Who knew. . .

that putting up Christmas decorations could get someone so excited that they fall over face first into the cement! Lizzy did just that today and scratched her nose, forehead and cheek :-( Still pretty happy though as you can see from the pictures!

Really what happened was she just fell down, just as clutzy as her mom I guess?

Sisters

Here is a side by side comparison of Emma & Anna in the same exact outfit around the same age on our front porch swing! There's about three years difference between pictures. I thought it was neat to see the differences and similarities between the two!

Tennessee Turkey!

We headed back to Tennessee for Thanksgiving this year. Jody's family is in Johnson City, which is about 5 hours from here. Not too bad of a trip there, mostly because we drove at night so the girls would sleep! The girls spent some time raking and playing in the leaves with Granny and some cousins, inspecting "forts" constructed by Cousin Ian and Uncle Matthew and just running in the cool mountain air! We visited Jody's grandparents on their farm, where we hopped on a 4 wheeler and had some fun! We had a chance to visit Papa J (Jody's dad) at work! The girls had a blast looking at the hellicopters up close and having Papa J tell us all about them! We spent Thanksgiving lunch at Jody's mom's side and Thanksgiving Dinner at Jody's dad's side. The girls of course ate tons of great food and had so much fun playing with cousins! We had a great time just spending time with family, I can't believe how fast these kids are growing! We also had a chance to visit Dollywood with Jody's side of the family, it has become a family tradition to go the day after Thanksgiving. They are only a couple of hours from Dollywood so the trip was easy but boy was it cold!!! The girls were able to ride some rides, eat candy and sweets and ride the train. We left Tennessee Saturday afternoon and took our time, we were glad to be home, but miss family. It was a great trip but we do wish we would have had more time to spend with family :-( Check out some of the pictures we took while we were there. . .thanks Savannah for letting us borrow your camera! By the way, what's your blog address?

Stir Crazy. . .

The weekend brought sickness to our family. Lizzy started with an icky nose (a lovely shade of yellow and green) Saturday so that meant I had to stay home from church :-( Monday I started feeling bad and wasn't able to go to my ladies bible study that evening. This morning Anna woke up in a bad mood and layed on the couch all day. She laid down for her nap (regular time 2:00pm) after lunch at 12:30pm and is still not awake! I'm feeling better today and boy do I need to get out! So in my stir craziness I had this crazy idea. . .the girls love to cook with me and none of us have aprons. I started looking through my fabric to see about making an apron for myself and stumbled upon some fabric and ribbon I've had for quite some time. There wasn't enough for an adult apron, but plenty of fabric for child size aprons, so I thought I'll give it a try. Here are some pictures of one of the aprons I created today! I'm not a great seamstress, but I do love to create things!

This one I call my "chicken apron", the chicken is a pocket as well as decoration. Emma is such a good little model! I made a few others, more plain. I'm going to tackle an apron for Lizzy next!

Jody's been bugging me about trying to sell all my "creations" for years, I think I'm starting to warm up to the idea. What do you guys think?

Bubble Tape

Emma's new favortie candy is Bubble Tape. You know what I'm talking about, "6 feet of bubble gum. . .for you, not them"! My parents got Emma and Anna both some a week or so ago. Anna is too small to be alone with Bubble Tape so we took hers away and mistakenly left it in the van. Emma found it and the story is she hid it in the backseat among her crayons and marker pouch. We didn't realize this however until Friday morning! You guessed it we found a wad of gum in Emma's hair.

The funny thing is Jody made her spit gum out when we got home before she went to bed (she fell asleep in the car). The only thing we can figure is she had 2 pieces, lost one and decided to get more, not paying attention to where the first gum may have gone. We didn't realize she had gum in her hair when we put her to bed, she didn't either. Emma is a mover so it was good and stuck Friday morning. I tried some remedies and nothing really was working so I decided it had to be cut. Jody kept telling me to try other things, but there is a limit as to how much time a 4 year old will sit still and have their hair pulled over and over again! I had also cut her hair a few weeks ago, about 2-3 inches because it was looking straggly! Which was making the situation even worse! I think Jody was more upset than anyone about the impending haircut.

This is a picture of the hair I cut out, thought you all might want to see exactly how much and how long some of the pieces were!

She is now sporting a shorter more layered look. I had to really layer it so we wouldn't have to cut it above her shoulders! I like it and Emma does too, that's all that matters!

I should have gotten a picture of Jody crying. . .

Bible Character Night at AWANA

Here are some pictures of the girls before church last night! We had AWANA and the girls were supposed to dress up in costumes with a bible verse in mind. Emma was a butterfly after Genesis 1:24-25 . Anna was a ladybug after the same verse in Genesis 1:24-25. And Lizzy was a flower after Psalm 103:15. They were so cute! They are all sitting by their pumpkins on the front porch they created last weekend with Papa and Wanka! Jody did a great job with taking their pictures, I do have to say our kids are very photogenic too!

Can you guess which one is for which girl?