(second) First Day (of the second week) of School

I'm amazed lately at the things I forget to do. Forgot the baby's paci. Forgot mommy's coffee. Forgot the snacks. You get the idea. So, I totally forgot... no I didn't even think about taking pictures of the girls on their first day of school (at MMO). Which is probably a must on the good mommy list.

But, they looked much cuter on their second first day of the second week of school, in their new little dresses.

I rarely capture pictures like this of them side by side. I LOVE it!

Carmel Homecoming

A couple weeks ago, we went to Carmel's homecoming game. We went last year and sat in the alumni area, and decided to make it a tradition and do it again this year. I'm not alumni, but my hubby is, his brother and sister are, his mom and probably our girls will be some day. So, Go Greyhounds!

The girls loved the drum line. They were watching them practice and drumming on daddy and Pawpaw's head.

Baby C loved snuggling with Grammy when the weather got a litte chilly.

Uncle Mikey with all his girls. They LOVE him!

Grammy loves her girls. This is Lo after enjoying a chocolate chip cookie. She really knows how to enjoy a cookie!

Lo and J are learning what it means to score a touchdown! Here's J with hand motions and everything.

Cousins are the best! I love our neice's expression in this photo. They were running up and down the hill.

There was a chance for rain. But Lo wanted to play with the umbrella rain or shine.

Working on the house

If you remember my post back in May, you'll appreciate these photos much more. Now that I'm no longer pregnant and now fully recovered from having the baby, I've got new energy to work on the house again.




We finally finished Baby C's room. It's so precious. I chose the words "Believe in Miracles" because all babies are miracles, but Baby C was an unexpected, even a once-thought-impossible miracle in our lives. Seeing this above her bed brings tears to my eyes.




We also worked on the girls bathroom. All three of the girls will share this bathroom. We're thankful it has more than one sink and a REALLY big mirror :)

If you never saw this bathroom before, imagine totally white walls, no shower curtain, no rugs, and no wall fixtures.

We went with a soft yellow (taken from the yellow in the rugs) (the yellow doesn't look very soft in these photos, but believe me, it is) and I loved this wall decal that measures their height.

I had a lot of fun with the wall shelf that we recycled from the guest bathroom at our old house. I found this cute tissue paper flower set (by none other than Martha Stewart) and had fun making the flowers on top of the shelf.

Ready for some football!

Now that Andy is working all the home games, I took Jaime with me to the Colt's season openner and we had a great time. The football game was not much to watch, but all the pre-game hype and the helicopter flyover was pretty cool.



See the helicopters coming in the large window frame? That was pretty cool.

Hill Fest 2008

Hill Fest was more fun this year and more work. Andy hauled the big girls around in the wagon and I carried the baby in a Bjorn carrier.

We could only big our brave Big Girl J to do any of the activities...

She rode a horse and at first she hated it:



Then was OK with it:



But, she pretty much went back and forth between those two emotions the entire time. I couldn't help but laugh at her.

Next, she tried out the inflatable jumping thing and had a ball.

Happy Birthday to Me!

My birthday came and went and although I got some pictures, I never had the chance to blog about it.

It was a fun day (Aug. 12). Jaime planned a pool play date for me and Cara even made me a birthday cookie cake - yum!

We celebrated with family later in the month and I had cupcakes from Flying Cupcake and homemade vanilla ice cream for dessert! Double yum!

All the kids played musical instruments when they sang happy birthday to me. It was pretty cute.

Milk drunk...