Happy Halloween Times 2!!

Well I feel like we have really experienced Halloween this year. We kicked off the holiday on Saturday night at the Wylie Fall Festival. The event is a big fundraiser for Kaylee's school so it was great to see so many people come out to support the event. I had baked all day Friday for the kindergarten cake walk so I was glad to just enjoy the festival with my sweet family. This is the only picture I had time to take so we must have been having fun, right? The girls loved participating in all the booth activities. Kaylee's favorites were popping the balloons with darts, cake walk, and the sports themed booths. (anything from hockey, to batting, to basketball) She loved them all! Campbell was happy with participating in the sucker tree and the duck pond. I lost count of how many times we repeated those booths for her. It was nice to just have some family time together. The girls were pleased because they both took home big bags of candy.

Last night we participated in Trunk or Treat at our church. My sweet friend Melissa came over with her two children to eat dinner and then we went to the festivities together since both our husbands were unable to make it. In the first picture you have a Cheetah/Leopard, a Cheetah Girl, and a ghost.

In this picture is precious Ella who was too busy to be in the first picture. I thought all the children we saw were precious!

This was my favorite picture of my up and coming Cheetah Girl!

Followed by the cutest baby Cheetah around!!

Both girls had a good time Trunk or Treating with their friends. Here was the scene by the end of the night. I think we are heading out for more fun tonight. Hope you all have a safe and Happy Halloween!!

ACU Homecoming!!

Now that it has been almost two weeks I thought it would be a good time to record our Homecoming Weekend Happenings! Well our good friends Mark, Honey, Trinity, and Trenton came to stay with us and enjoy all the festivities. We had a lot to cram in since it was a reunion year for both Honey and I. The fun began on Friday night for the kids because we went to the Homecoming Carnival which is always a pleaser for the children. Don't the girls look thrilled:) They really were so excited to be with each other. Kaylee had been looking forward to it all week. I had to show off Honey's handy work with the T-shirts. She is so talented and sweet that she brought each of my girls these cute shirts she made. Of course, Campbell was too busy to pose for a picture.

On Saturday morning we went to the Siggie breakfast and caught up with some dear friends. It was so good to see the precious girls that I pledged with so long ago and hear about their sweet families. I feel like we have all aged pretty well too:) There is just something about sisterhood that leaves you with a common bond even if it has been ten years since you caught up with each other. I love these girls!!

After breakfast we were off to the parade on campus. The girls always enjoy this activity and this year was no exception. Here they are in their annual cheerleader picture. Campbell loved being in her stroller over the weekend. She had been asking to ride in it for a month but we had not had the opportunity so she took advantage of all the stroller time she could this weekend. Once the parade was over we went to Homecoming chapel and heard a wonderful talk by Mitch Wilburn. He is such a motivational speaker and worker for the Lord. It was truly a blessing to be there and the girls sat like little ladies throughout the whole service.

On Saturday night Cary and I went to my Reunion Dinner. It was so much fun to be able to catch up with so many friends. This picture is of me and my precious friend Angie, we do not get to talk very often so we were so excited to be able to talk in person for one night. I am so glad that we went!!

Campbell's favorite part of the weekend was getting to play with Trenton. I do believe he is still her favorite boy. From the time they arrived to the time they left these two giggled and chased each other. As you can see in the picture Campbell is laughing about something but who knows what because they would just look at each other and start laughing. I loved watching them! We had the best time being with our dear friends and just enjoying some time on The Hill. We cannot wait for the next time our friends come knocking.

Campbell's Open House

Well it has been a long time since I have blogged about my baby so I( thought I would try to write about all the things she has been up to lately. We went to Open House at her MDO on Monday night and once she decided to participate in the craft and get out of my arms this is the best picture I could get for a while. Can you tell she likes to concentrate like her sister? She was very intent on her doodling. Of course, in true Campbell fashion she would have nothing to do with getting a picture with Mrs. Lauren and Mrs. Leslie.

Her new favorite phrase as of about two weeks ago is "I don't want to" and she says it in such a sweet voice with a big smile on her face. I am in so much trouble! Her precious teachers say that she is a big talker, especially to her favorite boy Jaxton. They always report that she is good in class and listens well. I am so glad that she is in such a wonderful class with such great Christian women teaching her.


