June 2009

June was filled with Dance Recitals, a neighborhood visitor, End of Year awards at school, a major haircut for another of the Eddy children, a trip to the theater, StageStruck Summer Camps, and our first beach trip of the summer!

Kami's First Dance Recital
Kami took a class with two of her very good friends, called "KinderDance 1" where they introduced ballet and tumbling. She LOVED it!!!! They danced to "Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear", and just like her big sister, she absolutely LOVED being up on that stage!!!








Neighborhood Visitor
One morning Pepper started barking like crazy. Imagine my surprise when I looked out the window to see what she was barking at and saw THIS.....

....a DEER!!!! She walked right out of the wooded area in front of our house and made her way down the street!! We have deer in our area, but I never thought I'd see one in our front yard!

2nd & 4th Grade Awards Assemblies
Caiden and Madison had a wonderful 2nd and 4th grade year at school, and they both received numerous awards at the end of the year!! Tyler and I were very proud of all of their achievements!




Kami gets a Hair Cut!!!
Take a look at Kamrynn's "Guitar Hero" picture to get an idea of the "before". But here is the "after". And she loves short hair so much, we have yet to go back to long hair!!




High School Musical 2
One of the older girls that Madi has gotten to know from StageStruck is super, amazingly talented and was cast in NC Theater's production of "High School Musical 2". So of course we HAD to take a girl's trip to see her!! Hailey did a WONDERFUL job and we even got to meet "Gabriella" afterwards, which Kylie and Kamrynn thought was the coolest!!!




StageStruck Storyteller and Summer STARS
Last summer Kamrynn was FINALLY old enough to participate in her first StageStruck activity. It was no surprise that she not only loved it, but was a natural up there! And Madi continued her tradition of attending the two week STARS camp. The theme for 2009 was "50's music".






BEACH!!!!!!!
Perhaps our favorite summer activity!!! Kami learned to "Boogie Board" on this trip, and we discovered our new favorite beach... Topsail Beach.

May 2009

According to my pictures, May was a BUSY month for us!!! May wrapped up Caiden's first full Goldsboro Sting Soccer season which included a weekend tournament in Wilmington, a field trip to Bald Head Island to see the lighthouse "Old Baldy" with Madi's 4th Grade Class, Caiden's Field Day, a visit from some old friends, some new "toys", and the start of summer!!!!! Here are some of the "best of the best" pictures!!!!

Soccer Games and Seaside Classic 2009 Soccer Tournament in Wilmington, NC









Bald Head Island 4th Grade Field Trip with Madi
This was such a GREAT field trip! Tyler even took the day off and went with us. We had to ride a ferry over to the Bald Head Island to get to "Old Baldy", which according to Madi is the oldest and smallest of the NC Lighthouses. And we even got to go inside the lighthouse and climb to the top!










Caiden's 2nd Grade Field Day





Fun with the Sealock's
We met the Sealock's when we were stationed in England, and Robin and I ran into each other shortly after they had moved here to NC back in 2005. Sadly for us, they moved "home" to Georgia in 2006, but we were so happy when they came for a visit and we got to catch up with them and their wonderful family!!!




New "Toys"
What's more fun than a trampoline and Guitar Hero?!?!?






Slip-n-Slide Fun
Welcome Summer 2009!!!

April 2009

Looking back, I've already shared pics of our biggest events in April 2009- Easter and the addition of Tiger to our family. The only other "major" event this month was the Missoula Children's Theater production of "Robin Hood" that Madi was in.




And here are a couple cute random pictures of Kami roller-skating...




...and Caiden (pre-haircut) playing soccer.

Bird Strike!!!

So back in April, when the kids were still in school, I was driving home from picking them up. I kept glancing from the road to my rearview mirror, so I could see Caiden as we were talking about his day. I looked from Caiden to the road and saw something fly at me, I heard a big crash, I screamed, and I said, "What the heck was that?!?!" I happened to look out my driver's side window and noticed that my side view mirror was pushed up against my window, and the mirror was dangling from it... the next second it was GONE!!! Still totally confused about what has happening, I quickly glanced in my rear view mirror again, just to make sure that there weren't any cars passing in the opposite direction that I could've possibly collided with as I was talking to Caiden.. who knows, maybe I drifted?!?! Nope, no cars... GOOD!!! So I pull over to the side of the road so I can turn around and go find my mirror, and as I do this, I notice something fluttering in my window... it's a FEATHER!!! I hit a bird, or maybe the bird hit me! Who knows.. it all happened so fast! It was quite possibly the weirdest driving experience I've ever had. So I retrieved my mirror and also searched a little for this poor (but STUPID) bird, but I never found it. This bird did quite some damage, too... but thankfully, my side view mirror has now been replaced!

My poor mirror!!!!



The feather....


Bird blood on the back of my mirror?


Possible bird beak that caused the deep chip in this paint?