Little Dentists

Giving Daddy a taste of his own medicine!

Maggie Maggie

Our silly little girl often times falls asleep in funny positions and places but I think this is the best one yet. She was so tired today and fell asleep halfway on her chair and halfway on her table. She was out cold too, she didn't even flinch at the flash.

Halloween

I know it has been a couple of days but I am finally posting some Halloween pictures.

Here is my little frog prince.

He had a hard time walking in his costume without shoes on because it was just a tad too long but he was also having a hard time crawling in it, so, the result: one mad little froggy.

Maggie wanted to get all prettied up so I let her put some curlers in her hair. I thought it might tame her wild curls but it didn't, she looked kinda cute in the curlers though.

Here is our fairy princess. One the left is her smile but on the right is her "fairy smile".

So, I am not one to brag but I am also not one to be crafty, so, since a friend from church taught me how to make a tutu and I decided to try to be crafty I am going to brag. I made Maggies costume, well not the leotard but the rest of it. It isn't perfect but I thought I did a pretty good job. It helps that Maggie is so cute and looks adorable in anything.



This was the only picture I got from behind of her wings. They were a pain to make since I insisted upon making them from the same green tulle that was in her tutu. But they worked out in the end.

I was too busy to think of and make costumes for Adam and I so we were losers this Halloween. Oh well. The kids had lots of fun trick-or-treating. Now we just have to decide what to do with all their candy cause that is way too much sugar for them. At the end of the night our little princess turned our little frog back into a prince so we could all go to bed.

Isaac's Birthday and other stuff....

So, if I was a really good mommy and totally on top of things I would have posted this last Wednesday, on his birthday, but as you can tell by all my recent blogging activity, I am so not on top of things! But I figured better late than never. I can't believe my little boy is already one! This past year has gone by much too fast. Happy Birthday my Son!

Here is Isaac on the day he was born.

And here he is one year later. He is growing up too fast!

Since Wednesday's are $1 day at the fair if you bring cans of food we decided that would be a great activity for his birthday. First we went to see all the animals. They actually have some pretty cool animals at the petting zoo, although I didn't post pictures of them. They have a baby giraffe, a baby zebra, ostriches, kangaroos, wallabees, some cool four horned sheep, and a lot of other animals as well.

Maggie was petting almost everything, which is good for her because sometimes she is scared of animals, but Isaac wasn't too sure about them at first. He warmed up a little but still didn't do too much petting. I think in the end he was more excited about us letting him stand instead of being held and the fence that he was trying to climb up than he was about the animals but he had fun.

After the animals we went to the car show. It isn't anything spectacular, no fancy cars but they have just about every car on the market on display there, so of course we had to check it out. The kids liked driving the Saturn Sky convertable or at least they liked pushing all the buttons.

When we got home Isaac opened presents. Actually Maggie opened most of them, but Isaac didn't really seem to care. Thank you to Grandma and Grandpa, Great Grandma and Grandpa and Nana and Papa. He loved his presents, even before they were open!

Since I haven't posted anything for a while here is an update on Miss Maggie. She has lots of fun playing dress ups with anything she can find. Here are some of her latest.

Maggie was putting on some clothes from her too big/winter box and she found a shirt that had spaghetti straps and was too big so I told her that it was immodest and she needed to wear a shirt underneath it if she was going to wear it so she came out like this. (I think the long sleeve shirt is also on backwards). Later she added the accessories, like her red sparkaly shoes, her black purse and a shash. It was pretty awsome but when I tried to get a picture she decided she didn't want anymore pictures and the best one I got was of her running away throwing the purse and sash in the air.

This is her cool cowgirl outfit apparently. I loved the three different shades of pink she has going on and the flannel pajama shirt complements it so well.

This one happened while I was sorting through Isaac's clothes. These particular pieces are currently too big for Isaac but she does fit into a lot of his clothes. Earlier this summer she was wearing his swimming suit.

At least her skirt and shirt match each other in this one.

Finally, this is from a birthday party that Maggie went to on the day we were supposed to have a tropical storm hit Dallas. It was a princess party and they all put on make-up and wore their pretty princess dresses. She loved it. Thanks Rachel!

Remembering

I remember my mom waking me up seven years ago today and telling me that a plane crashed into one of the twin towers. My still adolescent and sleepy brain struggled to understand the significance and why my mother seemed so afraid. Oddly enough I headed off to school. I believe it was shortly after arriving at school that I heard about the second plane and it began to form in my mind that this was not some horrible accident but something much bigger and scarrier. I spent the whole school day in the semenary building where there were some tv sets turned onto the news and where I felt comfort. The rest of the day was spent watching the same footage over and over again, trying to ascertain just what was going on.

Now seven years later I still cannot hear the song "Have You Forgotten" or "Where Were You" as I heard on the radio this morning or think about those amazingly brave and heroic people on flight 93 and those who risked their lives, and many who lost their lives, to try to save others, and not have tears fall from my eyes.

Passengers, Heroes, who confronted the highjackers.


I remember hearing many people shortly after the attacks saying things like "How could God do this to us?" or "How can God exist when things like this happen?". I personally don't ever remember I time where I heard more stories of miracles and where I saw more people showing Christlike love to those around them. It was an unbelievably sad day for so many and I still cry for those who still have holes in their hearts that cannot be filled but I also thank God for those who stepped up to go and fight for our country, our freedom and our safety since that day.


God has blessed America and I pray that we may continue to live righteously so that He may continue to pour out His blessings upon us.

Here is a video a friend posted on her facebook page. I thought it was a good reminder.