Today was Maddie’s first day of school here in Wisconsin; we are very excited for her and I am sure she’s looking forward to some time away from us too!
Mar
10
This is what happens when you let Maddie and I loose in a Photo Booth!
Dec
28
Grandma Creed couldn’t stand it anymore…she had to get Maddie out on the
ice. Maddie and I both had fun, as did Grandma, but we sure could have used
some edges on those skates – the rentals were very beat up. Next time, Grandma
will bring some skates from back home so that Maddie can try again!
ice. Maddie and I both had fun, as did Grandma, but we sure could have used
some edges on those skates – the rentals were very beat up. Next time, Grandma
will bring some skates from back home so that Maddie can try again!
Click on the photos to see larger versions, or visit the Christmas Album and
watch for several at the end of the slide show.
Dec
25
This is very cute video of Eli going to bed on Christmas Eve. To see all the Christmas photos, click here.
Oct
31
As you can see, Maddie was a witch this year after we convinced her that a dinosaur for the third year in a row was not happening. Eli really didn’t know what was going on so he decided to be a cat and witch…in overalls. Click here for all of the photos!
Oct
12
It’s official – we are back in Wisconsin! Email us if you want our new contact information!
The move went well; it was a lot of work, but it went well. Here’s a quick recap being that it has been so long:
- We moved to WI back on 9/26 & 9/27 – thanks to all that helped!
- Maddie will not be attending school any more. My Dad (Papa Creed) teases Maddie telling her that she is a kindergarten drop out! The reason she will not be attending school any longer is because she is not old enough per Wisconsin standards…they would not allow her to start here even though she had already started in Kentucky. Per my conversation with Ms. Joanie – Maddie’s teacher in KY – this will not be a bad thing for Maddie. We look forward to finding all sorts of fun things to do!
- Lynn will be starting back at her old job with Grede Foundries soon; this is a God-send for sure. We are still working out the logistics of it all, trying to avoid a HUGE daycare bill!
- I am working from our apartment (we didn’t have time to find a house) until my company restarts the Wisconsin Office project – it was put on hold a few weeks ago.
- After several delays that were completely out of our control, our house-sale is supposed to close on Wednesday of this week. We are very thankful for that!
Sep
12
We celebrated part of Ms. Maddie’s Birthday in Kentucky and the other part of it in Wisconsin. She had a great time!
To see all of the photos, visit Maddie 2008 of our Family Photo Album.
Aug
13
Today was Maddie’s first day of school – Kindergarten! She just got on the bus about 15 minutes ago and once she took the first step on the bus, she never looked back! We will miss her at home during the day, but we are surely excited for her to take this next step in life.
Jul
31
Zebra’s, Emus and Deer, oh my!
On Tuesday, we went to a petting zoo called “Henry’s Ark” down the road from our house where the only cost for admission is a bag of carrots to feed the animals. It was a lot of fun and Maddie was able to feed goats, many different kinds of birds, African porcupines, deer and last, but surely not least, zebras! (Madddie’s favorite animal) We also got to feed bigger birds like Emus and Ostriches.
Click on the photos for larger versions.
Jul
28
Yesterday Maddie & I, along with my brother Mark, his wife April and their
children Bailey and Hailey went to the Red River Gorge for a day of climbing and
rappelling. Overall, we had a great time!
Click on the photo below for a slide show of the day.
Jul
22
This past weekend, we spent some time at Otter Creek Park where we visited Morgan’s Cave – much to our surprise, we couldn’t get in!
There is a sign inside the cave that I read with a flashlight that says that they have closed it off because the Gray Bats that live in the cave are very afraid of humans. During the summer months – when many people visit the cave – the Gray Bats will have their babies. The mother bats are so afraid of humans, in fact, that if a person enters the cave, the mother will drop her flightless baby and then the baby will drown in the river at the bottom of the cave.
Click on the photos to see larger versions; the quality isn’t that great because I took the photos with my phone. Our little camera is still not working!
Jun
26
We had a little party at our house last night as a farewell to our current Crossing Community Group; many of us are going in different directions and we thought that the best way to say goodbye would be to have a pool & slip-n-slide party for the kids. Eli enjoyed his first bit of watermelon that wasn’t pre-cut into small pieces and the rest of the kids enjoyed playing in the yard. Click the photo for a slideshow of the “event.”
Jun
16
Father’s day was a blast! Lynn, Maddie, Eli and I went to the Red River
Gorge for the day to do some hiking, climbing, caving and relaxing. The
hiking was rough in the 90 degree weather, the climbing in Muir Valley was short
- but fun – and the caving was cut short because of some kids that had filled
the whole cave with smoke! Instead of climbing around in the cave, we
hiked up and down the river – in the river – and generally had a great time.
