November 6, 2013

We're living like this:


But it's going to be so worth it.

November 5, 2013

   I took this picture of the poor kids eating a sorry cold cereal breakfast on the play picnic table because there's nowhere else to eat.

  Our lovely waitress at Cracker Barrel took this picture of our delicious breakfast of french toast, eggs, bacon, juice, and hot chocolate.  Don't tell the other kids.

November 4, 2013

Jeff finishing the cabinet trim before the painters, that's right PAINTERS, start working.

November 3, 2013

Sent to Jeff's phone from Bailey's church nursery leader.
Of course she's posing.

November 2, 2013

My day started out like this:


With a lot of this in the middle:


And ended like this:
From the look on my face, it was a pretty good birthday.

November 1, 2013

  This evening I went to pick up Shelbi from band practice.  When I returned, I came upon a rousing game of musical chairs.
  The official rule was whoever had the most buns on the chair wins.  Poor Syd didn't stand a chance.

October 31, 2013


 This was the best shot I could get of them all actually looking at the camera instead of the approaching trick-or-treaters.  The best part of this Halloween is that all of the costumes came from our costume box.  The only thing I had to purchase was Ryan's clown make-up.
Out trick-or-treating.  Incidentally, this is the house we almost bought instead of ours.  I really wanted to go peek inside as my kids trick-or-treated here, but they were handing candy out on their porch, front door closed.