2006 - Year in Pictures

Olivia, the diva; Riley, the power ranger; and Hailey, Stephanie from Lazy Town.

The girls at a cheer competition!

Hailey and Riley!

Riley and Hailey at the dedication for D's new firehouse in DC!

Miss Attitude! Olivia..

2007!

After tons of procrastinating and other stuff, including lectures my D and my mother about not updating this site, I have decided to go back to the tradional mehtods of letting others know about our lives, blogging.. LOL..

The year ended with a huge bang for the Pratt's as it usually does. The girls came in first in their last cheerleading competition.

The Pratt family once again packed our bags and moved.. after and long and complicated fall out with our dream house, we found a comprable at best, house in Harrisburg, Pa's capital city. We are obviously in the suburbs and about 5 minutes from my office which is super nice for me. The girls again have to switch schools, but to a far better school district then the one that they were currently in. Also, their new school district will instinctively cater to hailey's speech issues. So, that is always a good thing.

Hmm.. I am still playing football, actually getting in shape this time, if you can believe that one.

And everything else remains the same. The kids are all getting big. They had a tremendous christmas, as usual. I will post pictures at a later date.

Other then that, things have been relatively quiet around our house, thank goodness.

I know I know.. I have probably lost every loyal reader I might have possibly had because I am such a slacker. I am not slacking on purpose, just have been so busy lately I have barely had time to sleep, more or less sit down and write a blog.
The girls have started school and Hailey took her first day of Kindergarden well, she loves it. I knew she would. Now if I could just get her to sit down and focus on the things that she needs to be learning, like recognizing her letters and numbers, we would be ok. Olivia is such a quick learner that she just picked those things up without help from anyone. Hailey is a little more diffucult and pretty much has the attention span of a puppy. She will not sit still to learn anything. We have been working diligently at it though.
Olivia, of course, loves the second grade and is doing fantastic! She is actually reading at a 3rd grade level and its only the beginning on 2nd grade. So we are very happy. The girls continue to be in cheerleding. PA Extreme Cheer to be exact. There competitions start in October. They should be cute. They are learning a pretty complex dance which is really hard for some of the younger kids. But they enjoy it so we will see.
My football training started, two days a week two hour sessions. After this past weekend I could barely walk my quads and hamstrings hurt so bad. The good thing is when April comes we will be lean mean football playing machines. I can't wait.
D also is playing for a team called the Northern Penn Energy! They are a 6 man team out of Millersburg. He enjoys it. I think that since it is a 6 man team and played on a smaller scale, it gives him a chance to relive some of the high school glory without completely getting himself killed.
The next few weeks are going to be insanely busy, as always. The girls have school and cheer, Riley just has to occupy himself being home all day with no one to play with.. I personally think he loves it. There is no one fighting him for the toys or the TV.
I have football and work and the million other things I do.. The Pratt family is always busy, always. Plus, my 10 year High School reunion is next week. Can you believe that, 10 years. Ought to be a good time, but it still makes me feel old!
Well ta ta for now and I am going to try to make plans to update more often, the key word there is try! LOL

More pics from Lake Tobias

The other post was getting really big so I needed to split the pictures up.. so here is the rest!

Lake Tobias Field Trip

Ok, so on Sunday D and I decided to take our kids and his two nieces, Hailey and Julia to Lake Tobias, which is this really cool wildlife park about 30 minutes from our house.
The kids had a fabulous time, I did however realize that it is insanely diffucult to keep track of 5 kids (though I didnt lose any!).. Especially two Haileys! I took to calling my Hailey, Hailey Marie and my niece Hayley, Hayley Autumn. WOW! Was that confusing.
The kids got to see a ton of very cool animals. You can ride this safari bus out through this wide open area and the animals actually come right up to your bus.. very cool..
So here are some pics from our wonderful day!

Kids Dancing

New pics..

I wish I knew how to download video.. if someone knows please let me know because I have some cute pictures of the kids dancing..
Either way here are some new ones from last week..

Big Surprise

Ok, so really there is no big surprise, the only big surprise is that we have another sick Pratt child. Below is Hailey and what we have been dealing with for about a week. The hospital, doctors etc arent sure if its an allergic reaction to something or if it is some kind of poison. Needless to say it looks way worse then what you can see in the picture. Her face is all swollen up and now the rash is turning brown.. Poor baby!














I will also tell you with almost a 100% certain that Riley is potty trained. I mean occasionally we do get an accident here and there, but for the most part he wears his Nemo underwear all the time. (not the same pair of course) Even at night I have been letting him wear them and he has been doing really well. Things of course have been crazy around him as the Pratt household always is.
Hope everyone else is well!

Forgot to Mention

If you want to check out a ton of Harrisburg Angels Pictures check out the website.. they posted a huge photo gallery.. www.harrisburgangels.com

Well then..

Football season is finally over.. yes, thats right. Over. Wow.. it was fantastic. Yes, I get it, we never won a game.. but our very last game against Virginia was 0-10. We continuously got better. The girls became like my sisters and I will miss them all. In two weeks we are having a huge party/picnic for the entire team, so that will be fun and something to look forward too.
Olivia went to the last game with us (in Norfolk) and did a great job of being the water girl. She really liked it too.. Not sure how much Kelli liked having Olivia's stinky feet on her the whole way home.. lol.. but she dealt with it.
Here are some random pics from games, our trip to Maine with the team, etc. By the way, the trip to Maine was great in the sense that D and I spent the whole weekend without kids on the beach in Maine. Guarenteed we were rarely alone and when we were we were so tired we just slept, but it was fun none the less. D and I on the beach in Maine.. I look weird because I am tired and just got out of the shower.. lol

Thats Dez, Ashley and I.. I am the weird looking on in the helmet.. lol

This is the Maine crew with 'coach Don' lol.. Melissa, Dez, Missy, Donnie, Cori, Jess, TJ and Kelly.. lol

I also forgot to mention that the Angels are technically no more. Since we went under new ownership mid way through season the owners were obligated to change the team name and logo etc next year. So the Harrisburg Angels are technically defunct. The new team is the Central PA Vipers. The logo is a really cool snake head and if I am correct, though it is subject to change, the colors are Navy blue and white. Penn State colors.. BLAH!
I know all the players that gave their heart soul and money for the Angels are looking for a fresh start this year and excited that the owners (who were the previous GM's of the Angels) are willing to give us all a shot. So August 5th is tryouts.. I am going to attempt to not be lazy between now and then.. yeah right.

So.. Olivia and Hailey's cheer competitions start soon.. I think its in August and then run until March.. so it will be fun to watch them have a good time. They cheer for PA Extreme Cheer and I am sure I will have a TON of pictures to post once they start competeing.