The Merriest of Yuletides!*

*Or, a photo essay of the Mitchell Family Christmas, 2010. Some of my favorite moments!


Everybody Matching in their Christmas Outfits!
*I made the girls their skirts this year. I was very happy to get to Sunday morning the Sunday before Christmas and to actually have something beautiful for the girls to wear. It didn't happen last year. I used a thrift store skirt that I got for $7, this tutorial for Audrey's skirt and made up the pattern for Siobhan's (it still needs some tweaking).Mr. Will got a new gray sweater and Carson wore something to great to match as well. I wore a gray skirt with a little shimmer and a black shirt. It was fun to all match! Yeah, I'm bragging a little, but I was so proud!


Visiting Santa to Put in Last Minute Orders!

*We had a great time visiting Santa at the mall and we didn't even have to wait that long!

Taking Treats to the Fire Fighters on Christmas Eve!

*We've been looking for an opportunity to give a little bit of service that would fit into our budget. On Wednesday I found my inspiration. We decided to take treats to the firemen who are working on Christmas Eve. There were three of them there that night and they seemed to appreciate it! We took them Pumpkin Cinnamon Rolls. I used this recipe. They gave us a tour of the station and the kids had a great time! Definitely doing it again next year!

We All Got Matching Jammie Pants!

*Santa delivered matching jammie pants to all of us. We are becoming die hard Utah Jazz fans so it was only natural for us to get Jazz jammie pants. Mommy may or may not have made them all. Super fun!

A Subtle Introduction

*Mr. Will got Toy Story 3 underwear in his stocking. We haven't started to potty train yet, but more introducing him to the idea little by little. The girls keep calling the underwear panties which is really funny!

Finding the Pickle!

*We do a German tradition where you hide a pickle ornament on the tree and whoever finds it gets a special extra present. Audrey found it last year and she got a My Little Pony. It was Siobhan's turn to find the pickle (or at least we hoped she would) and she got some Tinker Bell toys. They looked for a long time and you can see in the picture how close she was!

Everybody Got New Bikes!

*Shhhh, don't tell Siobhan that we got here new two wheeler from DI for $5. They both both loved their new bikes but Audrey was getting a little frustrated with the peddling. Luckily, it was a rare NOT white Christmas in Utah so the girls got to take their bikes out for a spin.

*Mr. Will loves the bike he got from Carson's brother's family. He can't reach the peddles so he just walks it along. So cute! He's already mastered the 3 point turn!

It's a Pillow Pet!

*Pretty much all Audrey wanted was a dolphin Pillow Pet. For some reason, the Dolphin was a little allusive, but we, err, I mean Santa, found it. She's sleeping with it right now!

Sister Time!

*I love it when these two play together and I think it's so cute when they sneak off and find a secret corner to play with just each other. So cute!

So Much Tinker Bell!

*All Siobhan wanted was a Tinker Bell balloon (a toy that looks like her hot hair balloon in the second movie) unfortunately, it could not be found. We did get her some other things that she thought were just as good. She also got Tinker Bell toys and clothes from her grandma.

Other Memories With No Pics but Are Worth Mentioning!

*To start the Holiday season, my Father in Law took me to see the Radio City Rockette Christmas Spectacular. In a word, AMAZING!

*We ended up with 3 Christmas trees. I'll try to post pictures tomorrow.

*Both girls asked for Jazz jerseys but they were pretty much all out. They both got gift cirts to receive the jerseys at a later time.

*Audrey got dance classes and Siobhan got gymnastics. They are both so excited!

*Carson got me some red Vans! Sooooo cute!

*I got a Carson a Utah Jazz garden gnome. So funny!

*Audrey got a black eye! :( She was trying to pull her stocking down and the heavy metal stocking hanger came down with it and hit her right in the eye. It was bleeding and super scary! I think that if it had hit her even a 1/2 a millimeter in any other direction, we would have been in the ER or calling those fire fighters. She's fine and her vision is just as good, but it was very sad and scary!

*Mommy also got a pair of nike running shoes from Carson's bro's family. They are awesome! Can't wait to break them in after I pop the kid out!

*My father in law got me a new end table and new lamps. I've never had either one of those before that wasn't found at a garage sale or a hand me down!

*I had the privilege of attending the Mormon Tabernacle Choir Christmas concert featuring David Archuleta and Michael York with my bestie's family--they ended up with an extra ticket. It was amazing and that kid can sing!

*We were so blessed with so much abundance and a wonderfully loving family!


