Photo Shoot - Take One

Well - I don't want to give too much away regarding the girls' Christmas card pictures, but we had a first photo shoot this morning as they were in a pretty good mood and mommy thought it was worth a shot. We realize it will probably take MANY shots to get the one we want so we are trying to start early.

Anyway, they didn't do too bad other than wanting to see each and every picture on our digital camera after I took it, and there was one shot I thought I would go ahead and put on here as it was so sweet. Ashlyn is on the left and Anna is on the right. They can fight like cats and dogs one minute and then tell each other they love each other the next. Never a dull moment!

Where have all the days gone.....

I can't believe I haven't posted anything for so long. I'm so bad - and I was doing SO well there for a while. Anyway, let me catch you up on things.

The girls have been doing well until this week. We were supposed to travel to Maysville for Thanksgiving, but Ashlyn has caught a mild virus which prevented us from going. I'm actually typing this post on Thanksgiving day while Chris and Anna are at their Nana & Pappy's (Chris' mom and step-dad) house for Thanksgiving dinner (they live about an hour away) while me and Ashlyn are hanging out at our house waiting on leftovers - YUM! It is a bummer that we couldn't all travel together, but that's the way the ball bounces sometimes.

One exciting thing that happened recently was that my wonderful husband kidnapped me for my birthday last weekend and took me to Chattanooga. We dropped the girls off at Nana's and spent a fantastic weekend away from home which included a massage, pedicure and manicure for me - yeah! We came back on Saturday and Chris took me to see the new Harry Potter movie at the IMAX (yes - I'm a nerd and proud of it). Chris is not as big of a fan as I am (actually he could care less about Harry), so it was quite the sacrifice for him to take me.

We put up our Christmas decorations last weekend thinking we wouldn't be home this weekend to do so, but we are glad it is done. Now I just need to finish shopping and wrap the packages.

I've attached a cute picture of the girls playing in our back yard with their Pappy a couple weekends ago. Anna is in purple/Ashlyn is in pink.



Hope everyone has a very Happy Thanksgiving!

Halloween Pictures

Sorry for the delay...our computer likes to act crazy sometimes when it comes to downloading our pictures - darn that technology.

Anyway, here are our darling daughters as "pretty, pretty princesses". Anna is on the left and Ashlyn is on the right. They are actually Snow White dresses, but there was NO WAY they were going to let us put black wigs and tiara's on them. They had a ball trick-or-treating other than the first two houses had dogs which completely freaked them out (that's another topic for another day). We live in a pretty big subdivision so it was fun going to all the houses and seeing all the other costumes out there. Plus, our neighbors are Halloween freaks and they make a haunted yard out of their front yard. It is great to just sit in our front yard and watch the kids run out of there screaming their heads off. They are very respectful of those will real little kids which is good.

As a side note, Halloween is the anniversary of mine and Chris' first date - awwwwww - how sweet. We celebrated by picking through the girls' candy for our favorites - hee hee.