Here is the picture I worked for about 15 minutes to get. It captures her personality perfectly!!



A few things about Campbell:

*She loves to cuddle and when I leave her in a classroom I always have to pass her off to someone she can love on before I leave.

*Her favorite things right now are yellow school buses, puzzles, pushing her baby in the baby stroller, putting a diaper on her baby, laughing randomly with her friends, brushing hair, cleaning up, stickers, and coloring.

*Each night before bed she tells me the exact book she wants to read. We read it once and then she bows her head, puts her hands together, and starts praying for everyone and everything she can think of.

*She does not like for her clothes to be wet or dirty.

*She can count to 10 but we are still working on identifying colors.

*Her favorite things to say are; "I don't want to", "Kaylee get it", "hold me", "I am ready to go", "Those are cute_________ "(fill-in-the-blank with shoes, clothes, jewelry), "________at work" (we go through the list of everyone in the family who is at work), "___________coming back?" (again fill in with everyone in the family), "I love you", "There is ___________Mommy!" (she knows which Mommies belong to which friends) , I am sure there are more but those are the phrases I hear most often.

*She has a temper which is usually reserved for the house but occasionally creeps out in public. I have never seen a child go from happy to screaming so quickly. This does not happen very often but when it does boy, watch out. Usually the fit occurs because she does not like the clothing choice I have picked out. ( The first thing listed more than makes up for these moments though.)

*She loves to go. She does not care where as long as she can go with whoever is leaving the house.

*She adores Kaylee and gets so much joy out of being with her after the school day is over.

*She loves to be wherever Mommy is no matter what I may be doing. One of her favorite chores is putting clothes in the washing machine. I love my little shadow.

We just love this little bundle of joy! We pray that as the year goes on she will continue to show us the fun in the simple things in life.

An Elementary Open House

Well I think I am about two weeks past due for an update so here goes...

I am going to start with Kaylee. Here are three of my favorite people before we left for Kaylee's Open House. Kaylee could not wait to show us all her work and her sweet friends. When we walked in the door we found her seat along with this cute little girl in it.

What you cannot see in the picture is that Kaylee had colored the girl's outfit to look just like the outfit she had worn that day with flowers on the pants and all. I just love to watch her draw and see how her little mind sees things. Too cute!! Along with the person were some papers she had colored and written on. We knew exactly what everything was on each page. It was fun to get to see some of the friends that we hear about all the time.

I am going to end this post with a few thing Kaylee has been doing lately:

*As you can see in this picture she lost another tooth and we now have a top tooth that is loose too. I am thinking that all she is going to want for Christmas are her four front teeth!

*She has been loving her Musical Theatre class that she takes once a week. I think it helps that two of her sweet friends are in there with her.

*She thinks her teacher Mrs. O is the best but she informed me the other day that her real name was Kelly. I have been trying to explain that her real name is Mrs. O too. That might have sunk in a little today.

*Each day she cannot wait to see her sister in the car and tell her "hello" first before anything else. She also asks Campbell about school then gets a little frustrated when Campbell does not share as much information as she did.

*She loves everything about school including Music, PE, Library, and buying lunch in the cafeteria. The whole experience is wonderful to her and I am so thankful.

*I do not know who is more excited at the end of the school day when she gets in the car me, Campbell. or Kaylee.

*She was given the Good Citizen Award for her class this 6 Weeks and we are so proud of her. She was excited about the candy and pencil.

*On her first report card it said that she could count to fourteen, when I asked her why only fourteen she said that she was too busy to count any further and needed to go back to her seat and finish her work.

* The school is having a Fall Festival and they need baked goods for the cake walk. I had already sent a form in saying I would send some things. Kaylee got in the car one day last week listing all of the things they needed me to bake. Evidently Kaylee took it to heart when they said they needed lots of goodies. I explained that they were just giving examples and did not expect me to bake everything they listed.

*We are having such a wonderful year and I pray that it continues.

I will blog about my other daughter tomorrow.