My little nature nerd...

Found a couple of little snakes in our backyard today, and although she was squeamish at first, once she saw me holding them she wanted to! Then she wouldn't put them down (They are actually in a bucket with some sand and rocks right now - she wants to show them to the grandparents who will be here this evening, then she promises we will let them go!)... We have had several of these in the yard before (and actually bigger!) but when we expanded our patio I think we covered up some of their homes... She found some pieces of snake skin too, which I think are from a bigger one.

Happy Halloween everyone! :)

Hello again... from Kenna's camera!

Well the last month since Kenna's birthday has pretty much been survival mode for me while Joel has been recovering from his pulled-hamstring surgery! Work, clean, take care of the girls, repeat... repeat... repeat... And I certainly haven't been taking many pictures (well, quite a few with my phone but I haven't figured out how to post those directly, and frankly, my cell phone pictures are horrible anyway). I hope that changes through this week as we try to have some Halloween fun!

But I can tell you who HAS been taking pictures ~ McKenna and Adelyn! I thought I had downloaded her pics a few times in the last year, but when she started complaining the other day that her "disk was full", Joel was very sweet to get it hooked up to the new laptop and download the pics for her... all 385 or something! And then he took them off the camera so I'm sure there will be 100 more by tomorrow... So I thought I would jump back into the blogging with some great pics from Kenna'as camera. And I have to say I think her perspective sometimes is quite fascinating... future photographer in the making? ;)

Abbey's Playtown with Meredith and Peyton

Well I think I started this post sometime back in September, although today (October 26th), I am going through my settings and notice this 'draft' in my posts! Met my sister at a really cute place called Abbey's Playtown down in Grand Prairie so the cousins could hang out for awhile! Should've gotten a pic of the girls on the HUGE swing they had hanging from the ceiling - that was probably the hit of the day, next to the "Extreme Roller Coaster" ride that went down the hall (much bigger than the plastic ones I've seen before!) If I can find the video clip from that (I'm sure it's sideways as most of my videos are) I'll post it :) Got it... hope it works below!

Kenna's 5th birthday!

This has been quite a week/weekend for Kenna! I am hoping 5 brings great things for her, and she really seemed to enjoy all her birthday moments this week. At school they sang to her (several times!) and she got to have her favorite cookies for snack, then Wednesday night we took her to Chuck E. Cheese for dinner! The girls had a blast running around (I'm sure Adelyn thinks it was her birthday too for all the fun they had). I am loving that they are finally old enough to do some games together and pretty much carry their own coin cups! :)

Then GrAnne and Grandad (my parents) came up on Friday to help us bake cookies (and a cookie pizza) for her party Saturday. Kenna may wind up being quite the baker, unlike me, and she loves to bake with GrAnne! My sister and her family came over for dinner, so it was pretty much birthday celebration for 3 days this week for my big 5 year old!

First Haircut!

At this point I'm going to have to work our way backwards through the summer posting some of the fun things we have done... but today was a BIG day, so I just had to get it posted! I have been putting off cutting Adelyn's wispy thin locks since she actually lets me put it up, and the bangs on McKenna drive me crazy, so just letting it grow out has been great... but I finally broke down and scheduled appointments for them to go at the same time since I thought that might make it better for Adelyn! And I had planned to break out the camera as we walked in the door and document the whole thing, but it's never as it's planned, right? Before I knew it she was drying Adelyn's hair and I freaked out and ran for the camera! Kenna's an old pro so she didn't really want her picture taken, but begging Adelyn to say cheese was the only real good way to keep her from fussing and wanting out of the chair - she sat through the cut pretty good, but didn't want to sit through any styling! A few spritzes of sparkles and some curls and viola! And yes, I kept the poor little 'mullet' that got cut off... big improvement!

Get me down!!!!
Well you didn't tell me I would get a lollipop when we were done!

Do I have to say cheese AGAIN?