veterans day gets me all choked up..

yesterday i watched all day as the 'birthday wishes and semper fis' flooded my facebook news feed. its a comradery im proud to have known first hand for many years of my life. and today.. its our turn to thank all of you for serving this great nation. and a special thank you to all of you family members. moms, dads, husbands, wives, brothers, sisters, children, grandparents.. you give so much, sometimes everything. thank you to everyone whos given their time, their life and their loved ones in the name of freedom.



my heart aches today for you, kathy. im sure its a bittersweet pride you feel as you see flags flying and celebratory parades honoring all veterans. you are on my mind..

im sure youre all wondering..

what this little {fake-smiling} rockstar was for halloween.. =)

you have waited patiently LONG enough! now lets see..

superman??

nooooooooo.. those are just pjs that are 2 sizes too small that he wont give up.. he wears them pretty much every other day. =)

baby mike jones?

dont be silly.. that was just one random day when mommy was bored and decided to straighten his hair! =)

a dallas cowboy?

nope.. that was just a trial run on costume day at preschool..

i'll give you a hint.. he's a magic robot!

thats right! yo gabba gabba's plex!

and who would plex be with out dj lance??

he was ADORABLE! and his daddy was pretty cute too. ;) he wore his costume on thursday night to the fall festival at our country club and then again on saturday for trick or treating at the cusanos. i wish i could tell you that he was as excited to put on his plex as our dj lance was.. but that would not be the whole truth. =) in fact.. my favorite quote of the evening was about seven houses into trick or treating.. and just minutes before this last pic was taken.. when he SAT down on the sidewalk and said, 'IM DONE. DOOOOOOOOOOOOONE. dont we have candy at home??' he makes a good point. =) and a good PLEX! **kennedy wanted to trick or treat in our neighborhood instead of going to the cusano's party... so she stayed with a friend and somehow i didnt get a single pic of her in her costume! ugh... we might have to recreate the event. hopefully it wont be as difficult to get her back into her costume as it was to get korb into his the first couple of times. =)

happy anniversary, love..

in some ways, its hard to believe that its only been 4 yrs since we toasted the beginning of our new family on that sunny october day in vegas..and in other ways, it seems like just yesterday that we were going out on the town in that long black limo to celebrate the beginning of a new chapter in our lives together..

either way.. im so thankful that youve been making me smile everyday since, love. happy anniversary kp. 4 years down.. 70+ to go. =)

school picture day - the 4th grade edition..

today is school pic day at RJE. kennedy has been out sick all week with a virus but she was fever free this morning and really wanted to make a grand entrance on picture day with her new do. isnt it CUTE!its no secret how i feel about school pictures.. ugh. but whether i like it or not.. todays pic will be in the yearbook forever! and it should be a good one! =)

preschool memories..

my little korb is LOVING 'school'. he is only there 10 hours a week but he talks about those 10 hours all week long.. this week he has been trying to list all of the names of the kids in his class. he came up with 10 at one time and i was so impressed that i wrote them down!

avery
hadlie
zachary
tate
ryder
ava
noah
evan
ian
josue

however, he was quite frustrated that he was forgetting someone. so.. i sent the list to school with him yesterday morning and asked his teachers to fill in the names he had forgotten. when the list came home with him yesterday afternoon he had only missed 3 names! im impressed! and he will not soon forget

julia

jacob

or

hayden

i. love. HIM. and HIS ridiculous memory to PIECES!

what have we been up to?

cause it feels like nothing much.. AND wicked busy all at the same time! weve spent SO much time with friends lately, which is LOVELY.. but shouldnt seem like much of a surprise. after all.. thats really what we do. BUT lately weve been spreading the love all over the metroplex and its been so fun! two weekends ago we over stayed our welcome had a great time at brad & michelle arnold's celebrating blakes incredible new job.. and last weekend we had a wonderful dinner {until 1am} at the cardwell's on friday night. followed by a night of beer and bowling with a crew of boys on saturday night.. {ben szabo is the devil} love it! and the next 3 weekends will prove no less friend filled and action packed. this weekend = homecoming at north texas this saturday & sweet baby macy's first birtday party on sunday, a visit with a wonderful old friend next weekend on friday & the last amphitheatre concert of the season on saturday {gary allen and EYB!}, followed by HALLOWEEN festivities the last weekend of the month. wow!! can you keep up? we love friends!

10 + 3 = a photo shoot with mommy!

so i decided to try to document the kids birthday pictures myself this year.. i wasnt at all sure how it would go. i expected the worst. but even the bad shots turned out cute..

in fact i think this is our favorite!