Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Raeleigh's new room

With Morgan leaving, there was an empty bedroom. So Raeleigh took over the bedroom. Morgan helped Raeleigh move in before she left. Morgan made Raeleigh's "new" bed before we went to the airport. Raeleigh was excited to see it when she got home from school.

Samantha took pictures of Raeleigh in the room before bed. Morgan did a cute job on the bed. (Now the stuffed animals have a hammock in the corner above the bed.)

Morgan had given Raeleigh this chair a while ago.

Morgan leaves for college ...

August 29, Morgan left for Utah. She was visiting family in Utah before heading to college. That morning she woke to find the front door full of sticky notes. The kids had written her a love note. (Morgan took the stickies with her and now has them hung on her dorm closet door.)
At the airport after eating lunch! Morgan was excited and nervous. She said "It is harder to leave then I thought it would be."
Morgan has been worried that Addi would forget her once she left for college. Morgan played with Addi for the last few minutes before she had to go the gate for her plane. Addi didn't understand why Morgan was working so hard to get her to say bye. She just kept stairing at Morgan.
It is a hard, exciting, bitter-sweet thing to send your child off to college. I really and thrilled for Morgan. She is a beautiful young woman. Morgan has worked hard at many things in her life. I am happy that she is my daughter and am looking forward to watching her continued growth.

Children should not be taller than their parents!!

Jordan is so excited to be taller then the girls. Just look at the smile.
Craig was measuring the kids. You can see his hands on Jordan & Morgan's heads.
I am not ready to have Jordan taller than me :-( Craig refuses to stand next to Jordan!
"YES!" Jordan celebrates.

Dishes!!

Addi loves to help with the dishes. Anytime she hears the water running in the kitchen, she comes running! Addi will drag a chair over and help rinse the dishes. Or play in the water as you can see in this picture.

Monday, September 19, 2011

ROTC & Band

Stuart, Raeleigh and Addi loved playing on the bands golf cart! They also enjoyed when dad took them for a ride.
Patrick and his friend, Gary Lynch, thought they were hot stuff and went onto the field and talked to the players. I think they both miss playing ball!!
I guess this picture is out of order. Howeve I love it. The flags are beautiful.
Samantha and her fellow cadets raising the flags while the band plays the national anthem. Samantha is in the back center, ready to raise the American flag.
Jordan waiting to play the national anthem before the game. Jordan is the only bass clarinet player in the band. He plays the tuba part for marching band. Below is a picture of the band ready to play for their first audience. They did a great job!!

Too young for makeup!

Addison got into Morgan's makeup while I was gone. So Morgan put the makeup on where Addi directed! Apparently Addi like the lip gloss, she licked it all off.
On a side note, Samantha is using this photo as a visual for her current art project.

Thursday, September 15, 2011

Morgan's Piano

Morgan was given this Cherry Tiger wood piano last year. It is beautiful (on the outside). Morgan saved up money and then had a piano tuner come over. The piano tuner was so excited to see this beautiful piano, until she opened it up. Previous piano tuners or owners had ruined the piano. They painted over the identifying information of the piano as well as the strings. As well as other damage. There was nothing the piano tuner could do.
After that diappointing news, Morgan took months to decide what to do with the piano. She has decided to save the larger pieces of wood for a table or shelves to be made in the future. Also she has pulled out hammers and keys to make a piece of wall art for her future home! An art project to look forward to.
When she started to pull the piano apart, Addison wanted to be involved. So Morgan sat Addi up on the piano and and let her play with the strings. I think all of the kids "played" the piano strings.

Even knowing the piano was no good, it was very sad seeing it sitting by the street waiting for the garbage truck to pick it up :-(