If you don't receive a Christmas card this year don't think that I left you off of my list. The problem would be below. These are just a few of the "almost" pictures. You would be amazed at how many we took and how each of them didn't work. The kids have all been a little sick so trying to get us all together is becoming very difficult but I haven't thrown in the towel yet! Enjoy the outtakes!

The Tuesday before Thanksgiving Parker and Bennett had their first preschool program. Unfortunately, Bennett was sick and was able to participate but we got to see Parker a.k.a Princess Moon Beam. I later got Bennett's hat and he was "Big Chief". If you know Parker you would think that she would love this sort of thing but she doesn't. I think that if she was the only one on the stage it might be better but who knows. She warmed up later in the program and picked a few songs to actively participate in and she was great! Below is a picture of her walking in.

I guess she was tired of standing?? Her best little buddy is also sitting at the bottom right hand of the picture.

She must of liked this song because she was up again.
Yeah! She is still participating but right before this song she was playing with the feathers on the hats in front of her.

Here she is at the big finale holding the sign showing everyone where to go for the bake sale.

Also, I need to thank my wonderful and talented husband for baking the cookies for the bake sale.

We love building fires and a few weeks ago Clif decided we should roast hot dogs and have s'mores. The kids loved roasting the hot dogs and marshmellows!

Bennett helping his dad out with the yard work. I think that he loves anything with a motor!

She loves to have all the attention!

I'm not very good at giving Lulu her tummy time but I do a few minutes here and there. I try to play with her when she is on her tummy and Clif was able to get some video. She is definitely my best cooer!!

Last Sunday the weather was so beautiful we packed up and heade out to our Cat Track Farm. Our friends Holt and Kelly live at the base of the hills that lead out of the flat delta land and have horses and cows that the children love to go see. Kelly also has a kennel and boards most of Greenwood's posh pups when their owners leave town. When we got there we all went for a ride on the polaris to go see the cows and horses.

If you look closely, the horse is smiling and Parker and Bennett loved it!
Bennett riding Sister. Yes he is bareback but Sister is an old, sweet mare. This was Bennett's first time on Sister but he acted like he had been riding her all along.

Parker has riden Sister before and was excited to see her again.

And I decided it wasn't such a good idea for me to get atop a horse!

Bennett's first dentist visit! Clif said he did great!

She has always done so good and just lays still. That almost never
happens at home!

Parker at the dentist this morning

Lulu is 2 months old! I have no idea how much she weighs or how tall she is but here is a picture to document her 2 motnhs. I will know her stats this week but we were all ill last week including Lulu so she had to miss her doctor's appointment. When I say we were all ill I mean on Wednesday Clif, me, Parker and Bennett were all sick with fever and stayed home. Lulu went to the babysitter's house so that they could stay away from us. Thankfully, we are all better this week and the kids were able to head back to preschool!

Thank you Aunt Sarah! Awhile back Parker wasn't wanting to go to sleep. She hates to close her eyes so I went to our Claire's Boutique and got her some children's eye masks. They didn't work and she ended up losing them at the neighbor's house. But a few weeks ago she said that she needed her eye mask so I went to our Claire's and it had closed. So, I called our newest city dwelling family members to see if they could see if they could find one for Parker and Aunt Sarah did! This was a picture from last week at nap time. She has worn it each night when she lays down. We are going to try and take the other one to school and see if it helps her there. And yes, she does have on her bee costume...it is what we put on most days these days.

More cute pitcures of Lulu! I'm trying to get her to smile but I'm not having any luck.
My brown-eyed girl!

Hanging out with the neighbors...but they have since sold their house and moved. We will miss y'all!

Ok. So here are the Halloween week pictures. On Tuesday, we went to the Country Club party(minus Parker...she wasn't acting quite right). Beth, Brian and Ruby joined us and they had a great time.

We had two bees and one flower for Halloween.

Ruby was a fairy on Tuesday and cute little Lamb on Saturday.

Beth and I enjoying the Country Club festivities
My little bee man

too cute!

On Friday, Parker's preschool went trick or treating at the shops downtown. They had a ball and just beat the rain and bad weather. I wasn't able to go so Cathy went with the class and got the great pictures.

Parker and her classmates. The other little girl is Libby. There are 8 boys and 2 girls.

Parker and YaYa.

Parker and Mrs. Merritt

The weather cleared up so that we could trick or treat on Saturday. We all headed to Poopaw and YaYa's house for supper and then hit the streets. You can see that Parker was no longer a bee but a duck....we left her costume at school on Friday after she wore it to the party. She was a trooper and didn't mind wearing her duck costume again as long as she could trick or treat!

Trick or Treat!

Bennett and Ruby got to ride in the wagon.

We had so much fun and activity we couldn't stay up any longer.

Birthday party

This afternoon during our beautiful weather we went to Parker and
Bennett's cousin Ethan's birthday party. Aunt Sunny was paintig faces
and Bennett and Parker both loved it.

Halloween 2009

is coming soon

To all my faithful viewers (Thanks mom and dad!): I promise to have pictures up soon but I didn't take any (didn't have enough hands) so I am gathering them from many sources and will post when they all come in. In the meantime, everyone had fun and I let them eat ALL of their candy that weekend and now it is gone and I don't have to tell them NO!