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Tuesday, December 27, 2011

Where in the world have we been???

Oh my Gosh! I can't believe I have not blogged since mid November! I am sorry for not updating!
This is what we have been up to and I will TRY to post photos and more details at a later date, but don't hold me to that. Sorry.

November 12th, 2011
We had Bayleigh's 7th birthday party at the Waldron Baptist Church. The theme was a Luau and the turnout was amazing! Bayleigh's friends from school that came were: Kaylee, Josee, Kylee, Maggie, Avery, Silas, Nolan, Chaille, Brooklyn, Allie, Trent, Mason, Cendall, Caroline, Caden, Max, McKayla, and Stephan. LOTS of family and friends were there too. We served a ham dinner and played lots of games. She got lots of neat gifts that ranged from books/DVD's to beads, craft kits, and Barbies. She also got money to go toward her KINDLE that her Grammy bought her and iTunes gift cards. It was a lot of fun.

November 22nd, 2011
The Waldron PTO hosted a field trip to That Fun Place in Greenfield, IN for the kids that sold 3+ boxes of candy bars to raise money for the PTO. There was about 60 kids that went and it was fun. I got to meet Bayleigh's little friend Lucy that she talks about all the time. She is a very sweet little girl and her and Bayleigh get along great!
November 24th and November 25th, 2011
Ahhhhhh, Thanksgiving and Black Friday! FUN! Our families came to our house as an annual event! Then Black Friday actually kicked off at 10PM on Thanksgiving night. Talk about being TIRED! Bayleigh, Kim, and Kaitlynn and I hit the stores and did some MAJOR damage, but got some GREAT DEALS! Probably our biggest deal was our Cricut Scrapbooking machines from Michaels that run $199.99 and we got them for $69.99! SCoRE! Kim and I bought one for each other. (we are so much alike it's crazy).

December 10th, 2011
We went over to Ohio and shopped and stayed in a hotel with my friend Jennifer (Goob) and her two sons. Her husband was going to go, but they ended up needing a major home repair so he stayed home to fix that. We hit IKEA and huge home furnishing store and the Bass Pro shop. Met up with Goob there and then went to dinner and then hit the hotel next door to swim and sleep. The next day we went back to IKEA with Goob and also a store called Jungle Jim's which is a huge grocery store with anything and everything you can think of. Wish David was with us, but I'd like to make it an annual trip as well. Here is the free pic with Santa from The Bass Pro Shop, The bedroom Bayleigh picked out at IKEA, and the Owl Beer and Cheese from Jungle Jim's.




Oops! I'm a little out of order
December 3rd, 2011
We took Bayleigh to the Greenwood Park Mall to see Santa. Here are the pictures from that.



December 16th, 17th, and 18th.
We made our annual trip to Wasatch Lake Cabins. It was a ton of fun, but we were frustrated because the owners wouldn't let us use the lodge and were VERY RUDE! They kept running their 4 wheelers on our property ALL NIGHT LONG and we were trying to sleep and they were just annoying. I think we might try to find a new cabin to go to next year. Santa came again and the kids were excited to get their gifts. The weekend over all was relaxing and it was a good time.
Then, the 18th, Bayleigh had her Christmas Program at Mt. Pisgah Church. She sang a solo part in the program and did great!

December 21st, 2011
We made our annual trip to Christmas at the Zoo. We typically go with my Brother in Law and Sister in Law, but Rach was sick so we went and picked Max up and took him with us while she got better. :) It wasn't as cold as it has been in the years past which resulted in a crowded zoo, but it was a great time.






Saturday and Sunday December 24th and 25th.
Christmas Eve we went to Kim's as we always to. It was FUN! The crowd wasn't as big as usual do to some family not making it home, but Kim did a great job with Dinner and just spending time together was nice. When we got home Bayleigh headed up to bed and Larry read her Twas the Night Before Christmas and then not long after she went to sleep we did as well.
My mom and Larry's dad came over for Christmas morning. His dad spent the night. Bayleigh wanted Bongos from Santa and was excited to get those. She also got clothes, a karaoke machine, a mic and stand, Monster High barbie, a toy puppy, money, and movies. I think she made out like a bandit. She passed out the gifts and when she kept finding her name she would get excited and at one point said BOY, I must be spoiled. :) It was funny and cute.

This coming Saturday we will spend with Eric and Rachel and exchange gifts with Max and ring in the new year. I am excited for that. :) I am pretty sure I won't blog again before the new year so I will close by saying this...I hope your 2011 was filled with many blessings and I hope your 2012 is as equally blessed. :)
(I am sure this blog is FULL of typos, but I am sorry. Also, as you can see I was able to squeeze SOME pics in).

Thanks for checking in. God Bless! I will try to do better about keeping up. As you can see...our weekends have been PACKED and time has been scarce!

Sunday, November 13, 2011

Hotel Get Away!

On Saturday, November 5th, 2011, Larry's cousin's Kim and Steve rented a hotel room for us and one for their family as well and we spent the night away from home and with each other. It was So relaxing and we had a blast! When we pulled up Bayleigh said it was too bad this hotel was so small because they could have a pool like Great Wolf Lodge. Little did she know, the whole point in the evening away was to swim and hang out. When we walked into the lobby the pool was off to the left and there were windows where you could see the pool. I said, Yip, it's too bad this hotel doesn't have a pool because swimming sure would be fun! She got THE biggest smile on her face and hugged me and told me thank you. LOL! I said, it's uncle Steve you need to be hugging right now so, she did. :)

Bayleigh and Joshy in the hot tub!
Here are a couple of videos too!


