Seah goes to Heaven

Seah

Lived in Love

2/5/2006-11/3/2009

My first official foster went to Heaven this past week.

Please click here to see her tribute.

My smoothie and painter girl

Tayla continues to love her smoothies...actually, we all do!

She also love painting apparently. When daddy wasn't looking she decided she would help paint the sheds. Luckily, it all washed out.

We are blessed with amazingly nice weather this weekend and we're trying to get a bunch of outside stuff done. Cleaned out and painted the sheds. The chicken coop got a good cleaning and a layer of bedding for winter. We figured we'd treat them since they are such good chickens and started laying adorable little brown eggs this week. Yay! I love my chickens :)

Might try to go to a huge dog expo a couple hours away tomorrow...we'll see.

AWESOME VIDEO

This is really impressive!!

Gotta love those Border Collies--they are probably smarter than most of us!

SAMSUNG LED SHEEP @ Yahoo! Video

ps--this is real...they did speed up the video in a couple places (pong) to make it look more realistic-but it's all true video.

Halloween pics and Happy November

Hello my bloggy friends. Happy November to you. November formerly was my least favorite month (cold, rainy, brown) but not I think it's been replaced by January or maybe February. I'll let you know. Hate to focus on the negative.
Either way--it's here in all it's cold glory. Now it will get dark an hour sooner as well thanks to daylight savings time.
Thanks daylight savings time...now I feel I have even less time to get things done in a day.



Last night we headed to my hometown for some trick or treating. My stomping grounds contain less than 100 people so it's a nice way for the kids to run about and for the adults to catch up with family and old friends.

Started out with a bath.

Then Grandma pushed the girls on the swing.

Raking leaves.






Dessa loved her jack-o-lantern leggings.

Some fun in the leaves. My parents have a great leaf producing maple.

Pixie had to join in the fun.

Turned into a leaf fight.

Time to get ready for the candy hunt.

Abriella in her "inside" costume.

Tucker, my brother's dog.

He had just gotten a haircut--courtesy of me :)

Go hawks!

Half-dozen Grand kids ready to roll.

Dessa the Pixie fairy.

Abriella the puppy.

Averie, my niece, the sunflower.

Tayla, my little piglet.

AJ, my nephew was spider man and his older sister, Jadyn, was a princess fairy.

The very scary house. Didn't stop the older girls from getting their candy!

Abriella was a little less sure about it...but she still took the candy.

It's hard to get all that candy into an already stuffed trick-or-treat bag.

Our favorite Halloween house. Justin did a great job handing out the treats, but it just wasn't the same as our dear Aunt Judy who passed away recently. Halloween was her holiday and I thought about her throughout the day and always still.

We miss you Judy-but we know you are around still.

The "Halloween cat" at Aunt Judy's house. I missed catching the perfect Halloween cat pose she was putting on for the dogs. It felt totally like Halloween at that moment and I'm pretty sure my Aunt had something to do with the show.

Stick with me here people...this is where the camera goes on blur mode and it takes me some time to figure out why.

Riding in style on Aunt Abbie's stroller with baby Averie snoozing away.

The first candy for baby.

Girls on the wagon ride.

Faster Uncle Jake!

Little puppy bum.

Kids had to eat dinner before they could eat their candy. It was strangely quiet as they all chowed down.

Now starts the free for all candy eating.

I think the bags weighed more than my kids!

Tayla almost kept tipping over.

A sucker in one hand and a full size candy bar in the other.

Dance to the beat of the sugar drum little one.

Pixie was pooped out from her trick or treating walk.

My Halloween camera work (actually still can't figure out my blur problem).

Oh, I had the flash set wrong.

Took me long enough!

Abriella playing with baby Averie's bottle. She LOVES her Uncle Jake.

Next morning, my "Hair wolf"
"Rarrrgh"

Presenting, the loot.

Dump it out.

Check it out.

Pick a favorite.

Lay in it.

And this is what happens.

Today will officially be tummy ache and diarrhea day.

Now, the whole thing stresses me out just a bit. I can let them have their fun Halloween night...but now I'm trying to figure out what to do with all this sugar.

The kids can't eat it all (I know--evil mom--but sugar is evil stuff).

I also hate to waste (ie-throw it away).

What to do with it?

First bath for the foster puppies-5 weeks

The little stinkers (literally) got their first bath today.
Click here to see my other blog with that post.

Last night of mommy-er daddy-and me swim class

Mr stay at home dad needed some time out of the house--so he took over the last two "mommy and me" swim classes. It was Tayla's class but the teacher let Dessa swim around also--so it was great fun for everyone!

Dessa needed a swim cap because her friend, Ava, had one...and then Tayla needed one because Dessa had one (luckily my mom found several on clearance).

The steps were one of the best parts of the pool in the girls eyes.

Brave girl jumping in on her own.

And here are a couple swim videos...I had several, but I'll spare you....

Had to include Dessa to make it fair and the one with the Goodbye song is a favorite of Tayla's. She was so cute waving during the first part of the song (the part that I missed because I was talking to another mom-shame on me). They sing it every night at the end of class. I only caught a couple seconds.

Swingin' Guineas

Our guinea's are getting braver--they've now taken to swinging. I had to take the pic through our french doors.
It was pretty funny--as they jumped off one by one the others were left swinging away--they seemed to like it.