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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A Great Big THANKS

Four Girls and their Prince was remolded by my very talented and creative friend, Becky Jo. I love the new look. It suits us very well. If you like the look, take a look at my "Friends who Blog" list and click on I'm still Clay and Sweet Abundance to see more of Becky Jo's handy work. When Becky Jo was working on this for us, I just had one request, no more pink. Nicole has spent the last 6years of her life(as soon as she could have an opinion) wearing nothing but pink. Miraculously, she wants little to do with pink this past year so I can move on to bigger and brighter colors. The ironic thing is, before Nicole was born, I told my mom how much I really didn't want a lot of "pink" for my baby shower. I had her spread the word that even though I was having a girl, I would "appreciate" other colors. God was laughing at me that day, (and mom ever since) because how could I know I would have a daughter who would only wear pink!!! Thanks again, Becky Jo, you're the best.

Welcome Fall

My favorite time of the year is here. Fall officially arrived at our house this past Thursday, when the girls hand picked our 100 or so leaves from one Maple tree in our yard. They put them in a pile and took turns "jumping in" the pathetic looking pile.
Then dad had to get involved. This is one of the draw backs of having a new home built on an old farm. NO MATURE TREES. Now I am sure those of you who have to rake all Fall long will disagree, but we miss out on some of that Fall time fun/work!

QUOT ABLES

Here are few recent quotes from the girls that I got a kick out of:

When driving by Oakland University recently, the girls said, "there is mom's college". Then Rachel said, "Can I go to college?". Rachel is always wanting to do what everyone else is doing. Dad talked her into staying in preschool until she was at least three!

Over a free ice cream cone the girls received from a walk-a-thon this week, a discussion started about marriage(don't remember for the life of me why). When we asked Morgan, the romantic, who she wanted to marry, she started her description like this. How tall should he be, Morgan? "About as tall as dad". What color hair should he have Morgan? "Blonde" What color eyes? "Green". Do you think he should love Jesus? "Of course". Then Morgan was asked again, so what should he be like? Morgan replied, "Just like dad!" Dad, blonde, green eyed and medium height, was very pleased.