A family pumpkin carving~my first time ever!

Let the messiness begin!

Tarah's favorite spoon is drafted into duty.

An artist at work

Three bright smiling faces

Not bad for our first time.......

Johnny's 1st school party! A cowboy has FUN!

I am considering smiling but it doesn't really go with the outfit.

Meghan explores gravity.

Johnny and his favorite school friend, Nathan.

Ms. Patti and her boys!

Mommy and Meghan get to be in a picture together!

Pumpkin Patch Day!!

Johnny and Meghan love their Daddy!!Alex, Ashley and Johhny hanging by the windmill....

" Look guys, they are flinging pumpkins and when they land it smashes them!"

We can put pumpkins on our heads!
Cool a hay maze, let's get lost..
Alex and Ashley with their pumpkins on their heads Cutie pie kids.....watch out for stray hay!
Johnny and Meghan had a great time picking out their pumpkins. We will carve the big one tomorrow night...

Meghan has another tooth and Johnny has his fall party tomorrow at Kids Day Out. It is going to be great fun. He is doing great with his toilet training. His only accidents are at home when he is too busy playing to go to the bathroom. Tarah had a birthday party at the Dallas Zoo all day so she wasn't able to go with us. Next year I will get some of the whole family.

The latest show from CS4C

Saturday was awesome. Tarah, Alex and Ashley performed with CS4C at the Revolution 2006 Youth Rally. They did such an awesome job and had a really good time. It got a little too Rock and Roll at the end of the night so we left when the smaller kids had to escape the mosh pit. There was at least 500 kids at the rally plus adults. They really rocked the house!!! Sorry that there are not more action shots.............my battery died AGAIN! I am going to learn to take extras someday.

Baby Chicken Funnies...............

Johnny and Meghan get to be Chickies for the day.
We had the best mommy and baby time with Feeb's and Brandon and Aiden. Titan got in a doggie lick on the sly....

Tarah is so beautiful and doing GREAT in school. I will post her latest portrait this evening.

"I don't just read books......."

"I eat them!!!"

Johnny and his favorite friend Pablo. He has been doing great and even went to school in big boy underwear with no accidents! What a big boy we are so proud!

Mommy is going back to school!

Well I found out yesterday that all my paperwork and loan info has finally gone through and I will be going back to finish my degree next semester. It will take me 4 semesters to finish but by then Johnny will be starting Kindergarten, Meghan will be going into a pre-K program and I can go back into the workforce with a renewed purpose.

Kevin and I have to get out of debt before Tarah graduates high school...........she is so smart that she will be able to get into any college she wants. We also want to build a new house when we move to the country that can be more of a family compound. I love the blueprints for wings that they call "mother-in-law" houses. I have seen a similar house that a family built here and it is perfect. Like 2 houses joined together. We want to have enough room for any of our family that wants to live together. We are all getting older and we have to take care of each other!

Johnny is a Big Boy and Meghan has a tooth!!!!!!!!!

Here is Johnny after we got back from the Fire Station Open House last Saturday (the t-shirt was a gift from a friend) -he got lots of cool fire man stuff. We saw a helicopter take off and land, lots of fire trucks, police cars, ambulances and we even saw the special operations robot steal OU hats off boys walking by it.

It is official- Johnny is potty trained! He has not had a diaper or pull-up on in 3 days and no accidents. I am so proud of him. I took some advice from Granny and Aunt Goldie. A little story about how my dad learned to go by peeing on a rock out back............. Johnny asked if he could pee outside and I thought that since I had tried everything else why not??? So for a couple of days he spent lots of time running around the back yard peeing on anything he could reach. Now he has transfered that joy to using the inside plumbing. He has even had a trip to Wal-Mart and went to the bathroom there.

Meghan is hiding her new tooth behind her cute smile. Now that it has broke through she is sleeping at night again.

Here is Meghan finishing off her wagon wheel biscuit. She loves to eat with her hands when mommy will let her get extra messy.....

I took the kids for a bike ride this morning. I will take another picture that has them in the trailer. I would have this morning but my legs were jelly and I had to rest.

Tarah is going to the homecoming game tonight. I added a few little things to her mum for this year. I taught myself to make the cool braids and I bought her a new light for her flower. I made a garter for her "boyfriend".

Kevin and I had a wonderful 6th anniversary.........We spent the evening having fun with no children. Many thanks to Tarah for babysitting....for free!!!

Johnny showing off his push pop candy. His treat for going potty in the bathroom!!! He spent 10 hours in big boy underwear with no accidents. I am trying to get this kid out of diapers before kindergarten, but he is stubborn.....can't figure out where he gets that from......

Tarah and her cousins performed in their CS4C concert this past weekend. I have video but it is not digital. They did so good. Tarah even smiled and looked happy to be there.

Here are the seniors doing a song. They are great and really inspire us adults to be better people. I am so proud of Tarah and Alex.

Johnny says " it's hot, I'm tired, yes, Sissy can dance, Can we go ride the rides now?????.

Things here are busy as always...........I only wish I was able to play raquetball this semester. But when I go back to school in Jan. I will be able to work out all I want. I am sorry not to update as much lately. It is hard to get the kids to nap, get anything done and still do all I need to. My blood sugar is not doing good and I am 80 lbs. overweight, it is hard to get motivated and workout with 2 young kids needing constant attention. I am just really tired these days and trying to do better.