Sunday, October 30, 2011

October

I'm so sorry if you were thinking you were going to see some cute Halloween pictures!  I actually downloaded my camera on Thursday morning so I would have plenty of space for all the Halloween stuff.  This is what I found...

Anton at the end of the Homecoming dance helping to take down all the stuff.  Tony stopped by to help and took this.  I think he wore his morphsuit under his real suit.
He wasn't around our house that weekend for us to take pictures, so I lifted this off facebook.  His date's mom took this one in front of their house.  That's Allie and her brothers and dad.  The brother that Anton is carrying is only a year younger than them.  They have all been friends since elementary school, just in case you are wondering.  He's pretty crazy.
All the friends and their dates.  Anton and Allie are just friends.  This is Anton's 1st year in high school without a girlfriend.  We encouraged that.  I asked him the other day what he thought of the single life and he said "it's more fun and there's no drama".  Yay!!!  We were hoping he would figure that out before he went off to college!! :)
Anton got his 1st acceptance letter from University of Houston.  He probably won't go there, but it was still an exciting moment!  The next acceptance came from Texas Tech University, which is probably where he will go.  It's an exciting year!
 Emma got invited to a princess birthday party for her friend Maggie.  All the girls played dress up and then Maggie opened her presents.  It was precious!  I dropped Anna off at Joanna's house so Emma could go just with me.  It was lots of fun!

 A couple of hours later we went to another birthday party for Anna's friend Paul David, who I didn't manage to get a picture of.  That's his mom in the red shirt though!  I would never make it as a professional photographer!!

This was a big playground party with lots of younger siblings so we all went.



Yet another football game.  It was an away game, and the girls found this little platform to play around on.
 It has actually rained twice this month.  The girls got excited and wanted to go out in it in their cute raincoats Gram sent them.
 Anton bought them ice cream one day - awwwwww!!!!
 There is a pumpkin patch at a local church every year, and they have a little carnival one day.  Anna wanted her face painted.
 I forgot to take an after picture, but you can kind of see her pumpkin.  Emma doesn't like her face painted, but she loves hammering golf tees into pumpkins.
 Yet another birthday party for Anna friend Zach, and again I didn't manage to get a picture of the wonderful birthday boy. 
 Anna borrowed my camera to take pictures one day.  Here's Emma bothering loving on Junior.  She is constantly all over him.  He tolerates it pretty well and only growls at her occassionally.  I try to keep her from bugging him too much...
 Anna likes to make her dolls pose for pictures. 
 Anna likes Junior a lot too.  I thought I would include this picture to show off his cool haircut from his surgery.
Tony helped the girls carve the pumpkins we got at the pumpkin patch.

 Meanwhile Anton was studying.
 This is the same game when Abby was screaming at the panther, but a much more flattering picture. :)
 Anna was very proud of her prosthetic tail for Winter.
Princess Emma behind bars.  We finally got to put the crate away yesterday.  We still have extra rugs laying around, but the house is looking much more normal.
Stay tuned for some Halloween fun!

Tuesday, October 25, 2011

October with Tony's Camera

I haven't downloaded my camera in a while, and I don't know what all I will find.  Tony has put lots of pictures on the computer though - when I blog again the timing will probably overlap.  Anyway, we got to take Anna's BFF to a football game a few weeks ago.  We all loved that!  Here she is kind of meeting Parker the Panther.  She wouldn't hug him like Anna does, but she waved at him.
So cute!!!
They were watching the band (playing on the field) and "directing". 

Anton is right in the middle.
Three little girls watching the drumline play after halftime.
We ran into our friends Katie and Claire and their mom Liz, who is also mom to Anton's friend Clayton.
I thought these pictures were funny.  I don't know what was going on, but Alli's face cracks me up (the girl in the back, who was also Anton's "friend" homecoming date).  I'm thining Kyle was bugging Anton and then got whacked in the head with a stick.


Only a few more games left.  I'm going to miss it!!!!!
This was a Saturday morning when it was chilly.  I was sleeping at the time - I LOVE Saturday morning daddy time!!!!  We have a lot of seemingly dead trees from the extreme drought we had this summer.  We think they've been marked so they can be taken down, but no sign of that happening yet.
I just love this scene.  I will cherish it always!
My pretty baby!!!
Both of my girls love to pick up interesting leaves and acorns.
Anna is proud of her bouquet!
I'll have to blow this one up and frame it to remind them that they really do love each other in those tense moments they often have.

Eating popsicles!
We have had the crate out to keep Junior contained (I mainly use it as a gate).  Emma especially likes to play in there, but she got her sister to join her one day.
We got some pumpkins at a local pumpkin patch (I know I have pictures of that).  Tony carved them with the girls and lit candles for them.
Making pizza dough.
An appearance by Anton at bedtime is always a treat!

 And another game!
 Abby came with her dad, so she's hanging out with us to watch the drumline.

 All the girls were yelling "ANTON!!!" in their squeaky little girl voices.  Josh was chiming in also with his best little girl voice.  Anton was loving all the attention.
That big black thing behind Anna's head is Parker the Panther's arm/hand.  He was trying to get Abby to give him a high 5, but Abby was screaming hysterically.  Poor thing was terrified.  I'm pretty sure I was laughing at Anna because I was dancing her around on my knees and NOT at our sweet scared friend.
Junior is doing really great.  I've been taking him on lots of walks to strengthen his knee.  He still limps a little and get up from his bed stiff, but the doctor said he was doing really well when I took him for a follow-up xray on Monday.  I can let him lose in the backyard again in about 3 weeks. 
We fed the turtles. 
I'm also supposed to do "hill" training for Junior's knee, but going up and down the side of the ditch is the only hill around here.  The girls LOVE going down to the water. 
Tony made them a fire the other day.  Notice Winter the dolphin.  Anna and Emma made "trees" at Bible study last week out of a toilet paper roll for the trunk and construction paper for the leaves.  Anna decided it looked like Winter's prosthetic tail, so she shoved it onto the end of Emma's anatomical correct (ie tail-less) stuffed Winter.  And voila, we have a Winter with her prosthetic tail!!
My cute girls...