HaLLoWeeN!!!

This year the rule was homemade costumes. I think we did pretty good!!!

Everyone thought we had AWESOME costumes!!

And they're off!

Abby loves to go to school! She loves to learn and she is super excited to have a great teacher and her best friend in class with her!

Kallianne going to her last year of elementary school. She is an old pro at the whole school thing.

My baby headed to kindergarten. The start of a whole new phase of life....for both of us!

There they all are! Ready to go!

This is some of the artwork Emma Jo came home with the first day of kindergarten! I love her self portrait!

This is a picture of Emma Jo brushing her teeth to get ready for school. If you look closely, you will see her toothbrush in her hand, and she is standing on her stool :)

Preschool graduation

Preschool graduation. What an odd celebration. I mean on the one hand it is only preschool, and why do people feel a need to celebrate a child graduating from preschool? Then there is the flip side, the passing of a time in life that is so precious!! Needless to say, watching my baby graduate from preschool was an emotional event for me. It means the start of kindergarten and real school. It means that I will never go back to having kids at home with me for full days at a time. I wonder if it is harder to let them graduate from preschool or high school?? Seems to me preschool is the real heart breaker.

Because when faces are as cute as this...letting them grow up is downright hard...

Emma Jo and Luke

Kalli's project

Kalli worked really hard on putting together her habitat for the macaw she made. She had to make everything 3D and it had to include lots of different elements.

She had to have the animal itself, a form of shelter, babies, food source, and a preditor. (You can just barely make out the orange snake on the bottom)

She did a great job!

Happy Birthday Abby!!!

My sweet Abigail is turning 7 today!! So, for her birthday party we had a "tea" party. She invited lots of little friends and they all had so much fun!

Playing bingo

Blowing out the candles!

We even used the real china!

Snow...Day 2!!!

The snowman! I doubt we will ever get another this big in Texas again...

Love this picture! This was early in the morning the day after all the snow fell.

The view from the front door.

It isn't a Nor'easter...but shoot this is Texas!!

I can't believe that this is the 3rd snow storm this winter! This one, however, is by far the prettiest snow we've had. Unfortunately by tomorrow morning most of it will have turned to ice. So, for today we are going to bake some cookies and enjoy the view! I love all the mature trees behind our house!!

Damages...

Last week Jared and Abby were off to go on a fun filled afternoon of Daddy and daughter time, when unfortunately they hit a patch of ice and sailed over the curb! Amazing that just going over the curb could cause over $3700 worth of damage! We are very grateful that they are both OK...

Curly hairs!

The older girls wanted curly hair for church. So, we did Abby's in rollers, and Kalli had a bunch of braids! They loved being all dolled up, except for Emma Jo. She likes her hair to stay "flat".

I am so lame.....

Alright I realize it has been almost 2 months since I last posted anything...what can I say other than I'm lame!!!

My procrastination all started back in November (duh), when I got to thinking about the whole idea of being grateful. I had been posting about the little things that I was grateful for instead of the big things. The more I thought about it the more I realized that yeah, the little things are nice and I am grateful for them, but without the big things in life...the little ones wouldn't matter so much. I started thinking about my girls. I have three beautiful girls that are all healthy, happy, fun, loving, imaginative, good, and most of all mine! I have a great husband who supports me not only financially, but emotionally, physically, and spiritually. I thought a lot about being grateful for his job as well. He had a few conversations with his boss after the last round of layoffs, and had his boss not moved him to where he is now, he definitely would have lost his job. I am so grateful he still has a job that he loves and that is able to allow me to stay home. So, to sum it all up, while the little things in life are nice, it is the big ones that really make me happy and grateful....