Grandkids

Our newest granddaughter, Mia, was born on Valentine's Day.

Here she is with her sister, Melanie, and brother, Ryan.

Ryan with Mia and Melaine

Ryan and Mia

Melanie and Mia

Ryan and Melanie, two pigs in a blanket.

Volleyball on Capitol Hill

Mallory, Rachel, Taylor, myself and my dad spent the most part of three days playing/watching volleyball in Washington, DC last weekend. The girls stayed with their teams in three different hotels and I stayed with my dad and took the Metro into DC.

Rachel's Photos

Taylor's Photos

Our Littlest Valentine

Natalie pulled these sticky hearts off a party
project of Bailey's and decorated herself.

Another Teenager

Another teenager joins the Stratton house Yeah!!!

Taylor looks nice without her braces.

Taylor loves her new iPod.

Natalie liked the cake.

Birthday Times Two

I'm behind on the blog as we have been very busy so far this year.
Last week, we celebrated two birthdays at our house.
Don't the birthday boy & girl look great?

Joe's was Monday. He started back to work too, so that has added to the craziness while we adjust to him not being home in the afternoons to drive everyone around.

Bailey's was Tuesday. She's excited to be 8. We are going to put off her birthday party until this summer and pair her up with Joseph and have one big pool party. We did that a few years ago and it works great.

Volleyball Times Three

Travel volleyball has started again. We spend the last three weekend in Richmond and various tournaments. The girls are playing for three different organizations this year, which makes things a little more interesting, Lots of practice times throughout the week.Mallory is playing on an 18's team for Coastal VB Club.

Rachel is playing for a 15's team for TVA.

Taylor is playing for a 13's team for VBVBA.

Mallory's Team

Hitting the ball during warm ups.

Hitting the ball during a game.

Double block.

Serve receive.

Serving the ball.

Solo block.

Digging the ball.

Rachel's Team

Blocking.

Hitting the ball.

Serving the ball.

Fighting for the ball.

More blocking.

Taylor's Team

Getting ready to pass the ball.

Serving the ball.

Blocking the ball.

Watching other's hit the ball.

Hitting the ball.

Joseph's New Shirt

Joseph got a new Pokemon t-shirt with his Target gift card
that he got for Christmas, but Natalie thought it was for her.

She wanted her picture taken with both Joe and myself.

Cheese!!!

Natalie on her New Bike

Natalie wanted to ride her bike even though it wasn't very nice outside.

Natalie still rides with her head down, but is starting to look up more and smile at the camera for me. She's not very fast yet, but getting better every time she rides.