Long time no blog....

The blog's been a little neglected these days. We've been busy with life with 3 kids, I guess. Here are some pictures from the past few weeks.

My parents came to visit a while back and Kinsley's school happened to be having their fall festival during their visit. It was a great festival for a small elementary school.

See the big volcano in the back....

Here is my child at the top!

She scurried up there so fast. I think she may have found a new calling.

Other festival pics

We played outside on their visit.

Telling the story of the first Thanksgiving with puppets.

We also visited Old Towne Spring. Such a cool place. They have converted old houses into quaint little shops.

At the toy store

We saw Santa while we were there!

Hadley working on her abs

Justin got the jumper out of the attic the other day and Hadley has had a ball with it. Here Kinsley is reading to her in it. Note: It is no longer in the middle of our den. I realize it looks like a daycare in this picture.

Kinsley had yet another early release day from school so a friend and I took our girls out for a special lunch.

Hadley all dressed up with Justin.

Kinsley was so excited.

Kinsley also sang in front of our church with her choir. They were so cute with their little robes on (can't find my picture of that). I almost cried I was so proud. That morning, K asked me to straighten her hair.

Always a nut

Love that chubby girl

K also earned a pj day at school.

It was our easiest morning of getting dressed thus far.

When we were back home for Thanksgiving we met up with the Curran's for Zoo Lights. I was a little disappointed in it this year but the kids still had fun.

Kinsley looked a little hobo-ish that night.

We called it Mission Chic.

On the Train

Ignore the weirdo in the back

Finally a pic with the 2 youngest

Trains and Tea Parties

First off: Now this is tired.

I sure wish I could pass out at the dinner table like this. Some days, I feel like I just might.

Somehow Kinsley and Hadley ended up with a matching pair of yoga pants. I guess when you have as many clothes as they do it's bound to happen. Kinsley was so excited to get to match Hadley.

Can you guess why this little boy is smiling?

He just found out he was going to the train museum.

A few weeks ago, I found out that Houston had a train museum. I wasn't sure how safe the area around it was but we thought on Saturday we'd give it a try. We passed Wild Hog and Fresh Coon food stands on the way, I kid you not, but it ended up being in an okay area. Colby of course was in (wild) hog heaven.

He insisted on wearing the Railroad cap Beau had given him.

Don't know if you can tell from this picture but Colby is holding on for dear life.

The poor kid is terrified of heights.

One person wasn't too thrilled being there.

Kinsley claimed everything was so old. Ugh!

In the mail car.

Before church on Sunday.

Could they get any cooler?

Well maybe a little.

So we took Colby to see the trains because I knew that Kinsley was getting to do something fun Sunday afternoon. I had bought tickets to our local theaters Sugar Plum Tea with some of our friends. Totally up her alley.

First they got their makeup, hair, and nails done.

Then we had tons of food and tried our luck (which was none) at the raffle.

Then we watched an abbreviated version of The Nutcracker.

After the show, Kinsley and her friends went around getting the dancers autographs. Then Kinsley decided she wanted her picture taken with the dancers. Well apparently I am too embarrassing, so Kinsley had her friend take my camera and take pictures. Yes a FIVE year old took these pictures. I was impressed. I'm thinking of letting her do our family portrait next month.

Party All the Time

It seemed like all we did this past weekend is go to parties. I'm not complaining because we all had a great Halloween weekend.

It all started on Friday with Kinsley's school's costume parade.

We, ahem, attempted to make a haunted gingerbread house.

We also painted our pumpkins

Saturday we had two birthday parties.

The first was a princess tea party.

The second was at Little Gym.

Before church

Sunday night we went to a Halloween party. There were 25+ kids alone at the party. They had to have a dad go ahead of the bunch as they were trick or treating to warn the neighbors.

Minnie Mouse

Little Ladybug

Woody

Justin and I dressed up as Snooki and the Situation. I'm just not sure I'm ready for those pictures to be posted on the internet.

On Monday, Hadley was pooped.

Enjoying some sweet potatoes.