I heard a comotion...and then quiet....

Momma, can you come take a picture of me and Reesie.  I've been tryin', but it's just tricky.

Sweetest "stisters"!!

New Mexico Thanksgiving

Me and the girls and my mom got to fly down to New Mexico for Thanksgiving this year.  Bittersweet.  Glad we got to go, but missed Ben.  This is a picture my Aunt Jennifer took.  She is so artistic.

On the airplane ready to go!

Above the clouds...one of my favorite parts of flying.

Nana's House!  Penn Farms is what Papa had started.  Now my Uncle Kevin and cousin Zach do the farming.

Zach, Uncle Kevin, and Nana took us on a tour of the farms.  The girls got out and picked a few chilli's.

We got to go see puppies...now Rowyn wants one.  Thank you Aunt Kathy. :)

Long travel days make for special naps in Nana's chair.

Cousin Lily...(sister or cousin?)

Thanksgiving morning at Aunt Brenda's and Uncle Bill's.

All the kids had a train of bikes circling the house.  Seven in all.

Picking pecans at my cousin Allisons house.  They earned their keep.  They got alot of pecans.

We even got to take all the kids to see A Seussical...very cute Dr Seuss musical.

Aunt Brenda's quality beverages for my girls.

Reese and Uncle Chris off to see the new long horns.

Sleeping on Uncle Chris and Aunt Jennifers couch.

Me and my cousin Jessie.

Walking on the roof of a house out by Uncle Chris's.  I think that may be Cook's Peak in the distance.

Me and my cousin Amy and Aunt Brenda and my mom.

The girls like their Uncle Kevin.  Reese is still talking about riding on his lap in Zachary's truck.

Aunt Jennifer let the girls make their own cone.They loved it!

They had a blast.  Thank you Aunt Jennifer!  (The girls proudly call her Jennifer the boss of Dairy Queen)

Can you believe it snowed?  The morning we were leaving we woke up to a white desert.  It was pretty actually.  Except we were leaving from El Paso, where it doesn't snow...

And on a tiny plane at that.  All twelve rows.  We boarded twice.  The de-icer truck (they only have one in El Paso) ran out of de-icer.  This lead to us missing our connection and making a 6 hour travel day into a 10 hour travel day.

Ahhh, almost home.  Thankful we got to go.  Next time Ben will have to come with us.  Life is too short to not stay connected to family.

VIP

Rowyn was VIP at school for a week.  That means she got to bring home Stepping Stones Bear for the week.  You get to bring him along to all your activites and then write about it in a book to take back to share.  She also gets to choose which special tasks for the day she wants to do. 

This day she chose flag leader.  They say the pledge of allegiance to the United States flag and then they also say a pledge to the Christian flag.

During circle time the VIP gets to sit in a special chair.

And they get to share their show-n-tell first.  This week was the letter G so Rowyn had brought a picture of her GrandmO and Grammi.

Halloween 2009

For Halloween this year we had one garden fairy and one peacock.  Where they come up with these ideas I'm not sure, but once they find what they love, there is no turning back.  I was at a loss as to how I was goign to make Reese into a peacock and the coaxing to be something else wasn't working.  So I went the tutu route.  I made it!

Here is the beginning and the end result.  Pretty simple actually.  And I will probably be doing more.

I don't even have to tell them to pose.  I guess they have had a few photos taken before.

Trick or treat Grandma Barbara and Grandpa Melvin.

We went trick of treating down in the Gig Harbor water front.  So much fun and thousands of people.  The daylight and no rain was nice too.

Trick or treat Papa.

Finished up with cousins at GrandmO's and PapO's.