Happy Halloween 2008

Posing for pictures after the Hope Preschool (yellow birds) Halloween parade!
She's obsessed with Tigers ever since Bruce joined Tiger Den

Bruce does the Ironman pose whether he's in costume or not :)

Sitting with Daddy's pouty pumpkin

The Hope Preschool, Yellow Birds, Halloween parade (Addie's portion anyway, poor thing was sick and fell behind )

First house they wanted to trick r treat at! Only house Addie enjoyed :( The threes are tough!

Best Halloween Cookies EVER!

Pumpkin Chocolate-Chip Cookies
Ingredients:
1 cup canned pumpkin
1 cup white sugar
1/2 cup vegetable oil
1 egg
2 cups all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon milk
1 tablespoon vanilla extract
2 cups chocolate chips*
1/2 cup chopped walnuts (optional)

Directions: Combine pumpkin, sugar, vegetable oil, and egg. In a separate bowl, stir together flour, baking powder, ground cinnamon, and salt. Dissolve the baking soda with the milk and stir into flour mixture. Add flour mixture to pumpkin mixture and blend well. Add vanilla, chocolate chips and nuts. Drop by spoonful on greased cookie sheet and bake at 350 degrees for approximately 10 minutes or until lightly brown and firm.* This recipe is good with both semi-sweet or milk-chocolate chips. However, we tried it with white chocolate chips and it was fabulous.

Happy Second Birthday Perry! You're a good dog!

Addie sleeping, New pink poncho, and First adult dress!

She is sooo sweet! I love cuddling her in the afternoons and having her fall asleep with me.

Simple pink poncho my sewing instructor taught me to make. Addie didn't like it at first but then everyone that saw it, told her how beautiful she is in it, so now she loves it! :) Next is a fleece jacket with a zipper for Bruce, it is so tough to find good boys patterns! They are all for girls...

My very first dress for myself! Those armholes are still a pain, but I love the dress and wear it with tights and black clogs. Looks wonderful!

Happy Birthday Grandma B!

Rehearsals went better than taping :) They got shy on me......which is HARDLY ever the case! Hope you have a wonderful birthday!

Pumpkinville - Addie's first field trip! 2008

Getting ready for the field trip....the sleeves were the WORST! So tiny and hard to center under the needle...I'm sure there is a trick out there, but I don't know what it is yet!
We were fortunate to see two 30 minute old baby goats!

You can tell they were just born...

Girls day out!

the dress..

Because of Tiger Den, Addie loves all tigers :)

Yellow Birds 2008

So beautiful!

Ganner's Bag

The world is hers...the Tiger Den shirt is Bruce's (she took it) and then she decided Ganner's bag is her bag. Rotten Rotten Rotten. I love her little spirit!

Getting ready for Christmas...

Bruce pushed the pedal for the hems and Addie wound and threaded the bobbin! Hi Ya, they pass the Tiger Den test!

The 'not on sale' sale fabric I purchased at Walmart..long story :(

What our family looks like at one of Danny's band competitions...

Danny and Mitchell relax after the competition.

Daddy is under the bleachers, searching for a flip flop or a favorite Harry Potter pencil, etc...Mommy takes the pictures.... Bruce acts like Iron Man

Addie dances and dances and dances....

And Danny provides the music...where is the video you ask? Again, it wouldn't load. That's why I stopped posting ages ago.....don't understand blogger sometimes ;(

Our only family photo this year!

Time to get a professional family photo done! My Aunt Laurie took this photo and I realize its the only one taken of us this year. Its my favorite, I just wish Addie had looked at the camera...she was mad Aunt Laurie and Tony were leaving!

Danny's first time driving

Should have posted this ages ago.....video is hilarious as I quickly shut down to pay better attention :)

McDonald's McDanny

Danny continues to work hard at McDonald's, earning money for his December London trip with the Marching Bulldogs. He gets to spend 25% of his checks on whatever he wants...he got a brand new cell phone today and man does it shine!

First tote

The inside is Hannah Montana, not that Addie has ever seen the show but she loves her cause her Ganner bought her Hannah pajamas.

TaDa! What fun. Now can everyone guess what they are getting for Christmas? If you don't fit into pillowcase dresses or pajamas then .....

Danny's Marching Bulldogs....

Hard to see because it was raining and they had to do stand tunes, Danny is the playing tenors on the left. I thought they did great considering the weather.

Finally a pink pillowcase dress!

She really wants and wants and wants all the time, but let me ask to take her picture! Ugh, what a gal....
Gettin' happier as the chance of another new pillowcase dress dwindles :)

Super excited!

Bruce's new pillowcase pajamas

Brucie Ducie

Nice and easy now.....
You're doing great!

You did it Bruce! (Note swimming dumbells don't weight a thing!)

Current Videos!

I tried to upload Danny's Marching Bulldogs video but it wouldn't load. I'll get some video of them this weekend and post! They are good too, first place for percussion (Danny's section) last weekend in competitions!

Just Because...

Mac n Cheese is so darn good and Addie is so darn beautiful!

More Tiger Den Photos!

Kicking Stance with Master Lee
The facility

Trying to break the board with his confidence! One little guy (the boy on the right with the headband) was able to do it and shocked Master Lee!