Random

 Silly kids on a break from biking at Greenfield

 Polo!

At Jillian's school the teacher reads to them from a chapter book each day.  During the reading one student is chosen to be the illustrator for the day and draws a picture based upon the happenings in the book.  Can you guess what book they were reading when it was Jill's turn???

Check out the crated pink animal in the bed of the pickup truck.  Then look at the pink animal behind the fence and notice the web, the dangling spider and blue ribbon.  Its Wilbur on his way to and at the County Fair!  Charlotte's Web is one of our favorites and Jill's drawing is just awesome!

It's a Farm Show, not a fair!

Manheim Farm Show again... only the best week of the year!

 God's little way of telling us the parade wouldn't be rained out...  well, at least we thought so...

 There's a parade on its way...

 The 2010 Parade viewing crew:  The Millers, Jaquiths, Pap and Kole

 Silly kids with the great, big, 700lb. pumpkin

Jillian contemplating the piglets. 

When Mommy wanted to look at the arranged flowers, Jill informed her in no uncertain terms that this was a "Farm" show, not a "Flower" show!  There was to be no time wasted on such trivial things, she just wanted to see the animals!

Our pets

Meet our new pets!  A friend of ours was downsizing and looking to get rid of his fish tank.  Daddy offered to take it off his hands, and adopt his two fish.  So after a couple trips to That Fish Place, the family worked together to get the old tank cleaned, put the new gravel and plants in to a make a comfortable home for our new pets! 

The two gouramis(?) remain nameless at this point, but the girls are doing a great job feeding them daily and turning off their light at bedtime.

Harvest Breakfast at Market

It was a beautiful Autumn morning at Central Market for Harvest Breakfast...

 Listening to a great band near the square

 Picking the perfect pumpkins

Our pumpkins with their pumpkins!

Random Fun

 Baby's first Starbucks!

Kid's Hot Chocolate on a Ball Store run with Mom

 In celebration of our first family dinner in way too long, Mom and the girls whipped up Daddy's favorite: Chicken Parmesan!  The girls worked hard in assembly line breading the chicken.

It is still a secret... but we are so excited and can't wait to tell the girls!!!

Polo!

Wrong sport, but she was learning well from her big sister!

Happy Birthday Ben!

Our nephew/cousin turned 2!

Happy Birthday Ben!

Geocaching fun

Yes.  Mommy crawled in there to find a geocache.

A busy Saturday

What a busy day!  Daddy was going to be gone for most of the day again, so in a desperate attempt to keep the infighting (and home destruction) at a minimum, Mommy and the girls embarked on an exhausting day of fun! 

1. Market with Daddy before he left.
2. Quick stop at Mommy's factory to fix something.
3. Visit with our friends, the Carneys, who were hosting a Alex's Lemonade Stand during their neighborhood yard sale.  We meant to stay a couple minutes and stayed for a couple HOURS! :)
4. Got our nails done.  It was their first professional manicure and they did great!
5. Rested at home a little while before...
6. Heading to McDonalds for dinner.  Mommy didn't want to cook and was game for anything that would keep the peace!
7. Then we were off to the park for some biking and geocaching.

Don't know about the girls, but Mommy is soooo sleepy!

 Jill, Kate and a friend manning the lemonade stand. 
They raised over $140 for childhood cancer research! 
Way to go girls!

Owen and Natalie chillin'

our cutie.

As is her nature, she was wary... especially when mom was called to her manicure.  But she did great!  So did Jillian, but Mommy didn't have time to get her picture!

Jill: bright blue and yellow with white polka dots.
Natalie: neon pink and purple with two painted flowers
Mom: 'boring' old opalescent grey :)

an evening of biking

Does it get any more beautiful??

Jill's first video

From the file of "Things Mom Finds When She Downloads the Camera"...

Random

Mommy and Daddy went on a dinner cruise on the Susquehanna River.  It was a beautiful night!  Thanks to Grandma and Pap for the Christmas present!

Our paper girl!

Fun with Jakey

While the big sisters, Zoe and Jillian, took dance class, Mommy entertained the preschool siblings... 

Luckily, we found many things to occupy us/them and the hour went quickly.  We marveled at our huge shadows in the setting sunlight, walked miles of curbs in the industrial park sounding and acting like a variety of animals, found tons of acorns to fill our pockets, rolled down a hill or two and even found an elusive geocache.  Whew.  And that just barely kept their attention for a single hour!

Natalie's First Dance Class

Apple Day Continued...

Apple Day 2010

An Evening in the Park

 

 

Jill at school

In the lobby of Jill's school there is a bulletin board of new students.

On Determined Girl

Labor Day

Labor Day means chicken corn soup and homemade ice cream with the Blauch family!

cutting the corn

Jill using the gator to ferry the stock pots to back and forth

How many cooks?

Jillian finding out what the secret ingredient is for ice cream

Natalie as Uncle Ron's ice cream helper!