Junior Beta Club

Our little girl being inducted into the National Junior Beta Club. Quite an accomplishment given her parentage.

Project Picture #4.....

Oh I wonder. Honey did you say to wash off the wallpaper or rip it off the wall? Well you can see what I did.

All finished, nice messy no wallpaper walls. I wonder what color these will end up being?

Project Picture #3....

And there it goes. I bet it came down a lot easier than it went up.

Project Picture #2....

Back to the mudroom remodeling project. Stripping wallpaper now. Of course a 1 day job turns into a multi-day affair when you remember that the wallpaper your stipping was put down over the original wallpaper that is ATTACHED DIRECTLY TO THE WALLBOARD!!!!!

Why me????

Brent

Here is a post just for the Mommy dog, pics of the little Ellen.

This is a standard sleeping position.


Who couldn't love a face like this?

This is what we do around our house when Mommy is not home. Slave driver Daddy makes the little girl do her homework.



And then he takes her to dance practice. Quite the bunch of rump shakers!!!

Missing Jill

Well we are missing Jill around the ole homestead this week and next, as she is out of town selling books. This is the show she is working at, wish her luck at selling lots of books. Daddy needs a new pair of shoes!
Brent

No school today...

Since it is a teacher workday, we are out delivering Hayden's fund raiser stuff she sold in the neighborhood. It is a beautiful day!

The leaves are finally started to change....

So different...

from the South Carolina! :) Revisited some more of my pictures to Albuquerque...
1) this is the view from the hill my cousin lives on...blow it up and you will notice the airport straight ahead...that is about 15 miles away!

2) The view from behind....

3) the architecture....

4) one of many arroyos in the city...

Such a beautiful place...different...but beautiful!

Every 4 years...

I get the privilege as a citizen of the USA to vote. Today was that day! It will be a historical election for lots of reasons but it was probably the first time in the 7 Presidential elections that I have had the honor to cast my vote in that I was less then pleased with my choices. I hope that whoever is the new President tomorrow when I wake will do a good job and prove my doubts wrong.

Ellen...

Guess the pumpkins contest....

FINALLY!
Dana P. got it right...
JEFF GORDAN!
Hayden LOVES Jeff Gordan...we live close enough to one of the Nascar tracks that we take her every year! Her Texas parents are doing a fine job raising a 'redneck' daughter! :-)


Another Hint: He LOVES the fast track....
one more...he is 24
even another...he's no Regis

I told you all that Brent LOVES to carve pumpkins! On Saturday after the children chose their pumpkins, he could not wait to carve them. They (okay mainly Brent) methodically picked what they wanted and he got to work! There is Hayden, Pete, Cal and Kayla to guess pumpkins for....I will even help out a little...Kayla's pumpkin is just a silly face on the top left.
I can't wait to hear your guesses (obviously, only one is going to be hard)! I don't have a prize for you but I will sure give you tons of recognition! :-)
HINT: Just glance don't study and it helps to know who some of her favorite people are....

Family/Wedding...

As I mentioned earlier, the 3 sisters went to Albuquerque for my cousins wedding! This is my moms (who's deceased) side of the family who we do not get to see as much anymore as we used to...we had an amazing time! It was fun to cut up and carry on like we always have before in the past!

Picture 1- Our Grandmother(my mom's mom)

Picture 2 - Deny and Randy(brothers of the groom)

Picture 3- Susan (sister of the groom) and Dan

Picture 4 &5 - Drew (cousin) and Andrea

Picture 6 - My Aunts, Lynda and Robyn! (Mom's sisters)

Picture 7 - My sisters.....

Our Fall-filled weekend....

actually began on Friday night with a trip to the school Halloween Carnival! Kayla (Hayden's dearest friend who does so much with us she is like our other daughter), Hayden and Pete all dressed up in their costumes and had a blast!
Saturday Morning, we all got up and went to a nearby farm for their Fall festival! This is a picture of the strawberries that they have already planted for an April harvest!
One of the first things we did was take a horse and buggy tour of the farm and the tour guide let Hayden come up and drive the team.

Next, we took a hay ride out to the back of the farm and did 1.5 mile corn maze. We had a lot of fun.
While we waited on the tractor to come back and get us from the corn maze, Pete had to make a pit stop.
A boys dream......a combine!
It was only slightly large....
The last stop we made was another hayride to the pumpkin patch....Cal found one!
The group with their pumpkins!
Oh...what sweet faces!
Hayden decided that after we found our pumpkins that she needed a gourd.

Saturday night, we took the kids down to the gardens for the YMCA haunted trail! Pete is showing some brotherly love or maybe what he learned on the trail....sorry Molly!

The start of a special treat....

On Sunday, Brent carved all the kids pumpkins. This is his greatest love...carving pumpkins!
I will post the final result in another post...so we can play the guessing game! :-)