Tummy Time!

Ellee thought tummy time looked kinda fun, so decided she needed some tummy time next to her brother! Will thought it was pretty cool too!

Not so jolly after all...

Now this isn't the first time that Ellee has met Santa. In fact, she has met him more than 4 times in her short life. However, this is the first time she's met him since she has been 2... and that pretty much says it all. Santa himself was great and not too in your face friendly, but just the perfect amount of Jolly. Ellee was very excited to go see him and sit on his lap and say Ho Ho Ho with him and maybe even get some candy. That is until we were walking toward him. She was a little nervous, and then she got super freaked out when he waved to her. She refused to get even within 15 feet of him and even then was clinging on to me for dear life! This is her hiding from this scary guy!


Will pretty much was expressionless during the whole thing... I couldn't even get him to smile! Too much to take in I guess.


Donna and I laughed so hard at Ellee's reaction (though not unexpected) and Donna suggested through her laughter that we make sure we get a picture of Ellee screaming next to Santa! So Donna swooped her up and took her literally kicking and screaming while I snapped some shots!


Maybe we'll try again another time... and maybe she'll be more curious... if she isn't scarred from this first time!

Halloween Festivities 2008

I know. I suck at blogging. But my kids are cute!
I love taking pictures.
I love looking at them.
I love editing them to see what kind of masterpiece I can turn them into (as if the subject isn't enough...).
I love everyone else to see my pictures...

but...
I hate deciding which ones to post.
I hate cropping them.
I hate uploading them.
I hate explaining them.
I hate how I spend hours upon hours doing all of the above, causing me to sometime maybe possibly neglecting other responsibilties (e.i. laundry, dinner, diaper changes...).

I get so wrapped up in what I am doing that I forget about life around me. So, in my resolve to finish the never ending chores that are laundry, dinner and diaper changes, I have decided to cut back on my daily allocated computer time. For me that means getting more done elsewhere, but for you, and I apologize, that means less posts (not that you expect much from me anyway). So since I have already wasted 10 minutes of my dinner prep time explaining how I suck at blogging... here are some pictures of my family at the pumpkin patch this lovely autumn season.

Notice how my 2 best men match, but in reverse of each other!!!

Devn has always had a flair for fashion!

These are the spooky Halloween cupcakes that we made for ayummy treat... they even have an orange colored creme filling!

My 2 cuties on Halloween, can you tell Ellee loves her brother!
She has a fascination with his hands...


Our fairy butterfly princess...

Can you tell that Ellee was loving second in this costume and spent every minute absolutely loving life!!!
Will is a ghost floating through the night sky (which is me, can you see the stars on my head? I was also covered with sparkles which were all the other distant stars that just twinkle at night).

Even the dogs got to join the door to door fun... as jack-o-lanterns!

And since Devn was the designated dog walker, he had to match.
And you can't miss Jeff as PeeWee Herman... it was pretty sweet, we'd get up to the doors and while people were trying to figure out who he was dressed as, we'd start singing the "Tequila" song while Jeff would do the PeeWee dance... then they'd get who he was!