Cheerleading

Kaitlyn decided this year she wanted to try and be a cheeleader. She cheers for the Maddawgs which is the pee wee football team for the Northern half of Garrett county. She likes it so far. The game and pep rally have been "the funnest things shes ever done", her words. They have played two games so far and won both. She intends to use the skirt, after the season over, pair it with a steerler jersey and cheer on the Steelers.

Birthday Party

This year we had Katies party at the Nemacolin's Gymnastics gym. It has all the works of a full Olympic gym. The kids had a blast. The pit of foam cubes was the best place to be. It is very hard to get out and Jon likes to push everyone in, I managed to get him in, hehe. After the gym we all went on a limo ride around property to see the animals up there now. Then across town to have pizza and cake at Pizza Hut. It was a blast, they all want to do it again next year.

In your face!!

These were just some up close pictures of Madison I was taking one day while Kate was playing soccer. Madison finds the games boring and I have to find ways to intertain her.

Soccer Season 09'

This year Kaitlyn was in the youth 8 section meaning, they had five players on the field including a goalie. So it was a little more advanced from last year. Her teams name this year is the Red bulls.

First warm days of spring

Here is my flower child. This spring I showed Madison how to make a flower halo. She was just so beautiful and happy, I had to capture some shots.

Recital 09'

This years recital at Jessicas was a Las Vegas theme. Kaitlyn is in a full front split and the song that she danced to with the rest of her class ( photo not shown to protect the rights of the other kids) was Start all over by Hannah Montana. Then in the picture with Brandon and Natalie (Shawnda's kids and I known she doesn't mind them on the blog) they did their routine to Heartbreak Hotel (this is her semi-private class).

Kates field trip to Idlewilde

Kaityln, Madison, Kaden,Misty,Helen, my mom and I all went with Kate on her school field trip. We had a blast. Kate has a smirk on her face in front of Jack and Jill cause she looked up and said "Oh, you can see Jill bloomers", it was funny the shock on her face. Then the girls are taking a magic carpet ride which myself I had to also, no picture going to be posted of that, and finally the three bears. There were a ton of others but a choose a few to share.

Prom 08'

Here is Tyler, Helen, Nicole, Jess and Andrew getting ready to go to prom. They all looked amazing.

New truck

In dec 2008 we purchased a new-to-us truck. We even got it to say our company name. We just had it in the Western Maryland Truck Show and got it fixed up with new grill and everything, i just didn't get a chance to take a new picture of it. More picture to come.

All dressed up and no place to go

Well I can now say i am the proud mama of two divas. They love to get all dressed up for no reason. Katie still has a little bit of her tom boy attitude but where clothes are concerned shes alllllll girl. And Maddie is the priss and a true girl at heart. I had her in the shoe store and told her to pick and she said " I can't, I want them all becasue they are all so pretty". Then I took Kate school clothes shopping in Hanover when we went to Nicoles. We took her in Justice (use to be limited too) and when she walked in she said " I want one of everything"! We spent two hours in that one store. For those of you who don't know this about me, I HATE SHOPPING!!! Yeah future me, two teenage girls to go school clothes shopping for.

cakes

I have started trying to make different types of cakes. Here is my valentines day cake, superbowl cake (go steelers) and Kates 7 year birthday cake featuring the Powderpuff girls.

Katie 1st grade

Here is Kaitlyns first grade spring picture. I had a horrible time getting the fall on to upload so I figured I would just do this one so I can move on in updating my page. She did a wonderful jopb this year in school.

Like father, like daughter

One day while setting at home, don't mind the mess, I got to realize how much these two were alike. Whenever I try to clean when hes playing the p3 I hear "Can't see, can't see" a million times. Well Kate was at school and to keep Maddie out from in front of her fathers way I took her into her room and introduced her to dora on the playstation 2.

Mistys new addition

On October 9th of 2008 the world welcomed Evan Matthew Cramer. He is a wonderful beautiful baby.

Family pictures

Here is our 2009 family pictures. Kaitlyn six, Madison 3

Maddie in kindercise

Madison had a chance to go to class again right before Christmas. She loves her classes. When they are not in session but Kaitlyns are she has a horrible time understanding why she can't go.

Madison is "3"

I still can not believe that the chunky little creature of two years ago turned into this petite girl.

Autumn Glory parade 2008

The Autumn Glory parade this year was very warm and the kids had to walk really far. Kate had a round burn mark on her back from the outfit she had to wear. The theme was Heaven and the song they did a routine to was I think were is heaven. It was a really nice weekend.

Family Vacation

This year we went to Virginia Beach. Madison's first trip to the beach. She wasn't impressed by very much and me and her spent most our time in the hotel pool. Kate learned how to swim while we were down there. Tyler and Helen also went with us. Tyler's first time at the beach as well. While we were there we went to Motor World and Katie, Helen and I did the Sky flyer thing. Kate did an excellent job. While at the top she's said " I want to get down" hehe thats so funny still because I said "Ok, wish granted" and pulled the cord.

6 years

Well my camera's memory card unformated itself somehow and I lost all my pictures from the recital, school field trip to the zoo and Kates 6 year birthday party. I was not happy. Anyway we had a BRATZ birthday party and it was a blast. One bad thing about having a girl into BRATZ, you can not call her a brat without hearing thank you. Oh the troubles I forsee. Also we went camping over the 4th of July weekend and someone took our dog Oscar. Madison misses her pup-pup.

Gymnastics

In Aug 07 Kaitlyn joined Jessicas dance creations for gymnastics. In June they had a recital and her group did a pirate routine. She had a blast and couldn't wait for the new season to begin.

She also enjoyed it because Natalie and Brandon were in it.

AYSO

This spring Kaitlyn participated in soccer. There was five members on her team and they each got to play for 10 mins each, unless the other kids could not, then they got to go in more. Needless to say Katie played almost the whole game, every game, which was excellent. She is number 7 on the bluejays team.

First haircut

Madison had cut her own hair, so we decided to get it cut. She's so HOLLYWOOD!

Spring pics

Shawnda and I decided to get our kids pictures taken together since they see each other all the time. I was having trouble getting the picture to fit for some reason, so some of the names are cut off. But it says Brandon, Quentin, Madison, Katie and Natalie. Best Friends Forever 2008. And then here is one of just my girls.