Random Shots!

Sissy got stuck so she got out and pushed the truck herself. Way to go Sis!

Doug's first pony tail attempt ever! He did a good job for his first time!
(Sorry about the mist affect but I had just come from outside where it was cold to inside so it fogged up my lense)

At the Park!

This park is so much fun and the girls love it! This Clifford was a new addition so they had to try it out!

They can play so well together now! It is so neat to see their relationship grow and Hailey tries so hard now to include Sissy in everything that she does!
I LOVE THIS PICTURE!!!
SISTERLY LOVE!

PLAYING IN THE LEAVES!

We have such a gorgeous tree in our front yard that is huge and at this time of year can be alot of fun for the girls! We decided to go rake a pile of leaves so that the girls can jump, hide and play and it provided quite a bit of entertainment for all!

Sissy tried her best to rake them herself!

Hailey trying it out first!

She is so funny! All you could see what her cute little head!

Hailey's turn to meet her doom!

Sissy Diving in!

Can you find them?
Believe it or not they are in this pile of leaves!

They wanted Doug to completely cover them!

Your going down Sissy! lol.
Doug chased Sissy all over the yard and just cracked up laughing the whole time! She got caught quite a few times and thrown into the leaves!

Sissy tried so hard to dodge him. It was so funny!

She was caught!!

Before the party!

This past Fri. mom and dad watched the girls for me while Doug and I went out with his best friend Matt and Callie to a party their friend Kurt was putting on. It was so much fun to dress up and go out! We had an awesome time!

Matt made an awesome Popeye!
The bald head and beard just made it even more fun!

Callie as Olive Oyl
She made her entire outfit and it turned out so cute!

Doug as Fred Flinstone! I love the ripped sleeves and tatoos showing!
Not to mention the CRAZY hair!
Very Sexy! lol.

HALLOWEEN PARTY!

Me as Wilma and Doug as Fred! I just loved these costumes!

Amy (punk fairy) and Callie (Olive Oyl)

Matt and Callie
What a cute couple!

Me, Callie, and Amy
Definitely the cutest chicks at the party!

A cop eating a doughnut!!! lol. I thought this was hilarious!

Callie playing a game!

Rob the chilly pepper (Callie's brother)

The girl's costumes!

A week before Halloween Hailey's school had an open skate night at our local roller rink. This is an every month occurence and only costs $1.00 per person. This month they were able to wear their costumes so they were so excited!
Hailey was a witch and Sissy was Hannah Montana!

You give her a microphone and she turns into a completely different person. She IS Hannah Montana! lol.

Every witch needs applesauce!

My little performer!

TRUNK-OR- TREAT!

This year I decided instead of the kids going trick-or treating to get candy, the girls would enjoy giving it out to kids instead. Our church had their annual trunk-or-treat which is where we open our trunks, decorate them, and give out candy to our community. It is a way to minister to them and just get connected to those that live around us. We had an AWESOME time and the kids loved handing it out and never complained about not getting any! As you can see they definitely helped themselves to our stash every once in awhile!

Right after setting up and getting settled into the back! They were soooo good!

Reagan and Grant! How adorable!

Ella and Mark! What a little doll baby! (The newest addition to our congregation!)

Regan striking a pose!
I just love her!

The wonderful decorations!

Becky and her X-mas tree! This is Hailey's sunday school teacher!

Steve and Karen LeMasters also poured hot chocolate and cider to the trick-or-treaters!

Becky's car

I think this decorated pickup would have won the prize for the best decorated if we had a contest! It was Awesome! Notice the roasted pig on the plate! too funny!

Waiting for Trick-or Treaters!

Molly made such a cute Belle!

Our Pastor with a Mullet! lol.

Sissy chowing down on more candy!

The girls handing out candy!

Hailey did so well handing it out and really enjoyed seeing all of the costumes! Absolutely nothing scared her!

My little cutie!

My little Bandana Hannah!
What a beautiful girl!

Becky gave Hailey this wonderful, very noisy, bell wreath! Thank you so much Becky (not the sarcasm! lol)

Hailey's Pumpkin Patch field Trip!!!

THE CORN FIELD MAZE!
Each mom who came and Mrs. Gerlach broke the group into 4 groups and we had a race to see who could find the exit first. It was alot of fun! I totally left the directions up to the kids and we got lost!! It was fun though to try to figure it out together!

Going over the rules!

My wonderful group!

YEA we found our way out after getting lost! lol. I may also mention that we didn't actually find the exit, Hailey retraced our steps and led us out the entrance! It was pretty funny!

