Isabella's version of Thanksgiving

OK, how does Daddy get the credit for cooking the bird?????????

Turkeys and the Wedding Dress............

We got some girls things from a firend and this white dress and shoes were in it. Bell plays bride almost daily now!! She decided she needed a flower girl, so got out Lina's "flower" dress and a basket, and insisted that a bride HAD to have WHITE flowers, so we made some makeshift ones with lace and ribbons :)

Yes, the blue bandaid really sets off the whole pose!

We even had to catch the flowers!

And the cute flower girls. Flash forward 25 years...............

We made turkeys as nameplace decorations for our Thanksgiving table. The girls LOVE to do crafts! But Bell is having a hard time with the concept of eating a Turkey for Thanksgiving. "Like the ones that run around in our backyard?". Ummm, yes. "But they live outside and go gobble, gobble, gobble, why would we eat them?". Ummmm

Of course we can't go a day without being dressed as ballerinas!

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!!!!!!!!!1

R. I. P.

Don was rear ended a few weeks ago at a red light. His poor Miata did not fair very well. The insurance called it a loss :( My husband bought it as a 30th birthday present to himself and is VERY upset about it. He is selling it to a local mechanic who works on Miatas, so it will live on as a "donor"........

May she rest in piece...................

Mommy, I need a haircut..........

Don't worry Grandma, it is only the bangs :)

Cleaning up...................

Have you figured out what the little white things are yet??

I was in on the computer (the next room!!) and they were watching TV (so I thought), and I hear, "lets get our vacuum and broom, we can clean it up before Mommy sees". So I peek out to take a look in the living room floor is covered in................. MARSHMELLOWS!! The little tiny ones you put in your hot chocolate (I miss Bylers!). The girls had gone into the pantry and took them out but could not get the bag open. When they tried they went ALL over the floor - I mean everywhere:) Looked like snow in our living room.

So they got to clean them up - with a little help from mom at the end!!

The other day we got a new (new to us anyway) carpet cleaner. Our old one died right before we left DE, and the carpets here needed cleaning SOOO bad! So I get a great one off Craigslist and had a fun Friday night cleaning the rugs and couches. I feel so much better now............

Kitchen, Swings and Ballerinas!!

Grandma and Grandpa T gave Bell a beautiful kitchen (and lots of things to go in it!!) for her 4th birthday - THANKS Grandma and Grandpa - we love it!!!!

Lina making birthday cake............ with morning hair!!

The first morning it was put together, Bell and Lina came tight out and played with it in their jammies!! Made me breakfast, if only it were real :)

Toast and tea!!

We just got a new (new to us, pre-loved) swingset for the yard!! I have been looking on Craigslist for a great deal on one, because we have wanted one for the girls, but could not swing a new one now. I saw an add for this one with no pictures and no price. So I e-mailed the woman and she said "come get it, it is free, my kids have outgrown it"!! So Don and Austin trailered it home and after a few new bolts and one new piece of wood, the girls are loving it!! Daddy rocks, he missed part of his football game to finish putting it together!!

BTW, GO SAINTS 8 and 0 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It even has a glider and a set of rings that can go where one of the swings is.

My cuties!! Beautiful November day we were out in short sleeves, love it!!

Notice that the leaves still need to be done!! Today I blew leaves while the girls played and this weekend will be the big leaf cleanup!! Both neighbors on the sides of us started putting up Christmas lights this weekend (not on, just up). I guess you do it early up here cause it gets cold!! We still need to go through the basement and dig our stuff out, guess we will be out in the freezing cold Thanksgiving weekend doing ours:)

We live in Ballerina outfits around here these days!! Today they were ballerina princesses and were so very adorable I had to snap this picture!!

5 Little Pumpkins

My little pumpkin!

The girls FORT

We have a HUGE pine tree which makes a terriffic fort for the girls, and a home fo all the extra small chairs we had lying around!! We put down a big peice of plywood and it is their "dance stage" - so cute!!

Looking up.................

And the view from laying down :)

Halloween pics

On Monday he says to me, I want to be Cookie Monster for halloween, wasn't easy to find blue fur on such short notice!! COOKIES!!!!

Our pretty butterflies playing party games at the Moms Group party

All the parents lined up and the kids trick or treated us :)

Checking out her stash!

DON's Birthday

Happy Birthday honey!!!

Isabella's first day of pre-school

The house

Some pics of the new house!!
Austin sweeping leaves off the roof (in between texts to his girlfreind!).

Our resident turkey family.

Front

Back of house and back deck

Stream that runs along hte whole back of our property

The stream is right behind the Tiki Hut!!!! Electric, TV, Stereo, fridge, and fire pit nnext to it!!

Don's TWO car garage :)