Preshcool Graduation

Isabelle had her preschool graduation this month, and will start kindergarten next month! I can't believe she is ready for elementary school, I'm not sure I am though!

Graduates filing in



My big girl saying pledge of allegiance








Belle's best friend at school Bryn






Isabelle and Jack. These shirts are so cute, each child drew a self portrait, and then it was put onto the t-shirt!

To my Aunt Janae

Don't I look so cute in my hat you got for me? (Joseph Michael 9 months)

Happy Birthday Tomatos

What is this you say? Why it is candles, and a tomato....so of course the candles must go into the tomato....right? Well if you are Rose yes, the candles MUST go into the tomato! Here is a close up.



Oh my little Rose, so tiny, and so full of mischief!

Tornado hits Nicholson basement!

What trouble could these very innocent looking children possibly get into while I went on a 1/2 hour errand?








Just view the devastation!!!!







This has taken me a while to acknowledge even in my own mind that this happened. Some time during Christmas break, I had to run a quick errand. I asked Spencer to babysit, I said it was only going to be 20 to 30 minutes at the most, just play with the girls I said. Oh how I regret those words. I should have said all of you sit quietly chained to the sofa and watch a show while I am gone! So I run my errand, and get back home, and I see Spencer rushing down stairs with a garbage can. He looked at me, and said mom don't get mad the girls got into the bean bag chair, ( it did have a slight rip in it, and we were preparing to take it to the garage for garbage day), he said, but I am going to clean it all up. Oh, I am thinking, no girls screaming like their being tortured, and Spencer is going to clean up a little mess they made while I was gone. I am thinking, he is really growing up! I ran upstairs to feed my fussy baby. Got Joey to sleep, then ran down to see how things were with my other three darling angel children. What I saw at the foot of the stairs dropped me to my knees. I looked at my girls covered in all these pieces of foam, my vacuum cleaner that had been used to "try" and get it all up was clogged lying on its side, and Spencer holding a kitchen garbage bag, frantically trying to pick up as many pieces as he could. I just sat there, then burst into tears!!!! I still do not know how they did this in so little time....but their 30 minutes of foam fun turned into a three day disaster clean up!!!

Dracula Jr???

Lovely fang....what happened to the front teeth?????

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Halloween 08

Another Halloween! Belle decided she wanted to be a "pink" kitty cat... it was such short notice that I had to come up with my own design!

Rose was our little princess this year, she was very happy in her princess costume, and said thanks to everyone when she got her candy!

In the front yard in front of my bushes that turn red in the fall!

Princess Rose, Giraffe Joseph and kitty cat Belle.