Merry Christmas Everyone!

Make Me Better Monday-A Pledge

I didn't do a pledge last week because it was my birthday and I didn't feel like it. Now, I'm feeling sad and a little frustrated (not to worry....just normal life stuff getting to me). So this may be short and sweet.

*Get Christmas as done as possible so that next week is as stress free as possible.

*While I've been praying everyday for the last few weeks, I need to bring them back to a place where they are more meaningful and more sincere.

*Find a way to liken the scriptures that I'm currently reading to myself a little better. (That would definitely relate to the one above)

*In all of the Christmas prep, get to bed a decent time.

*Patience, patience, patience, patience, patience!
*Me and the boy who doesn't like me. I was going to edit this one to be black and white or sepia because my freckles are very prominent but it just didn't look right. So here I am in all my speckled glory!

Make Me Better Monday-A Pledge

I'm a little late tonight, but that's okay. We've been having birthday festivities for Carson today, so that has taken a fair amount of time and brain power which I gladly gave to be able to celebrate my husband! He's so cute! See?For his birthday the kids and I went to visit him at work (actually just me, Will and Audrey-Siobhan was at school), then I got to work making his one request which was a chocolate cheese cake (delish!) and then a date for him and I to the Jazz game. We won! And I serenaded him with a rendition of Endless Love on the way to the game. No, that's not our song and after tonight I was informed that it never will be, and while he appreciated the sentiment, he still hates that song. Oh well!

Now, on to the pledge:

*I pledge correspondence everyday with a friend or family member that I haven't communicated with in a while. Stay on your toes! :)

*I've done very well getting to bed before midnight and I want to keep it up and shoot for even earlier!

*I pledge to send those thank you notes I wrote.

*I pledge to find my 5X7 envelopes and start addressing my Christmas cards even thought the cards and letters are not finished (or started...shhhhhh) yet.

*I pledge to write and finish my Christmas letter.

*I've done great with more sincere prayer but I've done better in the evening than I have in the morning. I need to change that and make them equally as good. Go check out this post on my blog for more thoughts on the subject and link to a great talk that really inspired me on the subject.

*I pledge to make one meal that I can freeze in preparation for the baby's arrival.


Me and Carson at the Colors concert in September.

I want this

I hesitate to mention this giveaway on the blog because I don't want other people to go enter and take away a chance for me to win. But it give me more of a chance to win and I want this really bad!

http://tomkatstudio.blogspot.com/

New Blog

Some of you may already know about this one, but I found it for the first time today and I'm in love! It's a sewing blog so it may not appeal to everyone, but it is super fun and I can't wait to start sewing for myself after the baby comes now that I'm so full of inspiration! Go check it out!

http://www.newdressaday.com/

She does some super cute refashions and all on the cheap! I'm so impressed with her creativity!

Make Me Better Monday-A Pledge

Last week I missed out on being able to make my pledge because there was a power surge that threw the wireless off. Then it happened again later in the week. Between those two instances plus not wanting to do a 'Monday' thing on a different day plus unplugged Thursday made it difficult to make my pledge. Then it came late today because I decided it was more important to blog about my kid than me. So without further ado, here's my pledge for this week of thanksgiving and gratitude.

*I pledge to take my time cleaning so I'm not stressing myself out but still getting things done.

*I pledge one load of laundry done each day.

*I pledge to really increase my gratitude this week and be a good example to the kids about what it means to be grateful.

*I pledge to complete some of the homemade Christmas presents that I'm making.

*I pledge to refrain from raising my voice towards that kids.

*I pledge to get to bed before midnight each night which means I have 12 minutes to get this done and get downstairs. Good thing I read scriptures earlier today.

*I pledge to enjoy the moments of silence and relaxation and send good vibes to the baby boy.

Conversations With A Cutie Pants Kid

I've mentioned that Audrey is really funny and very cute. But I've realized that she is this way without trying one bit. She is completely honest and sincere in everything she says and does, it just happens to be coupled with her signature ditziness (I say that out of complete love and and endearment by the way).

Case in Point-the following.....

Scene: The girls and I sitting on my bed while I do their hair for church yesterday. Siobhan is coloring a picture and figured out that her 'magic reveal' marker will show hidden pictures on the paper. Audrey is getting her hair done.

Siobhan: Mom! There's a waterfall on this picture!
Audrey: Mom! There's a freakin' waterfall on this picture!!! A freakin' waterfall!!!


Scene: Audrey is saying prayers before bed.

