Senior Night

If you follow my blog, you are probably familiar with our tradition of dressing the kids in homemade shirts for Senior Night. I started doing it back when Taylor was just seven months old and have continued every year since. (For past years' photos, click here.)

Mike has just one senior this year, a tough-nosed, hard-working kid named Brady. He'll be the first to take a charge and battles with the big boys underneath, even though he's undersized. My kids love him.





Four of my dear college friends came into town for the game. TA and Watson drove up from Cincy and Corey and Rob drove down from Columbus. We're right in the middle of the two cities, so it's a great meeting point. I was on a golf caddie scholarship in college, so most of my college friends are guys. They are like brothers to me and I cherish our friendships to this day!

Rob, me, Corey, Watson and TA.


Quarterly self portrait. :)

The weather has been nuts, but I'm not complaining because we've actually had a few warm days mixed in. One day we're outside in spring jackets and the next day it snows. It won't be long now, though.

Yay - warm weather!

Yay!


Yay! She actually likes playing football, too. :)

Yay!

Yay!

Boo. Literally the next day.

I've been freelance writing from home the last month or so and get to take Taylor to school every day. We've started a new tradition of getting donuts on Fridays before school. I'm a big anti-donut freak and refuse to buy them otherwise, so the kids eat it up.

Our favorite former neighbors were blessed with their second little one this month! Congrats to Jason, Michelle and big bro Ben!

Baby Reagan looks tiny on dad.

A couple more cute pictures of the Worm and the Pear:



Michael with some of his favorite friends. Notice the blue blanket. It rarely leaves his side.


6 going on 16.

Until next time,

Mommy Kel

6 Years and 2 Months Later...

No, not 6 years and 2 months since my last blog post, although it has gotten embarrassingly long between posts this winter.

Taylor finally lost her first tooth! I thought for sure she'd lose her teeth early because she got them pretty early. Her first baby tooth popped through in December '04 and she had 12 teeth by her first birthday! She also knocked her top two teeth on our neighbor's coffee table when she was 2 and they almost fell out then. Those two teeth turned a tiny bit discolored but are still hanging in there to this day.

The tooth she lost has been loose since before Christmas, but she is not a wiggler. I "accidently" bumped in while helping her brush her back teeth last night and it was basically just hanging there. It fell out this morning in her cinnamon toast.




Because you really needed to see this, right?

Besides losing teeth, not much else is new around here. We watched our Steelers in the Super Bowl Sunday. Good effort boys, but just not enough. The gang prepared for the big game by:

Getting in some tackling practice.



Baking a Steelers cake...


Doing our best No. 1 poses...

Looking cute in our black and gold...

Sharing the Polamalu jersey. He is mine and the kids' favorite...

Watching Steelers videos on You Tube...

Basketball season is winding down for Mike. We just try to survive basketball season, but this year has been a lot more fun now that the kids are older.


We enjoy watching Taylor in her basketball games.


We have silly dance parties.

We do Valentine's crafts.


We hang out with our best buddy.

Until next time,

Mommy Kel