The photo quality stinks because I had to use my phone to take the
pictures…I left the memory cards for my camera at home!
Here’s a photo of Maddie climbing her first outdoor climb:
(Click to Enlarge)
Here’s a short video of her doing the same thing:
Here’s a short video of Eli playing in the river:
May
31
There’s been a ton of new photos added to our online family photo album
recently…and some not so new ones on memory cards I had forgotten about too.
Check them out by following these links:
Apr
27
Yesterday was the Kentucky Derby Festival’s Great Balloon Race; we went to watch nearly 50 balloons fill up and take off in the race.
How it works
The Great Balloon Race follows a combination of a “Declared Goal” and the
traditional ballooning game of “Hare and Hound” race format. The U.S. Bank
balloon leads the action as “the Hare”. And, as any good hound would do, the
other balloons spawn an aerial chase of the Hare, launching in a planned
sequence minutes after the Hare.
The winds determine where the balloons fly. The Hare Balloon flies until it
finds a suitable spot, preferably in a vacant field. It lands and lays out a
large fabric “X” as the target. In hot pursuit, the Hounds try to drop a small
bag of Kentucky Bluegrass seed as close to the “X” as possible, all without
landing. Race officials then measure the distance between the target and the bag
of grass seed at the target zone and calculate points.
The pilot with the most accurate toss is the overall winner receiving $3000
and bragging rights for a year!
Click here for a photo slide-show of the event from our perspective.
Mar
26
We’ve been reduced to Stick People…it’s the easiest family photo I have ever set up; even the animals cooperated!
Mar
11
As promised a in prior post, there are more photos to share regarding our surprise winter storm; we all had a blast and are already missing the snow…it’s almost all gone only three days later! Click the image to see a slide show of our day.
Mar
8
We received well over 8 inches since last night; that’s a lot for Kentucky and that really is a lot when you consider that we are in the month of March!!! Last year, we had leaves on the trees by this time – the kids sure loved it though. Maybe this is God’s way of preparing our family for next winter…our first winter back in Wisconsin!
We are going to take the dogs to the park this afternoon, I am sure there will be more photos soon! Click on the photos to see larger versions.
Mar
7
On Wednesday, I was working on our clothes dryer – again – because, well, it likes to eat little baby-clothing snaps for lunch. Anyway, Maddie was watching me work on it and she saw that I was wearing my wrist brace – which I wear when typing to keep from further damaging my wrists - and she told me that, “[I] must be a really old man if my wrist hurts.“ Nice.
On a side note, for those of you that may consider working on your clothes dryer at home; be sure to UNPLUG the dryer before sticking your hands in it because the electrical-jolt you will get when you touch a bare wire connector is pretty strong. Unfortunately, I learned this from personal experience. I guess that’s what happens when someone gets so comfortable with taking apart their dryer that they forget such basic safety precautions.
Feb
13
As you can see from the background of this photo – taken today – we have snow! Eli was rather happy watching Maddie play outside from the nice warm inside but I bet that deep down inside, he wanted to be out there too!
Feb
7
Last night, while watching Animal Planet, Maddie asked Lynn and I what kind of whale we were seeing on the television. I told her it was a Sperm Whale. She looked up at Lynn, reached out her hand that was holding her rubber toy lizard and said, “This is a sperm lizard you know.”
Feb
5
I have saved these two quotes from Maddie because I thought they were funny; now I finally have a place to keep them for all to enjoy!
12-29-2007 – After starting a Garth Brooks son on the i-Pod, Maddie asked me, “Is this another farmer song?” (I told her earlier that day that Garth Brooks was a cowboy-song singer)
12-17-2007 – After calling the driver in front of me a “moron” (surprise) and then having to explain to Maddie that calling someone a “moron” is not nice, she says, “Well, Daddy, Momma calls them ‘womans.’”
Feb
3
After trying to explain to Maddie why it’s important for her to learn about God and Jesus, she said, “You and Momma can’t die because I will miss you.” That was, of course, a sweet moment that I had to cherish but quickly recover from so that she could rest assured that we had no intentions of going anywhere any time soon. She was OK with that.
To end the conversation in a typical “Maddie” fashion, she said, “You know Daddy, when you die, your nose falls off!” Lynn and I both thoroughly enjoyed that one.
Feb
2
Originally uploaded by creed.michael
Maddie has been working on her alphabet for quite some time and some of the letters are giving her troubles. “F” is one of those letters. Lynn has been working hard to find different ways to help Maddie learn her letters and one of the items she created was this flower…on “F” day. She clearly had some help with the green part but the purple part is all Maddie!
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