THE BARREL TRAIN!

This just shows Hailey's alpha personality. She was the first one to the front of the train. But she was nice about it!! lol.

THE HAYRIDE!

This is Natalie (Cole's mom) who is mentioned several posts below. She is very involved with their class and is head of the mom's group for the class. Such a sweetheart!!

Me and my baby!

Hailey and her teacher Mrs. Gerlach
Mrs. Gerlach (or Carrie as I've always known her) use to be in my youthgroup years ago and we were good friends. It was really cool to reconnect with her and it's AWESOME that she is Hailey's teacher this year. Hailey just loves her!

Most of the kiddos!

PAINTING PUMPKINS!

LEARNING ABOUT HOW PUMPKINS GROW!

All of them were so good while listening to a story and seeing all of the different kinds of pumpkins.

CRAFTS AND CORNHOLE!!

Makaylah and Hailey playing in the corn!

FACE PAINTING!

They got to choose their own design to be painted and Hailey supported her football teams All the Way!! One side was for her school Licking Valley and the other side was OSU which is our college team....GO BUCKS!!
It was so cute! Everyone else wanted halloween designs or princesses but not my baby!! LOL!

GO PANTHERS!

Hailey's friend Jessica wanted to be a kitty!

The Hay bale maze!

What a cute ghost!

Hailey is such a leader and surprisingly all of the kids followed her directions. Her goal was to consolodate all of the corn into one barrel and she achieved this goal with everyone's help!

Lunch in a barn! It was nice to get out of the cold and eat with their seperate classes. Everyone had an AWESOME day!

HAILEY'S HARVEST PARTY!

I had the opportunity to make cookies for Hailey's harvest parties and help out with the crafts. It was so much fun!! The kids got to paint little ceramic pumpkin figurines (provided by Natalie, cole's mom) which turned out so cute! I really enjoyed seeing Hailey with all of her friends and in her class. Thank you Natalie for coordinating such a great party!

ANOTHER MILESTONE!!!

YEA! Hailey can now tie her shoes! I have only showed her a few times and one morning while getting ready for school she attempted it by herself and did a FANTASTIC job. She now ties her shoes every morning by herself!
WAY TO GO PUNKIN!!! I'M SO PROUD OF YOU!

Play-doh snow men!

Hailey had this great idea to make snowmen out of play-doh and she assisted Sissy with this project. She does such a good job of explaining things to her and the end result was 2 adorable little snowmen.

Sissy cracked me up because she was rocking hers to sleep. What a character!!

GLOW putt putt!

Our church had a wednesday night putt putt outing and it was at this really cool glow putt putt place in the mall. The girls LOVED all of the light affects. Everything white on us glowed and they just thought that was the coolest thing. They did this course twice and had soooo much fun!!

With the flash of the camera! What adorable aliens!

Without the flash!

Sissy concentrating on getting the ball in the hole!

What a cool, and somewhat creepy wall!

Hailey's second tooth----pulled!

Well, Hailey once again pulled her own tooth. I dont get the facsination but I just think she gets impatient waiting for it to fall out. She already has a tooth growing in so she's not completely toothless. She can however put her tongue out the hole which she thought was pretty cool! lol.

I LOVE her freckles!!! This is probably one of the best pictures of them. Sorry for the gorey tooth shot!

Sticking her tongue out!

WHAT A GORGEOUS FALL!

God truly has blessed us this year with beautiful fall colors.
Fall is absolutely my favorite season. And this is why......

MILEY CYRUS CONCERT!

Last Thurs. I took Hailey to go see Miley Cyrus in concert for her Birthday! It was her very 1st concert!
I had so much fun with her and really enjoyed doing something with just the two of us! I'll be taking Sissy out by herself for her Birthday too. This is a tradition I want to start since I'm not a big toy person and they never get one on one time with me so I thought this would be a great idea! I had so much fun with you baby girl!!


A woman in line was nice enough to take our picture. Hailey was just fascinated by the thousands and thousands of people.

THE HUGE CROWD!
When Hailey saw this she turned to me and said,
"mom, I don't think there's anyone else in Ohio because they are all in here!"
Too cute! I just love how she puts things together!

During the concert!

Hailey being silly!

Ok I am even a little ashamed to share this picture. I mean look at those shorts for crying out loud!

Flying over the audience on a motorcycle. Pretty cool!

Flying over the audience!

In a dune buggy!

Fall has arrived!

