its been a while

This is especially for rosemary, who tried to make me feel guilty for not having recent pictures of her favorite neice to look at.

first football game

Nick has officially one his first football game as head coach...woohoo! This was the pic in the paper so I thought I'd post it for those who care to see. The other one is of chelase brown and it was just too funny not to post.

cousins get together

This past weekend the cousins on my moms side of the family got together. All my sisters and borthers, and our 2 cousins. One of them has a little girl, emma, who shared all her stuff with julia. As you can see below she even let julia brush her teeth with the bubble wand. We are in the middle of our 2 week of school.....things are going well, everyone is getting used to the new routine. I teach from 9-12 and julia stays with my mom. Nick's football season will officially get started this weekend with their first game! Maybe I will have some pics to post.

summer time is ending!

Sadly the summer is coming to an end. Nick and I start pre-planning August 1. I am only going to be teaching part time. (3 50 minute classes) Here are a few picutres of recent events. I stayed in Atlanta with amelia for an AP biology training seminar thing so julia and Nick had a week of bonding time. She discovered some new entertainment, like hiding in the toy chest.

Then nick and julia joined us in ATL to ride bikes on the silver comet trail, which was great!!!

And lastly a picture of julia in a dress that has survived me and all 5 of my sisters...and julia.

back from wisconsin

We are back from our trip to wisconsin! Here are a few pics of julia and her cousins and her aunts and uncles. We were very thankful that she mostly slept in the car, yeah, the car....we drove there. About 18 hours in case you were curious. But, she was really good and the occasional stop at the rest area playgrounds were enough to keep her happy.

We were spoiled by the AWESOME weather up there....about 80 on a hot day with a nice breeze all the time. It was great, and a good time to see Nicks family who we don't get to see very often.

service with a smile

Julia loves helping us with everything around the house. We have a few projects to do this summer because we moved in about a month before julia was born last year and haven't had a chance to do much in the way of home improvement since then. We are doing a repainting and reflooring job in one room that hasn't had a makeover in probably 30 years. Lets just say it is definitly overdue!

prom chaperones

So we were prom chaperones this past weekend....always brings lots of entertainment!! Being at the prom when you not in high school anymore is hillarious...watching the drama without being part of it! My sister posted this picture of the "fake magazine"(below) which I thought was funny! Except nicks face is covered up....like "al" on HOME Improvements!
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