Audrey*: Dear Heavenly Father, thank you for this day, thank you for our many blessings, thank you for the food, thank you for family and friends, please bless the food (This is where she would normally stop, but she kept going) thank you I can sleep better, thank you I can be Belle for Halloween (next year she means, apparently she feels the need to appeal to the man upstairs for Halloween preparation a year in advance) thank you for money, Jesus Christ, Amen.

3 seconds later...

Mom, I said thank you for money. (uncontrollable snickers)
Me: That's a very good thing to be thankful for!

About a minute later, Daddy walks in....

Audrey: Dad! I told Jesus thank you for money! (more snickers)
Carson: Why did you tell Jesus thank you money?
Audrey: No, I asked Jesus to give us money.
Carson: Why did you ask Jesus to give us money?
Audrey: So that I can have some money and I'm going to call the money nickels so that I can put it in my piggy bank.
Carson: Well, why do want to put it in your piggy bank?
Audrey: So they'll be safe!
Carson: What are you going to do with your nickels?
Audrey: I want to buy more money!

Scene: We had cheese fondu last night for dinner and we were picking fondu forks. They all have different colors on the end so the highlight of any fondu event at our house (aside from the food) is found in picking just the right color. While we were doing this, Audrey was playing the leapster.
Me: Audrey, what color do you want?
no response....
Me: Audrey, what color do you want?
no response
Me and Siobhan: Audrey what color do you want?
Audrey: Apple juice!
Me: No what color of fondu fork do you want?
Audrey: Apple Juice.

Scene: Carson is at the grocery store with the girls and they run into Audrey's nursery teacher from church. Audrey find a piece of candy on the floor, and runs up to her teacher to show her. Her teacher takes it from her and hands it back.

Audrey: Dad, look what my teacher gave me.
Carson: Well, she didn't actually give it to you to have. She gave it to you to put away.
Audrey: No she gave it to me!
Carson: But it's not her's to give to you, we haven't paid for it.
Audrey: Yeah dad, she gave it to me!
Carson: Audrey, you're not listening to me.
Audrey: No dad, you're not listening to me!
Carson: No, you're not listening to me.
Audrey (now thoroughly exasperated and getting angry): No DAD! You're not listening to me!
Carson: Audrey, you're not listening to me.
Audrey (hands on hips looking away in anger): NO DAD, YOU'RE NOT LISTENING TO ME!

She's a funny girl and last night when Carson and I were talking about all these conversations, I almost peed my pants!


Audrey, apparently in deep thought while watching Tinkerbell and The Great Fairy Rescue at Siobhan's birthday party.

*Just so you all know, I wouldn't normally write my child's prayer
word for word, but I couldn't help myself, it was just too darn hilarious!

Current Obsession!

Siobhan has been learning all about Pilgrims and Indians in school in preparation for Thanksgiving. For some reason (and I'm by no means complaining) she is relating to Indians and is completely fascinated with the Indians. We've gotten books at the library and she asks me questions about tribes and their names and this evening, she asked me if I knew what a pow wow was. I think it's super cool that she is learning about cultures. We talked about how Native Americans in this part of the country would hunt buffalo and she thought that was pretty cool because we have been eating some buffalo meat that grandpa shot a few months ago. We also talked about how they were excellent gardeners and how much they love their families. It's been fun learning about all of this along with her and recalling some of what I learned when I was in school. Here are some pictures of the Indian outfits they made in school. She explained to me how Indians would earn their feathers in their headdresses by doing good things. She earned hers by being a good listener and a good friend. She's also very worried authenticity with the decorations on her headband and vest!

I'm really not sure why she's saluting like a soldier. We think it's because she's confusing 'warrior' and 'soldier'.

Up close you can see the arrow that she drew on her headband.

A Post That Is More Pictures Than Text-Enjoy!

Disclaimer: All pictures where I am present are super unflattering...just keepin' it real. But the kids look cute as always!

The girls got in trouble for fighting so they were sent to the couch holding hands. They were NOT happy about it!

I know I posted a very similar picture in my previous post, but I couldn't resist. He's just so cute!

Tried to snap a picture of Audrey who had fallen asleep on the couch. But Mr. Will could not pass up an opportunity to mug for the camera! Such a silly boy!

While getting ready for FHE, I snapped a few pics of me with the girls. I pledged to get more pictures of me being a mom. Whether these qualify as such, you decide.

She has a knack for making weird faces totally unintentionally for the camera. Let's just say that unless the smile is totally candid, it very rarely looks natural. But she's still adorable!

