And Then There Were Four....

What a week! Halloween opened up what could be a new chapter for our family. For privacy sake, I can't go into detail, but we had 3 kids when we woke up on Halloween morning and we had four when we went to bed Halloween night. It proved to be a day filled with emotions like none we have experienced. Who is our fourth child? She is my baby sister. She is just 3 months older than Hannah and for now at least she needs us. The circumstances that brought her to our home are not for the faint of heart but we are here for her as long as we need to be...even if that means forever! We love you sweet girl!

Cheer Competition 2009!

Here is Kristen. Her and Hannah were goofing off for the camera after we got home from competition this afternoon....Her squad won 2nd place! Here is Hannah. She cheers in a younger age group than Kristen. Her squad won 1st place!

I love these girls! We are so proud of them and the rest of our Cowboy cheerleaders!

Oh and I think they really do love each other too!

One last note....in our league there are 3 age groups. The youngest Cowboy cheerleaders also brought home 1st place! Way to go girls!

Morning Glory!

I do love these sweet flowers! I was thrilled to see them popping up on the old chain link fence between our yard and the ball field. I was even more thrilled when I went outside around noon to see that they were still open and waiting on me to take their pictue!

A Fall Art Project and a Surgery Update

So before we dive into this fun art project I wanted to update ya'll on the boy's eye surgery. After being pushed back twice to later in the day last wednesday, we finally got the show on the road around 3 pm. Talk about a long day for a four year old who hasn't eaten anything! Anyhoodle, everything went great. He seems to be a bit shy about folks looking at his eyes right now so I am not going to post any photos post op. We go first thing tomorrow for his post op appointment!
Now onto our fall project! The kids and I were walking around outside yesterday checking out all of the leaves when we decided it would be fun to do a canvas of leaf stamping! We gathered our leaves and our paints (we used acrylic paints...because thats what we had). First we painted our canvas a warm caramel color. After it dried the kids painted the under sides of the leaves with paint in a few fall colors and then stamped them onto the canvas and VOILA! After it dried I sprayed it with a couple coats of sealer and now it is ready to hang!

A New Do?!?

I don't have too much to say right now so I am going to leave ya'll with a few photos of our boy and his spikey hair....that he LOVES! Of course it usually doesn't stay spikey for too long before he starts messing with it, but nonetheless I have pictures! Enjoy!

Oh and how stinkin cute are his crazy faces!?

Happy Birthday Sweet Girl!

Our sweet Hannah is turning 10! We celebrated Hannah's birthday by having lunch at Meme and Papa's house after church. I can't believe how fast these last ten years have gone! Hannah, you probably challenge us the most, but behind all of that you are so smart and so sweet. We love you baby girl and hope your special day is blessed!

Totally NOT What I Expected!

I took little Brian to see his eye doctor yesterday. He was...ahem...a little overdue. Actually had eye surgery in July 07 to correct a misalignment in both of his eyes. When the daddy lost his job last year we lost our insurance. The last time Dr M had seen Brian was at his 6 month post op appointment I think. When I called a few months ago to get an appointment, now that he has insurance, Dr M was booked up a few months out! He is worth the wait though. So at our six month post op appointment a little over a year ago I had concerns that the alignment was not always "perfect". You can find out more about what Brian has here if you want. Dr M told us that as long as his eyes were working together we were good. They were. Well guess what....they are not now. Dr M told us that meant one of two things. The first was that he may need glasses or the second scenario was the need for additional surgery. So DrM dilated his eyes and they did another exam and ruled out a need for glasses. So with that little Brian is scheduled to have his second ....and hopefully final.....eye surgery on September 30th. Totally NOT what I expected!