Some days...

Some days when life won't slow down, you just have to hang on and enjoy the ride!!

Fillin' a Love Tank With Spinach Balls?!

This evening we started cooking our Thanksgiving dinner. I had one very interested helper from beginning to end. Sophie had a fresh excitement about helping me with the big meal. Our dish to prepare this evening was spinach balls. She was in every step from opening the boxes of spinach to watching them go into the oven. Once we got going Mackenzie realized there was something going on the in kitchen and joined us for the egg cracking.

Sophie broke eggs as fast as she could to try to keep up with Mackenzie handing them to her. Soon Mackenzie decided to start cracking them herself. (Wonder why I didn't get a picture of that - ha!)

Once everything was added and mixed, we put the huge bowl of spinach ball mix into the fridge and headed to the bath tub. After two exhausted kiddos were tucked in bed (not realizing the oldest had a delayed bedtime) Sophie and I headed back down to finish the task.

For the record, Sophie is not one to get "gooey." She really thought this was over the top gooey!!

But she did hang with me to the bottom of the bowl.

Nothing really exciting happened while we were cooking, but you could almost see the gage on the love tank of my sweet girl climb as our dish came together. (Especially when she got to stay up to be the big helper.) To tell you the truth my love tank was getting a good fueling too from this precious time!! I love you Sophie! I can't believe how quickly you are turning into a young lady. I had such a special time with you this evening- thanks sweet girl!!

I Can't Believe You're 5!!

My precious Haleigh! Girl, you make us smile so much. Just last night Daddy said you are so exciting because you are so unpredictable. Unpredictable and so much more :) I love that whatever you do you do it with your ALL. You play, dance, cheer on others and love with your all.

For your birthday we had a lot of fun at Frankie's Fun Park. You rode rides, bowled, climbed in the fun house and drove cars (without using the brakes once - even when parking:)

One of the best parts of the day was watching you decorate your princess cake. You were exhausted but so excited to put the sprinkles on your princess dress. You did a great job!!


Have a great year sweetheart! We love you!!

a quick funny...

Today we celebrated Haleigh's birthday... a real birthday post coming soon. We were at Frankie's Fun Park. We were climbing in this huge "fun house." Most of the 5 hours we had the entire place to ourselves. Some potential "new friends" joined us in the climbing adventure and Haleigh thought it was her personal duty to show them every path climbing possibility. The other little girl wasn't quick to follow Haleigh's instructions, noticing Haleigh's mounting frustration the older brother announced, "She only speaks Spanish." Haleigh looked at him with a puzzled look and said, "Well, I speak (pause, head tilt) speak!"
If we all just spoke "speak" wouldn't it be great :)
I love you my precious girl!!

Halloween Fun

The pumpkins were carved...

the trick-or-treaters were dressed in costume...

after a nap the "treater" was dressed in costume... (for a few minutes)

but, best of all Daddy came home from his annual mission trip!