This one on the other hand couldn't really make a weird face to save her life.

7 pm Tuesday night. Not sure why she was so tired, but she slept until 7:30am Weds morning. I've found her like this a few times and it's always so cute!

Something Learned

This past weekend, our stake was lucky enough to have Elder M. Russell Ballard and Elder Jon M. Huntsman Sr. here for our stake conference-we were getting a new Stake Presidency (I linked these two articles because I thought they were very interesting). I went to the adult session on Saturday night which was amazing but was unable to go to the general session because Audrey and I both woke up feeling crumby. But Carson went with Siobhan and came home with some great insights. He shared the most profound and age appropriate ones with us for Family Home Evening. The one lesson that stuck out the most was when Elder Ballard talked about not raising our voices in the home. He spoke of this as pertaining to all ages in the home and all situations. He talked about parents not raising their voices to their kids, the children not raising their voices to their parents and even using a quiet voice to express excitement and joy. We all agreed in FHE that we would do our best to not raise our voices to one another and to try to use 'inside voices' as much as we can. Siobhan taught us how to grab our outside voices and throw them outside-like they do at school-so we made sure that we all sent our outside voices out the door.

Carson and I started this all yesterday and got the kids on board last night. So today was our first full day of all of us trying to keep our voices quiet and 'inside' appropriate. Let me just say, it was a amazing! The kids were so much more obedient and got along so much better! We all enjoyed our day so much and we didn't even do anything out of the ordinary. I'm not saying that I'm going to be perfect at this. Believe me, as hormonal and uncomfortable as I am, there is a great potential for slip up. But I've seen the blessings of it and I can say that for today, it worked! I will say this, I woke up needing to pray really hard for the patience and energy to be able to do interact with my kids this way. But it worked and I'm excited to try it tomorrow!!

And Now A Picture just Because It's Cute!

Siobhan took this picture of Mr. Will and I one morning after he woke up.

Make Me Better Monday-A Pledge

This week, I pledge the following:

*Write this post on Sunday night and post it on Monday morning in an effort to spend less time on the computer tomorrow.

*Wash, fold and put away at least one load of laundry each day this week. I hope that I can do more than that, but my hip is seriously jacked up right now and I'm not sure I can lug a laundry basket up and down for more than one load. We'll see!

*Read my scriptures in the morning instead of waiting until right before bed.

*Go to the temple.

*Get a baby sitting co-op going with the ladies in the area.

*Try to get up with the kids most mornings so the TV isn't babysitting them until I can get my sorry you-know-what out of bed.

*Attempt to show more gratitude.

*Use my crock-pot a lot this week! Its cooling down so the weather is perfect for crock pot cooking!

*Do my visiting teaching this week (or attempt to at least-there's so many variables that I can't control). Going into the holidays, wouldn't it be so much better to get it done earlier in the month rather than later?

*Refrain from raising my voice in anger. I find that if I really focus on that, the kids are more willing to be obedient.

*Take more pics of my being a mommy. Seriously, I have like zero!

*Spend less time on the computer! And 'Unplugged Thursday' is definitely happening!

This is my sorry attempt at getting a picture of me and Derron Williams at a Jazz autograph session that we had the chance to go to (more on that another day). You can just barely make out Darron Williams-or as he's known in these parts, D-Will- sitting at the table behind me. I got better pictures that I'll post later and really funny story about using my pregnant belly as an excuse to get an autograph! Who knew I cared so much?

Fairies!!!!

Of course, the girls wanted to be fairies for Halloween (at first Siobhan wanted to be an astronaut, but we decided on Tinker Bell instead.) I had a bunch of fun making all of their costumes! Mr. Will was going to be Paul McCartney, but then we decided that he might be more comfortable as an owl. They were all adorable!

For Siobhan we decided that as Tinkerbell, we would go with the version from 'Tinkerbell and the Lost Treasure'. She's a little more modest in that she wears pants and a shirt under her dress. I'm glad we went that direction for two reasons...the dress I made was shorter than I planned and it was really cold. So it worked on all accounts. I got a shiny green button up shirt at the thrift store and turned it around so the buttons were the closure in the back. Then I used the sleeves for the boots along with twine. Then with all the scraps, I braided her belt. For the pants and shirt, I took some white long johns and dyed them green. Take a look. Her hat was made with two giant leaves from Hobby Lobby. It was fun making it!


