Friday, December 30, 2011
Family Football Fun
Bryce has our family divided with college football teams. We all like to give him a bad time for being the only one to go for the Razorbacks while the rest of the family cheers on LSU. I thought this would be a fun photo shoot, and it was!
Bryce was a GREAT sport about the family ganging up on him for these pics. THANKS BRYCE!
Sometimes you just gotta stand alone!
The Razorback is off.....
and LSU tackles the Razorback
CATCH!
And she runs the ball
Touchdown dance?
and the Razorback lost the ball - you can SEE the disappointment in his face!
Mady "tackling" Isaac
Bryce was a GREAT sport about the family ganging up on him for these pics. THANKS BRYCE!
Sometimes you just gotta stand alone!
The Razorback is off.....
and LSU tackles the Razorback
CATCH!
And she runs the ball
Touchdown dance?
and the Razorback lost the ball - you can SEE the disappointment in his face!
Mady "tackling" Isaac
Monday, December 05, 2011
It is Her World.....
We are all just visitors!
In her world no one is safe!
Santa gets pacifiers shoved in his mouth (no she does not and barely ever did, use a pacifier)
The cat sometimes has to play the part of the baby - doesn't he looked thrilled?
The dogs sleep on the table with a blanket.....
while the "babies" sleep on the floor with rags,
or on the cold windowsill with nothing but a view of some bushes.
She fixes her hair the way SHE wants it
And chooses her clothes the same way.
This is HER world and we love her dearly!
In her world no one is safe!
Santa gets pacifiers shoved in his mouth (no she does not and barely ever did, use a pacifier)
The cat sometimes has to play the part of the baby - doesn't he looked thrilled?
The dogs sleep on the table with a blanket.....
while the "babies" sleep on the floor with rags,
or on the cold windowsill with nothing but a view of some bushes.
She fixes her hair the way SHE wants it
And chooses her clothes the same way.
This is HER world and we love her dearly!
Monday, November 28, 2011
Thanksgiving in Texas
I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving! We did :)
I have decided that I am going to have to break down and buy some photo editing software for my Mac!! Some day. I have a ton of pictures from over Thanksgiving that I will eventually get on here. We had so much fun, especially the kids. My Dad has been working at a Youth Camp and we went to the camp for Thanksgiving. It was my parents, our family, my sister and her kids and my best friend since JR HIGH (which means we have been friends for about 7 years) :D and her three boys.
That makes THIRTEEN kids, 6 adults (until my Aunt came on Friday). Out of the thirteen kids there were THREE 13 year old boys! Need I say more? Interesting to say the least.
It was so neat to see all the kids pick up where they left off. They don't get to see their cousins much and they have not seen Emily's boys but a couple of times in the last 10 years. You would have thought they were together every day. There was not even fighting amongst siblings that I saw.
We got there around lunchtime on Wednesday and just visited the day away. Thursday was spent cooking and eating. It was so awesome to just turn the kids loose and not have too worry TOO MUCH (did I mention three 13 year old boys?) about where they were or what they were doing. I have decided we need a LOT of acreage with different "stations" of activities. But, instead of dorms I would prefer a big house. Hey, we all can dream. But, I digress....we had two turkeys, a ham, shrimp, casseroles, potatoes, gravy, watergate salad, homemade rolls and HOMEMADE PIES among pies among pies (10 total). It was YUMMY!!
Friday was spent having FUN. After breakfast, we took the kids to the zipline. All of the kids had been nagging to go, but once we got to the zipline, many were uncertain and some changed their mind. Andrew wanted to go, so he was attached to Paul to go down. Right before they step off the tower Andrew says "Geared up and ready to go!" So cute. Mady watched him go and started saying "I fly like airplane with Daddy." So, Daddy took her down. She was REALLY excited about flying, until they started flying that is. She SCA-REAMMMMMMMMMMMED the ENTIRE way down the line. When she got back up to where we were all sitting I asked if she wanted to go again. She said "NO" and shook her head so hard she almost fell over!
