Friday, November 11, 2011

Didn't make the cut

Its that time of year again! I got my girls all dressed up and took them outside for some pictures for this years Christmas card...

Here is was you will NOT be seeing on the card...



"CHEESE"
Can you see her saying it?
She is trying so hard to get the word right that she forgot to really smile :)
Look how BEAUTIFUL her hair is!!! Jealous!


"Kiss"
I told her to kiss the tree...
looks like she is getting ready to take a bite!


"No way"
This little cutie kept throwing her hands up in front of the camera like, "Don't you dare take a picture of me!" but as you can see her smile was saying otherwise...


"Hands up!"
again
Anyone recognize the outfit she is wearing???
Probably not.... so i'll just tell you.... Its the same thing Maycee wore for our Christmas cards last year! (what can I say, I like green)
This little girl is growing like a weed, and is much much bigger than Maycee was at Lydia's age.



"and again..."



"Look what my tongue can do"
I don't know what Maycee was thinking... do you?


"Almost"
Cute girls, crappy backround

And thats it!!!
(I mean I took alot more but I didn't want to bore you)

Ironically the very first picture I took turned out the best, you can enjoy it in a few weeks :)

Saturday, November 5, 2011

Employment!

The last couple of days have been COLD!
I mean wind blowing all day, no sun, frost in the mornings and even a little snow!
Its so different for me to be in conditions like this. Blake says to me this morning (in response to me talking about the cold) he says, "Ya know, it wouldn't be so bad f this was as cold as it got..." and im like "WHAT?! It's gonna get worse!!!" Aw shoot! I am in trouble!

Since it has been cold we have been doing things like this...
Yesterday Blake had the morning off so we took advantage of some family time!

Notice we are all still in P.J.'s and we had soup for lunch, so fun!

We really have to take advantage of the time we have together now since BLAKE GOT A JOB!!!

He is your newest Walmart Associate!
He stokes shelves in the grocery department :)

We came out here think school was going to be most of Blakes time but soon found out that was not the case... not for this semester anyway's. We have been so spoiled having him around almost all the time! Now we will be lucky to have him around AT ALL. Bitter/sweet. We decided it would be easier in the long run not to have so much "debt" in student loans when we were done with school.

The kids have so much fun playing in all the leaves!
Betty has agreed that she will pay us if we can keep up with the falling leaves. So far the leaves are winning... by ALOT! Betty has many MATURE trees on her land. They really are kicking our trash. We got up and racked this morning, and now you can't even tell where. But it is kind of fun. (that might sound weird but it is)

AND AS PROMISED...

The girls costumes...

Maycee was a cowgirl. I just used a picture from this summer's reunion...

Just imagine her with a pink sweater underneath, and no cute hat. (she destroyed it, the stinker)


And Lydia was a DOLL! Well actually she was a bunny, but she was as cute as a doll...

Here you have to think of warm costumes cause its so chilly in the evenings. So what I did was just add some bunny ears to her... I don't know what you would call it but its really puffy and really warm...

... and a bunny tail of coarse!


I think she quite enjoyed it!

Tuesday, November 1, 2011

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!


Well, no pictures of the girls in their costumes yet but I have everything else from yesterday...
Betty's birthday was the 28th but it worked out better for us to celebrate it on Halloween. We had a yummy soup night next door at the Browns!

5 choices: Cream of Broccoli (Blake)
Potatoe n veggie (Megan)
Pumpkin Curry (Megan)
Chessy Tomatoe (Betty)
Clam Chowder (Betty)

and we ate our soup in these...
Betty surprised us all with a great costume!
All the kids got a kick out of her hat, it danced and sang songs...

Megan (Brown) made thses really cute bats that we hung on the ceiling aorund the table

We shared alot of laughs through out the night...
in this foto I told the guys to smile add this is what I got...
I think the pumpkin bread bowls and soup are going to become a Halloween traditon.

And are pumpkins this year...
Blake's
and
April's
I feel like I was slacking this year on my pumpkin, but oh well... next year! :)
All in all we had a great Halloween Holiday :)