Isn't he cute?

Not only do I love this man, but, I really do LIKE him too!!!

I'm not saying our marriage is perfect but we love each other, respect each other, support each other, laugh at and with each other, we're a team and we actually REALLY like each other. I feel very blessed that God put him in my life 15 + years ago and I've made the choice to love him for the rest of my life!

I love watching him worship God and use his amazing gift...

"She likes me, she really, really likes me!"

I finally got to meet my "BFF" last night! WOO HOO! I brought Maclaine with me for moral support to meet Ree Drummond or as she's known in the blog world, Pioneer Woman. I've been reading her blog for about a year now and when I discovered it I spent weeks going through her archives. She's just so funny, down-to-earth, humble, generous, and just purely entertaining.



She told me I had cute hair! She also told me to e-mail her the picture of us since we are BFF's and all...


See, it's true! We ARE BFF's, she even said so :)


Maclaine was the most patient little girl ever, I bought her a book to reward her....

I didn't buy her Pioneer Woman's cookbook, I actually bought her a book she wanted :)

Halloween night!

We went to my sister's on Halloween night to trick-or-treat her neighborhood. It's always more fun for Maclaine to go with her cousins and it's fun for us too. Everyone came for the fun event except my younger sister Jamie and her family. We missed seeing them...I wish I could have gotten pictures of her kiddos.

Here's Clainey as a rocker-biker chic...




Clainey and Tanner as Albert Einstein...


Clainey and Aubrey....


Granny with the kiddos...




Mom and Aubrey, my mom made Aubrey's bag of jelly beans costume...








I wish I had gotten a picture of my Dad and Lin with the kids. They were getting tired of us snapping pictures at them though and were ready to get the trick-or-treating started. Boy, did they get a lot of candy! I've eaten FAR too much!

Hallapalooza!!!

Our church hosted an event called Hallapalooza the day before Halloween so we signed up to pass out candy at the trunk-or-treat. I thought for sure that Maclaine would want to walk around and "trunk-or-treat" but she said, "no, I'm fine just sitting here eating our candy." I didn't realize just HOW MUCH candy she was eating until we closed up shop and decided to go check out the other cool stuff at the event. Well, let's just say there was a pile of wrappers and a VERY hyper girl to show for it.

You'll notice in these pictures that she was having a hard time being serious for the camera. She reminded me of someone who had a little TOO much to drink if you know what I mean!

This was taken right after we found all the candy wrappers...


A little crazy....


Crazier...


Craziest...


We were on the hayride here....


They found a fire truck to play in...watch out world!


I think Ty might have had a few pieces of candy too, he was a little wild himself....

Carving Night!

Being a Christian is like being a pumpkin....

God picks you from the patch, takes you in, and washes all the dirt off of you....



He opens you up...


Touches you deep inside...


And scoops out all the yucky stuff-including the seeds of doubt, hate, greed, etc.


Then He carves you a new smiling face....


And puts His light inside you to shine for all the world to see....


p.s. I wish I could take credit for writing this beautiful analogy of how God loves us but I can't. I have no idea who wrote it but I love it!

Fright Fest!

Maclaine's school had Fright Fest this past weekend and you would have thought we were going to Disneyland. Maclaine had been counting down the days for a month. There were TONS of people but Maclaine had a great time...especially, since we found her buddy Seren who we looked for, for about 2 hours. They had a haunted house that she went through 3 times, they had a hay ride, and lots of little games for the kids to play. They also had some yummy kettle corn which is always a treat!


Here she is in her "Rock Star" costume, hopefully it will be cool enough on Halloween night for her to wear her leather jacket...


"Give me a pose!" "Uh, Honey, could you sit like a lady."


"Much better!"


Here she is with Seren...

Fall Break Fun!

During the Fall break we got all the cousins together to hang-out and do some Halloween activities. We decorated cookies, made mummy hotdogs, and just had a jolly good time with everyone!

The kiddos decorated pumpkins....








"Look, I made a spider".....



The kids played a very dangerous game of musical chairs, notice Mallory laying on the floor....






Tanner missed the chair...


Donovan not happy about being in time-out...


We had a toilet paper mummy contest....


Aubrey and Ellie....


Maclaine and Mallory...


"Tanner STOP, we're not done yet!"


The whole gang with their painted pumpkins....


Maclaine, Aubrey & Ellie...


Donovan found a Superman costume....


FUN TIMES!