Pretty girl

Brrr

It is FRIGID cold outside today...eek...I think Winter is here!

Thankful

This year has been full of so many up and downs....happy times, sad times.....times I thought I wouldn't make it through. I am so thankful for all that I have....for my family, my friends, our health, our home.....for all those that make me smile, and bring light and love into my life, and into the lives of my babies.

 A QUICK picture from today.....I literally had about 5 seconds as they were FREEZING and they have coughs, so I didn't want to have them out in the cold without coats. Bella....what can I say...haha....

Happy Thanksgiving!!

Windy

What a windy day we had today!  So warm....so rainy............and so, so windy!! 

Feast

Bella had her Thanksgiving feast today at school, so Ty and I went to visit!

Alvin

Alvin the elf is BACK! Hopefully it gives the kids some incentive to be good since he reports back to Santa every night!!

Sam and Audrey

I took pictures of Sam and Audrey today!! 

 Here are some that I've gone through...

Aren't they the cutest??

Dino

Lexi made Ty a dinosaur in school this past week.  Ty is in a HUGE dino phase right now....and he loves his new dinosaur so much....he's even been sleeping with it....

....I love my Lexi girl.

Mall

We went to the mall tonight to see Santa! (My bubs need some serious incentive to BE GOOD...lol)!

Olivia told Santa she wanted make up...

Tyler told him he wanted buzz lightyear (which he has a gazillion buzz lightyears already)...

Bella told him she wanted art stuff...

And I took maybe 4 pictures....as they don't encourage use of yole pur own camera, lol...and Bella was not looking at me in ONE single picture. Not one. She is a people watcher...and tends to stare, and there ware FAR TOO MANY people walking around...

...oh, and Lexi wouldn't sit on Santa's lap this year. Apparently 13 is far too old to do that. I assured her she is now on the naughty list.

Lex

Lexi needed a couple of pictures of herself for her art class, so we took a couple today!

Book

We were so sad to hear about the passing of Barbara Park. Her Junie B books are what drew Lexi into reading waaaaaaaay back when she first started with chapter books. Now Lexi has passed the books down to Olivia....

She was such a wonderful author, who seemed to know the right words to draw in kids. Her writing will be missed!

Brr

Its been so mild lately......well, its back to being hat weather today! Brrrrr....

Bella

My Bella boo....her little body has been fighting something since last week. She's fine all day, aside from a schnoogery cold....and at night she gets a fever. Last week it got fairly high, and I took her to the pedi, who deemed it just a virus. At night its a little over 100 degrees. This afternoon she cocooned herself on the sofa in her blanket....

...and was sound asleep.

I took pictures at Tayva and Iylee's house today!! Some pictures of them, some pictures of their cousins, and some pictures of their friends!

And Miss Tayva and Iylee's cousins, Tyler, Brandin, and Taylee...

Miss Liza....

Miss Saoirse and her cousin Lucas...

And the crazy Dube's...

I have so many pictures to go through......its so therapeutic for me, I love it!

How does one not smile with this sweet face?! Ty and I had a leave fight today...lots of giggles and laughs...

He melts my heart...