Happy Birthday Megan & Seth

Today we had the birthday party for Megan and Seth. Grandbear is here from Philly, Uncle John, Aunt Michele, Abby, and Christina are here from VA. Our friends, Mike and Nancy Lewis were here from Cincinnati. Paul III, Angela, Emma, and Shalynne were here too. (Paul 4th is still in the oven. I think it's almost time.) Grandma and Grandpa were here too and also Aunt Dorine. (Uncle Paul had to work.) Trenton had a band competition today so they were not able to come. I hope to get to go to one of Trenton's competition. Anyway, back to the birthday party. It seemed like everyone had a good time. These pics are not all in order but here we go.
Here is Seth opening one of his gifts.
Megan with a baby. A big hit for her.
Seth with the Harley Davidson tricycle that Greg and I got for him.
Megan at the art desk that we got for her. She really liked it.
Megan has been wanting a princes outfit for a long time.

Megan's theme was Princess. Each little princess got their own little princess cake.

Seth's theme was of course cars. After I finished this and showed it to Seth he made a car noise. These cakes took me 6 1/2 hours to decorate. That is not including baking time. So you are thinking that I'm crazy and I'm thinking your right. I don't think I was making minimum wage.
The kids with the pull string pinata. The kids loved it.
The kids took a ride in my dad's corvair that he is restoring. What a blast.

Sunday, Sept. 28th is our Megan's 4th birthday. Megan you have been such a joy to our life. I'm so glad that God gave you to us. We want you to grow up and have the love of Jesus in your heart. I remember when you were first born. Mommy and daddy were so happy to have you as part of the family. You are still our little princess and a good big sister to Seth. He loves you so much. Hope you have a great day. We love you, Daddy, Mommy, and Seth.

Here are some pics of Megan. Again, I just had to quit downloading. Too many pics.

This is Megan in Stephanie's wedding. She was the flower girl. After playing in the mud at Grandma's house.
In a water bucket.
Christmas 07
Emma, Shalynne, Megan at church camp 06
Megan at Philly.

The kids birthday party last year. Megan had kitty cat and Seth had a dog.
Dorthy last trick or treat.
Can I take your order? Christmas 07
One of my favorite pics of Meg. She was 2 1/2 here.

Happy Birthday Seth

Seth is 2 today!! He just keeps getting more handsome all of the time. I am so happy that God gave us two great kids. Both are very special to me but today is the day that I'm going to talk about Seth and then on the 28th of this month you will hear about Meg.
This little guy is so sweet. He is one of the most loving kids that I have ever seen. I can't tell you how many kisses that I get each day from him and I love every one of them. He will kiss me on the cheek and then turn my face so that he can kiss the other one. He has been such a joy to have in our little family. When I just had one child I was worried that I wouldn't love another one as much as I loved the first. Boy was I wrong. He just walked into our lives and took over. I love both kids the same. I wouldn't want to be without either one of them. We are going to have cake and ice cream tonight with my parents and then we are planning a big party for both of the kids when Greg's Dad flys in. John T and his family are planning to come in from VA for the occasion also. I will have some of my family here too. I thought I would post some pics of Seth. I finally just had to quit. We have so many cute pics of this little guy! Happy Birthday Seth! We love you sooooo much!!!!
Seth at his first birthday. This wasn't at his party. This was the actual day of his birthday.
The outfits from grandmom and grandbear.
This happens a lot. Believe it or not.

I love this pic.

Megan took this of Seth.
Football? Sure I'll sign it.
Our little man. SGMA tenor of the year.

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Christmas PJ's
I love this. I have another pic of the hat falling over his eyes and boy is he mad!!!
All decked out.
Easter.

Reading to little brother. Must be a good book.
So handsome. In big sister's bed.
Angel kissing an angel. That isn't what I said when I found the self rising flour on the kitchen floor.

Canaan Fall Festival

We had our town festival this weekend. Megan wanted to get on this thing. She paid her $5 and waited for her turn. Which was like watching paint dry. When it was finally her turn she started to get up there and decided that she didn't want to do it. I told her to go ahead and she had a blast. She wanted to do it again. This clip was taken with Greg's phone so I'm sure it's not the best. Seth couldn't do it because he had an injured arm. He helped daddy eat a snow cone while we waited on Meg. We had a great time. The kids enjoyed the parade and all of the candy that was tossed to them. By the way, Seth's arm is healing so fast. Now we are to the point where it is feeling good so he doesn't want to wear the splint. Good sign. I'm so thankful to God that he didn't get hurt worse then what it was.

Good News

We took Seth in to the Orthopedic Dr. today and received good news. He didn't have a cast! He has a splint and wrap. I can take it off to give him a bath and also for him to sleep. I am so glad because he has been really restless at night. He just can't get comfortable. Baths have been a pain. We will most likely be able to take it off in less then two weeks! I can't wait!

What a differance a day makes

That is the case around here. I took this pic of Megan and Seth going to Grandma's. I am standing on the porch and if you look close you can see someone on the porch at Grandma's house. By the way, they were having a yard sale that day if your wondering what all of the stuff's about. Also, zoom in and see that they are holding hands!
Here they are playing on the slide. Megan would wait for Seth to get on the slide then she would go head first right behind him. I love to see them playing together. OK read on...... Just to let you know that we are not in a perfect world.... We were picking up the kids from my parents. While we were talking to mom and dad Megan and Seth got in my dad's truck and was acting like they were going somewhere. Well, Meg got out and then she opened the door to let Seth out and he fell out head first! We noticed that he wasn't moving his arm right so we took him to ER for an x-ray. As you can see from the pic. It was broke. Not real bad. Too much for me. The Dr. called it a buckle. Anyhow, he has an appointment tomorrow to get the real cast put on. I'm thankful that it wasn't worse then what it was. He could have really hurt his head. I hate to see the little guy in pain. He doesn't like that thing being on at all but I can tell that it really helped with the pain. Keep us all in your prayers.

