W-go figure! He's 7! haha We ended up going to KFC and then he got a RootBeer Float for dessert at A&W. We don't think the float is what he expected. ;) We came home and opened up his gifts from us and the rest of the family. Thank you guys!

I think he enjoyed his birthday weekend very much!

Some pics: