YW Temple Night

Last week for Mutual we had a lesson on Temple marriage, Modest temple dresses,etc... All of us leaders brought our wedding dresses and temple dresses. The girls really enjoyed guessing who's dress was who's. The point was made that mine was the "flashiest"! I don't know quite what that means, but it was fun. Then afterward, we divided the girls up into teams and they made their own wedding dress out of napkins. Morgan had so much fun being the one dressed up. There were sure alot of laughs. I love the YW.

Fall, Fall, Fall

Fall is by far my very favorite time of year!! I love that we have treas in our front yard that change. This year I found the most amazing mums for my porch. They are almost ready to toss though because it's getting so cold at night, they are suffering. They doubled in size though and I have enjoyed them so much. Driving down the road right near our house I see these trees, several times a day. This one on the top right ios so amazing, with just the red leaves in the center. I must drive by this tree 4-6 times a day, and had never noticed it. The funniest thing happened. All five of us were in the car, going to a wedding a couple weeks ago, and as we turned the corner, we see this woman pulled off on the side of the road, taking a picture. I looked twice and it was Celeste! She was taking a picture of this amazing tree. I couldn't believe I had never noticed it. Life gets so busy. It made me realize I need to slow down and enjoy the beauty right in front of my nose. The very next day, I took these pictures so I can always remember Fall in IN.

Kosco Kipper's Meet

Meg's 2nd meet of the season, Madeline's 3rd. Kosco Kipper's in Warsaw, IN. Boy what a day! Had to have Meg there by 8:30 to compete, then Madeline started at 4:00. Didn't get home until after 9:30 that night. Both girls did great. Both placed on several events. Sometimes I wonder why we sacrefice so much for our girls to be gymnasts? But when I see how happy it makes them, that they are able to accomplish something that so many people are not able to do, It makes it all worth it! Maybe some day they will appreciate it.

Meg's 1st Meet 2010

Meg's first meet of the year. Sept. 19. 2010 was at Joy's in SouthBend. She came away with a few medals, but most of all had so much fun! I can't believe my baby is now competing level 3.

Go fly a kite!

There are just a few weeks from the end of Sept. into Oct. that is perfect kite flying weather here in IN. Madeline was determined to fly this kite that her Uncle Mark gave us about 5 years ago as a gift. She tried, tried, had Chuck help her try, had me help her try, then tried again. She was successful. She is now our expert kite flying kid!

Labor Day 2010

Labor Day 2010 at St. Pat's Park, SouthBend IN. We had a great day of fun: The Lee's, Kennard's, Jepson's, Goit's, Snelson's and William's. The kids played forever on the playground, we played volleyball, soccer, and even flew Madeline's kite( I'm sad I forgot to take a picture of that). Great food! great friends!

Burlew Family visit 8/10

We had a visit from Dexter Burlew and his family in Aug. Dexter was Chuck's "Best Man ". They were on a family vacation, Went to see Notre Dame, and stopped in for one nite. Dexter his wife Brenda, and three girls Natalie, Allisaon and Tiffany. Six girls in the house... They had fun! It wa fun for Chuck and Dexter to catch up on old times.

First Day of School 2010

It's been bquite a while since I have blogged. Nothing over the entire summer I think, so this will now be out of order. This was the first day of school for Meg 2nd grade, Madeline 5th Grade, Morgan 7th grade.

memorial day 2010

Memorial Day at the park with the Kennard's and Lee's.

We had a great time playing with water and having a picnic until the sky's opened and it down-poured! We had to make a run for the cars before we got too wet. It was a great time.

Madeline's 10th Birthday

Madeline had quite a Birthday- Grandma was in town, so as usual, lots of spoiling occured. She wanted Grandma to bake her a cake with gigantic gumballs. She also chose to take one friend to dinner and a movie. She took Sammie her best friend from team. We went to Wild Bills Buffalo Wings. I know a weird choice, but it was her choice. Dinner took forever to get, and it was just ok. I don't think we will be returning. The highlight of the night was Madeline running into the glass door on the way into the restaurant, giving herself a black eye!

Maggie @ 9 weeks

What a perfect Birthday for Gina! We brought Maggie home today. She is so stinkin' cute. She has grown since the first time we saw her. She is almost 2 pounds now. See those tiles on the floor of the kitchen? They are 12x12 tiles. You can see how she measures up ! We feel like we have a newborn in the house. Chuck was very on top of things and typed up a schedule for her so we would know when to feed her and take her out to go potty. We are training her with the bell method, to try to teach her to ring it when she needs to go out. On her second day home she actually rang the bell with her little nose and when we took her out she went pee pee. Probably a flook, but none the less exciting. She was super cute playing with her lil. puppy toys. Her favorite by far is the tiny monkey she carts around(bottom left). Like I told Sarah, I have friends having babies, but I took the easy way out, and got a puppy. ( I have to say though, diapers are sure sounding appealing instead of puppy pads and accidents!)

