Meet The Heels

Graeme Carpenter Clendenin is 11 months old today!!!! WHAT?! I have seriously been in tears about this a couple times today. ha Where in the world did this year go?! We have one month before my "infant" becomes a toddler. This is his 11 month photo. I added the second one to show you how tall he is getting!






In honor of his 11 month milestone, the Tarheels put on a big show just for him yesterday. wink Ceilidh had a BLAST at "Meet the Heels." We are still proud of our football team, and excited about this upcoming year. B/c she is a member of the CKC, she got a football for the players to sign, food, and a special conference with Coach Davis. After the conference, we went down to the field and waited FOREVER in lines for jump houses and a huge slide. I was a little annoyed waiting in the slide line, b/c I didn't think she would really slide. I asked her like a million times, "Are you sure you are going to slide down? There is no other way down." ha To my surprise and delight, she slid down and LOVED it. To my dislike, I had to stand in the line yet again, so she could do it "just one more time Momma!" We love football, and especially Carolina football; so it was fun to kick-off the season with such fun filled event.

The lines were incredibly too long to get the players signatures, so we decided to call it a night and get Arbys before going home. Ceilidh LOVES Arbys! ha I think I have eaten at an Arbys, maybe 5 times in my whole life. We randomly found out she will scarf down a roast beef sandwich in less than a minute. I'm just glad to find foods that she will eat!ha She is such a picky eater. So, if you ever want to grab some Arbys and go watch some Carolina football; Ceilidh would gladly join! wink

GO HEELS!

"Sweet D"

Dakota got to come and play with Ceilidh and Graeme Thursday! They had a blast with her. Ceilidh was such a GREAT helper, and tended to Dakota's every whim. ha Graeme wouldn't leave the poor girl alone. He kept touching her all day like he was trying to figure out if she was real or not! ha He only got jealous once while I was giving her a bottle. To curb his jealousy, he decided he would try to feed her as well. wink Dakota is such an easy baby. It was a joy to play with her and glad we get to do it again! These are just a few cute pics I got during the day. The last picture is just a sweet picture of my boys, and then a picture Ceilidh drew of people. I love this picture b/c the people literally have anatomically correct eyes. Check out those pupils! HA



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"Baby Let's Roll with It" / The Road to Damascus

Do you remember the stories that had two endings and you could pick which ending you wanted? Well, this blog title is "two titled," and you can pick which you like better! I couldn't, so I will leave it to you. ha

Right after we got married, Andrew started talking to me about the Virginia Creeper Trail. This trail is 35 downhill/flat miles of an old railway that was torn up. People can now bike, hike, run, etc through the BEAUTIFUL Virginia mountains. Like I said, we had been talking about this trail for a while. Then a year or so ago, my friends Melinda and Jonathan went and made a video of the bike. I was definitely itching to go after the video. So.... we decided to take one last trip before school starts back Tuesday. Damascus, VA is only about an hour and fifteen from my parent's mountain house which made the trip that much more do-able.

We parked our car in Damascus and then shuttled up to White Top Station. From there we biked 17 miles back down to Damascus. I would love to go and finish the last 17 from Damascus to Abingdon; but we knew we had to take into account how long the kiddos could last. The scenery was incredible and the weather was perfect! Our pictures don't even do it justice. Ceilidh and Graeme both fell asleep for a while, but I wasn't able to get a picture of them leaning on each other before she woke up and pushed him off of her. ha If you ever get the chance, you should bike it yourself!




This tree and fallen over the path the night before. That was a fun one getting two bikes, one trailer, and four people over!