Happy New Year!

Wishing you all the best in 2011!

AND

The theme for the next Monday Mugs is:
Your Favorite Monday Mugs Photo(s) from 2010

WW - Trying to Photograph My 2 Year Old

We Wish You A Merry Christmas!

And A Happy New Year!!

Oh Christmas Tree

Just a different way to capture The Tree.

Instructions here.

We Thought She Was Being SO Well Behaved.

Sitting so nicely in the cart while we wandered around and shopped at Michael's.
That's what we thought!
Then a quick look to drop something in the cart and we found this:

She managed to get white acrylic paint on her hands and face, with the plastic seal on the bottle STILL intact!
At least she picked the white and not the purple, red, green, blue or yellow that were also in the cart!

Just a Few Things.........................

We've Been Up To, So Far This Month.

I've been trying to take pictures of  toddlers!

I've been hand-making teacher gifts!

 I found instructions here.

We attended a fun little parade that was JUST outside our subdivision. We left the house 10 minutes before it started, parked the car, and grabbed a perfect piece of curb just in time for the parade to start!

 The kids said it was better than Halloween because all they had to do was sit their and people brought candy to them. One group was even handing out stuffed animals!

I've been forcing the kids to watch Holiday movies. I used to LOVE watching all the Christmas movies but they just whine, "We've already seen this!"

Monday Mugs - Winter

Are you in need of a mindless Monday Blog post? Are you struggling to deal with the weekend being over and can't muster the strength to type a single word? Well, Monday Mugs is for YOU! I may or may not "borrow" ideas from IheartFaces and post my interpretation of their weekly theme. Without submitting my photo for judgement and without being forced to follow the rules.

Mondays are hard! Blogging on Mondays shouldn't be!

Today's theme for Monday Mugs is: Winter

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Winter in our neck of the woods:

Nice soft, green grass that DaddyO has to re-plant every October.

Some days we can even wear shorts and no shoes when we play outside. (close your eyes Dad!)

I advised against this, but sometimes Lily thinks it's ok to wear shorts, no shoes AND a tank top!

Lots of these!

A flashback to Winter 2006.

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Monday Mugs is going to take next week, December 27th, off.

I will post a theme for January 3, next Monday.

Merry Christmas Everyone!!!

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Monday Mugs - Pets

Are you in need of a mindless Monday Blog post? Are you struggling to deal with the weekend being over and can't muster the strength to type a single word? Well, Monday Mugs is for YOU! I may or may not "borrow" ideas from IheartFaces and post my interpretation of their weekly theme. Without submitting my photo for judgement and without being forced to follow the rules.

Mondays are hard! Blogging on Mondays shouldn't be!

Today's theme for Monday Mugs is: Pets

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I know I had a "Pets" theme not too long ago, so for this post I decided to share some photos of a pet from our past.

Meet Mrs. Tinklestein!

She showed up on our doorstep, crying, on a freezing cold morning. She was tiny! One of the neighbor kids took her home but after a few days brought the kitty over and said they weren't going to be able to keep her. Lily and I BEGGED DaddyO to let us keep her. He reluctantly agreed.

Tinkles was a very good kitty!
She let Lily carry her around like a baby doll.

She would play computer games with Lily.

She would sit on the edge of the tub while Lily took a bath. Don't cats hate water? Tinkles rarely escaped the bathroom dry!

Sadly, DaddyO started having allergy/asthma issues and we had to give Mrs. Tinklestein away. I REALLY wish we could have cats!!!

And a special bonus, just for you! I came across these darling pictures of the original Cutie. I couldn't resist!!

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Next week's theme will be: Winter

2010 Family Photos - Outtakes!

It is always such a special treat to try to get pictures taken of all of us. I have been trying for WEEKS to get it done. Last weekend I let everyone know that it was MANDATORY! Here are the pics that DID NOT make it on to the Christmas Card.

DaddyO cut off his head and Daisy thought it would be a good time to see if she could get her foot in to her mouth!

Lily looks thrilled and none of the Plaid Clad Kids were cooperating. The boys knew that we couldn't see their faces at that exact moment!

More naughtiness from THE BOYS and I was having a hard time holding on to Daisy and not falling off the wall. My foot barely made it to the ground!

Daisy is the only one I bought a special outfit for and there is only one photo with a complete shot of her dress. Of course, no one else in the shot looked right!

We were able to get 2 decent shots before it got too dark. I will share as soon as I get my Christmas Cards in the mail!

Which is Worse?

This?

 or This?

As far as I know, THIS ONE hasn't been inside the house. But I'm afraid there's something wrong with it because it just hung out on our back patio and let me take pictures of it through the sliding glass door. The kids were banging on the door and making all kinds of noise!

Monday Mugs - Self Portrait

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Mondays are hard! Blogging on Mondays shouldn't be!

Today's theme for Monday Mugs is: Self Portrait

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My Self Portrait includes some Daisy accessories.

Around the time she turned one, Daisy started holding on to my hair when I would hold her. It was very gentle and very sweet. Now when she needs some "soothing," she pops her thumb in her mouth and asks for some hair. I have really wanted some photographic evidence of this but I am the only one operating cameras around here. So, I asked DaddyO to take a picture and I staged a typical scene of Daisy and me sitting on the couch, snuggling and watching some TV.

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Ten Things to Smile About - November

It has been another very smiley month! See!


1. After eating every bite of his dinner, Ashton asked if he could still come over for dinner when he is a grown-up.

2. Daisy likes to sit on my lap, while sucking her thumb and holding on to my hair, and watch FoodNetwork shows with me.

3. Lily is taking a cooking class at school and she made us rice krispie treats all by herself.

4. Bailey has PERFECT grades this quarter, perfect attendance and he made his AR Reading Goal with very little help from me!

5. Fun, Family and Food for a Fabulous Thanksgiving!!

6. Yearly tradition of cleaning out the pantry. Taking EVERYTHING out, scrubbing the shelves and floor, getting rid of outdated food and putting everything back nicely organized. We actually have skipped this tradition since we started it about 4 years ago and DaddyO re-organized the shelves a few months ago so all we really had to do was get everything off the floor and mop. LOL

7. Christmas Music! Christmas Movies! (please note that these came after Thanksgiving) ;)

8. Decorating the tree!

9. I am almost done Christmas Shopping! Now I can just sit back and enjoy the season. Hahahahahaha!

10. I am giving away a 'Merry Christmas' banner! If you haven't been visiting Shana's Holiday Gift Guide, there is still time to enter a few of the giveaways, including mine. Run to Blaze'n'Chrochet!


What made you smile in November? Visit Emmy and let us know!

Monday Mugs - Black and White

Are you in need of a mindless Monday Blog post? Are you struggling to deal with the weekend being over and can't muster the strength to type a single word? Well, Monday Mugs is for YOU! I may or may not "borrow" ideas from IheartFaces and post my interpretation of their weekly theme. Without submitting my photo for judgement and withoutt being forced to follow the rules.

Mondays are hard! Blogging on Mondays shouldn't be!

Today's theme for Monday Mugs is: Black and White

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About 9 years ago we bought Lily a special
outfit to wear on Thanksgiving.
There is an infamous story about that day here.
Thanksgiving 2001
Lily - 20 months

All of Lily's pics had to be scanned
which led to not-so-decent quality.

Dang my foolishness for putting her up against such a
dark background! It makes it very difficult to
see just how much hair she had.


This year it was Daisy's turn to wear
the darling outfit for Turkey Day!
Thanksgiving 2010
Daisy - 28 months

Please excuse me! Daisy had too many 'success stories' while I was
collecting evidence of my girlies wearing the same outfit!





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