The Pumpkin Patch and Storm Clouds

Today was our day to head to Majors' Pumpkin Patch. I've been there at least 4 times with Anna and now it's Julia's turn to enjoy it. The kids always seem to have a good time running around through the corn maze, finding the lost gourds, taking a hayride and doing the pumpkin roll. I posted a ton a pictures of Julia, none of me. YAY! They didn't turn out. HAHA! I also took a ton of photos of some cool clouds that rolled in tonight. I'm going to have to email them to my friend Darrin who works for NOAA in Raleigh. He used to live in MI and gets a kick out of my Michigan weather pictures. I'm a nut for storms and for cool clouds, so get used to seeing them here a lot.

In unrelated news...from my counter I can tell that I've had over 12,00o vistors to my blog. Imagine that! I'm thinking that I'm going to send out a present to the 13,000 vistor. I've got like 30 bracelets that I've made that I need to get rid of. It's become my newest addiction. I'll post some pictures of them later this week. :-)

Camping, Soccer and Julia's 4th birthday!

Phew! I think it took me like 30 minutes to upload all these pictures (and not because I have slow internet either, I've got high speed baby!) and now I've got to do a little write up. We went camping at Poncho's Pond this weekend. It's the annual Halloween weekend and the kids had a blast getting all dressed up and trick-o-treating around the campground. We also had our 2nd to last soccer game. We beat the Lane team for the 3rd time! Wooohooo! Wagn'Coop is still the U-10 champs at this point. We have one last game on Satuday against the Willick team. They usually have a good team, but I think they got the shit end of the stick and we should easily beat them. Coach Cooper and I got the kids trophies for they efforts and I can't wait to see them. :-)

Today was also Julia's birthday! It's a day to celebrate and a day to mourn a bit in my mind. I'm beyond thrilled to have such a beautiful, smart and funny little girl as my daughter, but at the same time I know there is a mother grieving for her daughter that she will never see on her birthday again. Plus, I don't really know if today is her birthday. It was estimated by the orphanage and so this is the day we celebrate. Either way, we had a great time at Grams and Pop's house. Julia got tons of gifts and loved opening every one. :-)