Baby girl and I have enjoyed having these two days off to hang out and play, and that is about all we have accomplished. We did do a little sewing and run a couple of errands, but we have had a ball.

This baby can't even make a mean face without smiling! I love her!

We were being silly.

Princess P talked me into playing Play-Doh this morning. I have to confess that Play-Doh is near the bottom of my "Things I like to do" list, but she loves it.

Birthday cake anyone???

my little sewing model

I got this sweet birdie fabric early this year, but I couldn't decide what to make out of it. I finally got it out this weekend and made a sweet little knot dress out of it. I am proud of how it came out, and Rachel loves it. As soon as I finished it, she wanted to put it on and take pictures- a girl after my own heart. While Daddy was out car shopping we sewed and played outside and took pictures. She loves to laugh for her pictures. She cracks me up!

This was my very favorite picture:

Back of the dress:

last soccer practice

We had our last soccer practice two weeks ago, and games started last week. I forgot to put my memory card in my camera, so I have no pictures from her first game. She did really good though. She even scored a goal! She was so proud of herself, and she looked so cute in her big ole jersey.

Labor Day

We had such a nice and relaxing Labor Day weekend. I got a new camera, so I have been taking pictures like crazy. Of course Rachel is more than happy to pose for a picture, so it works out well. :)I have a new nephew named Marley. He is the sweetest puppy ever! Rachel is terrified of dogs, but she did at least try to play with Marley. She even got brave and sat with Addy and Ivy and called Marley over to play:

She was very brave until the puppy decided to come play:

My beautiful niece Addy:

My other beautiful niece Ivy:

fun times

Let me start by saying I love my job, partly because of the kids, partly because of the work itself, but mainly because of the ladies and man in these pictures. I love my work family! We had a night out in celebration of Miss Claudie's retirement. It is so fun and refreshing to spend a couple of hours having some much needed adult time, and it is always a good time with these folks.

The retiree and belated birthday girl and Bridgett: Kay, Angie, me, and Kristin:
Our awesome waitress singing Happy Birthday to Miss Claudie:It never fails- at some point during one of our outings, Adrienne will be waving a steak knife. :)

Brigett and Albright:

Amy in the middle of a story and Beverly: Can't wait till next time!

rainy day

Rachel has been asking to play in the rain a lot lately, but we haven't been able to because storms have been accompanying the rain lately. We must have gotten a pretty good rain today while we were gone because she found plenty of puddles to play in when we got home. Practice was rained out, so we played outside for a while.

The tree was full of water, and she thought she was going to get me wet by shaking the branch. That didn't work out so well for her. She thought it was fun though.

Our neighbor started out with two of these little guys, but somehow that number has grown. They are everywhere! These are the most geese I've seen since we have lived here.

Most of the geese are no problem, but meet Loud Mouth Fred: This dude is mean I tell you. He even chases the horse around to let him know who's boss. I don't remember what she was telling me at this point, but it must have been important.
She was trying to think of what else she could get into. We decided on a little soccer since we didn't get to go to practice.

Hold on, let me fix my hair first. Wouldn't expect any less from a princess who plays soccer in a dress and zebra rain boots. :)

She was fussing at me because she said I didn't kick it to her right or something to that effect.

I love that smile!

I really hope it doesn't rain us out Thursday, but it was fun to have this afternoon to just hang out and play.

soccer pictures

I haven't figured out the right settings on my camera to keep the pictures from being so blurry, but you get the idea anyway. This girl loves soccer. Last Tuesday about halfway through practice, the bottom fell out- I mean a toad choker, gully washer. Rachel was upset because she couldn't finish her practice. Her daddy asked her if she wanted to play in the rain, and she told him no, she wanted the sun to come back out so she could play some more. I thought it was kind of fun playing in the rain.

She likes playing red light, yellow light, green light: Sometimes she gets a little too excited and misses the ball. Good try though hunny.

Red light!Come back here ball:Green light!Yellow light!