Audrey has always loved Silvermist. So it was only natural that she would want to dress up like the water fairy. I took a little more poetic license and didn't go quite so literal. I took a really large, unattractive bridesmaid/prom dress as well as the lining from the dress. I made a basic peasant style dress with and overlay. She loved it. Again, it's not exactly what Silvermist looks like but what can you do? A three year old is not the easiest body to make a fitted dress for....especially a wiggly one like Audrey. Take a look here. By the way, their wings are from Savers and were like as big as Audrey but I got them $5 each. Can't beat that!

Mr. Will's costume was really easy and fun to make! I used this tutorial but made a few changes. Obviously, I didn't make it pink and instead of a mask which I knew he wouldn't wear, I put the face on the hood. I got the hoodie at a consignment store and then matching/coordinating fleece from Hobby Lobby. I also beefed up the wings a little bit more than the tutorial. He was so cute but wouldn't really pose for a pic.

I love making their Halloween costumes! Call me crazy for spending the time, but it's fun for me and I have always loved dressing up for Halloween so I don't mind spending the time. We went to the ward trunk-or-treat which was super fun and we had my grandma join us which was a bonus!!! We weren't able to go trick-or-treating for real because it was pouring rain when we were planning on going. But they got plenty of sugar anyway. I hope everyone had a happy (and safe) Halloween!

The Great Pumpkins!

The week of Halloween, we were going to carve our pumpkins for FHE. Well, that didn't go as planned due to the girls choosing to not clean the playroom. So we did it the next day. Siobhan got to go get a pumpkin with her preschool class and then we got a few more from Wal-Mart. (Siobhan was so proud of her cute little pumpkin!). So we had the girls design their pumpkins then Daddy and I went to work cleaning them out and carving them with the girls supervision if you will. It was super fun!

Siobhan and her cute pumpkin. She drew the face on and made sure that it had one triangle eye, a square eye and a diamond nose. She loved it!

Carson doing all the hard work. Carving pumpkins is not his favorite thing, but he was a good sport!

Audrey showing the 'angry' face that her pumpkin was making.

So proud of how their pumpkins turned out!

Make Me Better Monday-A Pledge

Kristin told me that she enjoys reading my weekly pledges, so I'm going to stick with it. Here it comes:

*I pledge to be in bed no later than 10pm every night.

*I pledge 3 square meals each day for myself.

*I pledge to 'de-Halloween' the blog hopefully sooner rather than later.

*I pledge to let the kids play outside as much as I can this week.

*'Unplugged Thursday' here I come!

*I pledge at least one post over on my other blog.

*I pledge to take more pictures of me being a mom and being myself. I noticed while I was going through some pictures this weekend, that I have virtually no pictures of myself because I'm always behind the camera.

*I pledge to eat at least one piece of fruit each day.

*I pledge to approach the Lord with some issues going on in our household. At this point, I've tried everything and now I need to go to a higher power to find some new solutions. Maybe I should have done that in the first place.

Ode to My Boy

Mr. Will doesn't like me. Like, at all. Really, he doesn't like me*. One day, Carson was holding Mr. Will and I went up to him to give him a kiss and he hit me in the face and yelled at me. He's done other things like that before and actually quite frequently. So in an effort to get him to like me (yes, I'm trying to cooerce him and I'm not above bribery) I'm doing this post in hopes of sending good vibes in his direction.

He's not naked, he has a diaper on. Sometimes he just prefers to go sans clothing.

Such a special moment for me. He rarely voluntarily holds my hand.

I love that face when it looks up at me with those eyes and that smile.

He's such a sweet boy!

*I should mention that the majority of his distaste for the mother figure when the father figure is in close proximity. When Carson isn't around to distract him, Mr. Will is a little more friendly to me and my motherly advances. And you may think that by these pictures, things aren't quite so bad, but those are about the only pictures of him and me when we're both smiling. He really is such a sweet boy, I just hope that one day he might know how much I love him!

Today Is Gonna Be The Day...

Today is one of those days where I can't actually remember what day it is. (I know now that it's Wednesday, but for most of the day, I thought it was Tuesday.)

Today Siobhan stayed home sick from school.

Today we had our first Utah snow. Not much different from Colorado snow and I hate it coming this early just as much as I did living over there.

Today, I think Mr. Will said his first Portuguese word. 'She She' which means he had a wet diaper.

Today, the dinner that I was so excited to make and eat was an abysmal failure. :(

Today I wore sweat pants and Carson's shirt. I looked like a Tranny Hot Mess and I'm not apologizing for it!

