Dance Recital

Last night was Katie's fall dance recital. It is a little program the put on that shows what they have learned so far this year. All the girls look so cute. the teacher has little skirts for them to wear and she pinned some ribbon in their hair. Very precious. Here are some video and pics from the night.

Since we missed Bree's recital last week because she was sick, I got a little video of her through the window. They only give a little area to look through so you all have to over look the blind cord that keeps getting in the way...or maybe its just my bad videoing skills.

Little Munckin Sick

Bree was not feeling well today. She started running a fever and still saying her tummy hurts. Since she has been complaining about her tummy for over week now and then started with the fever I decided to take her on to the doctor. It turned out the fever is from something viral and her tummy aches are either from good ole constipation or possible issues with some foods she eats. Dr. Pfanstiel check her urine and blood to rule out anything with her kidneys or possible infections and both of those came back clean thankfully. Now we have to start slipping her a little laxative in her juice each day to get her pooping more and see if that does the trick. If it doesn't then we will have to start looking at what she is eating and see if something is bothering her. I am a little afraid of what may happen with the laxative, hopefully no blow outs will happen. :)

Bree showing her hurt finger. They had to prick her finger to get blood today. She was such a big girl didn't even cry. She had the funniest little curiosity look on her face though as the nurse was pushing the blood in the tube. You can tell she has a little of her Great Uncle David in her..she wants to show everyone her hurt finger ( LOL inside family joke there).

Back home after Dr. visit. Nothing like Dora, chicken nuggets and fries to cure a hurt finger.

Pumpkin Town

Saturday afternoon we took the girls to a place called Pumpkin Town to let them pick pumpkins and partake in some of the other activities they had like, wagon rides, pony rides, face painting, inflatables, etc. We thought we would go after naps since it has been pretty cold here in the mornings, but it seems that wasn't the best idea after all. By the time we got there the temp had dropped and it was so windy that it was almost unbearable to be outside. So Chris and I divided and conquered as I took Bree on a wagon ride and Chris took Katie over to the infatables. Shortly after that the girls were both asking to leave so we quickly let them pick their pumpkins and then we headed home. Monday night we let them carve their pumpkins to put out on the front porch. Well, carving didn't go that well. They were both over the pumpkin thing in about five minutes so they just wanted to draw on them. Oh, well....gave it a good try.

Me and the girls at Pumpkin Town ...afterwords I realized that I was holding a little over 60 lbs in my arms here. Two heavy girls.

The girls digging into their pumpkins. Neither one were a fan of the yucky stuff inside.

Outside beside out Halloween Tiger. Bree loves this thing. Everyday we have him up she has to go give him a hug. :)

Random Pictures

Katie pretending to be a pumpkin - her and Bree both love playing with these little pumpkins that light up.

Now they are pretending to be ghost - they both were making their scary voices. it was so funny. I have tried to get video of them both making the scary noise but they won't do it on video. I'll keep trying.

This was the beginning of a fight over this pumpkin. The other was is a little smaller and neither one of them want the smaller one...go figure.

The girls at the hotel when we picked them up from visiting with Nana and Papaw. They were in the dresses we got them from Mexico

Katie wore hers out to eat that night. She look so grown up here.

Last Games

Saturday was the last game that Katie was cheering for the football season. It was a cold day again and the game was at 10am in the morning so it was about 45 degrees when we were out there. God Bless Katie's coach, she has the patience of a saint. She had about 10 4-6 years out in this cold and they were not in the best mood, but she gets them motivated and keeps them moving. I kept telling them that if they are cold just run in place and keep moving, and they will all run in place for less than a minute and say " I'm still cold". What can ya do?? They all made it through the came and were ready to go when it was over. I'll put up some pics for this one also once I find my camera cord.


Some of the cheerleaders on Katies team...they all looked so cute all bundled up with their cheer outfits on.

My sweet little girl

Katie and one of her good friends Lauren.. Katie was wearing Chris' ear warmers. LOL she looks like she should be in the 80's

Tailgate Time

High school football sure has changed since my high school days, or maybe it is just that high school football in the midwest is different. Evidently tailgating at high school football games is a big thing now. The 11th and 12th grade class that Chris and I help teach decided we would tailgate for one of the games this year. So on Friday night we had our tailgate. It had been in the low 70's high 60's all week but on Friday night it was in the low 40's that night. So cold for a tailgate but we still had it. It turned out to be a great night we grilled out hot dogs, had some chili, chips and of course cookies. The girls had fun too. They love all the attention they get from the bigger kids. I have some cute pics of the girls all bundled up, but I have misplaced my camera cord to download pics. As soon as I find it or get another one I will upload the pics so check back later for those.

The girls all bundled up waiting on some food.

The entire group that came out for the tailgate

Katie puckering up for daddy

Katie and Taylor....Taylor is one of our kids in teh 11th grade group. The girls think he is so funny because he acts so silly around them.

Don't Take Anything For Granted

So this is not going to be the most upbeat post that I put our here but I just felt like I needed to blog about this. Last night I got some really sad news. It was so random how I found out about this. My friend Cara called me and told me that she was thinking about me because she was talking to a friend and he was telling her about how his daughter and son-in-law went on a cruise a few weeks ago and the day after they got back they both got really sick. Cara thought about me because I had told her about how I got really sick also the day after we got back from our cruise. So her friend goes on to tell her about how is daughter got better a week or so after they return but his son-in-law did not. He kept getting worse and was hopsitalized. It turns out he had the swine flu and then that turned into another virus that attached his heart and he ended up passing away on Saturday. While Cara was telling me this story I remembered that one of the couples we sat with at dinner on our cruise was from her town in Chattanooga. It turns out that it was the same couple Travis and Krista. It was Travis that had passed away. He was only 27 years only and he and is wife had just been married for 5 years and have a little 3 year old named Abigail. I was floored when I realized this was the same guy and that just 3 weeks earlier we were having dinner with him, prefectly healthy, laughing and having a wonderful time with his wife. It just saddened me to know that his wife and daughter are now trying to figure out how to even begin to move on with life.
I spent a lot of time last night thanking God that for some reason he allowed me to heal from what I can only imagine was the swine flu and not taking me from this earth yet. It made me truely realize that life can be shorter than we think and we don't want to take anything for granted, our parents, sibilings, spouses, childern, friends and definetly our salvation. I know that Travis was a christian, we spent some time on the cruise talking about our lives and what God meant to us. I know he is a better place and that God will comfort those he left behind. So just in case you haven't today be sure to tell those around you that you love them.
Cara told me that some of her friends were friends with Krista and Travis and at the funeral they had lots of pictures from the cruise up. Even though it is a tragedy that Travis is gone I am thankful that Krista had a wonderful memory of the cruise. I can tell you from the short time we got to know them Travis loved his wife and was crazy about his little girl. Please when you read this send up a prayer for The Dent family and friends.