May 2008 Update

Wow, I'm not even sure where to begin this update. This has to have been the busiest month of our lives. With Dylan's second birthday, preschool graduation, soccer, class field trip, ballet recitals, Mother's Day, trip to see baby sheep, other birthday parties and baby showers, my brother and Melissa's visit, packing, moving and unpacking and Kelby's bout with strep throat and scarlet fever on moving day... it's kept us sooooo busy!

Dylan turned two on May 17. She had a Wiggles birthday party and loved when everyone sang to her. (She's still singing Happy Birthday to Dylan all the time.) I can't believe she's two! She's talking a mile a minute, doing GREAT with potty training (why did she pick this month to do it?) and is constantly trying to keep up with Kelby (she can sing right along with Kelby AND Mylie Cyrus). Ha ha.

Kelby graduated from preschool this month and will head to kindergarten in the fall. At least one of her classmates will be going to the same school. She is already missing her friends, so I foresee some playdates in the near future. Once we get settled! Soccer wrapped up this month, as did ballet.

My brother and his new fiance, Melissa, visited us the weekend that we moved. Yes, you read that correctly...FIANCE!! He and Melissa are getting married September 5th in British Columbia. We can't wait! Melissa is so wonderful and they are so cute together. The girls just love her, and she plays along and paints their fingernails. We're all in the wedding, with Scott as the best man and Kelby and Dylan as flower girls - along with 3 of her nieces. How cute will they be!?? Click through to the pictures to see them together...and Scott's long curly hair!

And last but not least, we close on our house tomorrow and we are fairly settled in the rental. We're thrilled to have a big house that fits all our stuff. I told the girls not to get used to their huge rooms, our massive walk-in master closet and more kitchen cabinets than I can fill. Oh, and hopefully Scott won't get used to living within 100 yards of one of the "best" golf courses in this region! I'm going to have to drag him out of here kicking and screaming a year from now. :)

Click here to see this month's photos and our range of activities! Leave us a comment here or on our photos. Hope you all are doing well!

April Update

Last month I told you that we had just put our house on the market. Can't believe it, but it went under contract in three weeks! Scott's already missing the obsessively clean house. Honestly, so am I...but there's no time for cleaning. Only time for packing! We close on June 2 so we're trying to be out of the house by Memorial Day to give us an extra week in case we need it. We're renting a house in a golf community east of town. It's a big house (with plenty of storage in the basement for all of our stuff we can live without for a year). We back up to the Clubhouse, pool and the first hole of the golf course (Scott will have to be kept on a short leash - ha ha). Once things slow down a bit, we'll start looking again at plans for the new house (reminder - that neighborhood/house won't be ready until Spring or early Summer 2009). Kelby was accepted into a private school in town so we have one year there until we build and she can start first grade in the public school system.

Kelby started soccer in April. She's having a lot of fun and scoring a few goals in their little scrimmages. She looks like such a little athlete! And believe it or not, she actually wears SHORTS - black athletic shorts, no less. This is the girl that wears nothing but dresses.

Dylan's gearing up for her 2nd birthday in May. Hard to believe she's almost two. She's starting to potty train...can't wait until we are diaper free!!

Scott was busy with the Dogwood Festival this month. He's on the Board of Directors, and so he had lots of obligations during the two middle weeks of April, including dishing up pork barbeque and escorting the princesses around (that was the hard part, I'm sure). Kelby and I were in the Fashion Show and had lots of fun.

Check out our April pictures by clicking here. Once on our photo site you can view individual photos or click "slideshow." Enjoy! Leave us a comment below if you want!

March Photos

Well, it seems that March flew by SO FAST. Happy St. Patrick's Day! Happy Easter! Hope all of you are doing well.

We had a very busy month. Our house went on the market this past Saturday, so we have been spending every waking moment cleaning and organizing and finishing projects. Hopefully now the weather will get warm and sunny and the BUYERS will come out and fall in love with our house. We're looking at moving to Pantops into a new development that won't be ready until Spring 2009. Stay tuned...

Unfortunately, our Easter was a bust. We were at my Mom's and everyone (except Scott who wasn't there) came down with a stomach bug. Not pretty. So...we woke up this past Sunday and pretended it was Easter. If it hadn't snowed and sleeted, I would have even done an outdoor egg hunt for the girls! There's always next year.

Kelby did have fun doing her egg hunt at school though. There was a whole day of fun Easter activities at the teacher's clubhouse in her neighborhood. The kids had so much fun.

To view our March pictures, click this link. Or view as a slideshow. Enjoy!

February Photos

I have finally gotten around to starting a blog for the girls. Not really intended as a rambling dissertation about all that the girls are up to these days, but as an easy way to post photos (basically, just to get around designing a website!).

February was a busy month with Kelby's birthday, my birthday, Valentine's Day and Dylan's first haircut. Of course, Kelby had a Valentine's Day party and a birthday party at school, too! I was lucky enough to be able to take time off to spend the whole day with her on her birthday (and attended the V-day party). It was a lot of fun to see Kelby and her little friends together. She comes home every day with a picture from her friend Rylan that says "To Kelby, my BFF. Love Rylan" For those of you who don't read "acronyms", that's "Best Friends Forever." Rylan has an older sister, so she already knows about these things.

Dylan's getting bigger and bolder - is that possible? She's full of herself (but admittedly, she's also really funny). :)

So...enough of that. Here are February's pictures (at the end of March!). Maybe I'll be quicker to turn the March ones around. Or maybe not...

Enjoy! Just click here to go to Shutterfly. You don't have to create an account and you can view them as a slideshow.