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We LOVE dressing up!

This week is red ribbon week.

The school sent home a sheet of paper telling the kids the dress up for each day of the week.

Monday they get to dress up like pirates.

With the theme, "Don't get hooked on drugs."

So tonight we spent some time scrounging up some outfits for them to wear.

Elsie wouldn't just stand by while we got Madi and Cassi all dressed up.

No way...

As I was cutting some eye patches for the older two...Elsie was saying "me too!"

So Elsie got her own eye patch.

While I was wrapping scraps of fabric around their waist...Elsie was saying "me too!", while holding up some fabric scraps.

So she got herself a scrappy necklace.

Then Cassi taught her to say "ARGGG Matey..."

And let me tell you, you have never heard anything as cute as that!!!

While she said it she kept swinging her arm around, I don't know if she was waving a fake hook around...whatever it was...she was cute!

I can tell is is gonna be a fun week!!!

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We LOVE the leaves!!!

Who doesn't love playing in the fallen leaves???

The kids had fun playing in the leaves this afternoon...

Elsie thought it was the best thing in the world!!!

Too bad we don't have anything but peach tree leaves...which aren't that big, and there isn't very many!

Oh well, the kids didn't seem to notice!

Porter was a little unsure...but thought it was pretty funny once they put some on his head.
Cute boy.

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I LOVE my babysitting helper...

and I LOVE learning new things that I have wanted to learn for a long time!

Tonight we have the little Terry girls over.

Madi is usually a great helper when it comes to babysitting.

If she feels like she is given a grown-up responsibility, then she does very well!

Tonight Madi did the girls hair all up cute...and a little crazy!

They had a lot of fun.

and...

I have wanted to learn how to put textures on pictures for a long time.

But I was very intimidated.

Come to find out, it isn't that difficult...

Of course, I am not great at it yet...but with practice I think it will be very fun.

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I LOVE creative imaginations....

Have I said how much we love this playhouse????

And how fun does it look all graffiti-ed with chalk!?!?!

Cute huh!!!

Anyway, I just think my kids have good imaginations.

Elsie loves to play house with anything she can find.

In the picture she is using half a paper towel roll.

Cassi's new thing with pictures, she likes to pretend like she is in the middle of telling me something.

She won't really be saying anything, just likes to pretend that I caught her mid-sentence...

Cracks me up!

She's gonna hate it when she is a little older and there are NO normal picts of her!

Anyway, I love the way my kids play together, when they aren't fighting...

it is always something fun and creative!

Porter has the funniest faces.

He pulls them all the time too.
He just makes me laugh!

Don't ya just want to squeeze him?

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I LOVE nice people!

I had to go get Elsie from school a little early today for a doctors appointment.

We went to go see a foot doctor.

We were getting more and more concerned about the way her foot is fanning out...

And today the Doc said if we don't do something about it now, she is gonna end up with early arthritis and then she WON'T WANT to walk.

So we are making her more foot braces, but this time they won't be as bulky, so it won't interfere with how well she is doing with her walking.

So she was casted today...they just used the cast stuff like when you break your arm.

They held her foot in the correct position while the cast hardened.

She was a trooper.

She was a little nervous when it came to cutting the cast off!

But she did so good.

Well, as we left the receptionist had this little bear sitting on the counter, just for Elsie.

How sweet is that???

Elsie loves her bear.

She hasn't put it down since we got home.

She has decided to name it Danny (possibly after cousin Dani???)

I am glad that these places realize that this kind of stuff is kind of scary for little kids.

How sweet of them to give her such a great reward!!!

The girls were so sweet tonight, playing with their bears...

Have I said how much I LOVE when they don't fight!!!

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I LOVE that Madi loves to read!!!

And boy, does she love it!!!

One thing I don't understand...how in the world can she read 9 books at the same time?????

See all the books with book marks in them above...it is so funny to me!

She has this book shelf and constantly has a stack by her bed...guess it depends on the kind of mood she is in...

Silly girl!

Also...how in the WORLD can you listen to music and read at the same time!

She definitely DID NOT inherit that from me!

(Please excuse the graininess...it was dark in her room!!!)

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I LOVE his bed head!!!

This means he is finally getting enough hair to get messed up!!!

YAY!

He wakes up with some pretty funny hair lately!

And, of course, I think it is adorable!!!

What about this little guy isn't adorable?

So I added some other fun pictures to make you smile!

I know...totally out of focus...but so darn cute!

This is the face he does when he wants to get something that he can't have!!!
Little stinker....

And just more proof that Cassi likes to maul, I mean LOVE, the little ones.

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I LOVE that I am finished with the Calendar!!!

No muscle picts to go with this post...can't spoil the surprise!!! But here is my page in the back....

Today I finally finished the cover and back for the 2010 Boise Firefighter calendar.

We did beefcake, but it is a very cool beefcake!

I am very excited about it!

It should be done and printed by Thanksgiving...so save your $10 bucks!!!

BUT...we are also going to do another calendar...

I don't want to spoil anything with that either...but it has to do with some of those old picts I was telling you about a couple days ago...

So I guess I am not finished yet!!!

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We LOVE Tucanos...

Even though we are so sick!!!!

We went out with our good friends, the Youngs, tonight.

And we went to Tucanos!

SO GOOD!!!!

We ate WAY too much!!!

This was the first time we had been there, and we LOVED it!!!

It was a great night out with good friends.

Thanks guys!
I love a date out with my man.

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I LOVE old photography....

Boise Fire Department back in 1910.....

isn't it an awesome photograph!!!

I was given a CD of old time fire dept photos today.

I just can't stop looking at them!
Just look at the story this picture tells.

Perfect!

And here is one more for your enjoyment....