Today Mr. Will dumped shampoo on Siobhan's head. It was a little funny!

Today the house is a mess, but I'm doing what I can.

Today is almost over......

Today this picture of Mr. Will in a tutu puts a smile in my face!

Make Me Better Monday-A Pledge

Here's the pledge for today. I have to say, this whole thing is making my weeks go so much better! I guess it gives me more motivation to be the best I can be. Please feel free to join me, maybe it won't work for you, but you never until you try! And I love that it's not just a to do list. I have enough of those in my life.

*I pledge to come up with more creative ways to get my kids to do what is asked of them. I don't want to yell! Right now they have until the end of the song that's playing to get a certain group of toys cleaned up. We'll see. I want to think outside of the box with my parenting a little more.

*I pledge to take more pictures of me with the kids and then post them.

*I pledge another 'Unplugged Thursday'. Best thing I've done in a long time. When I get a chance, I'll blog about it.

*I pledge to use my crock pot more this week. It's perfect weather for it and I always feel better about myself because I don't get 5pm not knowing what to make for dinner.

*I pledge more prayer and time in the scriptures (I've been doing really well with the second-15days straight-but for some reason the humility part of the first is causing a road block. I'm working on it.)

*I pledge some more time enjoying the stillness in life and sending a good thoughts and vibes to Little Ethan.

*I pledge to tell my kids how much I love them and how special they are regardless of how hard it is for me to say it.

Family Home Evening

Since moving to Utah, we've been really good about having consistent Family Home Evening. Some weeks it doesn't happen (because life happens instead) but we've done really well and I'm proud of us! Also, some weeks are more organized than others but we always seem to have fun! For FHE this week, Siobhan wanted us to do an activity that she had done at Pre-school. They made masks and acted out 'Where The Wild Things Are.' We didn't make any new masks, but we used the one that she made at school. Daddy was the narrator, Siobhan played the roll of Max, Audrey and I we Wild Things and Mr. Will ran around like usual. It was a lot of fun!

This is how Audrey got geared up for the evening. She fell asleep watching TV while I made dinner.

Love these faces!

Audrey giving her best Wild Thing Face!

Pay no attention to the fact that I'm wearing socks with my capri pants. My feet were cold! We all had a lot of fun!

Another Hair Cut!

One thing that I was able to accomplish during 'Unplugged Thursday' was cutting Mr. Will's hair. Let me tell you, it needed to be done, but it is no small feet! Honestly, it's impossible to expect a young man that age to voluntarily sit still long enough with the clippers going all over his head. So I stuck him in his high chair with a sucker (hence the goo all over his face) and I did have to cheat a little bit and put 'World Word' on the kitchen TV so he had something to focus and sent the girls out to play.
As always (according to me, not so much my conservative, vanilla husband) I wanted him to have a foux hawk. Unfortunately, I have issues (but that's a story for another post). I wasn't thinking very clearly when I put the attachment on the clippers and I cut the sides WAY too short. 1/2 inch! Well, I didn't want to have all of his hair be a half inch long, so Mr. Will ended up with a full on mohawk from front to back. It's a little bit awesome!

I hated having to cut all this beautiful length off the top of his hair! The picture above is after I got it all wet to get the process started. I think he looks like 'greaser'. Unfortunately, whenever I attempt to style his hair like that, it lasts for about five minutes.

He didn't really appreciate having his hair put into ponies to keep portions of it out of the way.

You can see how short it ended up. Oops. Also, don't pay attention to the imperfections in the shaving job, I did my best to even it all up in the end. Also, with all the hair clippings on his back, he kind of looks like his daddy.

Handsome either way, but a little more refined...well, clean cut. Mohawks can't really be called refined. Can they be called clean cut either? Well, he looks.....skinnier? Handsome as always anyway!

Playtime Photo Shoot

Pretty Siobhan

Cutie Audrey

Handsome Will

Click on the collage to enlarge it.

On Thursday I had an unplugged day. It was amazing! I didn't get on the computer, we didn't watch TV at all and I only answered and made/accepted a few phone calls. It was awesome! I think it meant a lot to all of us. We all accomplished a lot in our little spheres. The kids played outside a lot because it was a beautiful fall day. Not too hot, not too cold and lovely leaves all over the backyard. So we decided it was a great time for a photo shoot. The pictures are less than stellar as there is a lot of trees in the backyard that cast weird shadows. But for this, that wasn't the most important thing. We just had a good time being goofy and enjoying the moment.