Laurelville is here!

Well, the first Laurelville weekend is now over, and it was a sucess. Negley Anne and I traveled up on Saturday morning for a few hours to check everything out. Jayson was the speaker, as well as running the show with Mark Steffey. All seemed to go well, which is good because there are four more to go this fall.

Tommy and Negley Anne getting their groove on in the club room.

 

Searching for the perfect pumpkin

A couple of weeks ago, Jayson, Negley Anne and I traveled to the pumpkin patch close to our house to find some good pumpkins for halloween. Even though no one comes to our house for trick or treating (3 years and running without a single doorbell ring), we thought it would be fun to carve them out and let Negley Anne play with the innerds. Sadly, it's been two weeks now since we did this, and they are still sitting on our kitchen sink... whole. A very concerned Negley Anne. Maybe it was because she was the only kid there without mittons, a hat, or a big old winter coat. Nahhh. (Sayward, do you like how the binky matches the vest?)
Jayson and Negley Anne walking around the pumpkin patch (hayride in the back that took us there).
She found the perfect Negley sized pumpkin!

 

Random pictures from last weekend

I'm not necessarily convinced that this is the cutest picture of Negley Anne that i've taken, but I thought it was funny. The girl loves her rice and beans... and what would a meal be if she didn't have grahm crackers and some form of fruit. Sounds odd, looks nasty, but she loves it. Better pictures of the Negs to come...

Last weekend Jay and I were able to get tickets to the Steelers game... it was a blast. They had not been doing too well and this made everything a little better. While we were at the game we found our friends Jame and Christa - also away from their kids. Go Steelers!

Jayson and I were lucky enough to get some tickets from a new friend of ours... Anthony Madison. He just moved to Pittsburgh and started playing for the Steelers this fall. It was a blast to be able to see him play at Heinz Field and for the team to win. I thought I'd send a little love to him on the blog. Go Madison!

 

Negley Anne's First Oreo

I wouldn't go so far to say that I've gotten hate mail in the past week or so... but I know that my good blogging friends out there are a little disapointed in me and my posts lately. All this talk I gave about being better was just a lie. Like everyone, life just got busy and blogging took a back seat to trying to relax after working all day. If I had the ability to do it at work, you would have an update everyday - but as it is, I can't. For all my students out there, that's probably a good thing.
Things at school have been okay, but a little more stressful than usual. If you live in Pittsburgh and have read the news about recent shootings, you'll know what I'm talking about. Anyway, to get on to the pictures - Negley Anne has made out with my "bad day at work" in terms of chocolate. On my way home with her while stoping at the store it was hard for me to pass up the oreos when I'm feeling blue. She didn't seem to mind.


I've turned my daughter into a chocoholic like her mom.

 

New Pictures

These aren't really new pictures... but I haven't gotten around to taking what I have on our camera off and onto the computer. If any of you are like me and check people's blogs almost everyday to see if they've updated it, I'm sorry that I haven't been to good at it lately. I even check my own blog to see if by some chance Jayson has updated it... I think those days are over. Here are some new pictures to tide everyone over until the camera gets cleaned out.


Tillie and Willie relaxing together.


This picture was taken in Michigan to show the Bishop family how much we love this back-pack. We take it everywhere! Negley loves being in it so much sometimes I wear it around the house just to cheer her up. Thanks again!


This picture I put on here just to freak my mother out. Mary Lou had the chance to come up to Surf City this year to check things out, and told me repeatedly not to take Negley out on the boat. I love you mom... but this was just too much fun. Anyway, this picture captures Surf City for this summer to me. Courtney, Negley Anne and I out on the boat while Jayson drove. It doesn't get much better than that.

Hopefully updated pictures soon!