Time...

Time seems to be flying by. I can't believe it's October. We are staying very very busy. We have fun while busy though.  We've really enjoyed the weather change and have spent quite a bit of our time at the parks, in the backyard, outside for whatever reason lately. I love it!

 I took the girls to the park while killing time between pick ups one day. They were extra cute...and I had my camera on hand thankfully!

 silly girl

 with so many faces

 sweet Charleigh

 thought this one of them together was so fun!

 love sister love!

 Charleigh is now in Creighton's old wardrobe and I love it. I have so many memories of my older daughter in her clothes and now I get to remember them again, and watch new memories created. It's pretty sweet really!

 My little diva. She's way more fashionable at almost 2 than I ever will be :)

 This is random. Our family photo from 2 years ago was published in the Bartlesville Monthly magazine this month.  This was only a few days before got THE phone call that Charleigh was born. :) Precious memories!!

 Creighton has met the cutest little friend in her class and they are FAST buds. We've had several playdates and if she had her way then they'd be everyday. We enjoy sweet Lillian coming over to play! We went to the park and had a picnic this day. They play VERY well together! I love it.

 Phil and Carol, Monica and Terry, and Jeff and I all went to Shogun for dinner. It was a fun night out with friends! :)

 My mom took all 3 kids to the Disney on Ice by herself (she's crazy) but they had a great time. They brought home this little hat and Charleigh thinks she is (because she is) so CUTE!

 Philip and Terrie came over to do Fire Safety with Jackson and Creighton's classes. Jeff dressed up as SPARKY and all the kids loved him.

 Charleigh, who loves Mickey, was wearing her Firefighter Mickey shirt.

 Creighton and her Prek friends! :)

 Jackson and Pop in his Kindergarten class...

 Jackson and the robot.  They all loved having Philip and Sparky come to their classes! It was a big hit!

 I worked the booth for CPO at a fall festival and Creighton came with me and LOVED it.  She rode ponies, ate all kinds of food, held turtles, saw all kinds of fun things, did crafts too...she was in heaven.

 Jeff and Pop have worked so hard on the fort the last few weeks. It's FINALLY finished. It looks awesome.  This whole time I have NOT gotten Charleigh to want to be on the slide at all. I finally got her to do it and now she LOVES it!

 The kids all helped paint the fort.  They all had so much fun. I was NOT careful to put Charleigh in paint clothes (why, I do not know!) and she ruined her clothes :( It was Jeff's fave for her to wear (and Creighton used to wear it) and now it has brown paint on it. Oh well.

 big helper

 Jackson's attention span is not too long, but he did a good job.

 This is our little artist in the family and she painted forever. She loved it!

 Jeff did a great job of staining the new wood and painting the old....

 Wahlah! :) awesome "new" fort.

 Terrie and Philip made from scratch this swingset. The kids have used it a lot already and will continue for years I am sure!

 Jeff took the 3 girls to lunch for a date one day and that was fun (except Creighton was naughty during the whole thing) but Charleigh did great and we all had fun.

 Terrie purchased lots of Minky Dot Fabric for me in several different colors and I made the two big kids large blankets and I made Charleigh another small one but she will have NOTHING to do with it! NOTHING at all. This was before I made it into a blanket and I made it exactly like her old one and she can tell the difference even in the dark. It's SO frustrating! :(

 This kid is obsessed with her blanky and it goes everywhere with us. It would have been so nice to have had 2 again, but I've gotta give it to her....she is SMART!

 Polly Pockets or "Holly Pockets" as Creighton calls them, have become our newest obsession around here. I purchased them for $5 and it was the greatest $5 garage sale purchase possibly of all time.  Even Charleigh and Jackson play with them. :) YEEEHAW

 Princess Rapunzel. She got a cool new braided hair piece.  She likes it! She thinks this costume is "itchy"--she's SO my child.

 Jackson had a great week as Spartan of the week. Mrs. Haughey makes it very special for them.  She's so wonderful.  He loved it.

 He lost ANOTHER tooth! Right above where he lost the bottom one. I'm not a huge fan of the fact that he's loosing all his teeth. It means he's getting older. I can't stop it. It changes his appearance too. His sweet smile is still sweet but it's a reminder that he's old and I can hardly stand it!

We've found this new park and the kids love the "tongue slide." It's actually frightening. There are no sides on it at all and so it appears you will fall off! It looks like a big blue stretched out AirHead candy or a tongue. This park is crazy with all it's unique features...they love it!

Randomness but I find it's the only kind of posts I can do lately...so that's what I get. I know I am leaving so much out. But for now, it's all I have to give.  We are getting settled. Life is "normal" whatever that is, but it's good.  Life has gone on around us and I feel like we are kind of on the same planet now. :)  That's nice.

One day when I have more time (yea, right) I hope to post better/more often....we shall see :)

A few weeks worth of memories...

My superheroes.

  My sister in law Lacy had a birthday and we had the sign out so we snapped a sweet (and sassy Creighton) picture of them and sent it to her via email....Happy Birthday Aunt Lacy and Uncle Clay's is coming up this week!

 my kids are PKs and so they sometimes get to spend lots of time here :) they're just random pics...but had to add them too....since this is all very random

 my kids were not going anywhere but just wanted to dress up with accessories! LOVE THIS STAGE

 This little peanut is ADDICTED to the ipad. She thinks it's hers and that she should be able to watch Tangled AT ALL TIMES. We have lots of temper tantrums because of it, but it is nice when we need to accomplish something because she will just watch it so quietly you almost forget she's there!

