Saturday, September 26, 2009

Natalie is 1!

Natalie turned 1 this week! I can hardly believe it has been a whole year. We had a great day and on Friday the family came over to celebrate with us.

The birthday girl

Eating cake

Dominic is missing from most of the pictures because he wanted to play on the four wheeler

More cake

Natalie showing us how old she is. Aunt Ali took this picture and I thought it was so funny that she is holding up one finger. She doesn't know that this means anything and she was probably pointing at her auntie - but I still got a kick out of it.




Saturday, September 5, 2009

Lately

We had a fun week. (Of course I didn't take any pictures of us enjoying it) We started the week and Grandma and Grandpa's babysitting while they were out west visiting the rest of my siblings. Kirk got to go to cedar point on Wednesday and I started my graduate classes. KSU is holding a cohort at the Copley-Fairlawn schools which allows me to get my masters taking one class at a time, one night a week, at a local school, for less money. Its a perfect situation for a busy mom.


On Friday night Kirk and I took Dominic to the Barberton High School football game. The Magics won, and Dominic really likes the atmosphere of the games even though he'd rather run around then sit in the stands. The game would've been really fun but shortly into the second quarter a swarm of bugs hit the stands. It was disgusting. Anyone remember the Yankees @ Indians game a few years ago when the bugs were nuts? It was the same thing. It only lasted about 20 minutes, but it was a miserable twenty minutes. Everyone looked hilarious though swatting at the bugs.

Today we went and caught the last part of the Cleveland Airshow. Dominic really loves airplanes and anytime he hears them he gets excited. He was thrilled to see the thunder birds flying overhead and anytime there was an airplane in sight, he was telling us about it. "airpain in sky". Natalie didn't really care for the jets so I spent my time chasing her around. We didn't actually pay to go into the airshow since we were only there for an hour but there's a few good places to sit just outside of the airport where you can still see really well. We were on a hill the drops off onto some train tracks and of course all Natalie wanted to do was try and walk down this hill and tumble down - I had my hands full! We did successfully wear the kids out and they were both in bed by 6:30. I just hope I don't regret the early bedtimes tomorrow morning :)