See A Resemblance?

We do...

Everybody Needs Something

For an hour or two last night....nothing else existed and all was right in my world.

Nothing Better.

Thanks, David Cook. xoxo

Doing a Bit of Good

Grace's journal entry from school on Monday...I hope it's obvious that I did not take the liberty of correcting Grace's spelling. :)


Yesterday I dlevird Thankgiving meals to pepol who can't get that kind of food. Me, my little sister, my mom and my gradma and grapa. Ther cerch (church) was doing this thing for Thanksgiving. It was really fun. I hope I do it agin next year.

p.s. I will do it agien next year.

p.p.s. We do it evry year.



If you get an opportunity to share your blessings...do it.

Happy Birthday, Dad!

Happy Birthday to my Dad....to Grace and Emerson's Papa....how lost we would be without you.

We can't thank you enough for everything you do for us!! Here's to many more years of memory making!!!

We Love You!!!!


Grace says: "Happy Birthday! I hope you have a great 70th birthday. Thank you for signing up to work at Vala's Pumpkin Patch!! I love when we play BEARS!!! I love you!

And I Quote...

"I'll love you for a thousand years, Mommy...and even longer than that."...Emerson, after hearing this song (she loves to sing the words and it sounds extremely sweet coming from her)....

"Mom. I've loved you a long time. In fact, I think I loved you before I even KNEW you."...sigh...that was from my Bug while listening to this song. xoxoxo

Make It A Good One

“People are opportunities. The gift is in the interaction and the connection with another person, whether it lasts forever or not.” —Colleen Seifert

Trick or Treat!

The school party...

This is what second grade looks like...


Grace wanted me to point out that she is NOT holding that boy's hand...!


Eme had been sick all weekend and still wasn't feeling great...Grace gave her a lot of love that day....


Pretty cute to watch...this mom got the kids so dizzy....



The mummy game...Grace and her two buddies...and let me just say that I don't recommend this game as it entails someone (that would be me) attaching prizes to the toilet paper (5-6 per roll) and rewraping the rolls...and that wasn't an ideal way to spend an hour, trust me....(see that little girl popping up in the front? That's Justine and she literally has me laughing every time I spend any time with her...she tells me all of the time that 'Grace IS fashion'...? What does that even mean! So cute)....


Pumpkin bowling...those kids have serious arms on them...they broke open one pumpkin and practically destroyed several of the water bottles...geesh....


The cookie station...what's so cute about this picture is simply that Sam, Grace and Jadyn were in Kindergarten together and now they are reunited in 2nd grade and they are still such good friends and stick together and that just makes me smile.... :)



That night...


I don't need to explain what they are, do I?




We got to go around the neighborhood w/ Grace's friend, Jacob...he's off in the distance in the first picture....trick or treating is always better w/ a friend, but I am amazed at how quickly the girls pooped out....they just don't build kids like they used to.... :) It was very, very cute though...most of the time Emerson could be heard yelling 'Hey guys, wait for meeeeee!'....



You can't see it...not really at all...but, this house was trying to be creepy...complete w/ a makeshift haunted house in the garage....


...and so my girls could be found here, while Jacob and Mike headed up to the house...


I love the expression on Eme's face...


She's just cute...the little one, I mean...


Ah, Dee. My folks have lived next to Dee since they first moved into their home and when I was a kid, she spoiled me rotten...now she spoils my girls rotten...sweet, sweet lady...


By the end of the night, they were on a sugar high and overtired...switching out the costumes...livin' on the edge....

Make It A Good One

“The point is not to pay back kindness but to pass it on.” - Julia Alvarez