Nat's 1st Art Show and 3rd Christmas recital

Nat had her first ever art show weekend before last. She submitted 5-6 pieces. Most of you that have seen her work knows that they ALL deserved 1st place...or maybe that's just a Momma's prejudice :) Her sculpture placed 5th overall. And I told her that that is pretty dang good cause there was over 150 entries!! And that sculpture was the piece that she's put the most time and effort into. Here's a few pictures from the show. She wasn't too thrilled to be in the group picture, but Momma has to have her memories ;) This past Sunday Nat had her 3rd Christmas piano recital. She played Fur Elise (sp?). She did really well with a piece that was fairly difficult! We are very proud of her...as always. I have placed 2 pictures and one video...try it out, but you'll have to watch the video with your head tilted cause I forgot not to rotate the camera :( Here's the video...I hope :)

Trick or Treating 08

This year I only had 2 trick or treaters in tow. But it was okay cause Natalie was pretty excited to get to hand out candy. We didn't exactly have that option the 3 previous Halloweens. NOT too many kids trick or treating in the boonies :)

The boys got a double bonus this year since Truck or Treat was held at 2 different churches on Wed. Truck or Treat is where people fill the parking lot with their cars and trucks, decorate them up, and hand out candy...and some play games. There will also be hay rides, jump houses, hot dogs, and at one church..a band. It a nice "one stop shop" kinda set up...right up my alley :) Here's the boys (and Nat :)) on Wed...





Now two things you might not notice right away or know the story behind. #1 - click on the picture with Nat and Brayden. Now look at Nat's teeth...yep...that's right...she is Brace Face no longer :) And her teeth look beautiful!!! #2 - the story behind the Ti double g errr suit. Uhm, when we bought the suit a few months ago, we were afraid that Brayden would just be going as Brayden to Trick or Treat. He WOULD NOT put the suit on. One day I made him put it on and he cried his head off...yes, well aware I'm a bad Momma! I told him he couldn't take it off until he stopped crying. He dried it up immediately and still with a quivering lip and tears streaming out of his eyes he said "...I stopped my crying, can I take the Tigger suit off?". It was so sad :( A few days later he told me he'd wear the suit but not the head. I felt that that was a fair deal...and we still had a month till Halloween at that time, so I figured I still had time to work on him. And it worked, as you see in the pictures. Now I did have to bribe him with candy to put the head on, but I did what I had to do by jiggy :)

Now on to Halloween night...



Not sure how the weather was where you live on Halloween. We were a balmy 82! We hit about 8-10 houses and Matt was asking if we could be done and Brayden told me his head on burning :)...lol... And this was more walking than his little legs had done in a Tigger suit. He told me (as we are 2-3 blocks from the truck) "...I need you to hold me...I'm not heavy..." Poor little baby, guess he hears that a lot :( So I honored their requests.

Matt was just beside to get home ans help Nat hand out candy!


And I think this picture is a perfect example of...... SUGAR RUSH!!!!!!!!!!


Hope you all had a very Happy Halloween!

And last but definitely not least....

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO BETH AND KAY. HOPE YOU BOTH HAVE AND HAD A WONDERFUL BIRTHDAY!!!!!!!!!

And Happy Being Born Day to Colin Restel in sunny Florida :) Congrats in advance to the proud Momma and Daddy - Carrie and Guy :)