Life Lessons with Daddy

Poor Matt...I think this is a life lesson meant for a son, but he's making the best of three girls! I suppose it might come in handy one day, like learning to tie a tie, but for now Ally sure had fun helping Daddy clean up for Thanksgiving Day. (Maybe they ought to work on his chest next???)

Big Enough

For a few weeks now Ally has been asking to play on the computer and telling me "I'm bigger for it now, Mom", so I finally sat down with her to see if she could do it....WOW, she is big enough!

She can move the mouse all around, click to match numbers, letters and play all sorts of games. I knew she was "pretty smart" (we all think our kids are smart), but I really did not know she could do all that!

I guess she is getting bigger for lots of things right before my eyes. It is amazing to think that I didn't get my first computer til I was a senior in High School and she is starting at three years old! Boy will I feel dumb when she gets into school and I don't know how to do her homework, LOL.

Mad Hatter

Cedar is obsessed with hats lately, whether it is a winter hat, ball cap or just the hoodie on her jacket, no outfit is complete without a hat. These are a few of her latest fashions and the funny this is...she will walk around like this for hours! I'm afraid she is going to be my little (expensive) fashionista!
What you can't see in this picture is that she has red velvet Christmas shoes on her feet...what a stylin outfit eh? I blame this one on dad, and he even took her out of the house in such a get-up!

And don't even think about asking her to take it off...she will respond with a resounding, NOOO!

Who me?? Yeah, I'm cute! (at least mom gave her a hat that matched, LOL)

So Thankful....

So, with Thanksgiving right around the corner, I think it is only right that we all stop and ponder our lives. It is so easy to find things to complain about and have the "poor me's" but if you REALLY stop and look at the world around you, most of our complaints are pretty trivial.

DID YOU KNOW THAT IN AMERICA.....

-According to the Bread for the World Institute 3.5 percent of U.S. households experience hunger. Some people in these households frequently skip meals or eat too little, sometimes going without food for a whole day. 9.6 million people, including 3 million children, live in these homes.

-According to America’s Second Harvest, over 41 billion pounds of food have been wasted this year -Proportion of Americans living below the poverty level: 12.7 percent (34.5 million people)

-The average poverty threshold for a family of four: $16,660 in annual income

-The number of children under age 6 living in families with a female householder and no husband present: 54.8 percent.

IF YOU COMPLAIN BECUASE YOU DON'T HAVE "THE RIGHT PAIR OF SHOES", HOW WOULD YOU LIKE THESE:
IF YOU THINK THAT YOU ARE MISTREATED BY SOCIETY, LOOK AT THIS LADY:
IF YOU THINK YOUR JOB SUCKS, CHECK OUT HIS GUY:

IF YOU COMPLAIN ABOUT YOUR COMMUTE TO WORK, CHECK OUT THESE PEOPLE: LASTLY, IF YOU THINK YOU HAVE HAD A BAD DAY....THINK AGAIN

I am SOOO, grateful for everything that I have and mostly for my wonderful family and friends. Life gets busy and I may not tell all of you as often as I should, so Thank You for your unconditional friendship, love and support.... I Love You!!

Disney Or Bust!!

DISNEY WORLD

We just got back from a week in Disney WORLD with my Mom and Happy...and for those of you who haven't been there, it is HUGE! I took over 400 pictures, so I will just show you some of my favorites.

Ally was so funny on the airplane....when it was taking off she was patting her legs, and when I noticed it and asked her what she was doing she said she was going "super-fast" like The Little Einsteins...she cracks me up. Then once we had been flying she asks with all seriousness "how are we going to get down? I don't have a parachute on my back!" We had to explain that the plane would land so we could get off...she felt much better.

All of the kids were amazing....after days and days of walking, not sleeping well and generally burning our candles at both ends, no one was fighting about bed time and I can't believe how well they did with the whole experience. Matt vows that we won't return until the kids can all carry their own luggage and meet height requirements for ALL the rides, but I bet we'll go back sooner than that. :o)

The Queen of Far, Far Away

Monkeying Around!

This year was my favorite Halloween in a long time! My mom came over to see the kids and we took them trick-or-treating around the neightborhood. I thought Cedar would lose interest and fall asleep, but she LOVED IT!

No matter how tired she got, she was up and ready to go to the next door, in hopes of CANDY. (This child runs if she thinks food is involved in anything!! If I even open the fridge or the pantry door she is hot on my trail to see what I am getting. It reminds me of a cat we had once that could hear the can opener). When her bag got heavy she insisted on carrying it and would not let anyone help her for fear that we would steal some. :o)

Ally would have gone door-to-door all night if we had let her. Thank goodness it started to rain, and that was finally a good enough reason to come home. We had a lot of fun and I can't wait to do it again next year. Ally already informed me that whe wants to be a T-rex next year....we'll see if she remembers.