Friday, November 19, 2010

no more cribs...

The tribe is now WAY over three & a half years old and we I just decided to finally take down their cribs at our house. They have been sleeping on a bunk bed at Grandma's house for a few months but still slept in cribs at our house. Weird I know but you work with what you have. It took me about half the day to tackle this but in the end I was SO happy that I finally did it. I was not able to get the room all put back together completely by the time the tribe arrived home from school. Brendan was the first one to notice the BIG changes in their room. He looked around the room & said there's no more cribs! He then asked me where was he going to sleep? Awhh.. I told him he was a BIG boy now & he would be sleeping on a BIG BOY mattress. He thought that was EXTRA special! Little did he know that the mattress was the one from his crib! LOL! One day soon we will get them a REAL BIG KID bed. But for now at least it's...
 

The room is almost ready!
Their first night out of the cribs!
My BIG boy!
Can you tell how happy Aave was?!
Linz & her "Patty", all is right in the world!

no more cribs...

Thursday, November 18, 2010

EVERY vote counts!...

If you are a friend of mine on Face Book you would have seen me acting like a CRAZY person for the past month trying to get everyone to vote for  the tribe in a Chick-fil-A Fall Festival Costume Contest. Sorry for being a pain & posting every day about it but I really wanted to win! It started out as a FUN Fall family event & turned into this crazy competition. We went to our local Chick-fil-A for a Fall Festival one night last month. They had this costume contest for the kids which I thought would be fun. As most people know we LOVE Chick-fil-A & always attend "Family Night" at the one near my Mom's. Well, this was our first "Family Night" at the Chick-fil-A near us. The promotion sounded like fun so we were there. Camryn dressed as a "Damsel in Distress", Brendan a "Knight in shining Armor", Avery was a "Bride" & Lindsey was of course a "Mermaid"! {She said she wanted to be a mermaid & never wavered!}. It was a mad rush to get there & then get them all dressed to then have their picture taken. Everyone smiled EXCEPT Camryn. She was acting her part as the damsel in distress for sure! LOL! 



 Besides the Costume Contest they had face painting, pumpkin decorating & a characture artist. Well the costume contest portion of their Fall Festival turned into a Face Book only competition. We had to get people to vote on the best dressed child! Oh did I try to promote the contest. I think I posted something about it every day & pleaded with people to vote for them. It ended up that Brendan was getting more votes than his sisters. SO what started out as getting people to vote for the tribe turned into voting for Brendan. Nothing like splitting the vote! Ha! In the end on the last day of voting it came down to one vote. Crazy but true, & Brendan lost by ONE vote! Sadly I think I may have cost him the contest! You see every person could vote for each child once & I not only voted for each of my children but I voted for other kids too! I voted for the winner! If anything I'm glad he won because he was adorable! Oh by the way the winning prize which was 20 FREE MEALS! Yes, I think I was more excited about getting FREE food than him actually being able to claim victory! So the next time you are asked to vote for something remember...

EVERY vote counts!...

Monday, November 8, 2010

HaLlOwEeNiE events part 2...

I know I am SO late in posting these pictures! Sorry! Life overtook me & postponed my plans! I hope everyone had a WONDERFUL October & most especially a SAFE Halloween! I really cannot believe how October has come & gone already! YIKES! I have SO many pictures to post!! Well here goes our...

The gang decorating pumpkins!

Uncle Andy & Mr B

Grandma, can you believe she is 80?!

Two of my men...

I think this pic says it all! Love them!

Avery flashing us that smile!

The boys...

Brendan, Anthony & Linz became FAST friends!

The girls...

The fab four!


Halloweenie events Part 2...

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