Nativity photoshoot

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Thanksgiving takes!

What do you get when the turkey crossed the road? This!

I love, love this photo of Arden!

My boys running in my parents back yard!

Mr. Smiley in a tree!

Fun editing, I love doing new stuff to photos, it's refreshing.

This is my beautiful sister!

More beautiful. Taken Thanksgiving day at my parents house!

Thank You

My kids are amazing. Thank you so much for being a part of my life and somehow, somewhere choosing me to be your Mom. I never new I could love so much. Thank you for the photo braclet even though I ordered it myself and you had no idea you were giving it to me, thank you. I have all your pictures in it and love staring at your gorgeous faces, I never thought I was beautiful until I had you.

Happy Birthday to Mom

Loved waking up to this!

Gunnysack Race

Gunnysackin' at preschool!

After the Trick-or-treat

After trick-or-treating we took a few pics together. The kids had a great time, they were wiped out by the end of it all.

Carving Pumkins

Lights on...


or lights off?


Gavin got into the gunk!

Alexis carved her own pumkin all by herself, she was very determined and proud!

Halloween

The China Doll


The Ghost


The Snowflake Fairy

The Cowboy...Gav looked so sharp, his costume just happened to fit him perfectly and he loved tapping around in those cowboy boots, it was a riot!

Dancing Queens

I think this video is so sweet and hilarious!

Fall Family Photos

I told Gavin that stick was a gun and he never quit shooting.

I love it when I get a good picture of them all just being kids. This was like the wild log train and they were all so into it.

So adorable. I love the way they posed, I had nothing to with it, I just took the picture. Sometimes a photo speaks louder than words.

Its that time of year again and I really wanted to get it done. The dreaded family photo shoot with all the work it takes to make them smile and sit just right for just one second. I tell myself every year if I get just one of us all looking at the camera and smiling nicely I will be so happy, and really that all I really want. I didn't post the photos of us all together. I just might have to save that one for our Christmas card if you know what I mean!

Asher

Asher looks though the growd of dressy women at my nieces wedding on Sunday.

Prayer

Dear Lord,

So far today I am doing pretty well. I haven't screamed at the kids or thrown anything in a burst of anger. I have not grumbled or gossiped or whined. I haven't been greedy or selfcentered. I have not yet charged anything to the credit card, and I haven't pigged out on the chocolate cake in the refigerator. However, in a few minutes I will be getting out of bed, and I am going to need your help to make it through the rest of the day.

Amen

I thought this prayer was really funny and I think most of us as mothers can relate to this. I found it in a book I am reading "the Power of a Possitive Mom." It is a good book to recharge and just get one back on the right path. I have been wanting to pray more. I admit I don't say my morning prayers and I know I need to, it would make each day so much better. I think that is why I thought this prayer was so funny. In every chapter the author has examples of real prayers, I think it is interesting to read them. She prays about things I never even think to pray about that are really important! So there is my little possitive plug for pray today!

Time spent in prayer is never wasted
-Francois Fenelon-

French Clip Board for our new petals

I got this idea from Amber Rhoton famous creator of Unessessary Nesessities.

I had so may fun flower clips I needed somewhere to hang them all, so here is the new french board now hanging in A and A's room!

Finished Petals

This is what my girls woke up to; all the finished flower clips I made last night. It was like Christmas to them.

Here they are at breakfast with their favorites in their hair ready to show them off at school.

Petal Party

I have never done a Petal Party before and have never been to one. I have talked about it with a friend and she told me call it a Petal Party where we get together and make clips with flowers on them and ribbon for little girls hair. The party was a huge success and everyone had a lot of fun. Everyone brought supplies to make twenty flower clips and made a station with all their supplies. Everyone moved from station to station and make a flower clip at each station and all went home with twenty clips. They are turned out so cute.

Back to School A and A

I took this photo before we headed out the door for their first day of school.

Here is the little funny story I must blog:

We all went shopping the day before school was to start. Alexis picked out this really cute white and hot pink striped terry cloth dresss at Old Navy. Then we went over to Marshals and by accident found some new swim towells for the kids. So we get home and all the kids get the full nine yard of washing hair and bathing etc. So they all want to use their new swim towells and they do. Then Miss Alexis is so excited about her new hot pink and white terry cloth dress that she decides she is going to sleep in it and she does. Well, she woke up at 3am all rashed out from the bugs sprays that they put on new clothes. It was so sad, she was miserable and had to pick a new outfit they next morning, her first day of school.

More soccor

Arden really got in there this year. She loved playing and played hard. The deal was that if any of the kids made a goal they could have a soda. Needless to say, Arden drank her fair share of soda!


Gavin on the sidelines. At the first of the season I would leave him with a babysitter while we went to soccer and them Gav got better and easier. Here he is at Arden's last game, chilling with a yogart and straw!

Well, Alexis didn't play hard at all her last game, because Spencer had scored three goals right before and told her that she could have his soda. Here she is just sweating it out! Soccer was like a chore although she seemed generally excited about attending a game. Dave also coached Alexis's team (I think my husband has a death with) and although Dave was a good coach to all those sweet girls, I think he got a run for his money most of the time!

Soccer is his sport.

I really thought baseball would be his sport, but Spencer perfers soccer over baseball anyday. I think there is just more running around in general and that is exciting to him.


Spencer scored three goals last saturday!


Dave was an amazing coach to Spencer's team, he gave it his all and made each one of those boys feel like a million bucks.