The trees are turning such BEAUTIFUL colors and are so vibrant this year. Here is the tree in our back yard! I LOVE FALL!!!!

Snuggling with Doug!

On Sun. we all had a pretty full day: church from 9:30-1:00, lunch until 2:30 than the park with Doug (while I stayed home to wk. on homework). When Doug and the girls got back to the house they were all pretty beat and relaxed on the couch to watch a movie.
Too cute!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY AUNT LANI !!!

This past Saturday we got together at Great-Grandma Gladys's house to celebrate A. Lani's Birthday. We had so much fun visiting with everyone and the kids just loved helping her with her cake. These pics are just adorable.
Aunt Lani, you are the sweetest, most thoughtful, caring person I know and we are soooo glad you were born!!
WE LOVE YOU!!!

Holly, our cousin, was in town from Virginia to celebrate with us so it was AWESOME to visit with her too!

AWWWW. They love their Aunt Lani!

Licking the icing off of the candles is the fun part!

BARNYARD HOEDOWN!

On Sun. night our church had their second annual Barnyard Hoedown. There was an awesome turnout and everyone had a great time!

Hailey found Doug's goggles and ear protection, that he uses for work, in his truck. When we turned around she looked like this! She was just so cute in his gear I had to take a picture! What a cutie!

Making Pumpkins!

While Doug and I played cornhole w/ some friends Hailey took Sissy over to create their own pumpkins. Hailey did so well helping Sissy!!

THANK YOU HAILEY!

Cornhole!

Doug and I vs. Starla and Gary

It was an awesome game and a very close match! Starla and Gary won by 2 points though but Doug and I kept them on their toes!

What a great picture of Doug! I love his smile!

Sissy's photography!

Her friend Cole
Too funny!

I thought this was a really cool picture!

Self Portrait!

The Hayride!

Sissy being Sissy!

Doug and I

Our friends daughter Molly. What a cutie!

Everyone enjoying the ride!

Everyone square dancing! No idea what the specks are so sorry about that!

Hailey, Sissy, and Milly watching the square dancing!

Theo just chillin'!

2nd Annual Pumpkin Party!!

This past Sat. I hosted our 2nd Annual Pumpkin party at my house! I love having family and friends over for dinner, games, pumpkin carving, and just to enjoy each other's company! It was a complete success and everyone had a great time! I LOVE this picture of Doug! He was such a good sport and helped us ice the cookies for the party. What an AMAZING guy! I LOVE YOU BABY!

Hailey being silly!

Doug showing his creative side!

Hailey gets so creative now with her cookies.

PREPARING FOR THE PARTY!

Hailey put our pumpkin lights together so that I could hang them in the garage where the party was going to take place. The girls were so excited to have guests over for our Pumpkin Party!

This pic. cracked me up! He missed the ball and landed in the bushes! CLASSIC!

Go for it Cheryl!

Wes mid- kick!

Sissy getting in on the fun!

DINNER!

I was so excited that I was able to fit everyone around one table in the garage! It was so awesome talking with everyone and enjoying our meal together as a family!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ZOE!

Today is Zoe's 13th Birthday so we celbrated it on Sat. with the family! I cannot believe she is now officially a teenager. What a beautiful and very smart young woman she's turned out to be! WE LOVE YOU ZOE!

CARVING PUMPKINS!

Heather getting her hands dirty!

Wow...now that's alot of pumpkins!

Wes and Cheryl

Things got a little scary!!

Now that is a knife!! LOL!

Zoe being creative!

Nice pumpkin Uncle Bob!

Addy did a great job on her peace sign!

I think Doug LOVES OSU! What do you think? In this pic. His buckeye Tat is showing along with his shirt and the pumpkin! Now that is a die hard Buckeye fan!

His best friend Matt however is a Michigan fan!
So Matt decided to carve "go Blue" with the Michigan symbol.
I really enjoyed watching them carve their pumpkins together. This is their very 1st time carving a pumpkin...EVER!!

Doug was on kid duty while I was drawing on our pumpkin! He LOVES kids and they just gravitate towards him! I love this picture!!
Peyton was hitting these pegs into the pumpkin that will light up in diff. colors. Definitely safer than a knife!!

The look of concentration!

Night time swinging!

This was Peyton's first time to our house so I brought out the baby swing for him and he and Sissy had a blast swinging together and playing on the playground!

Callie and Jackson! What a little cutie!

The Finished Products!

THE WINNER!
Seth's pumpkin turned out pretty amazing. I mean it is a creepy face but he did a fantastic job on it. It probably took him an hour to complete!

