Talents of the Master

Allie's school has a "talent show" tradition called "Talents of the Master." I was very impressed by many of the students. K-12 graders are invited to participate. She's never done anything in front of an audience although we all know she's never been afraid of an audience either. It never occurred to her to be nervous! Wish I had done something like that early on; I HATE being in front of people as anyone who knows me would tell you!

I'm assuming that's her "nervous" stance:) I asked her why she was standing that way, and she said, "well the girl behind me was standing like that!" Since when did Allie follow the crowd??

Saturday

We haven't had a lazy saturday in a long while:) The girls went hunting for sticks this morning, and with the hubs help fashioned a tee pee. They have been out there all day. Allie dressed herself complete with last years ski boots, but I thought she looked so cute, so I snapped a couple of pics.

A Spookie Cookie

Every fall, the kids and I visit the grandparents...mine and theirs:) Allie is old enough to know the "drill". Eat candy with Nanna, eat candy with Nanna, go to the garden with Deeda, pick Memaw some flowers, feed the birds, and play outside with the cousins.

Nanna The kids worked very hard on this haunted gingerbread house.

These are my grandparents. SWEET FOLKS!!! I'm so blessed that my kids get to enjoy their great-grandparents!

The kids with my parents. I don't know when we will ever get all three to LOOK THIS WAY!

Picture day

Today was picture day for Mary. I snapped a few before heading out into the rain! It always rains on picture day you know.

A "hum"dinger of a party

What a weekend! Allie and I left shortly after lunch on Friday to head to Fayetteville.....unbeknownst to Katie! Jason had a BIG surprise planned for Katie's 30th birthday....



The invite said 6:30pm SHARP! Allie and I arrived at 6:12...nothing like cutting it a little close. When Katie walked in at 6:42 because Jason could not stall ONE MORE MINUTE, she was STUNNED! Allie says she now wants a surprise party for her birthday!

I've never seen Jason so RELIEVED! It appears that not one person "slipped" the big surprise. Glad you pulled it off!

Oh...and one more thing. I always try to get everyone in pictures! I left out the other CHIEF party planner...Jason's MOM!!!! His parents were both at the party, and were fully vested (as were Katie's parents) in the lying scheme to make this party happen! Sheww...GREAT JOB!

Red and "White" weekend

We called the HOGS this weekend, and it WORKED! (finally) They answered with a nice win over Texas A&M (or as Allie referred to them as the ATM). More fun than the game was time spent with fam. The White family cousins ran and screamed all over Mando's house. Thanks for hosting us all Mando. We also hooked up with old friends from school, but somehow I didn't get one picture with them. BOO!

Outside the stadium before it started pouring down rain!

A valiant attempt at a grandkid picture. Poor Zach had to wake up from his nap for this one.

Bunny and Allie (sporting her new tooth coming in)

Bo had just made the comment that he never dreamed he'd be holding a kid with "an SEC" uniform on...or something to that effect. Sorry BO...but I'm really not.

I was so glad to see Katie, Jason, and Zach. Don't know if you saw my "button" with their pic on it on the right hand side of my blog. It is a reminder to continue to hold them up with your prayers. Their strength is inspiring and will encourage your heart if you want to jump on over to Katie's blog and read her recent posts about Reese.

Silly girls

Me and my boys

Garrett is relating to Zach and "Abba" a little better now that he's a two legged animal instead of a four-legged one. He and Zach were doing what boys do...trying to come up with a way to get that balloon off the ceiling! Zach had eyes for me some weeks ago when we were with them, but I've apparently lost my luster. He's so CUTE!!!

Abby was a HOOT! She's such a sweet little girl, and I love to see her personality come out. I'll brag because Mando won't...she's a smarty pants...told me her name was A-B-B-Y!!!! I can't believe her 2 year old vocab. Allie made the comment, Abby talks like a big girl!

Swiper no swiping

There's the guilty face whom I have been chasing. I haven't been blogging because that sweet face swiped my memory card adaptor. I put it at the back of my desk one night, and forgot to plug it back into the slot on my computer. The next night, it was gone. Therefore I've had no way of uploading pics for a while. It didn't show up in his diaper (don't worry it was too big to swallow), but I have given up looking, and just bought a new one:)

Swiper
I was making some broccoli salad and had placed the sunflower seeds on the counter. I went to put them in, and swiper had made off with those too. I found them in the book basket in the toy room. I have just forgotten so quickly what this age is like! Now that he's walking, he has 2 free hands...but he's MUCH happier!
Mary was pooped after school last week, and found a comfy place to rest.

Katie had an assignment on her blog. She asked her friends to take a pic of Reese's name for a name gallery. She used legos to make her name, and so I asked Allie what we should do. We were eating pomegranted seeds at the time, so that seemed like a logical thing to do:)