Wordless Wednesday

Mondays with Mae and Jane

Didja know that.....

chocolate milk comes from this brown cow and
vanilla (white) comes from this cow?
Strawberry comes from red cows but they sleep during the day.

**Cows as seen near the lake house

Fun Fall Days...

include ice cream treats with friends.

It is starting to turn colder so we have said good bye to the ice cream man until the spring!

Wordless Wednesday

One day........

this will be

"FOR REALS"

Did you hear that?

It was Tripp's heart - it skipped about 100 beats

and gave him some more gray hair!

Monday Memories

I found these pictures looking for all my old Halloween pictures.

She could go from a sweet and loving to a jealous big sister in the blink of an eye.

I was so tired during those days and now

I wish I had paid a little bit more attention

to savor the moments like the ones pictured here.

We still have moments like these but they will never be babies again.

Sweet Sisters

September 2005

Mary Austin - 21 months

Jane Harris - 1 month

So Easy A....

Turkey can do it!

Turkey Trot 2009

Turkey Trot is one of the fundraiser that we do at Mae's school.

A one mile fun run!

This was her first Turkey Trot and she came in 6th out of all the K5 and 1st grade girls.

The top 5 were all 1st graders!

Mae we are so proud of you!!!

Everyone is a winner at Turkey Trot!

She's off!

Running hard!
I don't think she understood that she could slow down if she needed to!
I was helping direct traffic so I missed her at the finish line but Tripp said she was running as hard at the end as she was at the start!
Bless her!

Happy Halloween!

Halloween started Friday with Jane's school parade followed by

trick or treating at Tripp's office in the afternoon.

Saturday brought Greek or Treat, our neighborhood block party and

more candy and junk that the princesses could even stomach!

A bride and a bear....

are the costumes of choice this year in

Primrose Princesses Land

Trick or Treating at Daddy's office

2009

Brown Bear Brown Bear....

what do you see?

I see trick or treat candy waiting for me!

All Jane Harris wanted to be for Halloween was a bear.

Thankfully PBK had a bear this year.

Do you know how hard it is to find a bear costume??!!?!

Halloweens past.....

Somehow we have gone from Halloween 2004 to Halloween 2009

in the blink of an eye and I find myself nostalgic.

Here's a look back at Halloweens past - don't I sound just like Casey Kasem and the weekly top 40!??!! Get your tapes and boom boxes ready to record the number one hit that will play after a look back at the number hit from 1982...

Halloween 2004

Mary Austin - 10 months

bunny rabbit Halloween 2005

Jane Harris - 2 months

frog

She had colic and was not a happy baby from about 5 - 7 each night.

Halloween 2005

Mary Austin - 22 months

Ladybug with sparkly ruby slippers Halloween 2006

Mary Austin - 2.75 years - fairy princess

Jane Harris - 14 months - dragonfly (we called her Janie Bug)

Halloween 2007

Mary Austin - 3.75 years - The Asian Little Mermaid

she loooooved the wig and wore it for-evah

Jane Harris - 2 years - Minnie Mouse

she refused to wear the ears but loved the orange frosted cupcakes at the neighborhood party

Halloween 2008

Mary Austin - 4.75 years - Princess Ting Ting from Mulan 2

Everyone would look at her like we were crazy when she would say "ummm nooo I am NOT a Chinese princess; I am Ting Ting" Only those who are really in the know about Mulan would know who Ting Ting is.

Jane Harris - 3 years - witch or witchy-poo

This Halloween was spent in Fairhope trick or treating with Lily and Megan.

We got a visit from...

some of our favorite Princess friends!

Mae and Aurora

Jane and Ariel

Even though you are now all "growny" with real jobs and such

we are blessed that you continue to come see us!

We love you both!

Happy Fall Y'all!

My mantle that lasts through Thanksgiving!

See below for link to owls.

All other materials from Hobby Lobby.

How precious is this owl banner??

I got it here and y'all she has some PRECIOUS things for Christmas!

Hoot Hoot!!

**Disclaimer, Etsy is very addictive. Proceed at your own risk!

Don't say I didn't warn you!

Oh how they have grown!

I was looking for old Halloween photos and ran across this one!

Jane is about 8 months and MA is 2 years old.

Taken in our old house, Mary Austin is reading to Jane Harris.

Fall Days are for....

hanging out with friends in trees!

It takes a 5 year old...

to figure out all the cool extras on Nana's cell phone!

Self portrait by Mary Austin

How cute is my neice?

This picture was taken on her first day of school this year. She is now a grown up 1st grader! Not sure how that happened; I was in the delivery room when she was born and that was just yesterday! I love her school uniforms and secretly wish that our school had plaid uniforms!

Couldn't you just die for the matching headband and belt?

Seriously too cute!

We found an inchworm...

and we named him Inchey!

What else would he be called?!!? Passing him off

See how he tickles?

**No inchworms were hurt during this educational lesson. Inchey was safely returned back to his mommy.

An Auburn party

with the Averys is always fun!

Every girl needs

boots like Daddy's!

How could you not...

love this little face?

All blue eyes, freckles and Kool-aid mustache?

Introducing our newest..

gymnast!

She is doing great and I love that we only have activities 2 times a week!

Two girls...

one big and one little.

Both love sparkly things, lip gloss and drama.

Along with theme parties and matching decorations.

Everything is over the top and always fun.

Both first born, December birthdays.

Both love fiercely and I am lucky to have them both in my life.

My dear friend and my first born.

I am blessed and changed for the better because of them.

Late summer sun

and a boat ride = fun family memories.

It took....

all of 5 minutes for her to go from training wheels to this!

Just yesterday..

You looked like this.

My bald headed baby, loved by all but especially by your sister, daddy and mommy along with the rest of your family!

Always happy and smiling that gummy grin.

And now here you are.

All grown up with lots of hair.

No more gummy grin although you still are so happy.

as long as it is your idea to take pictures.

You have started riding a big girl bike.

You follow all the rules - most of the time!

You love any kind of creature - large or small.

You still have such a sweet spirit telling me "Oh Mommy I just love you so much!"

You may not look like me but you have a blanket that you cannot part with just like I did when i was a little girl like you!

You idolize your big sister and want to do anything and everything she does.

Your favorite songs include "No More my God and You'll Never Know What it Means" and I love to hear you singing them in the backseat. Your most favorite is still "Baby Mine" and you ask me to sing it every night and whenever you are sad or hurt. You think I have a beautiful singing voice.

You are learning to write your name, you know all your colors, our phone number and address, lots of shapes and much much more.

Your favorite place to be is outside with your Daddy.

Your favorite thing to wear is overalls. You found some pink ticking stripe ones and nearly wept with joy in the Osk Kosh store!

You are a miracle, a little sister and daughter and we love you always!