Round 1.5

Oh Christmas Tree

The older kids decorated cookies while Aaron and I put the tree together and strung lights
Didn't Sadie do a great job?

" I dont' remember there being this many pieces"

We put up our tree Sunday night. :0) Its beginning to look a lot like Christmas! :)

As long as we both shall live

11-27-99 11-27-07

Happy Anniversary sweety! :)

Thanksgiving Pictures

Meet and greet with Turkey and Cranberry
Sometimes you love new foods....
Othertimes, not so much...
And sometimes you just can't get enough
Devouring Black Friday Ads....

Matthew's Trick

Sadie

The costume that caused a lot of grief. It finally came and its awesome. :0)

Connor

Mr Tin-Man

Gracie

Miss Scarecrow. :0)

Matthew

Funny story about Matthew's costume. I found this at a garage sale last November. We had just found out that we were having a boy. Every one of the kids have been bought a stuffed animal by Aaron when they were born. I had stashed the costume away in a tote, and forgot about it.

The animal Aaron picked out for Matthew, was a lion. :0)

He's had his monthly picture taken with it since the begining.

Here's our little lion...

New Matthew Pictures

There are a few 7 month shots of Matty over on my photography blog:

www.mandyhowephotography.blogspot.com

Beautiful Bryana

Bryana and Sadie after the Miss Hallsville program tonight.

Bedroom

These are pictures of our new bed set that we got on clearance at Target. $37 marked down from $150! :0)
I love it. Its exactly what I was looking for. :)

Trip to Jefferson

We went out to Jefferson for my father in laws birthday yesterday. I of course took a ton of pictures. :0) They have a nice garden out there and the kids went out to help pick, and Sadie decided she wanted to try riding her bike without the training wheels....so we pulled them up and she gave it a go. She did pretty good for the first try...and has the bruised shins to proove it. Practice makes perfect. :)

Homecoming

This isn't the best picture clarity wise, but I love the way they are looking at each other. :)

My cousin was up for homecoming queen this past Friday. She didn't get it, but she was the prettiest one out there in my opinion. :) She has such a sweet spirit that matches her gorgeous-ness. :0) I can't believe she's a senior already.

6 months old

See I told ya I'd come up with some things to blog about. :P

Matty turned 6 months old yesterday! Can you believe it???? I sure can't Time is flying! I just love this picture. I don't know why. lol I don't quite know what he was doing with his mouth. I think I might have caught him directly pre-raspberry. I still think its cutie-pie. :)

My Little Reader

This is how I find Sadie most days. Curled up with a good book. :) A girl after my own heart. Says the mom who read two (yes two) books in 36 hours. *sigh* There's nothing like a good book. She's currently reading Junie B. The boss of Lunch.
I'm wanting to get her some of the Magic Treehouse (is that right LD?) books for Christmas. Right now she enjoys American Girl, Junie B, Amelia Bedila and we found her a Babysitters club little sister book at a garage sale that she enjoyed. Any other good book suggestions for her?
Are there any good Christian kids series out there? With all the toy recalls- call me a paranoid parent, but I am looking for any fun alternative to toys for Christmas gifts for the kiddos.
Leave me a comment with suggestions.