A HUGE Thank you to Kim and Steve for the much needed night away!
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Halloween 2011

This year for Halloween we stuck with tradition and met up with Larry's cousin's and walked around the little community that Larry's aunt lives in to go trick or treating. We met up at Larry's uncles house for a few pics and to say hello to him first, again sticking with tradition. The above picture is of Bayleigh and little cousin Mason. They are so cute!
After walking around we then drove up to visit my aunt and hang out with her for a bit. It was a great evening!
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Sunday, October 23, 2011

7 yr well child visit

Friday, October 21st, 2011 Bayleigh had her annual well child visit. She weighs 44.5 pounds and is 42.5 inches tall. Urine sample came back perfect and she is doing great! One thing we came out with, well I had to get it at Wal-Mart, is a mouth guard. Bayleigh has been grinding her teeth at night time and Dr. Wean suggested this since her dentist won't do anything UNTIL there is damage. Dr. Wean and I agree...fix it BEFORE damage. She also got her flu shot and LAUGHED!!! She is silly! We are just happy to have a happy and healthy little girl. She is the light of our lives!
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Fall Break

Bayleigh's Fall Break was this past week. Wed. the 19th, Thurs. the 20th, and Fri. the 21st. It's been FUN!
Wed, we went with Larry's dad to help him pick out carpet for his house. Found some right away. We went to lunch together too and that was very nice. He bought. ;)
Thurs, Jodi and I took Mason, Bayleigh, and Trent to the Indianapolis Children's Museum. It was FUN! It took us an hour to get thru the line to get tickets, but that was our only complaint and it taught us to purchase online next time.
Fri, I took off and Bayleigh had a well child dr. visit. I'll blog that next. Then we went to see one of my best friend's new home. GORGEOUS! I couldn't be happier for her and her beautiful family! Good things for good people--BLISS!
Here are some pics from Thurs.




 This Carousel is 90 years old. My sister in laws grandparents (or was it great grandparents??) met on this carousel when it was in the park. ROMANTIC! 


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Parent/Teacher Conferences

Tuesday October 18th, 2011 at 6:20 we had our parent/teacher conferences with Bayleigh's teacher. We also got her report card and she got all A's and B's and S's which are good. Her teacher said she is very sweet and very smart. The only thing Bayleigh really needs to work on is reading comprehension. She does a good job, but somedays she tries to push for number of books read and then doesn't always score the full points on her AR tests. AR is accelerated reader. Her teacher also suggested some books for us to get her to read that are chapter books. She is reading chapter books now, but I am not a huge fan of them because they use words that she is not allowed to say such as stupid and they girl in the books is a little snot.
Her grades are as follows:
Reading: 99 A+, E
Language: 95 A-, E
Spelling: 96 A, E
Math: 87 B, S
Social Studies: 85 B-, S
Science: 85 B-, S
Art: 94 A-, E
Music: 95 A-, E
Physical Education: 89 B, S

Some of these grades I believe they said are graded some different and are simply given a standard letter and then that letter is automatically given a percent so we are supposed to not pay attention to the percent. Such as Physical Education and Social Studies. They are automatic S's so then that percent shows up on the column on the report card.
We are very proud of Bayleigh and after discussing with her about reading comprehension we hope and pray that we see improvement next 9 weeks. :)
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I have no clue why the pictures in the post below this did what they did, but if you click on the first picture then it will pull it up and you can go thru them and see them big. Sorry.

Tuesday Crafting!

My good friend Jodi has been coming over on Tuesday evenings and we have been playing Martha Stewart. Well, not the illegal stuff, but the crafting stuff. :) One Tuesday we got the kids together and Trent too and painted while Jodi and I did glass etching. One we got together and made the lumninary jars. Then we got together another Tuesday and carved pumpkins. This is turning into my favorite day of the week! I've asked Larry to call me Martha, but he refuses. He's no fun! Here are some pictures from our various crafting days. Our Pumpkin Carving Date was Tuesday, October, 18th, 2011. IDK why these pics look so weird while composing this. Hope the load right in the blog you're reading.











Zoo Boo 10.15.11

Saturday, October the 15th, 2011 we made our annual trip to the Indianapolis Zoo for their Zoo Boo Events. This year for Halloween we have a monarch butterfly in the house. :D CUTE! The animals were all so very active this day and I think it is due to the GORGEOUS weather we had. The cheetahs were up stalking the fence row. The bear was in the water eating and playing with a meaty bone. The new baby elephant was running all over the place and was about as cute as cute can get. And the tigers were stalking the glass viewing areas which was a neat sight to see. We had so much fun!!! Here are our photos and a couple videos too!







Larry and Bayleigh are in the front car.
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Pumpkin Patch

I am making serveral posts right now, so these are going to be short and sweet...
Saturday, October the 8th, 2011 we made our annual trip to the pumpkin patch at Vogt Farms. We had a terrific time and picked out some great pumpkins! We were kinda rushed due to a schedule conflict. I didn't realize that the pumpkin patch only does their festival the last weekend in September and the first two in October so when I caught that we only had Saturday the 8th to go!!! Here are some pics!






Only 4 of these were ours. :)
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