December Update

I know, it has been a long time since I updated my blog. I said I would have it done before everyone received their Christmas letters, and I missed that date. Oh, well. I'm going to update now.

Since the last post, it has been very busy in the household. Kaitlyn has been very busy with colorguard again this year. Her school made it to the semi-finals this year, so she was very busy with trying to get homework done and practice for that. But, that is over.

In November, we had our family pictures taken, and most of you received them with our Christmas cards. We also got a new vehicle. Our lease was up on the Escape, so we went to our dealer to see what they had. He showed us a 2007 Explorer, Eddie Bauer. It was much more then we wanted on the vehicle, but it had low mileage. We had determined that we were not going to lease again, so we knew we were going to buy a used car. This one only had 10,000 miles on it, so after some thinking, we told him we would take it. We basically paid 1/2 price for this car. The gas mileage won't be very good, but hopefully the gas prices will stay under $2/gallon, and we should be alright.



We have been very happy with the Explore so far.

Halloween fell within the last update, so here is a picture from Halloween.








Also, Patrick had his play during the last update. I missed the play because it was on November 15th, and of course, I was up north hunting. But, I did go to hes rehearsal and here some pictures from then.

That should bring me up to date for now. I should have another post after the holidays.

Update

Well, it's been a while since I updated, but in my defense, I have not been able to get on the computer lately. With homework and everything, it's been hard to sit down and update the blog.

Here is Kaitlyn at a SHS game. She is the second to last on the right.

U of D Homecoming and Dresden, Ohio

Well, this weekend was very busy. Norma was out of town on a Longaberger trip in Dresden, Ohio for two days and Kaitlyn was asked to the U of D Homecoming by Will. So, I'm posting pictures of both events. First will be the Dresden pictures that Norma went to with a friend Grace. For those that don't know, Longaberger is a basket company and Norma likes baskets. So, she tries to go there every year or so. She likes it, and then I get to go hunting, so it works out.



And now, the pictures of Kaitlyn and Will for the U of D Homecoming... This was Kaitlyn's first time that she was asked to a homecoming by a boy.



She looked very beautiful.

Stevenson Homecoming 2008 for Kaitlyn

Well, it's Homecoming for Stevenson High School for 2008. Kaitlyn and several of her friends gathered at our house before they all went out for dinner and then to Homecoming. Here are the pictures from the gathering.

Apple Picking

Well, just to update everyone, there hasn't been much changed here. Kaitlyn is getting a ton of homework and it's stressing everyone out in the house. She has Color guard most afternoons and that doesn't leave much time for homework. AP Bio is a very tough course, and she is struggling with it right now. Hopefully, it will get better.

But, we went apple picking over the weekend. We had Carla and the girls meet us up there and we all went apple picking. The weather was beautiful, sunny and 70's. The trouble is, everyone else decided to go apple picking too. We only picked Macintosh, we missed the Empire exit. So, here are some pictures.

School Starts Soon

Well, school is going to start soon, so I figured I should post some pictures from the last month. We were fairly busy in August, we went Irish Hills last weekend for our annual trip to the lake. We had fun, we invited some friends and their kids to stay there too. They rented the cabin we had last year, and we went with a bigger cabin. Kaitlyn and Patrick brought friends with them, so we had a gang of seven kids and four adults. Here are some pictures from that weekend.

We also celebrated Norma's birthday during August.

That was our excitement for August. In two days school starts and we will be very busy. So, until then...

As promised - Pictures

Well, here are the pictures I told you all I would post....

First, Fayette pictures...



And here are some pictures from the trip...




And some more from the trip...



Here are some pictures from Kaitlyn's camera...



So, as promised, pictures of the trip.