Happy Birthday Daddy!!

So thankful for the person he is, and for giving me wonderful memories of my growing up years.  Fun times together: bringing home baby calves from the sale to feed, family vacation with the Reeds, late night basketball trips and stockshows, early mornings taking us to school for cross-country and track meets, driving us around on tractors and 4-wheelers, teaching us to ride horses, teaching me drivers ed, loving mom, making us breakfast most mornings before school, yelling really loud "It's time to go", cooking suppers and lunches for us, laughing around the coffee pot at church, buying ice cream without mom knowing and hiding it, letting Jaxon grab your nose, letting every single grand kid sit with you in your chair, watching bull riding with the grand kids, the consistency of knowing where you are on Thursday mornings, the consistency that you brought to our home, and my life!!

Love you more than all these words!!!

8 Months!!

Happy 8 Months to my Baby!!!

You were a pig for your first Halloween.  You obviously didn't care what you were, but you definitely did not like the cap on your head.  Silly girl!!

You even got to suck on a sucker for a little bit, thanks to Daddy and Aunt Bri.  For some reason, you love going to Aunt Bri now!! :)

You enjoy eating, and have pretty much liked everything we have tried.  You can make some pretty funny faces, but manage to get it down, and then you always still want more.  You love having snacks like: puffs, yogurt melts, and Mam crackers. You like juice, but don't get it that often. 

You take 2 naps a day, and then sometimes have to have a 20 minute cat nap around 6:30 or 7 because you just get so sleepy. 

Wake up once a night to eat; eat 4 times during the day, and usually go to bed around 8:45 or 9. Wake up around 8. 

Love when Daddy gets home, and like to attack him and crawl all over him when he lays on the floor. 

I think your favorite thing is being around other kids.  You love seeing Kylee and Jaxon around you, and actually look up at them sometimes, as if you are listening to them talk.  You love sitting on Big Cousin's Hip as she sometimes gets to walk around with you. I seriously think this is your favorite thing. 

But, pretty soon, you might be WALKING!! We'll see.  You have been walking along the couch and cabinets, and can push a toy that does not move very fast, like the chairs.

Every day I feel like you are more and more different than the olders. 

You for the most part are happy all the time, unless you are hungry or sleepy, and then you are happy again. 

Your hair is still real blonde, and you have a lot of it, with a pretty part; I can't figure out what color you eyes are. 

This is pretty much your happy look.  It takes ALOT to get you to smile big.  Kylee and Jaxon would smile Big and all over when they were little, and now Kylee won't smile at anybody, but Jaxon will, so we'll see.  

I love how your personality is different.

My Baby, I can't believe you're 8 months old.  Time please slow down!! I love to see you learn new things, but when I look back on our time together, I just think where did it go.  How my love grows for you every day.  You are so precious.

Crafty

I've squeezed in some time for some crafts lately. 

Painted an "H" on a burlap covered canvas.  Made a orange fabric flower, and added a rhinestone.  I am enjoying looking at it. 

I wanted to make Maggie some knit headbands.  She has one, that has some laminated flowers on it (basically just circles with a button in the middle). 

There is not much laminated fabric around, so I decided to laminate my own.  I ordered some of this from Amazon. 

It is so cool.  I laminated all these fabrics, and am hoping to get to make some headbands on Saturday with mom's help.  

It was so easy to do!!

Undecided....

No, I am not an undecided voter.  I have long known who I am voting for.  

I am just nervous for our county.  I am undecided about which way the election is going to turn out.  Some times I think it's going to be good, and some days I scare myself thinking about the alternative.  It will not be good for our country.  But, I guess, we will know very soon now!!

Praying for a new president. 

How did we do?

How well did we match the picture??

I think pretty good!! 

Kylee said "but mama, you hair is not curly like them."  

In a week's notice, and living in a rather small town, we couldn't find blue curly hair, or red and white striped satin fabric for the skirts.  

So, we went with what we could find.  We got the wigs at the Halloween store 50% along with the gloves.  But, we only need one pair of gloves. :)

We got the fabric at Hancocks, and forced mom to whip out some skirts for us.  Thankful that she did even though she would rather sew on bags, ruffly hair flowers, or a squirrel for a baby gift!! 

We had a great time at the party. This year the clues were hidden around the house, and we had to search for them behind pictures, in drawers, under cushions.  It was SO MUCH FUN doing it that way!! It was really like CLUE!!

One guy thought that the tattoo on my arm was real.  Made me laugh. 

And our Sunday School Teacher couldn't even look at us, because he thought we were creepy.  

See how creepy I could look..... 

Taken after we were separated....

My Wardrobe for Saturday Night

My Wardrobe for tonight will look something like this....

Headed to a murder mystery party - trashy circus theme, where I will be a Siamese twin with my closest counter-part. 

Should be fun!!

So Different!!

I am a mother of girls.....

AND 

I  am a mother of a boy.....

How very different they are!!