clearly, we are quite excited about thanksgiving :)

in other news, kaely won the school spelling bee and will compete against other elementary and middle school children in our area next month. the winning word was "tundra" :)

kaely will be singing a solo in the church christmas musical. i'm sure i will cry again, but hopefully will get better video. she also has an important speaking part now. elise has a speaking part in the school christmas musical. lilli is lilli, and quite happy to be so :)

i don't have a problem

i can quit whenever i want!

hey guys...tomorrow's a full moon.

fall festival

wooooo! i am a bit behind...
so here are pictures from the fall festival at the church :)

intense cotton candy negotiations:

games and prizes:

a bouncy version of twister?

this is sass right here...

picture it

rainy day+worn out kids+a bag of candy corn=a very long ride home.

love ya jules

mr blisters is not my friend

this year, our church held it's own crop walk, rather than everyone heading downtown. we met at the ball fields and had some lunch. i was totally pumped that mr blisters was there. i had wanted to get my picture at church this morning, but that pesky choir thing got in the way.

we signed in and turned in our donations and then lilli froze. she saw mr blisters and freaked. she had to sit with ms elinor while kaely, elise, and i did the photo op game.

so then we had a spot of lunch and lined up for the group photo. lilli was doing really well, until mr. blisters joined in. i held her for the photo and, i thought, long enough for us to walk away from the friendly mascot. he joined the walk. so, for the first half mile, lilli piggy-backed and updated me, loudly, on the location of "the shoe". poor little girl...

and who am i to fuss, really...there are plenty of women who have to walk long distances and carry their children every day. i only did it for a short time and then got to go home to my comfortable house.
elise "caught" a snail. she was quite proud of herself and disgruntled with me that i wouldn't let her keep it. kaely took a picture for her and then she puti t back in the "forest".
it was about 3 miles of walking and we raised about $3000. not bad i think...

yippee!

who doesn't like flowers? :)



i kinda like this whole being spoiled and honored thing.