New Years Eve

WE STARTED THE NIGHT OFF WITH LOTS OF GOOD FOOD...


Ronnie & Skyler were really proud of their homemade pizza

the chocolate fountain

THEN THERE WAS FUN & GAMES...
guitar hero

I caught Ronnie & Jesse in the toy room rocking Faiths karaoke machine


Ronnie having fun with the noise makers (hey, it was late)



This picture and the one above is of my cousins little DOO-DAH! I had to add this cute pic in from her photosession that we did earlier that day. To see more cute pics from her shoot check out my photography blog here.






some of the couples ringing in the new year!

we ended the celebrations around 2:00am which was way too late for some of us;) HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Utah

The day after Christmas Ronnie and Faith flew to Utah along with Ronnie's mom and dad. Despite my insane fear of flying I was just about to hop the plane too but Jaylee started throwing up Christmas day. What would be worth me getting on an airplane? My three nieces were finally able to come home from Haiti! Ronnie's sister has been trying to adopt their three girls for the last three years, their faith finally paid off! Heather and her husband are pretty amazing...they share their love with their 10 children. Ronnie and Faith also got to meet our new niece Gracie who was born in October. Ronnie was good about sending pictures from his phone to mine the entire 5 days they were gone. It really helped me feel like I was there too!

Christmas

our 2008 Christmas card

Christmas PJ's

cookies for Santa



Thanks grandma Lydia for making the girls aprons!

Ronnie enjoying himself on Faiths karaoke machine


good times at the Longhurst family Christmas party

Christmas Sunday church dresses (infront of our cardboard fireplace, Santa has to come down the chimney right;)) We had a very Merry Christmas!

'TisThe Season...

Faith did a really great job dancing in her Christmas Dance concert {sigh} I just love living through my children;)

Faith lost her first tooth


we are thrilled (well I am) Jaylee started dance this week. To my surprise she did really good for a 2yr old;) My favorite part of the class was when she decided to take her cloths off! Yep! (remember my earlier post... Jaylee hates cloths) She must have worn her poor little self out because afterwards she fell asleep in the cart at the store

Faith singing O Christmas Tree at her kindergarten Christmas concert

fun at family Christmas parties

of course the kids had to visit Santa at Bass Pro Shops. DUH...Ronnie's favorite store in the whole world:)

Thanksgiving 2008

This year we had Thanksgiving at our house(15 of us). It was a great day full of yummy food and family! We did miss Ronnie this year though, he was hunting:( The picture is of my cousins cute little girl,(too much turkey);)No pics of my kids though, WHOOPS:) Hope everyone had a Happy Thanksgiving!

catching up...

RONNIE TURNS THE BIG THREE ZERO


I had to share this picture. Ronnie sent this to my phone from his phone. This is how he kisses us goodnight when he is away hunting:)




Hard to believe my hubby is 30yrs old! Our nephew shares the same bday with Ronnie so we celebrated the night at Bounce U and had a great time. After Bounce U a bunch of us headed over to Oregano's so Ronnie could get his free birthday pizzookie! YUMO!


This year Faith had a part in the primary program. She did really good! After she was done speaking her part she walked straight down from the podium and back to the chapel to sit with us. After some convincing she finally went back up to join the rest of the primary and finish out the program.


Faith tried to make Jaylee look like a "clown" by drawing on her with a pen. Poor Jaylee had been running a fever that day too but apparently she didn't mind, however mom did:<

I was so happy to find both of the girls passed out at the same time all on their own! I actually got to watch a tad of TV that night!


Lately I have been finding my girls sound asleep. Jaylee has become quiet attached to her baby dolls these days.

{WINNER & another boutique}

I am so excited to meet Andrea and her child/children? I had a great time at the shedinthestix boutique last weekend. I will be at Simonton Elementary School in QC this Saturday Nov 15 from 10:00-2:00 for their boutique/fall festival. I will be raffling off another free photosession...stop by for another chance to win!

boutique time

come check it out and enter my raffle to win a free photosession!

Halloween & the month of Oct

HALLOWEEN NIGHT

We started the night off with our traditional pumpkin bread bowls with soup. This year I tried out a new recipe (the cake shaped like a pumpkin) and it was pretty yummy. Then it was off to Trick or Treat.






FUN AT TRUNK OR TREAT




FUN AT SCHNEPF FARMS




FUN CARVING PUMPKINS



our poor pumpkin the day after Halloween:)