Birthday Remix

Birthday Week

Morgan and Rachel celebrated their birthdays this past week. We had a lot of fun with friends and family. Morgan had her friend party on Sunday and Rachel gets her party this coming Saturday. Here are a few pics from our celebrations. I hope to get Morgan's party pictures up through photobucket if I can figure it out. So stay tuned for more.

Grandma holding Rachel after a nap on Sunday.

The girls waiting for Morgan's party to start.

Rachel and mom hanging out.

Mike always gets the girls flowers and a special birthday treat on their actual birth day. They always love getting this from dad.

Mom and Morgan at Red Robyn for birthday dinner. Morgan picked the restaurant, but wasn't quite sure it was the right choice when she found out they sing very loud when they bring your birthday sundae.

The Webkinz birthday party crew (Morgan's party).

Uncle Ken entertaining Rachel at Morgan's party.

The birthday girl.

Expecting great things, when she turns three!

When she turns three (on Saturday) our lives will be, full of peace and harmony. When she turns three she will be quiet, consistent and considerate. When she turns three her sisters will not be tortured by her requests for "Dora". When she turns three oh how happy we will be and get a full night's rest. When she turns three I know she'll be obedient and kind. When she turns three I am sure I'll be surprised this rhyme was just a dream!!! Here is to you, Rachel Rae. Someday you will be all of these things.

WOW! What a weekend.

The Nugent's had a very exciting and fun filled weekend. We started it out on Friday night when Mike and I got to go see the new movie "Fireproof". This was a great movie, very inspiring for those married couples out there. It was nice to spend time with Mike away from some of the craziness the girls bring with them. Take a look at the trailer at www.fireproofthemovie.com . We then had a great Saturday at the Harvest Celebration at church. This was a community outreach event and we had great weather and a great turn out.
We made caramel apples, rode on a wagon pulled by beautiful horses, picked a pumpkin, played pumpkin bowling, went through a corn maze.

Took some family pictures.


Played on the haystack.
Played pumpkin ring toss, hunted for candy in the hay, ate lunch at the Harvest of Talents and enjoyed each other's company. The girls ran around for about 5 hours and were not ready to leave. After the Harvest Celebration we headed to Downtown Detroit to pick up my (Kelly's) registration packet for the Detroit Free Press Marathon Relay.

We walked around Cobo Hall, rode the people mover and had dinner in Greektown. The girls did great. Everyone was exhausted by the time we got to the car. On Sunday, I(Kelly) and four other friends from MCC, participated in the marathon relay. Five people split up the 26.2 miles of the marathon and ran "legs". This was a blast. There were 18,000 people at this event. It was great. I got to run the leg over the Ambassador Bridge to Canada, just as the sun was coming up. All of the team members ran exceptional times. We finished in 3 hours and 44 minutes and were 114th out of 599 relay teams.

So we had a wonderful weekend, enjoying the outdoors and some new experiences. I'll leave you with a video of Nicole at the Harvest Celebration, trying to eat a donut on a string.

Family Celebrations

Today we celebrated my mom and dad's birthdays. We always meet up in Royal Oak at Mr. B's for lunch. This has become our traditional place to go for birthday celebrations. Mainly because it is loud and can accommodate kids. But it also has great food and a lot of football games to watch. After eating we all go to the little park behind Mr. B's and hang out. Here are a few photos of our afternoon. I started out with my favorite one. Me and my two brothers. I wouldn't trade them in for sisters, that is for sure.

Drew man and Jake-my nephews.
Trying to get these next few shots was painful. So off to picnik.com I went to try and salvage them. The proud grandparents with very active grandchildren.
There is a fountain in the middle of the park. The kids love to go into the fountain in the fall when the water is turned off and look for money. Uncle Ken was a little concerned as these were people's "wishes" the kids were confiscating.
As serious a pose that Chris could give for the couples shot.
Mom and dad, aka grandma and papa, were the only ones cooperating in this shot with the kids, so I cropped everyone else out. This is a great photo of them. All in all, we had a nice time with nice weather and good conversation. I love those Kelbert's!

Overheard

I am overhearing the best little conversation right now and just had to share it. While I am looking at email, Nicole, Morgan and Rachel are at the kitchen table painting and coloring. And then I start to hear a conversation about God. Nicole, "Rae Rae do you love God?" Rae Rae, "No" (grant her some slack, she's two almost three). Nicole, "But Rae Rae, I know you love God he doesn't do anything wrong. Are you sure you don't love God?". Rae Rae, "Yeah, I love God." Morgan, "you know Rae Rae, God is with you everywhere." Rae Rae, "Really". Morgan, "yes, I know for sure.". So I get to witness two miracles; 1. they are playing together without fighting, and 2. they actually listen to what they hear when we pray and teach them.

Preschool Fun

Today was Rachel's first field trip with her preschool. We went to Miller's Big Apple Orchard in Romeo. When I said I liked Fall, I meant the sunny, 60 degree days when you can be outside with a jacket or sweatshirt. Not today's weather, cloudy and 50 degrees. But we still had a lot of fun.

I was able to take the day off of work and join in on the fun. This is Mike's day off with Rachel, but they let me tag along. We saw the donuts being made, got a hayride, picked apples and then had cider and donuts.
Rachel was very excited about the hayride with her friends from school.

She also ate two apples right off the tree. We ended the morning with cider and donuts, and Rae had two donuts(very freshly baked), but didn't care for the cider.
It was a great morning despite the very cold temperature and wind. Rachel is really enjoying her preschool and I am enjoying watching her grow and learn, just not too fast. You're still my baby-Rae!

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