Princesses

Here, let me help ya... 

It never gets old seeing her awe of her sister.  She wore this BECAUSE Sam was wearing one too.  

Random

This little dude is in the running for being married into the family... 

Little Fasionista

Minnie and Monkey

I was able to convince Sam NOT to be the 1000th Elsa this Halloween by playing to her new-found love of puns.

I present to you...

 Our Chunky Monkey and our Skinny Minnie

There were only two other Minnie's that we saw- this one and a baby.  

Green Tomatoes

We had a really cool summer but an amazingly beautiful October to make up for it.  I had to stay home one day with Charlotte due to a 12 hr virus and it was on one of the awesome days.  At this time we still hadn't had our first frost so we were still getting raspberries and cherry tomatoes.  Charlotte learned to look for raspberries every time we walked into the house and if there weren't any she'd search diligently for two green tomatoes to carry around for the evening.  She didn't like to eat them, just carry them-one in each hand.  The trouble was finding them, as they are usually hidden...

So you have to carefully stake out the plant...

And when you find a ripe and heavy branch you have to get down low...

...real low.

And sometimes the leaves hit your head and are fun to snuggle with.

Ooo, there's another.

Gotta get down on it's level.

THERE we go.  

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Sometimes they roll away.

Haha! Got you!

Hm...do I have more room in my chunky hands?

Did I miss any?

Gotta double check.

I don't EVER want to forget this memory with her.  Just thinking about it makes me smell the tomato plants that day...

Family Feud

So this was a BLAST!

Steve Harvy, yo! In 2D!!

They liked us enough to hang around for the second (secret) interview.

Then we analyzed our interview to the Nth degree, gave my mom a hard time for "freezing up" and commented on how crazy I can get.

Then we splurged and went to Jer and my's FAVORITE restaurant.

Everyone else loved it too.

Blech.

Yum.

Just kidding.  Well, actually, I've never liked watching my parents kiss, although in theory it is considered sweet.  I'm sure our kids will feel the same way some-day.

Anyway, they said to look for a post-card (seriously...still using snailmail) in 2 weeks.  THREE weeks later (we'd given up hope) we got a post-card saying that we are in their ACTIVE FILE!  Which means that come May when they start recording, we are on their little Rolodex of people to call.  Except that they have my mom's OLD phone number...hopefully the certified letter we sent them with the change of number gets to the right person...

11

Hey guess what?? 

Lucy is 11!

This one just saw SUGAR.

Juuuuuuust Enough

I always know to grab the camera when Jer hollers, "Hey Kim, come check this out!"