My aunt went down once. She said she could mark it off her bucket list and never needed to do it again. Emily went down (although she was rather uncertain). There were lots of loud "Oh my gosh"-es coming from her the whole way down, but nothing like Mads.
I went. I LOVED it. I actually did it twice. I would have kept doing it, but the uphill hike back was not great on my knee. I do appreciate Emily and Paul walking my brace down (couldn't wear it going down) to the end of the zipline so I could wear it back up the hill. I am ready to zipline through the rainforest now if anyone would like to pay for that trip ;)
It was great seeing my Aunt that I have not seen in probably 8 or more years. I wish we had had more time to catch up! Hopefully she will make a trip to Louisiana soon.
Kids went back to school today, so we are back to reality and it has hit me in the face! Between decorating for Christmas, the stuff from the trip, a ton of laundry that came from some deep dark corner that it needs to go back to and regular chores, I am not sure if I will ever catch up!!
I have decided that I am going to have to break down and buy some photo editing software for my Mac!! Some day. I have a ton of pictures from over Thanksgiving that I will eventually get on here. We had so much fun, especially the kids. My Dad has been working at a Youth Camp and we went to the camp for Thanksgiving. It was my parents, our family, my sister and her kids and my best friend since JR HIGH (which means we have been friends for about 7 years) :D and her three boys.
That makes THIRTEEN kids, 6 adults (until my Aunt came on Friday). Out of the thirteen kids there were THREE 13 year old boys! Need I say more? Interesting to say the least.
It was so neat to see all the kids pick up where they left off. They don't get to see their cousins much and they have not seen Emily's boys but a couple of times in the last 10 years. You would have thought they were together every day. There was not even fighting amongst siblings that I saw.
We got there around lunchtime on Wednesday and just visited the day away. Thursday was spent cooking and eating. It was so awesome to just turn the kids loose and not have too worry TOO MUCH (did I mention three 13 year old boys?) about where they were or what they were doing. I have decided we need a LOT of acreage with different "stations" of activities. But, instead of dorms I would prefer a big house. Hey, we all can dream. But, I digress....we had two turkeys, a ham, shrimp, casseroles, potatoes, gravy, watergate salad, homemade rolls and HOMEMADE PIES among pies among pies (10 total). It was YUMMY!!
Friday was spent having FUN. After breakfast, we took the kids to the zipline. All of the kids had been nagging to go, but once we got to the zipline, many were uncertain and some changed their mind. Andrew wanted to go, so he was attached to Paul to go down. Right before they step off the tower Andrew says "Geared up and ready to go!" So cute. Mady watched him go and started saying "I fly like airplane with Daddy." So, Daddy took her down. She was REALLY excited about flying, until they started flying that is. She SCA-REAMMMMMMMMMMMED the ENTIRE way down the line. When she got back up to where we were all sitting I asked if she wanted to go again. She said "NO" and shook her head so hard she almost fell over!
My aunt went down once. She said she could mark it off her bucket list and never needed to do it again. Emily went down (although she was rather uncertain). There were lots of loud "Oh my gosh"-es coming from her the whole way down, but nothing like Mads.
I went. I LOVED it. I actually did it twice. I would have kept doing it, but the uphill hike back was not great on my knee. I do appreciate Emily and Paul walking my brace down (couldn't wear it going down) to the end of the zipline so I could wear it back up the hill. I am ready to zipline through the rainforest now if anyone would like to pay for that trip ;)
It was great seeing my Aunt that I have not seen in probably 8 or more years. I wish we had had more time to catch up! Hopefully she will make a trip to Louisiana soon.
Kids went back to school today, so we are back to reality and it has hit me in the face! Between decorating for Christmas, the stuff from the trip, a ton of laundry that came from some deep dark corner that it needs to go back to and regular chores, I am not sure if I will ever catch up!!
Friday, November 18, 2011
Tea Party Picnic
This was the most fun we have had taking pictures! She has been asking continuously since to have a tea party picnic. Love my girly girl!!!!
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