Friday, November 23, 2007

Our Thanksgiving at home

We had a great day at home yesterday. This is the first time both of our lives that we just stayed home with our own family. It was so peaceful. We did miss our family. I called my sister and she was preparing food for her and her husband. We discussed what we were both cooking, and we both wanted some of the things the other was cooking. So, I wished that we could be getting together to share food! Anyway, I had fun cooking for my family yesterday...I have never done much cooking for Thanksgiving. I normally don't like to cook, but I had pride yesterday in cooking for my family that I am so Thankful for. It was also cool, I cooked favorites from both of our families. We had Maccaroni squares his mom makes, Broccoli Casserole my grandmother makes, a potato casserole his cousin makes, and blackeyed peas, cornbread, and meat. I was just glad it all turned out well, and no disasters in the kitchen that happen so frequently for me!
I started the day off with a big breakfast of homemade waffles, bacon, eggs, and toast.

Here is our Hen Clay cooked. It looked much better than it tasted!
Here is our food spread. It may not look so hot in the pic, but it was Yummy!
My crazy family trying to pose before we ate our meal.
Making covered pretzels with Daddy.
We took a quick trip downtown to go look at the Christopher Columbus boat The Nina. The kids were asking me to take their pic....they are little posers these days!

I was a bit disappointed that the boat was parked down there in all the riverboat congestion. You couldn't even tell much about it. It is the black boat. You can see though, it looks pretty small in comparison to all the other stuff down there. We didn't end up touring it b/c we got there about time for it to close.



Thursday, November 22, 2007

Happy Thanksgiving!!

We actually stayed home today, and the day is going great. We are just celebrating with the 5 of us. We have been playing games, watching t.v., and I have been COOKING!!!! I cooked breakfast about 11:00, and am working on our lunch/dinner, and I am excited! I am taking pictures along the way to show you later.

Wednesday, November 21, 2007

She's literally climbing the walls!

I know I should probaby make her stop before she gets hurt, but it is just so funny to me! She has tried to teach her bro and sis, but the can't do it. At least she went and got her big dog to break her fall! You should have seen her the day we were trying on shoes at Walmart and she was doing that to a poll in the middle of the aisle!

Thankful for Frosties!

Our cousin gave us some coupons for free frosties for Halloween. Yum Yum! I know she reads this blog, so I wanted to use this to say THANK YOU, Mrs. Becky C.....we are really enjoying them!!!!


Tuesday, November 20, 2007

All dressed up....

with nowhere to go.....luckily! I just love her fashion sense!



Monday, November 19, 2007

Me

These are pictures of me when I was the age my 3 kids are now.
4 yrs (1 day preschool)
5 yrs Kindergarten
6yrs 1st grade

Sunday, November 18, 2007

1,2,and 3 flashback

These pics are a prime example of thinking pics are bad at the time, and then loving them later b/c of all the personality they show. This was our very first practice with a backdrop right before we opened our studio in Monticello. Clay set this up in our living room....the kids were sick, nobody had on clothes, or hair brushed...I didn't have on makeup. At the time....all I saw was how they weren't perfect to my standards. Now.....these are my favorite pictures ever. My babies were 1, 2, and 3 at the time. I think we actually did these in 2 session b/c Rachel's hair is really curly in some and her feet are wrinkled b/c she just got out of the bath. These are just a few of my favorites.