Halloween 2010

We decided to jump back on our “blog” and post some adorable Halloween photos of our kiddos.

First, we have Gracie, wearing a handmade Nana Couture Mermaid costume, which was absolutely stunning. The photos do not do the dress justice…

Second, we have Lillian, wearing a handmade Nana Couture Cinderella costume, which was equally stunning as well.

And Last (but not least), we have Charlie Brown by Casey. Soooooo cute!

Trickin’ and Treatin’

This is the face of Grace…aka the Gracie Puss

Our Loot!!!

Tired Out

We have so many more photos. Feel free to check them out at:

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=3170718&id=8357443&l=8ea6af4c72

We hope you all had an awesome Halloween! Thanks again to my sweet Mom and Sister for making those beautiful gowns for my girls. You helped me out of my “watermelon”!

Pooh Hat

Lilly came up to me wearing this today…

So I took a few photos. Like this gorgeous one…

 

This one cracked me up… Notice Ivan in the background, getting into something. Ahhhh, boys…

First Snow

Its snowing in Hell, err, I mean Houston. The girls got to play for the first time in falling snow. It didn’t last long. They were soaked in about 5 minutes because its not yet freezing outside. I wanted to send them out in it though, for their first time, because it may be a super long time before they get the chance. I didn’t bother getting Ivan out in it. He was griping at the door because it was so cold outside.

It’s Time To Tidy Up

Boys Will Be Boys

Sunday Funday

Our Dear Friends, Todd and Loy Wilson visited us last weekend. We had a blast just sitting around the fire and talking. Their kiddos are so cute and love our babies.

Mo was swinging Gracie, Ivan and Peyton was supervising

Mo held Ivan all day…

Flirt!!!!!!!!!!

We did a little shooting…

The baby did more flirting…

And Gracie did some swanging!!!!!

Ivan’s First Haircut

About a month ago, we cut Ivan’s hair for the first time. It was so surreal to be cutting my baby’s hair with a grownup razor!

 

 

The girls were supervising me…

Done!!!

Princess For A Day

Dress Up Hour at our house. So cute, I just wanted to share…

The Porch Of Our Dreams

“All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.” – Walt Disney

Casey and I have been dreaming of a porch off of the back of our house. With the help of a $500 gift card from my Mom and Dad, and new tools that they have painstakingly picked out for us, and a little time and courage, we finally built it. We absolutely love it. It has changed our lives. You really take for granted being able to walk out your back door, much less sit outside and look at your back yard from the shelter of a little tin and wood. This is it:

You see the little wooden platform to the left? Yeah, that was our old porch. Quite a difference!

There’s the bar and the two lawn chairs which have gotten tons of use already.

Complete with a Grannie and Granjack-style screen door with wire locker. I LOVE IT! It sounds like childhood!

It was not without blood, sweat, and tears. Tears over arguing about joist spacing and how to hang the hinges for the door (Hey, those were the only two arguments. Pretty good considering how big of a project it was!). The sweat came from this last weekend working on it (The first two weekends were in the 40s in Houston). And the blood…

The bruise was from me falling off of the porch and trying to hang on to the 4x6. Luckily, Casey caught me and this “road rash” was all I got. The gash (which looked a LOT worse when it happened) was from me laying on the corrugated tin top and slicing my arm open on a piece of tin. That crap is SHARP!!!

All in all, we are so proud of it. Ahhhh, I love home improvements!

My Beautiful Family

i thank you God for most this amazing

i thank You God for most this amazing
day:for the leaping greenly spirits of trees
and a blue true dream of sky;and for everything
which is natural which is infinite which is yes
(i who have died am alive again today,
and this is the sun's birthday;this is the birth
day of life and love and wings:and of the gay
great happening illimitably earth)
how should tasting touching hearing seeing
breathing any-lifted from the no
of all nothing-human merely being
doubt unimaginable You?
(now the ears of my ears awake and
now the eyes of my eyes are opened)

ee cummings

If there is anything I want for Christmas, its to keep my three  children, Gracie Annabelle, Lillian Elise, and Ivan Dean, under my care and in my arms, healthy, and to be able to make them happy. To continue to love their father, Casey, even more than ever and to hold him each night for many years to come. These are the true gifts that God gives us. I want for nothing else.

“On the 1st Day of Christmas, My True Love Gave to me…”

“…The Keys to a Mustang GT…”

Daddy’s new car! And the girls LOVE it. Gracie threw a fit when I said I was going to go buy groceries with it and wasn’t going to take her. So, I took her.

What?!?!??!

I couldn’t just leave her on the porch crying!!!!

Going for a joyride with Daddy…

Here’s a video of Gracie and Lilly when we first walked them out to the car….