Maggie Annabelle @ 5 weeks

This is our newest addition to the Lasley family. Santa asked us to come meet Maggie in Middlebury at the breeder. We immediately fell in love with her. She was the runt of the litter. Santa couldn't bring her to us on Christmas you see, but we were all very excited to get her on New Year's Eve.

Those Silly Reindeer

Grandma Linda gave us a super fun gift this year for Christmas. Tickets to see this cute play in Chicago the day after Christmas. It was called "Those Silly Reindeer". The beauty in the bottom picture was the Snow Princess(Morgan of course too cool to join in). So of course we had to make a day of it and visit Michigan Ave. Meg wanted to visit "American Girl" and the other two had to go to "Apple" to spend some Christmas $. It was a super fun day, that we have Grandma to thank for.

Christmas 2009

"All Meg wants for Christmas is Her Two Front Teeth".... We had a very quiet, wonderful "jammie"Day. Just the 5 of us. We missed Grandma here with us, but she is coming in just a few days to be here for Madeline's B-day in January. One of the girls favorite gifts they received were their new hat's. Mom gave Madeline and Morgan there's, and Grandma Rudy sent Meg her's that came with matching mittens. All three girls wore them literally all day long. By far their very favorite thing they got is the letter that you see Madeline holding on the far left little picture. It is a letter from Santa you see explaining that he had arranged for the Lasley's to get a puppy. On Christmas little Maggie Annabelle was only 8 weeks old though and not quite 1 1/2 lbs. (too little to leave her Mommy). We had to wait until New Year's Eve to pick her up. - pictures to follow in an upcoming post.

Practice, Practice, Practice

Not any exciting trips for the Lasley's this Christmas break. Just gymnastics practice 6 days a week. Getting ready for a busy January. We have 4 meets -Wow! Here's a sneek peek of the girls. Morgan- level 8, Madeline- level 5, and Meg- level 3.

Thanksgiving 2009

The Lasley's went to Lake Zurich this year for Thanksgiving with the Mukai's, Friends/Relatives that we met through our good friends the Wheeler's. It was lots of fun. No snow, but great food and great company. Meg couldn't keep her hands off their dog "Ace". She had a ball!

Labor Day with Kennards! The blueberry festival was fun, but where were the blueberries? Meg wanted to know why she couldn't have a darn piece of blueberry pie! There were none to be found, except for the canned ones we had on our enormous elephant ears. Yumm! And the best corn on the cob ever! Seth and I held down the fort, watching the stroller while everyone had a turn on the rides. It was a fun time.

Back to School 2009

Well here are our BIG GIRLS on their first day of school, Aug. 19, 2009. All excited and nervous for different reasons. Meg is nervous because she has a hard time saying her teacher's name, Mrs. Alsopp. I told her to just call her Mrs. A and she felt better. She is so excited to get to stay the whole day and eat lunch at school, we'll see how long that lasts. Madeline's not too excited about her teacher Mrs. Kuroski because Morgan told her she was mean, nice... Morgan's off to middle school. She's nervous about her stupid locker and I don't blame her. We went on Mon. night for the walk through and could only get it opened a couple times after trying about 20. Just kept jamming. Then yesterday we went back to practice more, and got it open 3 times out of about 30 tries. A teacher and a custodian could only get it open with the master key. I'm stressed for her. They just told her to find a teacher to open it up if she couldn't, but wouldn't give her another locker. That makes me stressed for her, hopefully she is handling it better! Well all the kids are off and what to do??? guess i'll go clean the house and mow the lawn. This is the day I've been waiting for, for 6 years right? I miss Meg already!

Tippecanoe River 8/09

The last outing of Summer 2009. Tippecanoe River State Park 8/13-8/15. What fun we had! The Lee's, Kennard's& Lasley's. We rented these little cabin's (you can see our's in the middle of the collage), three in a row. Moved all the picnic tables in front of the Kennard cabin (which was in the middle) and set up shop. I still can't believe that Sarah with a 6 mo. old and Celeste with a 3 mo. old went camping... What troopers! There were no potty's in the cabins. We had to walk about 3-4 min. away to the nearest bathroom/shower house. It was sooooo hot and humid, and there was no swimming anywhere. I think everyone came home with a million mosquito bites, and Isaac brought home a free-loader tic. That all said, I think everyone had fun. The kids made the best of the water-less situation by playing in the spickets nearby, and they all took turns on our bikes, went on hikes, loved the night-time bon-fires for roasting weenies and marshmallows. All in all, it was great company, great food, great friends!

Haddon Visit 7/09

We had a visit last month from the Haddon Family. They moved to the Chicago area and we sure miss them. They came and left their girls, Erin, Kellie,Kara and Erika at the house with our girls(Morgan was still at camp so she missed the fun). Us grown-ups went out to dinner to meet up with some friends from the ward, The Jacobson's, Hurst's, & Slabach's. Dinner was yummy, but the company was even better. It was great to catch up. Of sourse the visit was much too short. All was well with 6 girls in the house when we got home except a little make-up in the carpet (Could have been worse... nail polish).