Southeast Regionals!

Today was the Pop Warner Southeast Regionals Cheer Competition! The girls did a great job and came in 3rd! Only 1st and 2nd made it to Nationals.

Last night was pretty fun filled. Cooper and Adam went to the UCF game, where even though it was cold, they still beat USF!! Coop really racked up with all the free stuff which is one of his favorite reasons for going! He also impressed the Marienes that were there with all the pull ups he can do. Adam said they thought he was the coolest thing and they kept taking his picture! Cooper loves everything about the games, he said Knightro, the band and the cheerleaders are his favorites!

I took Baylee and Carissa to Melbourne last night, Harp stayed with Aunt Holly. We had dinner at Olive Garden then went to the mall for a little shopping. Great deals were everywhere! It's a good thing we didn't have a lot of time because I was finding tons of things I wanted! After the mall we went and saw Catching Fire, it was pretty good but very long! Oh and these 4 HUGE bodybuilding type guys got into a fight right next to us! It was so weird that out of all the movies to fight in these four manly men were fighting in a movie based on a book for teenage girls! I have no idea why they were even there to see that movie!

 Busy week coming up! Luckily things are kind of slow at work, my new employee starts next week. The kids are back at school Monday after a week off. Baylee has a volleyball game on Tuesday, a sleepover on Friday and riding in a float on Saturday. Cooper has wrestling practice, and I think a meet on Saturday. I  think me and Peanut will head to the Christmas parade on Saturday.

    These two love sleeping together

    About 10 minutes later

    The girls at Olive Garden

    Those two don't know how lucky they are to be cousins and best friends

I told Baylee I wished I had another baby to dress in cute Gap clothes, maybe one without such a big head!

    Coop and Knightro

Happy Thanksgiving & other things!

The month of November has been filled with food, fun, and family! 

Baylee: Her cheer squad made it to regionals, which is this Saturday. If the place in the top 2 they will get to compete in Nationals at Disney's Wide Workd of Sports in 2 weeks! She's also made the middle school volley ball team. She's having a great time learning the sport and it's neat to watch her getting better each week. Baylee and Carissa had their first real paying babysitting job last night, watching 6 kids! They were both super excited and super grateful for the opportunity to do it!

Cooper: Still handsome as ever! Wrestling has started so he's all into that. Still doing great in school, he's especially gifted in math. He's still growing his hair out! Every time I go to Publix I get told by some other mom that their son wants to grow his hair out like Coop or that their daughter has a crush on him! I'm known as "Hey, it's Cooper's mom!"

Harper: Just celebrated her 6th birthday! She picked Benihanas to eat at, it was a great night! They sang Happy Birthday to her in English and Japanese, they even took a family photo and gave to us! The day before she had a Thansgiving Breakfast Feast at school. I had to work but Aunt Holly saved the day and took her. Harper was so so so happy. Afterwards she signed her out of school and took her shopping for a birthday gift, then took her to her house and Harper got Holly all to herself while the big kids were at school! Harper was telling me all about her day that night, she said "Aunt Holly made me a corn dog and it was the best corn dog ever!" As she was falling asleep she said "Today was the best, most perfect day ever!" I know when Harpers all grown up she won't remember all the birthday gifts she got this year but she real remember Holly coming to her school feast and making the day extra special for her! And that's what it's all about!

Where Coop falls asleep so does Champ!

Harper and her teacher Ms Johnston

Harper and Aunt Holly

Birthday Girl!

       Dad playing at Chuck E Cheese

      Love these two!

      Dad and Baylee at Shane and Heidi's today

  

       Cheerleaders!

Chase is the flyer, Uncle Wayne is the back spot? What a hodgepodge stunt group!

Our Fall In Pictures

I have really really sucked at this blogging thing this fall! So instead of writing tons of crap I'll just post the good stuff....PICTURES!

Baylee on the first day 6th grade, Cooper on the first day of 3rd. So proud of how well they are doing this year. Baylee has made a great group of friends and Coop is adjusting very well. Both made honor roll the first 9 weeks!

Harper cheering. I don't have many of Baylee cheering this year since by the time it was her game it was so hot we usually left and went swimming with the Vandenburgs.

Briella came to the games, cutest little cheerleader ever!

Baylee after practice one night

On Friday's the kids get to wear their uniforms to school

Out to eat one Sunday afternoon

Mr Handsome

My girl LOVES wings

Cooper had a GREAT football season, they were the first team in Harmony Pop Warner history to go UNDEFEATED!

SO SO CUTE!

Harper's first day of school, they had staggered start so she went a day after the other two. She LOVES kindergarden!

Practicing and playing so much has made Baylee and Cooper bottomless pits, Harper is sick and tired of them eating everything so she's taken to writing her name on her snacks!

Baylee on the morning of her first cross country meet!

So proud of how smart and athletic she is!

Baylee went to a church lock in at Fun Spot, so Cooper and Dad had a night out and Mom and Peanut had a night out. We were going to go to Build A Bear but they were closed for remodeling so we went to the Disney Store and then out to dinner at Johnny Rockets. Harp's favorite thing of the night though: getting a pretzel in the mall and not having to share it with anybody!

Cooper right after his touch down, he actually got 2 touch downs this season!

Baylee just being Baylee

Harper at the top of the pyramid

She had fun cheering but says she thinks she just wants to take a year off next year

Champ and Cooper, follow Champ on Instagram Boxer_Champ

Harper and Briella at Briella and Chastity's going away party

Harper and her BFF Abby having a snack after the game

So happy that her cousins came to the games

Champ looking a little high

Cooper and the waitress at Hooter's, he got his own Instagram and wanted this to be his first photo! Follow him at crich37

Wing Girl

Sporting the pink in October

Love her personality

We actually had about 15 min of cool weather at one of the games

These boys are TROUBLE

Playing in the pool

If he doesn't make it in football he could always be a model!

Baylee and Carissa the Cheer Competion

Harper also had a cheer exhibition but I was a bad momma and didn't take any pictures.

Baylee's squad came in first for their division, so they have a trip to regionals the Saturday after Thanksgiving

We went to a corn maze!

With the Chad and Michelle Richards family, and the Shane and Heidi Richards family and Grandma Miller

It was sooooo hot

Shane

It was a lot of fun though!

We didn't get too lost

Some of the kids

Two of the big kids.....

Harper and Cooper

They even had a playground to play on

We had a great day!

Chad having too much fun at Wendy's

Look at those muscles!

Baylee's flyer fell on her knee at practice Wednesday night

It's Saturday night and she's not feeling any better, guess we're gonna go see the ortho Monday

Dressed up for the Story Book Parade at school, Harper's class's theme was 50's, so she's wearing a poodle skirt.

We went through all this candy and more on Halloween, over $100 worth of candy and over 400 trick or treaters

Harper and Ms Johnston

Champ in his ND jersey

Heather and Holly and their families came over for an impromptu pizza party!

We had soooo much fun! The little kids went with the big kids so the adults set around and handed out candy!

Cooper

All the kids, it was a great Halloween but super hot and muggy!

Garrett the Blueberry

Harper and Champ, they both always end up in my bed in the morning, the other day I woke up to her rubbing his ear and singing You Are My Sunshine to him

Last night we went to The Shallow Grave in Winter Haven, and 10 of us were brave enough to go in, it was the BEST haunted house ever!

Well that about sums up the fall. Let the Holiday Season begin!