Friday, November 28, 2008

Happy Thanksgiving!

The other night I kept my friend Jamie's little boy. This was an attempt of a pic with all 3 kids after their bath. The TV was way more interesting than the photographer!Some pics of the girls with their cousins on Thanksgiving....Kaitlyn & Kira...Aubrie & Julia...On Friday, I decorated our tree and had 2 of the best helpers! Even Snow White came to help!Here are some shots of our baby who turned 15 months on Friday! Please pray for her Monday morning as she is going to have tubes put in her ears. We know that everything will be better, but we are a still a little uneasy as it is our first time that any of the girls have needed surgery of any kind. We are so thankful that it is such a minor surgery! We could be having to put a shunt in her head....thanks again for all of your prayers about her head....when we had it measured the other day it had NOT grown a bit! YEA!

Hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving!

Saturday, November 15, 2008

Obsession With Sleeping Pictures??

The obsession started with the fact that Emma has had several bad nights in a row due to coughing! She was sleeping through the coughing for the most part, but momma wasn't! I kept getting up every few minutes to make sure she wasn't choking! So....finally I just put her in bed with me! She has NEVER slept in the bed with us and it is not a habit I want to start! Aubrie slept with us from about 8 mo. to about 15 mo. and I just never got good sound sleep then because I was always afraid she would roll out of the bed. Therefore, I didn't want to ever give Emma the opportunity....plus she has always slept well in her crib (unlike big sister). To make a long story longer.....this was her in our bed for the first time....Aubrie still comes and climbs in during the wee hours of the morning! So I had to take her pic too! Aubrie has started this random thing of waking up at 5:00 or 5:30 a.m. and wanting to watch a movie. Sometimes you can get her back to sleep and sometimes it is just easier to let her watch a few minutes of T.V. while you snooze back off for an hour or so. This is how I found her daddy and her one morning this week. See?....obsessed with sleeping pics!I did a little mini photo shoot of the girls in these matching shirts that Mimi brought them from Branson. Aubrie actually let me put her hair in pigtails too! She was in such a good mood and was making silly faces for me!

My sweet little girlies....growing and changing WAY too fast!Just one smile from Emma and it was back to watching Elmo's World (her latest fav!)She still would rather be read to than ANYTHING else! The first thing she does when she gets up in the a.m. is go over to her basket of books and bring one to you and says "Ead is" (Read this). How can you resist that? Poppy sure couldn't!



Friday, November 7, 2008

Exciting....

I don't know how many watched "America's Got Talent" 2 seasons ago, but if you did you will recognize this guy. He was the 2nd place winner - Cas Haley from right here in Paris, TX. I went to highschool with him and we were in choir together so it was neat to watch him and root for him! Well, he came to Justiss on Halloween to play for the kids and it was so neat! That week was Drug Awareness Week so he also talked about the dangers of drugs, etc.










Saturday, November 1, 2008

Fall Festivities......

WARNING: Ridulously long post, but I just couldn't narrow it down!


A week ago Saturday, Michael and I took the girls to the Pumpkin Festival that they have every year downtown. Here is Aubrie with her friend Chase (doesn't he make the cutest policeman EVER)?! I got this pic out of order.....sorry!


The night before, Kaitlyn, her friend Keragahn, Aubrie, Kaitlyn's mom Toni, and I went to the opening night of High School Musical 3. I don't know who was more excited.....the girls or the moms!!! Here are the girls getting ready with the glitter, "bling", and lip gloss! Pretty cute!






Here's Miss Priss ready to hit the theater!

These 2 have been friends since Little Ark preschool!
Okay, back to the Pumpkin Festival.....Aubrie was entertaining pedestrians with her dancing!

Aubrie with Clifford.....or atleast I THINK that's who that is.
Emma met a new friend McKennon.....his mommy and I were pregant at the same time.

Sweet sisters that won't look at mommy for a picture!
Aubrie was thrilled to get a ride on the miniature horses!


Love that sweet face!

More dancin' in the streets.....
Thursday was Aubrie's Kiddie Kollege festival and class party. I wanted her to have curls so I put her hair in sponge rollers the night before. Not a chance of getting a good pic of her in them though.



You'd think the paparazzi was after her...... A LITTLE better.....too bad the curls didn't take....but she woke up at 3 a.m. the next morning wanting the curlers out!!!!She fell asleep on the couch and before Micahel took her to her bed, we had to get these potty shots.A couple of random shots of Emma's first time in the sandbox.....

Here is Little Bo Peep (minus the curls)....
Roselyn and Miss Mimi (this is what the Kiddie Kollege kids call her).

The little lost sheep.....I know I can't hardly stand how cute that is either!!!Would've been a good one.....
I never dreamed that Michael's face would look this sweet on a little girl!Aubrie's class.....With her teacher....Ms. Becky...Lots of fun things to do at the festival....fishing.....Bobbing for apples....Tic-tac-toeCake walk....and the party!

I believe this is the ONLY pic I got of Little Bo Peep by herself smiling AND looking at the camera.

Aubrie's friend Brenna...and little Anna Claire....and Kate as Tinkerbell.....Here is Aubrie and Tinslee who have been together for 3 years now...since the baby class.Silly girlies!
And the two girls with Gibson who has also been with them for 3 yrs. Don't choke the poor boy, Aubrie.I think it really hurt him judging by the look here. Sorry buddy!
My best friend Cheryl came over and got Kaitlyn ready....she chose to be a Hollywood Star. I get this look from Kaitlyn ALL the time!The finished hair....
I've never seen anyone that could go from looking 8 to 18 in a matter of minutes!


Our church had their annual "Trunk or Treat" and Little Bo Peep was sad..."what's wrong baby girl""I can't find my sheep.""Oh, there she is..."Kaitlyn and Chandler the chefRidge the duck...Doing the obstacle course....in heels!Emma couldn't quite do the course yet, but she was thrilled to be getting into biggest sisters purse!The highlight of the night was watching the 2 older sisters pass out candy to the 1000 kids standing in line. They seemed more thrilled to be doing this than getting the candy themselves. We are so very proud of them!


Hope everyone had a very safe and happy Halloween!