Lots of Stuff...

We certainly had an awesome weekend! It was busy and full of F-U-N! We had Thanksgiving and Susanna's birthday and Christmas tree chopping and decorating. We took lots of pictures. BUT, right now I am sick. I have a sore throat and a complete lack of energy. I'm so thankful, though, that this sickness stayed away until all of my work was done this past week. Like I said, we took tons of fun pictures but I am too tired to post them right now. Plus, I'm on Matt's laptop and all of our pictures are on the regular desk computer. Just wanted to say that they are coming, though. Hope everyone had an awesome Thanksgiving!!

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MUD DAY
This is the second "mud day" of 2008 but the first one captured on camera.




This is the watermelon we brought home from the Rush Springs Watermelon Festival in 2008.





Madeline wanted to make a salad... watch her do it set to a little hip music.

A Busy Week of Halloween-ing!!

This has been a fun and busy week for myself and the kids! The first activity we had was our annual Playgroup Halloween Party!! The kids had fun playing with their friends and seeing each others costumes. It's amazing how large our playgroup has become. It's so neat to think that most of these kids have grown up together. Then Matt and I took the girls to Haunt the Zoo. We have been taking the girls there every year. Last year we SWORE we would never go back because it was just so crowded. We changed our minds this year and decided to try it one more time. I knew I had to work on Halloween and I wanted to do something fun with the girls in case my schedule was too crazy on Halloween. Anyway, the zoo was so much nicer this year. They expanded the trail to go next to the lake and up by the Aquariums. They had the carousel open. The girls had a lot of fun! My only complaint is that this year they didn't give the girls a coupon for a free Chick-fil-a kids meal like they have always done. The next activity was "Trunk or Treat" at church. The church had this for the community instead of AWANAs. Basically members of the church sit at their car and hand out candy. People had Halloween lights around their cars and decorations. It was a lot of fun and the girls got a TON of candy. Our finaly activity was traditional Trick-or-Treating on Halloween. I had planned to take the girls to a church carnival but ended up being on call for work on Halloween night (I didn't realize.) So, we couldn't go to the carnival. We took the girls to their grandmas for some treats and then we came home and I sat with the baby and handed out candy while Matt took the girls trick-or-treating around our neighborhood. Unfortunately we only had two groups of kids come to our house. I wanted to give out more candy! We live on the end of a cul-de-sac, though, and most of the people on our cul-de-sac keep their lights off. So we don't get many kids on our end. Anyway, we had a great week of Halloween fun!! Since we got so much candy, we'll be happy to share it with you!!

Here is our playgroup!!

Madeline was a fairy and Susanna was a butterfly. If anyone said, "What cute butterflies" the girls were sure to correct them and say that Madeline was a fairy and Susanna was a butterfly! Philip was my cute little fuzzy caterpillar!!

Here are some pictures from Haunt the Zoo...

Here are the girls at the church. The two little girls with Madeline and Susanna are our neighbors, Amaya and Alayja.

Halloween Night.