On the Road Again

We went out this past weekend to our Robbins Family Reunion. We had a really nice time. My cousins for the past two years have invited everyone to come and "camp" at their house. We have taken them up on it both years and have really had a great time. Friday night we ordered pizza. (The official camping out food.) Then a few people gathered around with musical instruments and had a sing. My kids got a little over it so Barb offered to let us go in the in ground pool! Wow! It was soooo nice. We had a nice time at the reunion the next day. Meg's team won the horse race. (Riding on small brooms.) Seth got to pull out a winning duck out of the pond. (They were all winners.) It wasn't all that fun. Friday evening I heard water running in the bathroom in the camper. I went in to check it out. Our tank was full and our toilet was backed up and running out on the floor! What a mess! We shut off the water and started cleaning up the mess. Greg couldn't figure out how the tank was full. He found out after we got home that the toilet had gotten stuck on and the water just continued to drain in the tank. Crazy. I hope that never happens again.

Was that 5lb or 25lb?

I have a deep cleaning schedule made up to cover each room in the house over the next month or so. I take a room on Friday and one on Saturday and give it a good cleaning. Friday was the Master Bath. It really looks great! Today I was working on the Master Bedroom. I was cleaning out the night stand when I heard the kitchen drawer open. I asked Megan what she was doing. She said that she didn't want to tell me. I got worried that she might have a knife even though most of my sharp knives I have up high. So I went in to investigate. That is when I found her and Seth with flour all over! I couldn't believe it! Will this ever be a normal dwelling again? Are my kids way out there? Please tell me that I'm not the only one who has this kind of stuff happen. I didn't realize how much 5lbs was. Bonnie and Clyde.

Ocean Potion

We went out on the jet ski and boat yesterday. We had a blast again. The water was really rough though. I was on the ski for a long time until my legs got sore from being in the same position for so long. I also had Seth riding with me so I was more tense with the way the water was. I was afraid to go too fast in fear that he would fall off. After I got off Greg got on. He was riding a little ways behind the boat and I wasn't paying any attention to him. I finally got up and turned to look at him and he wasn't there. We went back to look for him and found that he was kind of cruising along because Seth had fallen asleep and was laying on his left arm and Greg was trying to drive with his right. We took Seth and were on our way again. I had put sunscreen on both of the kids but not on me. I am Fried! I am using Ocean Potion. It feels cool when I put it on. I have a white band on my arm from where I was wearing the safety bracelet on the jet ski. I woke up sick this morning probably from sun poison. Oh well, live and learn.

From Philly to TN

Ok, so you thought that I had left the Blog world. Well, I was beginning to wonder myself. We left for Philly to see Greg's family a week ago this past Friday. We left around 9:00pm and got there the next morning around 7:30. It usually takes us 10 hours but the kids woke up about 5:30 in the morning so we had to let them get out and stretch. We had a great time. Gram seemed to be doing good as well as everyone else. We spent a lot of time in the pool. The kids were a little apprehensive at first but as you will be able to see by the pics they both got use to it. I have a pic of Seth jumping in but both kids were doing it. I have so many pics I will never get them all posted. You may need some Tums to look at these pics with all of the good Philly food that we ate. Cheese steaks, soft pretzels, hot dogs from the vendors, scrapple, tomato pie, Reta's water ice,(ice cream) Hoagies, Cheese steaks, scrapple, Cheese teaks, and scrapple. We went to Church on Sunday morning and then we had a cookout with Grandbear's family. It was so nice to see everyone. Here Seth is jumping in to Greg.
Megan taking it easy.
Megan with Colleen. Colleen is Greg's first cousin. Megan just loves her.
Seth eating Tomato pie. He loves it. For the ones who don't know it is pizza crust with a pizza sauce and Parmesan cheese on top and served cold. I love it and so does Seth. Thank you Aunt Mary Jo for bring our favorite.
Seth and Uncle Kevin Chillin out.

Seth had his hair done like Uncle Kevin. Everyone loves Uncle Kevin.
I forgot to tell you that we went and rode the Ducks in Philly. It is an amphibious bus that takes you around a lot of the sight of Philly and then takes you on the Delaware river. We all had these quacker's and yes everyone used them. We had a blast. Megan helping Christina learn to walk. Meg is such a good big cousin.
The Greg O'Donnell family in the pool. The hungry hippo that Megan is riding is the one that she was jumping in with and no one was catching her!
Megan and Grandmom. Megan, Seth, and Abby all had floating bathing suits that Grandbear and Grandmom bought for them. It was cool because they were for girl or boy so Seth was dressed like the rest of them. I think he thought he was big stuff.

Greg and Seth on the Ducks in Philly.
Meg on the Ducks in Philly.
Grandmom and Grandbear on the Ducks.
Seth joining in on the Y M C A song. Some of the people on the bus were doing the motions to the song while it was playing and Seth was getting into it.
We left Philly and went to TN for a few days. The kids went to Dollywood again. We always have a good time there. I didn't take pics because we were just there a couple of months ago and the rides look the same. The kids did get to ride a real train there. We have never rode the train at Dollywood so that was cool. Since the kids like Thomas it was nice to ride a real train. Anyway, we are home and we have to go back to work. Fun!