Fall Family Pictures

We just had new family pictures taken by our friend Brittany at Brittany Myers Photography. She did an amazing job and I love how they all turned out plus, we couldn't have asked for a more beautiful fall day! Here are some of our favorites...

Thank you to Mary at Bright Sunshine Designs for updating the pictures on my blog!

Puppies, Puppies everywhere!

On Saturday October 5th, our boxer Bayou gave birth to a beautiful liter of puppies. She has 9, 5 girls and 4 boys. Our house has been filled with lots of cuddles, laughs and puppy love. I had to share some cute pictures of all of the puppies and the fun we have been having! Hopefully, they will all find loving forever homes in the next two weeks because they are precious!

Puppies first pictures!

This is pretty much what we do, cuddle puppies!

so sweet

These two pictures are of "Chuck Norris" the biggest boy in the liter.

Every night the kids ask us to wake them up with a puppy, so we do. It is oh so sweet!

Okay, we'll do a roll call, here is all 9!

Halloween 2013

Halloween is always fun at our house, we love everything that goes along with it...the decorations, the food, the movies and the memories. This year James and I went to a pirate themed murder mystery dinner with our Sunday School class, it was so much fun!

The Saturday before Halloween, we designated as "pumpkin carving day."  We made hot apple cider, vegetable soup and pumpkin muffins. We watched Halloween movies and let the carving begin.

Christopher was a big help this year!

This is probably one of the best ones James has ever done!

On Halloween we had jack-o-lantern pizza courtesy of Papa Murphy's pizza for dinner.

We then headed to our church for Trunk-or-Treat!

our family

James Henry as Darth Vader

Makayla, our beautiful vampiress

Christopher, the grim reaper

the hottest guy passing out candy at trunk-or-treat!

It was a fun time and we made some more memories to treasure!

James Henry's nursery rhyme party

At James Henry's preschool they have been studying nursery rhymes and at the end of their unit they have a big party. They sing songs, dress up as nursery rhyme characters and recite a rhyme they have memorized at the party.
James Henry's nursery rhyme was Little Miss Muffet and we went as the spider. He did a great job reciting his rhyme! It was a fun day!

His costume was amazing, and I wish I could take credit but his daddy sewed it together!
Kudos to the Marine Corp for teaching my hubby how to sew.

Hanging out like spiders do...

singing his party songs

cute as can be, reciting his rhyme 

enjoying his party food

James Henry at Bat

James Henry just finished up his first year of t-ball and he really had fun. I personally love t-ball.. I love how sometimes they swing so hard that they spin themselves in a circle and sometimes they run to 3rd base instead of 1st. James Henry was no different, he danced in the outfield and rolled around in the dirt!

                                      

He seemed to really like it and is already asking when he can play again. Maybe, just maybe we have a future Texas Ranger on our hands!

 

James Henry and his end of the season trophy!

Our Songbird

In May, Makayla auditioned and was accepted into Amarillo Youth Choir. Over the summer, she went to choir camp with AYC and they practice once a week. 

Last Saturday, was their first choir concert of the year and they did not disappoint. It was amazing!

We are thrilled that she gets to do what she loves! Makayla lives her life through song, a random word or sentence she hears during the day will remind her of a song and she'll just start singing! 

Her music brings joy into our world!

A big thank you to our friends at Pirtle Photo for designing the ad space we purchased for the AYC catalog. It is beautiful!