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turn at the big red barn at the top of the hill, you cant miss it.....

i will happily admit that i was wrong in questioning brians decision to pain the barn red. here it is, it looks fabulous!

 

things have been crazy lately. the kids are wild as ever. lela is a little sick today with a low grade fever but is really excited for thanksgiving, mostly shes excited to set the table. i wasnt going to do anything special but now i think we will go tablecloth hunting.

charlie, as you will see in the following pictures, never stops. he is always busy, always. he has taken to dressing himself and really likes to wear his spiderman and batman jammie shirts with jeans, topped with whatever hat he can find.

piper is going through a little terrible 2s but she is slowly getting the picture that i dont give in when she cries. we have been having mommy boot camp this week. still, she is so cute even when shes screaming. lately her favorite word is no. lela and charlie find this hilarious.

they say 'are you cute' piper says 'no'

them, 'are you funny' piper,'no'

them, 'do you like mommy' piper, 'no'

this goes on and on.....and they laugh and laugh.

 

     

           

last week my dad came and visited us, i cant believe we only got this picture): all the kids enjoyed his visit. it didnt take long for piper is make a new buddy, lela and charlie were really sad to see him go. they keep asking to visit papa j's house.

 

more fun house stuff!!

   

isnt this pretty!!!

     

our puzzle

lela and i love to do puzzles together, together being the operative word here. i picked up this puzzle at kmart last week. i picked this one mostly because of the cats, these are the same cats who must have had me so transfixed that i didnt notice that this is a 300 piece puzzle recommended for 10 year olds. when i dumped out the box we all collectively let out a big sigh, lela looked at me and said 'this might take a few days mom' ..............she was right. only it was me who spent most of the time on it, lela would get bored real fast, it doesnt matter because she still took most of the credit. now shes making us keep it on the table to show papa j this weekend.

leftovers from october

here are some extra october pictures. by the way the costume lela is wearing during the popiscle pictures is her halloween costume minus the wings and makeup....

also here i am fat and pregnant.............

 

 

     

afternoon with cole and christian

after school today linda and i took the kids to the park. we checked out private forts and burned some energy. the little explorers were so cute! they are a good team....

           

look at this pretty pretty girl.

trusses!!!

yay!!! they look SO GOOD!!!

 

   

     

spooooky halloween pictures....

let me start by saying how embarrassed i am that i did not get a piture of lela in her costume. i am a horrible mom. whoops. she was barbie mariposa, use your imagination.

                         

also, i should mention charlie spent half of halloween as a teenage mutant ninja turtle, i didnt get a picture of that either.

at the last minute we changed our tradition and followed lelas girlfriends out to the estates and had a good time, the kids really liked it bbbbbutttt, we did bring them through a haunted house which was a BAD BAD BAD idea. it really didnt look that bad but apparently it was really scary to the kids. lela cried, charlie had a night terror and piper has pointed the house out twice to me as 'scary mommy.'once again, im a bad mom!

this is what i picture piper looking like as she goes to college

 

although she probably wont be driving a minivan. at least i hope not.

pumpkin patch with the boys!

we took a trip to mountain valley to gather some pumpkins with leslie,christian and cole, it was hot and we got over the whole idea pretty quickly. we ended up getting them all slushies from 7-11 instead. see how miserable lela looks. obviously the wagon was a little hot on charlies bottom.  

i love charlie in this picture...

framing!!!!!!

we had about 100 things to do on saturday, we were so super busy but decided to go ahead and stop by shangrila since we thought people might be there working, boy am i glad we did, when we pulled up and saw this i cried, brian cried, lela cheered and charlie yelled "look! my new room!!"