Birthdays and Sunny Sunday

This weekend we celebrated my birthday and Michael's birthday. In our family if someone has a birthday near you and you are an adult, you have to share! We had a great time together, the kids played and played and played. And we ate and ate and ate (Ledo's pizza and cake and pie).

Sunday, the weather was beautiful, so we spent more time outside. Kellie learned to drive Meg's battery powered ATV and loved it. It is so cool to watch them play together and Megan is a pretty good big sister!

October in review

I can't believe October 2009 is history already! The girls have enjoyed playing in the leaves. It is so cool to see them have fun with such simple things!

Most of October was spent with at least one of us being sick! Both girls had fevers that went away and then they had ear infections a week later. Kevin and I both had sinus junk. The pharmacy tech at Target now recognizes me and welcomes me back!

Meg's every 3 month check with the retina specialist went well. Her retina is still attached and working and her vision is almost back to pre-surgery. So now she's finished with drops in that eye. She is doing much better in school. They've had a long term substitute teacher lately, so I'm anxious to see if things continue to go well once her regular teacher returns.

Kellie finally had her 2 yr check up, she's a tall kid- in the 50-75th percentile for height! She's still on the bottom of the weight chart, but that's to be expected. She has picked up a few new words.

Halloween was fun. Meg's school had a parade and party on Friday. Kevin went to help at the party, which thrilled Megan.

We went to visit Granny and Granddaddy Hurst on Saturday afternoon. The kids had fun running around like crazy folks!

For more pictures of the fun go to- http://kevginmegkel.shutterfly.com/1476

On Saturday Megan and Kellie went trick or treating with Meg's friend Amy and her brother Brandon (who is close to Kellie's age).

Well, that's the high and low lights of the month at our house.

Please continue to be in prayer for my family, as my parents house sold, the separation papers are in process, Dad will be moving away, and Mom will be moving too.

Please also pray for Grandaddy and Granny. Granddaddy had a heart attack and yesterday they put in a pacemaker and he is in the ICU. Don't know much else at this point.

Thanks!

The apple doesn't fall far from the tree

Megan has been struggling a bit in school. With her handwriting, getting her work done, staying focused, being motivated, and she's talking too much.

My mom gave me some of my report cards from elementary school.
Here's what they said
"When Virginia settles down, she does better work. She is a lovely child, but often seeks the attention of others through some form of noise
"There are times I have to push her a little"
"Is making satisfactory progress in most areas with the exception of self control"
I got some 3s in "writes legibly" (with 1 being the best).

Poor Megan, she got it honestly!

Hershey Park

On Saturday we went to Hershey Park (Kevin's company had some cheap tickets to a "private event"). We had a great time. The girls love rides and I love watching them enjoy the rides. They had such fun! Kellie wasn't too sure about the Frogger ride where they bounce up and down, but she endured til the end, with Megan holding her hand. The rest of the rides they both loved. It was a beautiful day weather wise, which added to how nice and fun the day was.

In typical fashion for us, the trip was not without a little "issue". It was a sunny day, sunnier than I realized it was supposed to be. So, I bought sunscreen at one of the stores in the park. Within minutes of applying the sunscreen Kellie broke out into hives, started itching, was pulling at her tongue, and her eyes puffed up. Washing it off didn't help, so off to the First Aid Station we went. I convinced the nurse to give her a dose of benadryl and within 30 mintues Kellie was better. Her 1st souvenir from Hershey Park, a pretty blue medicine spoon!

The chocolate factory tour was neat, and at the end we got Kit Kats. Meg and I love Kit Kats!

On the way home we stopped at a campground right near Hershey to check it out, so maybe next year we'll camp there.

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