January 5, 2012

Halloween


My 4 Ghouls
This is what they chose to wear to the ward Trunk or Treat and party.
 Normally I do not allow this type of make-up if we are going to be in the church building...
but I guess this year I let it slide, because I thought we would get there late enough that the inside stuff would be done and we could just Trunk-or-Treat and leave. I was wrong, because the LDS culture never starts anything on time, and we were in the church building for quite sometime, making me very uneasy. Oh well!

Katie the witch

Maggie the zombie Juliet


 Lilli the zombie


 Emily the zombie princess


Joe was "Virtue" and I was his opposite, "Vice"! HAHA!
Thanks be to my new sis-in-law, Fontanna, for the awesome dress, which I altered down from a 16 to a 6! 
I'm awesome!
How did Fontanna have a size 16 dress? She's like a 2! Weird...but thanks!

Now on to Halloween Night!


Lilli's pumpkins. 

Maggie's

Katie's

Emily's.
The kiddos all designed their own pumpkins. 
I just did the actual carving. 
I love how creative they are!
They HAD to wear different costumes for Halloween. I guess they like variety.

Emily as a "Pretty Princess"
Those eyelashes are soooo long...luckily right now they are also soooo blonde. 


Maggie as "Juliet"
This dress she is wearing is the same dress I wore when I was 16. It has been altered. I am so glad we kept it!

Katie as "Pretty Rapunzel"

Lilli as the "Nerd"
When she picked this costume, the line from the Charlie Brown Halloween Special kept playing in my head...
Where Lucy says you are supposed to pick out a costume that is opposite of your true character, and she is wearing a witches costume...
Yeah, Lilli...you are Lucy!




Katie's picture says it all...they scored!
They sorted and bagged, and it lasted past Thanksgiving!
The 1st day of December, I told them to eat it or I was throwing it away...
the wrappers were really starting to annoy.
Plus, I knew Christmas candy and it's wrappers were on the way... SHEESH!  
Next year, we won't stay out till Emily is crying that her legs hurt. We will come in way before that!



October 8th...My brother got married

Since this blog is for journaling purposes and I hope to get it printed and bound into a book someday...I feel, even though it happened 3 months ago that I need to submit this entry. 




Lincoln got married, to Fontanna...and I love them both so much!

2 Families became 1.

October 4, 2011

Best of Friends

Today, my sister and I decided to go looking for cool places to take pictures...
we pulled the little girls along for the ride.
Katie and Jules are Best-friends. They forget that they are cousins sometimes.




I love that they love each other so much!

September 30, 2011

Maggie Select Soccer Scrimmage





She is having so much fun. I love to watch my kids progress and enjoy that progression.

September 15, 2011

Some End of Summer Fun





We went to the Zoo on a Wednesday morning, right as it opened.

 All the animals were awake and walking around. It was fantastic!

Even caged our own animals!

Maggie was driving the Jeep so crazy...they were terrified!

Katie had to give her pal a squeeze.
 We stayed in the penguin house a long time, cause they were swimming and jumping, and the kids were trying to locate all the penguins and talked about them by there name... 
"There goes Nancy!" "Wow! Did you see Kevin jump?!" My kids are the greatest!

Not so Little anymore, Emi!

Putting on their best "pirate" face....ARRRR!
 Next stop on our Fun Day... Paddle Boats!

Maggie, Katie and Mommy

Lilli, Emily, and Daddy

A not-so-happy Katie
 The reason why Katie was sad...
Emily lost her flipflop in the pond. 
I climbed out onto the edge of the paddle boats to rescue it, and caused the whole boat to sway in the water. 
Katie was sure we were going to tip, or that I was going to fall in...neither happened.

Emily with her "wet" flipflop...but at least she still has 2!
 After Paddle Boats, we went to Pojo's

Carousel riders


Bumper Car riders


We had a wonderful day! Yeah for summer fun!

July 13, 2011

Our new Family Picture...they are a HOOT!


Pose 1   


Pose 2

Pose 3
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Now here are the rest of the fun pictures from our shoot...
Katie and Jules...running in the wind

Maggie looks so freaked out in this picture. Kissing is a scary thing.

Joe IS NOT looking at my boobs, I swear!

Our perfect stair step with all it's imperfections.

Emily....cracks me up!

So much wind...so much fun!

Priceless!

Hiding from the wind for a minute. This is one of my favs.

Also a FAV! I love how in love we look!

My gorgeous mid-schooler! I'm seriously freaked!
Thank you, Lindsay for helping us with our new family picture!