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San Antonio, TX, United States
I am blessed beyond measure. I have a genius husband with a slick sense of humor, a sassy and smart 4 old and another miracle baby girl expected to arrive late January 2011. I love my family, my church, my home, my friends and mostly my awesome God.

Friday, October 29, 2010

Fall Festival

Since yesterday was Thursday, Sabrina had Mother's Day Out. But since it was the last "school day" before Halloween, they got to come dressed in their costumes and have a parade. Then, they helped make their own pizza for lunch. What a fun day!

For the past several months, she's been changing her mind about what costume she wanted. Baylor cheerleader (would have made Daddy happy), a bumblebee, a kitty cat, Rosetta Fairy, and a ladybug were all choices at one time. But one day while we were shopping at Target, she saw this Supergirl costume in pink from head to toe and that was it! That was the one. Every day I asked her what she wanted and from then on, she never said anything else except Supergirl. The kid has never heard of Supergirl, never seen a show or a movie, couldn't tell you one thing about her. But the costume was pink and that's all that mattered to her. So I bought it the following week knowing that I better not wait too long or it might be gone. Here's a picture of Sabrina dressed up and ready to go to school as Supergirl!







With her teachers at Mother's Day Out



Our church's Fall Festival was later that same night and it is one of those things we look forward to every year. There are lots of inflatables for the kids, games, face painting, food and fun. One of my favorite parts is seeing all the kids in their different costumes. The inflatables are definitely on the top of Sabrina's list.

This was the first year I did not help work one of the Inflatables. Yes, I was playing the pregnant card. For the past three years, I have actually organized all the volunteers for the inflatables so I felt okay about taking a break this time around. Daniel put in his 30 minute shift and then we had the rest of the night to enjoy together. I look forward to next year when we have two little Fall Festival cuties to dress up.

Here are some more pix from our fun evening.


Yep, that's a PINK Pumpkin bucket to go with her Pink
Supergirl Costume.




Loved having her face painted by Ms. Amber


Candy Corn, her favorite Halloween candy!


I love how she's got her hand on her hip like she's just hanging out fishin'!



Her school and MOPS friend, McKenna, dressed as Mary Poppins - this was my FAVORITE costume! Super cute!


This was a new ride this year... a swiveling surfboard (kinda like a bucking bronco) that you had to try and stay on while it turned. I wasn't so sure she could do it but Sabrina was determined to prove me wrong.






Cake walk



Bumper Inflatables!




We love Miss Julie!

Wednesday, October 27, 2010

First blog

So I started this blog a year ago and didn't do anything with it...... literally. There was not even one post. I had started to design it and then got frustrated (I know this is a common first-time blogger dilemma) and then our family was hit with a personal tragedy..... the loss of an unborn child. Just two days prior to our daughter's fourth birthday, I underwent a D&C at eleven weeks. It was devastating, to say the least, and a story for another blog. I am happy to report that since then, the Lord has blessed us with another child, a second daughter, to welcome into the world in late January 2011. So here I am, a whole year later from my initial foray into blogging and I decided to actually do it.

My hope for this blog is mostly to write about my family and our wonderful, blessed and crazy life. I love taking photographs and recently received my first digital SLR camera, a Canon EOS Rebel XS, for my birthday, so I will be sharing lots of photos. I also hope that this will allow me to update my family and friends of all our "goings-on" and such. I will use it like a digital scrapbook and help to chronicle the lives of my children as they grow up (way too quickly, I might add). My final hope for this blog is to use it as a creative outlet and personal stress reliever. I have always enjoyed writing and I am looking forward to getting my thoughts to the page.

Welcome to my blog! Thanks for stopping by.