From Conan (yes we know the hat doesn’t go) and FiFi.
October 21st, 2008
Our Latest Family Portrait – Preview
Can I just say? I LOVE OUR PHOTOGRAPHER! Laura Wootan, of The Smile House, is absolutely amazing! She has worked her magic with our family yet again. You can view her blog post along with beautiful sneak peeks she does for other families, too. She also does awesome Senior Portraits as well as wedding photography.
This time, instead of going to the studio as we usually do, we had Laura come to the entrance of our subdivision. I’ve always seen neighbors having their pictures taken there. The lighting is perfect for nighttime photography. I can’t wait to see some that we had taken with our new puppy, PD, too!
Have I mentioned yet that I love our photographer???
October 21st, 2008
Gasp, Mommy!
Katie exclaimed to me yesterday morning… Well first she gasped which immediately got my attention. Then she pointed to the sky. “Spaceships!” It took me awhile to find what she was talking about.
LOL! It’s the round air vents on the roof of the neighbor’s house!
October 21st, 2008
Weekend Halloween Project #2
We were at it again on Sunday. These adorable ghosts are playing ring-around-the-rosie. The kids really enjoyed this project & I’ve already had people stop to tell me how cute they are! 
We took 6 dowel rods and drove them into the ground around a tree. Next we stuffed 6 small trash bags with 3 sheets each of crumpled up newspaper. I placed the stuffed bag on the dowel & used masking tape to attach it. This is the point at which Katie pretended they were gigantic lollipops. (which, of course, gave me an idea for Christmas)
Next it was time to cut 3, white, twin-sized flat sheets ($4 each at Wal-mart) in half. I draped them over each “lollipop” and tied string around their little necks. I then double-knot tied their corners together to look like they are holding hands. Lastly we used a permanant marker to draw faces on them.
Ever since we made them, Katie comes out every morning when we walk William to school & shushes us because we might wake the ghosts.
October 19th, 2008
Brother, You Owe Me $10
I love you so much… but a bet is a bet. Dude, you totally owe me $10. For those of you who have no clue what I am speaking of… I went to the game tonight. They recorded the attendance and I exclaimed that this was the highest attendance to date. My brother begged to differ. hehehe I WIN!!!!
I don’t know what equals proof to you, but here I go:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_memorial_stadium
http://www.texassports.com/facilities/royal-memorial-stadium.html
| Largest Crowds at Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium | |||
| 1. | 98,383 | Missouri | 2008 |
| 2. | 98,053 | Florida Atlantic | 2008 |
| 3. | 97,833 | Arkansas | 2008 |
| 4. | 97,201 | Rice | 2008 |
| 5. | 89,422 | Ohio State | 2006 |
| 6. | 89,102 | Texas A&M | 2006 |
| 7. | 89,036 | Oklahoma State | 2006 |
| 8. | 88,972 | Iowa State | 2006 |
| 9. | 88,966 | Baylor | 2006 |
| 10. | 88,913 | Sam Houston State | 2006 |
I’m seriously considering my winning dance post. “I win… I win… I win, I win, I win…” in a taunting fashion.
I totally still love you, though.
October 16th, 2008
It’s Not Easy Being Pretty…
Imagine. You’re considered by many to be beautiful. Even by the standards of most of society you’re attractive. Perhaps a little oddly proportioned, but you never claimed to be perfect. You’re wearing a wonderful pink dress and hoping that guy you saw the other day will ask you out. He’s new in town and happens to be soldier. You’re daydreaming about him, a nice little house, two kids, Hayden James and Brittany Alexis, and then you hear a rumble.. like footsteps…. big ones…
Next thing you know you’re a chew toy.
Harbinger of Doom
In our house the kids have plenty of toys. They’ve learned the hard way that you need to keep them picked up. And it’s not the parents that are the enforcers, its our little fuzzball of happiness, PD. If you leave anything on the floor that is valuable or you even remotely care about, it’s gone. Well, not gone but in a new shape (or shapes).
Does he chew on the toys we’ve gotten him? Nope. You just bought some new shoes? Yum! How about that DVD player you just got? Well, I’m sure it doesn’t need a power cable. Let me just gnaw on that while your back is turned (no, it wasn’t plugged in).
Well, our kids do pretty well at picking up most of the time. But as anyone knows, the price of non-slobbery possessions is eternal vigilance. Katie left Barbie in range of the mobile garbage disposal and she ended up a little worse for wear.
It Hurts...
As you’ll note she lost her arm at first the elbow and then the shoulder, followed by her legs starting at the ankles and then knees. I’m sure that Mattel never prepared her for this. You think you’re headed for tea parties, dream houses and corvettes, next thing you know you’re “Stupid Blonde #4” in a horror movie.
Alert readers or “CSI” fans will note there is a missing right foot with a blue 4″ heel. The forensics team did a through search at the murder site and could not locate it. They fully expect it to turn up in 12-36 hours, probably in the backyard.
And of course it wasn’t me that found her. It was that nice soldier who was coming by to ask her out. Life is hard.
A Broken Man.
October 15th, 2008
I Like Turtles
If you know my husband then you know where this post is headed.
It was raining during our walk to school this morning, so the kids & I took umbrellas with us. Why are umbrellas the coolest thing to young children? They loved it!
Anyway… as we are walking it begins to rain harder. William ducks down low & says, “Look Mom! I’m a turtle.” As I often do nowadays, I immediately whipped out my phone to take a picture for a blog post and think of possible titles. The pic is kind of blurry as we were on the move, but you get the gist.
Now for the reason this is funny… The blog post title. One of Chris’s FAVORITE YouTube videos of all time. Seriously. He will laugh at this for an hour when he sees it. I love to watch him laugh. I hope you enjoy it too!
October 13th, 2008
Trip to Austin Childrens’ Museum
On Sunday, one of William’s classmates had a birthday party at Austin Childrens Museum. The parents were so nice to let me bring Katie too. The kiddos had A BALL!!!
Between learning about momentum & friction, playing kitchen, grocery, restaurant, train conductor, bus driver… learning how to milk a cow, use a pulley system to make a pig fly with a parachute… and birthday activities, we had so much fun.
William really impressed me when he was playing with gears. He used all of them and worked a long time to arrange them all together so that when he turned one they all moved!
Katie impressed me when I went to find her and she was in line at the top of a 3 story slide. She was both too short & too young according to the “you must be this tall” sign behind her. I went to explain to her she couldn’t go on it when the young man operating the slide said she had already gone down once. He then told me, “she convinced me it would be ok.” LOL. That’s our girl.
October 13th, 2008
The “Look at Me” Mobile
So we’re leaving Pluckers & this dude is walking out of Rooms To Go Kids with his child & a bed comforter. He walks over to this “car”. It’s actually a motorcycle he tells me after he lets me take a picture. Seriously. What’s the point? It’s just a thing that screams “Hey! Look at me!”
