Grape Stomping

We took another trip up to Camden a couple of weekends ago and went to a harvest festival. Paul and Megan got to stomp grapes. Megan was up to her knees in grapes! It was a blast, she didn't want to get out. She and Paul also went up in a hot air balloon, it was tethered, but Megan loved it.

Megan went camping this weekend with a friend and had a blast. She came home exhausted though. It was a quite weekend. Paul took Cricket outside in her playpen and cleaned the yard up. She loves being outside and she was having fun "reading" her books and talking to Dad while he worked.

We're doing great, just getting everything ready to move to Japan. We're trying to decied what to bring with us and what to leave. Lucky for us, Paul's brother Lance and his family are stationed over there right now. Christy has been awesome answering all of our questions. They are leaving not too long after we get there though - we get there in February and they are leaving in May. Still enough time to hang out and have some fun.

Day trip with Megans friends.

We went to Ricker Hill Farm agian this year, this time we got brave and also took two of Megan's friends, Katie and Taylor. We had a great time, although we weren't up to actually going up to the apple orchards and picking apples! We just got the girls a pumpkin each and got apples from the store there!

Cricket had a blast as well, she loves being outside, just like her Dad and was happy to just hang out and enjoy the sunshine.

Grandma's Visit

Here are some pictures of Grandma's visit..

Day Trip

We went up to our favorite little spot in Maine yesterday! It's a vineyard and winery about an hour north of us on Route 1, in Camden Maine. The views are awesome and the people who work there are so nice. We splurged a little because we paid off a big bill on Saturday and also because we were celebrating our second anniversary!!

Orders

No pictures this time, just rants on the Navy. We are in the process of picking orders, and let me tell you, it's a bitch. Paul wants to go to a ship (one reason being he doesn't feel like getting deployed to Iraq) and while I'm not so big on the whole ship thing, it's what he really wants, so fine, look for a ship. Only one little small problem...there are no openings on any ships for him...because of his job and rank, there are only a small handful of ships he can go to. So no ships, also no openings in Virginia, where his kids are at...there was a ship stationed out of Sasebo Japan, but she gave those away, after promising Paul to hold them for him. The same thing for the orders to the USNS Comfort stationed out of Bethesda, which would have been perfect all around, they are now gone. We had decided that we would suck it up and he would go to Bahrain without us for one year, his income would be tax free that whole time, it's in a pretty safe place, he would get two all expenses paid trips back to see us, the girls and I would be able to stay in Maine and we could visit family all summer. So in the 4 hours it took us to decied on that, the orders are gone. CRAP. So now our choices are:
Pearl Harbor Hawii (the houses are crappy there..I'm not sure aobut that place)
Yokuska Japan
JAKARKA INDONESIA (you know, the place with all the tsunamis and earthquakes, yeah, that sounds great, where do we sign up for that one?)

So Paul and I are both pretty frustrated with the whole thing as you can imagine...sorry to vent but I just had to!

Megan's First Day of School

She's so proud of herself! Here are some pictures of her first day of kindergarten.

September is here............

Megan dressed herself in this picture, belive it or not!
I know, poor Cricket is dressed like an orphan, but we just don't buy the really cute clothes for her like we did for Megan....she looks like a bum!
Here are Sprinkles and Mittens...
Here's Cricket climbing her own personal Mt.Everest....



The leaves have already started to change colors, in fact on my birthday the tree down the street was starting to change....winter is coming early this year. Megan starts kindergarten on the 6th and I have a foot surgery on the 7th, to remove my bunion. We've been doing ok, just waiting to hear about orders, I'm getting anxious.....here are some recent pics of the family!

A couple of quick pics

Just wanted to post a couple of pics real quick. We're doing great, Megan starts Kindergarten on the 5th of September and Maddie is crawling up the stairs! Paul is off of limited duty and we're looking for some orders, wish us luck! Maddy (our nickname for her is Cricket) loves food, people or cat, it doesn't matter! That's Megan finger knitting, she was so proud to have learned something new!

more pictures

http://www.youtube.com/FeeDee0818

Go to this page on youtube to see some videos of the girls and such....enjoy!

Here are some pictures from our camping trip up north at Great Pond, we had a great time and can't wait to get back there, it's only 70 miles from the Canandian border..

Maddy is crawling!

Ok, so I was talking to Jess this afternoon, and I was telling her how Maddy can kind of crawl but not really, it's more of a pulling her lower body across the floor type of thing...well today, she just crawled, a real crawl, like a pro! I'm going to put the video on YouTube if I can figure it out...here's some pics of our Boston trip...

The first is Megan, our next door neighboor Taylor and Ally.
Here's Maddy, she thinks she soooooo cool now that she can sit up!
Here's Megan at Tennis, she loves it!

Comparison

Ok, here are two birthday pics of Megan, the first from 2004 and the second from this last year....

Sprinkles and Mittens

We have the cutest little kittens, Sprinkles and Mittens. They are sisters and they are so funny. Here are a couple of pics...Paul added the remote!

Maddy is eating solids...

Talk about growing up, not only is Megan now 5, but Maddy is eating solid foods...and trying to crawl, plus she's got two bottom teeth coming in. Did I mention she's the size of a small moose?! It's like she woke up one day and said, "Today I'm growing up, all at once." The solids are a bittersweet thing...I like the new found freedom of being able to leave her with Paul for longer periods of time and not worry she'll be hungry. At the same time I know this is the beginning of the end of breastfeeding and she our last baby....