This made me laugh...

Today I was in charge of Joy school for Whitney and some of her friends. We were having a lesson about our five senses and we played "I spy" and we went on a triangle hunt outside to find triangles with our eyes, things of this nature. Well I thought it would be fun to deviate from the lesson and blindfold the kids and give them various familiar objects from around the house and have them guess what they were. I gave her friend Peyton a banana, and a barbie pillow. She guessed correctly. Then Whitney had a turn and she had a remote, that she guessed correctly. Then I peeled the banana and gave her half of it. She grabbed it and squeezed it in her hand and then threw it on the table and said "I don't want to touch that anymore." I said "Well what do you think it is?" And she said. "POOP! And I don't want to touch it anymore!" I started laughing so hard. Why on earth would she think I would give her poo to hold? I am still laughing about this as I am writing. My friend was here and she was laughing too, and said "Whitney, why would your mom have you hold that." Then we took off her blindfold and she saw it was just a banana. My friend said she would never look at a banana the same again. Neither will I!

Boys are bescusting

So I teach the 9 year olds at church. I have 4 boys in my class. Can I just tell you that I LOVE having 3 girls at home! The boys were in rare form for the most disgusting (or as Whitney says Bescusting) boys ever! In class, they were picking there noses, and flinging it at eachother!!! GROSS!!! So that stopped when I found out what all the commotion was about. I made them go one at a time to wash there hands. YUCK!! Then during sharing time, 2 of them started with the hands in the armpit farting sounds! I honestly don't think they have brains at 9 years old. When do they lose them? And when do they get them back? Or do they just not grow until they reach adulthood? I had brothers, they didn't have brains either! (they do now!) :) But I do have a husband and father and father-in-law and grandfathers and they all have brains. REALLY good brains. So when does the male brain develop? :) (no offense to my wonderful nephews, they seem to be the wonderful and rare boys with brains!)

Halloween

So this year Aubrey didn't want to be a princess, or a fairy, or a cowgirl, or anything cute. Her exact request was " I want to be as freaky and scary as possible. I want to be a vampiress. So here is our take on that. She had to go with her own hair, but the picture turned out wonderful. I left the red eyes in for effect. Don't vampiress' have red eyes?

Here is our sweet little cowgirl. She had a horse that you could put on, but decided she wanted everyone to see her beautiful dress instead of the horse. You'll see it below.

As you can see from the above pics and this one below, we decided not to carve our pumpkins this year but paint them. The girls felt more involved this way and had a blast. Courtney is so silly, we paint alot and she has painted before, but for some reason she kept trying to EAT the paint. No idea why. It tastes gross. I kept wiping it off her tongue and she would willingly stick her tongue out to get the paint off. So why keep trying it? I'm guessing she thought, " Huh, this is blue, wonder what it tastes like" followed by an "OH GROSS!" Then she got brown and thought "Huh, this is brown, wonder what it tastes like" followed by an "OH GROSS!" Continued on through all the colors she used.

Here is my platinum blonde. She found the wig and really wanted to put it on. So helped her put it on and while she liked the way it looked, she didn't like the way it felt. She said "Mom, this is much too itchy." She is soo funny. So for trick or treating she left the horse in it's stall and ditched the wig.

I had the cutest pink pegasus,unicorn outfit for Courtney, but being the little stinker she is she absolutely would not put it on. So I joked that she was a kid for Halloween because you really don't see too many of them that night, and she is a monster every other day! :)

Putting the Pony to work

The day after Aubrey's Baptism we gave the kids pony rides on Georgie boy. He was soo good!

This is my nephew on him he is 6.

Here is the little cowboy my other nephew. He isn't two yet, but man he had balance and "know how" of a much older kid. He got the most rides and still didn't want to get off. He would have stayed on for days... I probably would have let him, it was so fun to watch. His mom didn't even have to stand by him. Such a good cowboy.

This is my neice who just turned 7

This is another neice who is 3 she liked the pony ride too. Just not quite as much as my little nephew.

Ouch!!!

At the beginning of Oct. we had a wind storm and a tree fell on our truck. The bad part is, that we don't usually park it here, usually it goes in front of the little carport where we park the boat. Totally preventable. The good part is that it didn't do more damage. We have neighbors that had both of there cars parked in there driveway and a huge tree fell across both of them and totalled them both at the same time! LUCKY US!!

For my FIL

We went for a walk on our property a while back and found these cool mushrooms. The first ones are pretty typical but the other one isn't. I thought it was soo cool and it was even bigger the last time I checked on it but I didn't take a pic.
I had to take a picture and post it here for my FIL. He loves this kinda stuff.

What kind is it? Do you know Lynn?

This is a little out of order, but I was so excited about her baptism I forgot to post the b-day pictures.

After buying 4 different cake mixes and frostings, Dan and Aubrey decided they wanted individual banana cream pies. So here they are complete with candles.

The gross looking paper plate had yummy chocolate dipped strawberries on it. We each got to dip our own Strawberries and eat, eat, eat. Needless to say we didn't miss the cake and ice-cream!

My creative Bit o Whit

So I was looking through the pics and realized I haven't blogged anything for ages, so here I am again. I found these Pics from Sept. and they made me smile. She is such a goofball.

The picture below is of "her smile"

And this one is "her mustache"

I realize that you can't hear her little voice getting deeper (which is to bad!) as she says "And this one is my mustache Mommy," and then she puts the squash down and laughs and laughs. Then says "take my picture as a boy!" And starts posing like this.