All of them lit! Wow what a variety! Everyone did an incredible job!

With the flash!

Sorry Sissy's head is cut off but when I was looking thru the viewfinder I couldn't see anything at all!

Hailey did an AWESOME job on her pumpkin! Cheryl had brought cupcakes for Zoe's B-day and they had witches feet sticking out the top of them. Hailey got this great idea to stick them in her pumpkin and it made a great accent for the eyes. In the post above you can see how neat it made her pumpkin look when it was lit up!

Doug very proud of his OSU pumpkin!

Matt's first ever pumpking carving!
To bad it had to be for Michigan but it turned out really good!
(We won't hold that against him!lol)

Awww they are so cute! Seth (brother) and his beautiful girlfriend Heather!

HAILEY LOST HER FIRST TOOTH!!!!

Hailey's tooth had been loose for a couple of weeks now but 2 nights ago it was driving her crazy so my "tough cookie" yanked that sucker out herself!! She took a paper towel and pulled and pulled until it finally popped out! She was sooo excited!! She was also able to use her cool new Tin that Uncle Sam, Aunt Mel and Eloise bought her just for this occasion. In France the tooth ferry is actually a mouse so on top of the tin it reads (in French) "come here little mouse!" Thank you so much guys for making the exciting day even more special!! We Love You!

Frisbee Fun!

Just a couple of Days ago Doug came over for dinner and we played with the girls all evening! Hailey just got a frisbee from Nana so we had to test it out. Hailey is getting so good at throwing and catching so it was alot of fun to throw it back and forth. Sissy played for a few min. but enjoyed playing on the swing set more.

I'm trying Hailey's "under the leg" throw. See below for Hailey's skills! lol.

Nice action shot!

Hailey somersaulting down the slide. Oh what will they try next?

Sissy running down!

Doug and Hailey

Hailey showing her mad skills! lol.

My turn to play!

I love this picture! It looks like she put alot of effort into this throw!

Doug throwing a perfect one to Hailey

Hailey trying her "under the leg" throw.
Surprisingly one of the ones she did like this went right to him!

Great Catch Hailey!

Swing set fun!

Another one of Hailey's more daring inventions. To see another....keep scrolling down!
I told her that if she let go of the chain she would fall but surprisingly she didn't!

My 2 goofballs! They are just so dang cute!

Hailey's invention!
Hailey had this great idea of undoing the swing from one side and hooking it on the other side of the rings. It was amazing the fun she had with this and she took pride in the fact that she came up with it herself! She is SO SMART and inventive! (she does get that from her Dad).

As a mom, I get to see what fun things I can get my children to do. Well I have taught Sissy to jump out of the swing! She loves doing this now! Don't worry she is never going high enough to hurt herself....yet! lol.

Wow she's high!
Sissy's waiting with anticipation to try Hailey's new swing!

My little Towel Heads!

Oh the entertainment a towel can provide! LOL! I love these pictures!
Aren't they just so beautiful?

Just hangin' around!

These girls are little dare devils now! I love watching them to see what they will try next and I love to see their face when they accomplish a task! So fun!

These shorts are obviously for play! Not really sure what she was attempting here but it was fun to watch!

Sissy trying to flip! She couldn't quite get her legs up far enough. But she put a ton of effort into it!

WAY TO GO SISSY!

Hailey conquered the flip and was so proud of herself.

This cracked me up! Sissy wanted to just keep packing stuff in the back of the cadilac they apparently needed for their trip! And Hailey is adjusting her baby doll in the front seat. I LOVE these ages. They can play together so well!!

Hailey out for a ride!

bunny ears! (I think. lol)

"I think I can reach the ground!"
What a cute expression!

PICNIC TIME!

Hailey had an awesome idea to have a picnic last weekend because it was so beautiful out. So she and Sissy drug their blankets up the hill and sat patiently while I made then sandwiches. It was so cute!

Note the differences in the way their blankets are layed out. This says so much about their personalities. Hailey is the more organized one and likes things straight and Sissy could care less. I love it!

Tickle time with mom and Doug!

Cheeeese!

I LOVE this picture of Hailey. She is so BEAUTIFUL!

Ouch. now this looks like it hurts. Kids can be so flixible. Both girls also attempt the straddles and splits now and are doing pretty well!

Doug and the girls had a wrestling match!

Hailey kept getting thrown on the couch and kept coming back for more!

I'm pretty sure Sissy lost! LOL! I loooove that smile though! Too cute!