Halloween OH Nine

Everyone had a great time for Halloween this year!

Chelsea LOVED getting her hair and make-up done, and has decided that she wants it done EVERY day.....

NOT!

1. It takes way too long

and

2. She looks WAAAAAAY to grown-up to ever let her out of the house looking like that again!

Her hair turned out fantastic! THANKS NIKKI! It looked even better than the "LuLu" pictures! She was getting stares and compliments from EVERYONE.... even people that didn't even know her. I am disappointed that the pictures don't even begin to do her hair justice, as a matter of fact, none of Chelsea's pictures look as good as she really did.

My photography skills are HORRIBLE!

I was shocked to learn that all of our normal "trick-or-treating haunts" were not participating this year. For some DUMB reason, many people decided to "celebrate" Halloween LAST weekend, Thursday night or Friday night.

WHY???

It seems like since Halloween was on SATURDAY this year, that would be the perfect day to celebrate, right?

Who knows what all these people are thinking. I am a purist and Halloween needs to be celebrated on Halloween (unless it's on Sunday, of course).

Fortunately, we did find a few good places to let the kiddos show off their costumes and get some sugary loot!

So here are a few pictures of our fun evening.

Pardon the closed eyes (just like her Daddy), just trying to show the hair here.

Here is her ID badge...thank you so much for the idea!

One tired little GI Joe!

I hope you all had a fantastic Halloween!

Merry Christmas Everyone!

I hope everyone is having a FANTASTIC and MOST WONDERFUL Christmas Day!! I'm just sitting here watching the kids play with their loot, and Marty play with his Mp3 player, listening to one of Chelsea's CD's. AHHHHHHH, life is good! I thought I would share some funny pictures from the past couple of days.....

First....We had decided to open "family" presents on Christmas Eve. The mistake was telling Jameson that fact sometime yesterday MORNING (what was I thinking). SO, for the entire day, he kept asking "When are we going to open presents? Is it time now? Now? Now? NOW? So he thought he would make our jobs easier by labeling them for us.....



Next..... We draw names for all the kids in Marty's family, and Jameson drew our 18 y.o. nephew's name. He wanted money for his gift.....so That's exactly what we got him....



If you look closely, each quarter is TAPED together in SHEETS!




We decided to leave a little note for explaination....


Here is the living room AFTER Santa came, but BEFORE the kiddo's realized that.....





OK, the kiddo's have realized Santa has arrived....




Every 6 y.o. boy needs a gun for Christmas..... (A Christmas Story, anyone?)




Chelsea with one of her multiple television/movie star gifts...



Jameson decided to organize his gifts for us....






After it's all over.....a mere 30 minutes later.....




MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!!!

The photo BEFORE the photo....

Don't my kids look so sweet and happy in their Christmas card picture? (Shown in the post BELOW) It looks like it took hours and hours to get that perfect look. In reality, about 10 minutes before this photo was made, my son was crying and screaming because the sun was in his eyes, I had walked back into the house, threw my camera down, and decided not to even attempt Christmas cards this year. Fortunately, my dear, sweet husband talked me down, and we managed to get everyone under control. We moved to the other side of the porch (away from the sun), and quickly snapped about 75 or 85 pictures to get "the one".