Special Delivery

The girls got an extra special delivery in the mail yesterday morning. They went to check the mail on the way out the door to bring Maddie to school and found postcards in the mail from Tinkerbell and Belle. They were ecstatic. They can't believe that their favorite characters know that they are coming back to visit and know that they just had a birthday!

I had to run back in before we left to get a picture. They are dancing in these pics.

I am working on finding out who was responsible for the magic behind these postcards, but until I do THANK YOU VERY MUCH! They were super excited! More excited than you can even imagine. Maycee was so excited in fact that she had to wear her Tinkerbelle costume to Target so that Tinkerbell would know she was happy about the postcard.

Tinkerbelle looking for bugs!

Halloween!

We had a great Halloween.

Maddie had a Fall Festival at school. They had a bounce house, petting zoo, scooter races, parachute, and sidewalk chalk. This is what I have been working on finding volunteers for. It's not as easy to find parents to volunteer as I expected, but I ended up with just enough people and the kids had a great time.

Maddie making a mask.

Maddie playing scarecrow ring toss.

Getting ready for ring toss.

Ashley let Maycee spend the night Thursday and stay all day Friday so that I could work at the festival. It was very appreciated. Maycee would have been miserable. It was pretty hot and busy. I was there from 7:30-2:45. I definitely wouldn't have made it all day with Maycee and she would have been a grump for Trick-or-Treating.
So......THANKS ASHLEY!


For Halloween night we went to my parents house. My Dad made Gumbo, YUMMY!
Maddie, Maycee and Addison went Trick-or-Treating around their neighborhood.

Witch Maddie and Fairy Maycee

Maycee and Maddie with their little ladybug cousin.

Addison opening more candy.

Maddie applying glow in the dark lipstick. In case you were wondering it doesn't work, neither did her glow in the dark nail polish.

Maycee waiting patiently to go Trick-or-Treating

Maddie and Addison heading out for candy.

Fairy Maycee casting spells.

Trick-or-Treating at Bill and Ann's house

This is what happened to the water when Maddie got her hair wet. We had sprayed it with black hairspray. I don't know what I was thinking. Maycee and Addison were dirtier after their bath than before.

Pumpkin Patch

On Sunday, we met up with Ashley, Adam and Addison on took the the kids to a pumpkin patch.

They had a great time. There was a train, bounce houses, hay mazes and lots of pumpkins. The kids each got to pick a pumpkin to take home and they had snow cones.

Maddie and Maycee

Guy enjoying his sausage on a stick and kettle corn.

Maycee on the giant pumpkin.

Maddie on the Giant Pumpkin All the girls heading out to look at all the pumpkins.
My Family
Maycee on the Train

Adam and Addison on the train

Maycee
Maddie
Maddie in the bounce house.
Addison
Maycee with the pumpkin she picked out. She refused to look at the camera because she was still checking out the bin to make sure that was the pumpkin she wanted. (She must have changed again after I took this picture because the one she came home with doesn't have a stem.)
Maddie with her pumpkin. That is definitely the one she came home with.

Just Playing Around With Photoshop

You can click these to enlarge. Enjoy!

Lucky Streak

In the last 2 weeks Guy and I both won something in different raffles. I won 4 football tickets and 2 Lobo T-shirts tonight at the HOA meeting and last week Guy won Free Registration for the next sport the girls play through our local youth sports association. And now that I think about it this luck isn't just us. My Dad won a Golf Cart at a tournament a few weeks ago. Compared to his win ours was nothing, but it sure is fun to win something, no matter how small. Wow!! I sure hope this luck sticks around.

Nothing exciting happened here today. Maycee and I picked up a couple of pumpkins that I am going to try to spray paint like some pictures in Good Housekeeping. We'll see. It seemed easy enough.

I don't have any pics today so here are a few from 1 year ago today. These were at the pumpkin patch on a very windy, hot day. Most of the pictures have hair blowing in their faces.

Growing Up!

Maddie looked so grown up before school this morning. I don't know if it was her new gap jeans or her new 'high heel' as she calls them grown up looking shoes, but it was like she matured over night. I decided to snap a few pictures on our way to school. It was finally cool enough for fall clothes....let's just hope this weather sticks around for a little while!




I was looking through old pictures and found these from one year ago today. We were at a Halloween party at the Wiggly Play Center.