Sisters Horsing Around

I was folding clothes in one room and heard uncontrollable giggles in the living room. So I had to go check it out and this is what I found...

What especially made me laugh is that they were taking turns as to who got to climb on who. Ava looks squished in this picture, but really, she was laughing so hard she couldn't take time to smile for the picture!

Birthday Video for Grandma

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Happy Birthday Grandma!!

Happy 84th Birthday an amazing, Godly woman who we are so very, very blessed to call ours! We love you so much Grandma!!

If only these pictures could tell the whole story of attempting to get a decent picture of two little girls who would rather be playing than sitting still smiling!!

A Birthday Message

Just for Pappy!

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**It is 10:15 at night, so pls excuse any misspellings, etc in the video, between a sleep deprived mother and a sleep deprived uncle - feel the love between the grammar mistakes! Maybe tomorrow I can get around to doing a transcript of the video just in case you can't understand her!

Happy Birthday Pappy!

Hey - we tried...

Three Amigos

Aunt Chelle and Logan have officially been in Tyler/Whitehouse about two months. We know it hasn't been very easy with Uncle Andy still having to stay in Waco until the house sales or he can find a job here. But we have been thoroughly enjoying having Aunt Chelle and Logan close by! The girls are LOVING that Logan can come over and play. We even get to take him to school twice a week! It has been lots of fun watching the kids play together and love on each other. What a blessing they are to our family!


What is funny about this crew is that Ava thinks she is just as big as her sister and cousin are. It is amazing what this little girl thinks she can do, and does accomplish! Gives her momma and Aunt Chelle heart attacks more often than not!

We can't wait for Uncle Andy to make it over this way so that we get to see him more often too!

Carli or Ava

Ava is starting grow into some of my favorite outfits that Carli wore. I think I remember these outfits a lot more than the small ones b/c I was nine months pregnant with Ava when Carli was wearing these. For some reason, I remember Carli better at 18 and 19 months than I did between 15 months and then. Can you guess who is who? You'll figure it out by the last picture.

Trunk-R-Treat

Last Sunday we went to Trunk R Treat at the church building. The girls had a lot of fun seeing all their friends and collecting candy.

Ava, Kenzie and Carli

Perhaps the best costume of the night!
Baby Hayden

Carli wasn't so sure about the whole collecting candy business. She is still pretty shy around big groups and folks she doesn't know.

Ava on the other hand had no fear! She ditched her bag, and walked around holding her hand out for candy. If she didn't like the way it felt in her hand, she'd give it back and dig in the bucket herself!

After we made our rounds outside, we went inside to check out the little festival our friend Leigh Ann had organized for the special needs kiddos. Since most of them had headed home, we got to check out all the cool things they had set up!

Almost got all three of them!

Painting our white pumpkin orange with our good buddy Riley.

Kenzie worked very hard on her pumpkin and didn't get a lick of paint on that white shirt - I was impressed!

Carli really enjoyed the fishing game.

The balloon room was the biggest hit of the night. We literally had to drag them out of it to head home!

Trunk R Treat 2011 was great fun! Thanks for all who made it happen and thanks especially to the Cooks, Manleys, Mays and Onkens for the little carnival - the girls thoroughly enjoyed it!

ETCA Fall Festival

Last Saturday, Cousin Logan invited the girls to go to the ETC Fall Festival with him. They all had a blast! It was so funny because this was the first time that Ava put on her costume and had to leave it on. The poor girl, she was not a happy princess. I think she would have been more comfortable being a pumpkin or something like that! She eventually got used to wearing all the gid up and had a good time though!

Aunt Chelle bought the kids some tickets to play games with. Carli's favorite prize was her princess ring!

I think Carli's favorite activity decorating her STRAWBERRY cupcake, with STRAWBERRY icing and then covering it with sprinkles. She was a good big sister and let Ava have one bite of it!

Carli refused to play basketball with Logan, it's not something princesses do after all! But Ava was another story. Where Logan and the ball went, so did Ava! She giggled the whole time!

Ava melts her Uncle Andy's heart every time she sees him! She let Uncle Andy carry her around on the basketball court b/c he could get her closer to the action a lot quicker!

CAKE WALK!

Enjoying Aunt Chelle's chocolate chip cookies. They all get their sweet tooths honestly.

Princess Ava hiding from Momma

A semi successful picture of the princesses with Cousin Buzz Light Year

Thanks Logan for letting us come to the Fall Festival with you! We had a lot of fun!

Naggy's Halloween Package

Naggy sent the girls a Halloween Package a couple of Saturday's ago. Carli was very excited to have gotten a package in the mail. She carried it all the way to the house, all by herself, even though it was very, very heavy!

Naggy sent lots of Halloween goodies - Ava loves the Pumpkin Straws, AKA the Ball Straws.

This is as good as a October "pumpkin" picture as we got this year!

Since Naggy sent cookie sprinkles, we had to make cookies!! Ava took her job of shaking the sprinkles very seriously.

Carli showing off our handy work!

Thank you Naggy for all the goodies. The jumping spiders are a big hit as well as the Dora coloring book. Ava's favorite is still the straws! :)