Pretend

Here is what we are going to do, people.
We are going to pretend that I haven't neglected this and ya'll and I am going to go back through all my pictures and try to catch up and post the stories that I remember along the way.
alright?
alright.
let's do this.
ps. i will also be changing the dates on all the posts so that when someone in the far away future looks at this blog...it will be seemless. So it may not show on yours that I have updated, but i HAVE.

I got in so much trouble for this....

See those cute little earings in Kiya's ears? Yeah, I may have pierced her ears without officially telling Above Average Joe about it. It's not that he is opposed to girls having thier ears pierced he just didn't like that he wasn't in the loop for the official happening. I always told him that if we had a girl that I would pierce her ears early in life. My mom did it with both my sister and I and I just think it is so much easier. Kiya agrees with me. She'll tell you. In a few years....when Joe starts talking to me again....

Kiya 6 Month

Garrin had to get in on the photo action...and see that popsicle? that's the only thing he eats these days. Those with chips and salsa are the only nutrients this 2 year old accepts lately...sigh.

Kiya's Sweet Tooth (if she had teeth...)

When daddy come home for lunch he sometimes splurges and makes himself an ice cream cone...Kiya has discovered that she very much like them.

Halloween 2009

I was trying to teach Kiya how to say "trick-or-treat" but as long as she held the bag people just threw candy at her. I always try to find a bit of a "theme" for my kids if I can, because I'm that cool. I thought of doing all M&M's or crayons or something like that but Trevin is only so willing to "theme" it these days if it doesn't go with exactly what is hip in 10 year olds world...
So I found THIS costum for Kiya...that I love....

Then I decided Garrin would have to be this...since he was going to fight me no matter what costum I put him in....

Trevin was a Ninja and Jessi was our little devil. The kids made a haul and had a great time!

Halloween Cookies

My mom makes the bestest sugar cookies so we break them out whenever a holiday rolls around. She also have every type of cookie cutter so it's really fun for the kids to cut and frost all the fun shapes. Kiya was there to help pick out the best shapes for halloween...
she might have found the flour as well...

and grandma got into the fun too....

good times.....

This was at Trevin's school Halloween Parade so all the kids could show off thier costumes. Trevin ran through so fast I didn't get a chance to snap a pic of him but this shirt on Garrin was so cute I couldn't resist...

Carving Pumpkins

We let the kids carve this year. Trevin did this cute guy, we had a small one that we cared "BOO" into for Garrin and I did the one that looks like it has stitches. Our neice Jessi also carved one. It was a fun night!