Santa Claus Came to Town

We had smores with Santa at the new neighborhood.  Only HK was excited about hanging out with the man in red.

New House - River Photos

One feature that Stacey and I like about our new house is its proximity to a river (where I hope to find time to go fishing).  Here are some photos I took of the girls one of the first days we were at the new place.  The path to the river is across the street and two houses down from us.

The water was low in these pictures.  On days when they have released water from the up-river dam, the rick the girls are standing on in these pictures is under several feet of water.

She May Not be a Texan - but she can ride a horse

One of Matney's friends had a birthday party this past fall where the main entertainment was riding "ponies".  Only problem - the ponies didn't show up.  Solution, the company that was a no-show made it up by inviting all the attendees to come to their property and ride horses around a practice ring.  I think Matney had more fun doing this than she would have going in a small circle in our friend's backyard.  Win-Win!

Now, if I could only get Matney's Mommy on a horse again - she has only gone riding with me once (as a present to me when I graduated law school).

Halloween

Yes, we did take the girls trick-or-treating this year.  We couldn't have two more different, or fantastic, big girls (hint, they are the middle two - Cinderella and The Hulk):

 

I even taught HK the line, "You won't like me when I'm angry!"

 

 

Jared's Birthday Lunch

To celebrate my birthday, we took the girls for pizza.  They were more interested in climbing on the giant mushroom-man statute (which did look rather cool) than eating.

 

 

 

Cute One Year Old

And a day of some minor catching up on posts could not be complete without another photo of Ev.  Here she is, showing off the outfit she wore for her first birthday party.

 

HK's First Day of Pre-K

Halle Kate started a week later, and Stacey and I both took her to school on her first day:

 

 

She was pretty excited to have us there for her first day.  And yes, that is a cool girlie shirt.  Further proof (Robot is always close by for big events):

Matney Started Big-Kid School

Our baby girl is growing up!

And she was nice enough to make a sign for her Mommy:

 

Losing Teeth

Matney lost her first tooth in August.

Yes, she was a very excited and proud big girl.  Excited enough to make this goofy face:

She has since lost the other middle one on the bottom and her top two middle teeth are very lose, but she will not let me pull them.  Stacey won't even let me (yes Jared is writing this) talk about it in the house - she has teeth issues.

June

Here are some pictures from June off of my phone. 

We did a lot of holding a sweet, sleeping baby.

We met friends at the Splash Pad.

We had temper tantrums. Some of us because we are 4 and life is hard and some of us because we are 33 years old and life feels hard. Frozen peas on knees are a lifesaver after a longer run.

Our princesses lived in castles.

Daddy (and Mommy but there isn’t photographic proof!) proved that we’re older but we’re still talented.

Ev tried to have a sleepover in the girls’ room. If you can tell by HK’s face she was not impressed by a baby in her bed.

Possible photo captions - “Because sometimes the couch is too far from a really good tv show" or “things HK tries get away with when she knows mom is upstairs with the baby”

We’ve spent lots of time outside….and even more time in our jammies.

I normally head out and around the neighborhood at 5:15. Snakes are always horrible but are especially awful  that early in the morning!

We spent a lot of time on the swing set. And yes, my child is sticking her tongue out at me!

Evelyn spent a LOT of time hanging out with us and her blankie is never far away. Thankful we've got a few extras so if this one gets lost we will survive. She won’t sleep without it.

Teaching Ev how to jump in the jumparoo! When did she get big enough for this?!?!?

Best toys in the house are all our little plastic “guys” and they can to play any where! Didn't you know Captain Hook loves to take over train tables?!?!?


Poor Evelyn! I often wonder what she thinks of this chaos.

The girls went to a camp put on by the county called Safety Town. They learned all sorts of things from the police, firemen, etc about being safe. They loved it!

Sweet baby has gotten to the “I have to try to lick everything around me stage” and she got her first cold. I was sad she was sick but very thankful for extra cuddles and very, very thankful for that snot sucker!