 Creighton wanted curly hair for picture day! :) I hope by the time she had the pictures taken that she still looked somewhat presentable.  She looked so big and grown up!

 Love my girls!

 My handsome man picked out his own picture day outfit!

 All my babies!  They are getting WAY too big for my liking!

 We had Grandparent's Day at the MDO program at New Beginnings.  Nonna got to join us and Charleigh sang her ABCs and sat through one other song.  :)  SHe was really tired as this performance is during her usual naptime.

 Creighton has made a sweet friend Lillian in her PreK class.  Yesterday we had Lillian over for a playdate and they had lots of fun.  This is at their jog-a-thon!

 Creighton with the other PreK ers

 Rae made it 14 laps!

 Jackson's K class did it later in the day. Jeff and Creighton went to support him.

  Jackson had a big day that day at school. He crunched into a cheese ball and LOST HIS FIRST TOOTH. He didn't seem overly anxious to tell Jeff, in fact, Jeff just noticed and then he showed him.  Nonchalantly he said he lost it at lunch! I thought for sure he'd be crazy about it...  But later that night he was playing with it (after I told him not to) and he lost his tooth (technically again :)) but oh well.  Not having the tooth fairy issues was nice.  He never even mentioned it (although he was VERY sad he lost his tooth and couldn't find it).

 THis is Jackson and his class at the Jog a Thon. (well part of them).  Sam is his best bud on the right side of the picture. Max and Sam are on either side of Jax and they are both super tall boys! I think they have lots of fun!

 Jeff and half of Oklahoma ran in the Warrior Dash Tulsa 2011.  Jeff of course loves any opportunity to paint his face and don a kilt :) My manly man looking so "manly" in his skirt kilt!

 Elmo and his 3 Ladies came to our house and Elmo and Jeff left together to go be in the madness. We came later to watch them cross the finish line.

 Starting off...

 We were entertaining the kiddos while waiting.  There was a huge crowd! Early in the day Debbie and Jessica had also run the Warrior Dash and had already finished. They stayed around to watch Jeff. When you race you get a Viking Helmet hat. Rae wore Gramma Debbies.

 Jackson thought Aunt JEssica's was TOOO SWEATY. :)

Matt's kids were there too, since he was racing! My kids love hanging out with them.  THis picture cracks me up.  Look closely at what Jackson is holding onto. :/

 There is Pastor Phil finishing... (jumping over fire!)

 Matt finished WAY ahead of everyone else from our group.  Matt, Phil, Mike

 This is Jeff finishing...yea! I was worried he'd broken something.  But he finished in less than an hour!

 His shorts weren't making the cut so they finished the race in his hands.... My word they are all so mess it's disgusting!!!!!

 Charleigh with Grandma Debbie! :) Love that full face grin

Happy Warrior Dashing all... and no, I don't think I will be doing that next year...

And so it begins....

The kids came home from Enid and two of our Bartlesville friends came over.  So we picked up the football and showed the big kids a little snipet.

 It was just fun to watch.

 Love my family!

 She's a world class cheerleader! (seriously she is an amazing encourager!!!!)

After we put the kids down we all played on the patio a game of Settlers. I love this new game!!! It's awesome. We love the Doe boys!!! So fun to have them both at the same time. 

We love love love fall weather so we can be outside more.  Bring it on!

Sweet girls!

Our sweet friend Miss Christie made these cute cute outfits for my two girls and Jeff's coworker Matt's little girl Mati.  They are sweet friends (and Mati has two older brothers around Jackson's age and I adore that they love to hang out!)

 Anyway, Christie brought the girls outfits over one night (*after baths and pj time...if you wondered why my girls have their's OVER their jammies) and they all took a picture together. So sweet. Love those smiles!

 They all wore them on Sunday to church (and she also made bows too!) and they all looked adorable.

Love my crazy girls.  Thanks Miss Christie for such thoughtful and cute cute outfits! You rock.

Charleigh Loves Mickey!

This sweet princess got to spend lots of one on one (or two) time with Mom and Dad over Labor Day weekend because the big kids went to Enid and split up to be having their own one on one (or two) excursions with the two sets of Enid grandparents.

 Mom and Dad have a fascination with Cherry Berry and went EVERY DAY the bigs were gone (we had a giftcard, don't judge :))  Charleigh thought she was in heaven!

 We went to the mall on Monday and Charleigh had never been to the mall before. You would have thought the kid was in Disney World.  SO much to see, do, places to run, hide, etc. She was thrilled. We bought her her first tennis shoes and off she went to the races.

 But then she found Mickey Mouse.  Just her size.  And never put it down.

I thought I was going to have to find a way to buy it (I had no purse) because she was not convincing me it was going to be possible to leave the store without Mickey.  But eventually I distracted her enough to let me hide Mickey and we left on a new adventure to find Daddy.  Good thing she has a Grammy that already ordered it for her birthday.  

I am not sure why this girl loves Mickey so much. The big kids didn't even really know who he was till we went to Disney World this past Christmas, but Charleigh didn't even go and she definitely knows! It's precious.

She got a Dancing Mickey for Christmas (so that's maybe why) anyway, the other day I captured her dancing with him in the kitchen.This girls got some moves :)