Random Photos

This was Ella's hair one morning when she woke up. There were three spikes of hair sticking out. You can't quite see the third. It was so cute!
Here she is later that day - we still had the main hair spike going. She has no hair on the front of her head. I decided that I could do a comb-forward (not comb-over) and it would look like she had more hair. She really looks like a baldy with the bow on the top!

We got Madelyn some PINK cowboy boots. She LOVES them. Here she is riding her horse Pinto. Now she just needs a real cowboy hat and she'll be set!

The future Texas Rodeo Queen with her admiring brother and sister looking on!

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas!

The stockings were hung by the chimney with care.......(Jacob said he was folding his arms like at Church)

Ella was napping, but here she is all dressed up for church. Isn't she CUTE?!!

In hopes that Saint Nicholas soon would be there......

We got the kids their own tree this year. As kids, we always had our own tree in the basement that we could do whatever we wanted to with. Thought I needed to pass along that tradition to our kids. They LOVED decorating it.

Happy BARFgiving

It was a rough Thanksgiving this year. Madelyn, Ella and I all had the flu - the real yucky kind. Barry stayed home and did big time dad duty! It took Madelyn almost a week to get over it all. Ella and I were better a little faster. Glad that is done for the year.

We did finally have our turkey dinner on the weekend and it was GOOD! Not sure if it was really good - or if we were just so happy to be well that it tasted extra yummy. My turkey rivaled Martha Stewarts, could have been on the cover of a magazine I tell ya!

Barry carving the beautiful beast!
I carefully followed the directions on the cranberry sauce can and 'slucked' the cranberries out - whole and complete. I set that little puppy on a plate on the table (I was quite proud it came out so complete) When it was time to eat, Jacob came to the table and gasped and said, "Are we having roast can for supper?" I thought Barry and I were going to die laughing! It was great. Came to find out - Jacob LOVES cranberry sauce. We had to encourage him to eat other things besides the cranberries!