Gracie's Cut...

Yesterday we headed to the mall, so that Bryant could check out a special he heard on suits. After grabbing dinner at Chick-Fil-A, I took Gracie to Cartoon Cuts and she received her first hair cut by a professional. I told them not to touch the bangs... we're growing them out.

In this picture she reminds me SO much of my mom.

Pirate Days...

"Know what today is mommy?.... it's my big day! I'm a pirate today!"

At preschool today Nathan had his Pirate Day. The highlight of the day was a treasure hunt around the church looking for.... treasure!

Every good and mighty Pirate starts off the mornin' with pancakes, strawberries, and bananas.

"Down da hatch!"

Don't let looks be deceiving.... while the pirate made it aboard the good ship minivan, the rocket launcher did not. After all, it wasn't that type of pirate day.... there were no Navy vessels involved.

He wanted a peg leg for the occasion.... we kinda thought that would create some legal problems, so decided against it.

Gracie too had to try out her good Pirate voice for the day.

"Aaargh!"

Time to go now and "swap the deck".

It's Been a Long Week...

or maybe it was just packed full and today is our day to stay home and go no where! It seems that all week we just ran from here to there; preschool, church, grocery store, library, dentist.... I've been looking forward to Friday, the day that had nothing scheduled on the calender. Seriously on Wednesday, I can't even tell you if we were home at all! Which in reality is a nice change, to see some order and schedule come into our household this Fall does bring a little bit of joy. It just also makes the week fly by. So, here's some main highlights:

• Nathan had his first Dentist appointment this week! And he loved it and can't wait to go back in March.

• I on the other hand had a cavity filled this week, and did not love that or the feeling that it left on my jaw for the remaining of the day!

• I've started Thursday morning Bible study, "Experiencing God".

• And our wireless adapter for the computer has decided to croak this week (we didn't even have it a year yet), which meant a family trip to Best Buy. I went to monitor his spending and he wasn't worried that I would be throwing stuff in the cart... little did he know! I've been dying for that Surgar Land CD. And the kids loved watching Cars on a TV larger than they'll probally ever see in this house.

And here are a couple of shots of the kids from this morning....

Ok, now I'm gonna go listen to some Sugar Land...

Ribbons and Bows...

It's been about a week since I've broke into my ribbon box... so today was the day.

Here is Gracie's newest collection (so far) of bows and clippies. Now, I just need to get back to Michael's and get some more headbands to broaden that collection as well!

Soccer...

Finally!!! Nathan had his first soccer practice/ scrimmage today.

This is in stealth mode...

Okay, not really.... I just couldn't figure out how to put my camera on a sports setting.

He has been looking forward to today, in fact yesterday he kept saying "tomorrow's my big day!". And he had a lot of fun, we just need to work on the "no hands" approach.

First Day of Preschool!

It's been a busy week with Parent meetings and Open House, but today finally.... was the first day of Preschool! Daddy went with us to drop this big guy off, then headed to work. Nathan was so sad when I picked him up because daddy wasn't there, so we called Grandma. Grandma fixed everything!

Nathan's showing off his new Preschool bag. Instead of backpacks, the school has the children decorate canvas bags with stamps during Open House. Nathan went with Sesame Street.

Over the Past week...

• I have had a slight obsession with bows and headbands.

• Gracie has been all into crafts. Especially painting and using the stamps.

• Nathan found a Locust shell, and held a snake with uncle Kody.
  

• We traveled to New York where the kids loved playing outside and eating Grandma and Grandpa's yummy fruit.
  
  

• And these here hillbillies.... just kiddin.... did some work around the farm.
  

It was a good week... with a GREAT weekend!