September wrap up

I can't believe we are already a few days into October! I thought I'd do a wrap up on a few things from September. Most of the big stuff I already blogged about.

Megan and I went to paint pottery again, It's been almost a year since we've been there. We enjoy it, not sure why it's been so long. I made a pencil holder with different shades of purple on it (in hopes that if we use it I will be able to find a pen or pencil near the phone in the kitchen!). Megan made a cute puppy bank.







On Sept 18th Kevin and I celebrated 16 years of marriage. Seems like just yesterday and yet a lifetime ago! We met when I was 16, so I've been married to him the same amount of time that I spent not knowing him.



September pretty much was spent trying to get into the school routine. Megan doesn't like 1st grade, but goes without too much of a fight. She's struggling with learning when it's ok to talk and when it's not (she gets that from me- in 1st grade I stayed in trouble for talking!). She loves to draw and tell stories and is getting very good at both.

Kellie is starting to become very opinionated about everything, but is still my happy girl most of the time.

I'm enjoying the weather. Kevin is enjoying football season.

Well, there's the wrap up!

Boyds Bear Country- Camping- Gettyburg post 3

We had a late checkout on Monday. After doing all the getting ready to go stuff that we could do early, we headed out.

1st in search of a gas station with diesel. I never realized it's hard to find sometimes. We learned to go to a highway and look there, not bother looking "in town".

Then we headed to Boyds Bear Country. This place is huge and sorta overwhelming, but fun.

They have different theme areas and it's cool to look at all the stuffed items available. Of course, Megan was in heaven (she'd been there before- once when she was very little and then last year when she spent the night camping with G-ma and G-pa), but still loves it.

Megan really wanted a puppy and picked out a yorkie. Kellie got a puppy too, a chocolate lab like Cody- a dog we see on the way to school. Kellie isn't really into stuffed animals, but she seemed to enjoy it. It seemed she thought it was a big playground and not a store. Megan loves stuffed animals and wanted one of everything!

Then we headed back to the campground, finished unsetting up (what do you call that?), got hooked up and headed home. Both girls chose to ride with daddy (he's fun and had the DVD player in his truck), so mommy had a nice ride home all by herself. I bought some wonderfully juicy crisp Honey Crisp apples at the Catoctin Orchard (I also had a yummy raspberry crumb bar!) on our way home.

It was an enjoyable trip.

Below are some pictures- here are more- http://kevginmegkel.shutterfly.com/1449

Land of Little Horses and Gettysburg camping- Sunday

Sunday morning there was hope for better weather so we decided to do something outside.

As I headed to the shower I found out that our site didn't have sewer hookup meaning that either we had to be careful with how much water we used or we'd have to hookup, drive to the dumpstation to empty the tanks and then do set up all over again! Not our idea of fun...

I debated for a while and decided that I wanted a real shower (my showers tend to last 15-20 minutes), so I packed up my stuff and my Lysol and headed to the bath-house. YES, I took a shower in a public shower. But this place has the nicest set up. There are like 4 bathrooms in the bathhouse- each with a door, sink, toilet, shower , with ceramic tile walls and they were clean. They are bigger than our bathroom at home. So after a nice hot shower I felt refreshed.



We headed out to Land of Little Horses. They had horses (miniature and "regular"), donkeys, llamas, emus, sheep, pigs, goats, and some other animals. Kellie's favorite animal was the cat that followed us everywhere. Finally after 2 hours of hanging with us she finally let the girls pet her!
It was fun.
Below are some pictures, to see more go to http://kevginmegkel.shutterfly.com/1401

Camping trip #2- Gettysburg Fri and Saturday

Friday night Kevin, Megan, Kellie, and Emmett and the camper headed to Gettysburg for the weekend. I had to work on Saturday, so I drove up after work.
Kevin managed to get the camper into a not so easy spot in the dark (thanks to a little help from the campground folks and to the girls and the dog for being well behaved!).

They spent some of Saturday morning at the playground, then Grandma and Grandpa came to spend the day (and apparently brought the rain). The girls had a great time with G-ma and G-pa even in the rain and close quarters of the camper.

I arrived at dinner time in pouring down rain and it continued to rain all night. Rain is really LOUD in the camper! Plus we had a wooded site, which was surrounded by walnut trees with dropped walnuts every time the wind blew- that was loud too!

We spent the evening catching up and resting. And the sound of the rain lulled us to sleep.

Labor Day visit with G-ma and G-pa

We spent Sunday and Monday of Labor Day weekend with Kevin's parents at their log house in WV.
The weather cooperated and it was a nice visit.

The girls love being there and so does Emmett. The 3 of them just ran and ran and ran (well Emmett ambled and rested and trotted a bit). They loved seeing all the deer and Emmett even put his nose to the ground and followed a deer's tracks.
Megan and Kellie enjoyed playing with and being with Grandma and Grandpa. Grandma and Grandpa are probably in need of naps today!

It's nice to get away to the quietness of the woods and to not really having to do anything.

BTW_ if you're in Berkeley Springs WV, stop by the Earth Dog Cafe on S. Washington St for some yummy BBQ.

Survived the 1st week of 1st grade

Megan and the rest of us survived the 1st week of 1st grade. They had Friday off so it was a short week.


None of the kids from Megan's Kindergarten class are in her 1st grade class, but she's delt with it like a champ. She has 2 girls that she knew of last year that sit near her and they seem to get along.

The 1st day I asked her who she played with at recess, she said Bindi. Bindi is her invisible friend (Bindi the jungle girl, Steve Irwin the croc hunter's daughter.) Then she said she ate lunch with Amy, her friend from K, so that made momma happy that she and Amy still do stuff together. Amy and her mom are so sweet.

Then I asked her who she talked to in class, she exhaled loudly and said "We're not supposed to talk in class." as if that was a trick question (it wasn't, but good to hear she understands that, in 1st grade I didn't get that concept and got in trouble frequently for chatting- if I talked too much I didn't get to watch Donny and Marie on Friday night).

Her teacher called today to let us know Megan had a good week and that she's monitoring to be sure Megan is in places where she can see well. She even left her home number if we needed to talk to her. How sweet.

Kellie enjoyed having the house to herself and my attention, but by Thursday she was missing Megan. I'm probably going to start taking her to classes at the library to give her an activity and maybe help expand her vocabulary and get her talking!

On Friday we went to a playground with their cousins Samuel, Luke, and Cassie as well as Aunt Angie and Nana. It was fun. The kids always have a good time and expending some energy was good for them!

A photo book of our camping trip

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