Bonfire during Fall Break

My friend Doreen's family came in town during Fall Break. On Thursday night, we had returned from the lake the boys had soccer practice. She invited us girls to come over and have a cookout with her Mom, Dad & Sister before they returned to Florida.

Julianna & Angela picking out their roasting sticks!!

The girls were so excited about this

We all worked hard on finding and whittling our sticks to make perfect hot dog cookers. And ma, was that a big, HOT fire!

Doreen and Katie cooking or hot dogs

Not sure what was so funny but apparently it was!

Rebecca's friend Jalin came with us and they had fun

This is Doreen's sister, Renee. Funny picture - it looks like it's snowing!!! (lots of smoke)

Angela loves her Aunt Renee

Kurt had it going on with that big double stick!

Rebecca & Jalin enjoying their S'Mores

Doreen got HUGE marshmallows

The size didn't stop the girls from digging in!!!

The girl's booties got cold so they decided to warm them up!

Doreen enjoys her yummy marshmallow, too!

Mr Dominic & Renee enjoying the warmth of the fire

Sweet Ms. Susan

Julianna's Fall School Party

Julianna's class at school had a Fall Party and I was able to go and be a helper. She has such wonderful teachers and such sweet friends in her class. I got some cute pictures inbetween my gluing and scooping and cutting with them!!!

Buying some time with a bean bag toss!

This was the group of girls I was in charge of and here they are showing off their tatoos!

Mrs. Kim helped Julianna with her bracelet.

A beautiful fall crown

Julianna & Mommy on the hayride

This is the pumpkin that Julianna picked out!

Love the hand on her hip!

Julianna & her class!

Fall Break 2010

During Fall Break this year, we took a couple of days and headed to the lake. We love to go there and it's such a great get-away place for us. We had awesome weather and enjoyed some time outside and relaxing inside. It was just what we needed, although it didn't seem long enough. We didn't take tons of pictures except when we went on a walk but I'll share what I have.

Matthew wanted to cut the grass and asked Julianna if she wanted to ride with him. Much to our surprise, she did!

And she enjoyed it!

This is the lake front of the Warren's property. Obviously the water is down, but the trees were pretty and we liked this picture!

The kids enjoy walking around where we are using riding over it with a boat!

Gotta have your walking stick!

Another pretty picture in the cove

Matthew & Maggie

We thought this was pretty cool to see all of the roots of the trees that are normally under water

At first we thought these markings in the water were from snakes, so we were very careful...

Goofy Julianna

Then we discovered it was these little critters that were making these marks so we felt better

Rebecca got quite muddy

Yucky! So did Julianna's shoes

Matthew spent a little time withe Rebecca and worked on her throwing a football

She actually did pretty well

But then the competition begins....

Excited about a ride....

Having fun....

Look at Julianna - obviously something went wrong and it was not as much fun!

Christian's best hope of a car!

One of he kids took our picture on the swing

Time for a Haircut!

Julianna wants "Rapunzel Hair". She wants it to be very very long. Unfortunately, however, Julianna has hair similar to her Mom's - Fine.

She had school pictures and we couldn't get it cut before them but we insisted that she get it cut. She was not happy about it at all. But we promised her that she could continue to let it grow out and long, but it had to be straightened up.

Here are her before pictures (surprisingly, she's smiling!)




Here are the after pictures!


Yes, it's not that dramatic of a change but it was for her. However, we ran into Walmart after the haircut and she was stopping men in the cake isle telling them that she's just has her hair cut! So all is well!

Our sweet & silly Julianna

As I'm going through my pictures to blog, I kept running across these funny pictures of Julianna so I just decided to post them. I hope they make you smile!

Julianna's school had Homecoming week and they had silly hat day. This was Julianna's - everyone loved it, but I don't think it lasted on her at school very long.

Julianna was with me when I went back to the Elementary school to help with their school pictures (don't ask me why!) She was so funny and here she is during her lunch break!

One day of the days Julianna was not in school, she called me into the Den and said, "Mom, come in here and bring your camera!"

This is Julianna's sweet friend, Angela

Julianna certainly knows how to do the silly pose!

Angela catches on...

A friend tried to give me a quick lesson on french braiding and here's how I did. Not toooo bad!

My friend Rachael invited Julianna to go to Monkey Joe's before school started for Lily Grace (who started Kindergarten). I received this picture in an text on my phone. Such silly girls!