Jon Reep

Saturday night, Jenn and I went to see Jon Reep (the "Hemi guy") at The Clayton Center. This guy had me in stitches all night long. He's a good ol' southern boy from Hickory, NC who made it big being..... Well Red, White & Blue (That's Red Neck, White Trash and Blue Collar). If Jon comes to your neck of the woods, you have to go see him. I promise, it's one of the best comedy acts you'll ever see.

2008 State Fair

This past Saturday, Paul & I took the girls to the fair. It was a chilly day with a steady breeze. We spent the day riding rides and eating then riding more rides and yeah, eating even more. We had a fun time. We highly recommend the deep-fried milky way!

Ally gets the call to pitch

For the first time all season, the coach looked to Ally before last night's game and gave her the nod to start on the mound. Ally pitched well for her first time out, giving up only one run in 2 innings of work and stranding runners in scoring position during both innings.


~Strick

Clayton Softball Team

Ally's Fall Softball Team

 

~Strick

Wolfpack Softball Clinic

On Sunday October 5th, Ally attended a softball clinic at NC State University to work on defense and hitting. The Wolfpack coaching staff oversaw and instructed both of the sessions.

Even though Ally was the youngest one out there she hung in like a trooper all day (6 hours) and battled with older girls (some twice her age) to earn a lot of respect from the Wolfpack coaching staff. In typical Ally fashion, when the clinics were over she was not ready to leave and begged for more. It was a proud moment for me to see her grow up on the field. she gained a lot of confidence that day and I have noticed a more poised Ally in her games since.


~Strick

Girls Night Out

On Saturday night the girls and I went to my sister Amy's house to hang out with two of my other sisters (Michelle and Jordan). Of course Mira, Michelle's 3 month old baby girl, was there too. Shortly after I arrived, my parent's also showed up. My mom wanted to join us for the "girl's night" and so my dad drove her from Greensboro to Raleigh just to hang out with us. Dad tried to leave us to to do our girl thing, but we wouldn't let him go. So it turned into a girls and one boy night.

Amy and Rob recently got their hands on a Wii... and this was the main reason for our get together. We played some sports for a while: I did horrible at bowling, as always. Amy won, and Angie came in second over Michelle. Then we played tennis. Jordan, Michelle and Ally played most of these games, and they were quite humorous to watch. They jumped around in the living room almost as much as the characters on the TV screen, without the crazy dives that the Mii's tend to do when playing tennis. Then it was baseball. Let me digress a bit to tell you that before we started playing, Jordan and Amy created "Mii's" for everyone in attendance as well as their significant others. They even made one for Mira. So as they were playing baseball, it was usually one of our family members up to bat or playing the field. It was pretty funny when Mira, who was playing first base, got Michelle out on a pop fly. Rob got Amy out on a quick play at shortstop, and Paul got Ally out at second base. All the coincidences were hilarious. We then spent the next couple of hours playing Kabooki, which is the Wii version of Cranium. That was a lot of fun, even though some of the things were hard to figure out. Time really flys when you're playing that game, and before we knew it the clock was pushing 1am.

Sometime around 11pm Angie decided she'd had enough. Also, she had been hounding me for the last hour to let her hold Mira. All this time Mira had been napping on my chest. I had tried to pass her to Angie earlier, only for Mira to wake up and start crying. I quickly rocked her back to sleep, as a dejected Angie stood by and watched. So when Angie started to yawn so big she could catch tennis balls, I decided to encourage her to lay down in Amy's spare bedroom. She refused to leave Mira's side, so I offered to let Mira lay down with her. Michelle was adamant that when I put her down on the chilly bed Mira would instantly wake up, but I think that Angie's snuggling up to her helped warm her quickly, and she didn't even make a peep. It didn't take long for Angie to succumb to her exhaustion, and little Mira was snug as a bug in a rug. Here's a picture of them snuggling together. =)

Angie & Mira snoozing together.
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Jenn Gets Glasses

I got my first pair of glasses this week. They're taking some time to get used to, but fortunately I won't need to wear them very often. They're basically for night driving, and any other time I feel like wearing them. I've received a lot of kind compliments, but they still look and feel very strange to me. I'm hoping it won't take too long to get over this self-conciousness.

Agility Training

Last weekend Ally & Angie participated in some agility training at the Pineville Club. They did various hurdle jumps, obstacle courses, relay races, and tag games. They had a blast. =)

Goodnight, Sleep Tight

I snapped this picture of Angie and Piglet last night. I went up to tuck her in and kiss her goodnight, and found that Piggy had already taken care of it. What a cute little snuggle. =)

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