Too funny!

Catie has been a crackup tonight. I was about to leave to pick Jaden up from football and Catie asked if she could go with, so I said sure. I was going upstairs to get Allison some socks and Catie thought I left and called out my name in a panicked tone: "Mom!" I said "what?" She's like, oh, I thought you left. So she went back downstairs to wait for me and play. I got sidetracked and checked my email. About five minutes later she says:
Catie: "Mom!"
me: I left
Catie: What?
me: I left
she comes upstairs to where I'm at and says again: What?
me: I left
Catie: (While looking at me funny - almost contemplating) No you didn't.
me: Yes, I did.
Catie: Cuz your van's still here.

my little bride

Mom was watching the girls for me while I went to the dentist today. When I came home, Catie had put on one of her fancy dresses. It's the lavendar dress that Grandma Jeanne bought for her for her baby dedication at church. Catie calls it her wedding dress. While I was busy doing stuff around the house, I heard her say to Jaden: "Jaden, will you marry me?" He smiled but didn't immediately answer her, so I told her that it's against the law to marry your sister, that she'd have to marry one of her boy friends, like Nathan from church. She thought about it for a minute and said: "But he's just a little kid!" This is the dress she was wearing at the time.

So I let her try on my wedding dress for fun. She's tried it on before, but it's always fun.


And Allison the bride.

Yesterday at mom's for Labor Day

Scott and his girls

Jaden found this frog under my mom's deck. At first he thought it was fake because it was so big, so he splashed it and it blinked. He was too chicken to touch it, but he swore he could swim faster than him.

Allison's first "picnic" outside. The others were feeding ducks in the background.

Gramma showing Allison her favorite baby.

This is my favorite new picture. I took it today. Both of the girls have new purses. Allison really seems to like hers. It has a dolly's bottle in it (Catie put it in there). Catie's purse has fake cosmetics, a brush, and about 40 cents in nickels and dimes.

Watch Allison grow

This picture was taken when she was one month old.

Here she's two months old.

Four months old.

Seven months old.

Julie started it...

If you go to Julie's blog, rubie-tuesday@blogspot.com, you will see a post that has a picture of my parents when they were younger. This is the picture:

Julie says this about my dad in the picture: "dad sorta looks like......a used car salesman, like he drives an El Camino but calls it a "truck." It was followed by 30 something comments between my dad, sister and I and I wanted to post some baaaad pictures of me on her blog but I can't, so I'm now continuing it on my blog.

The first picture is of me on the Purple People Eaters soccer team and the second one is my freshman picture in high school. Can you say Anthony Michael Hall???

And this is another oldy but goodie of my mom and dad.

Football practices

This first picture is taken before we left for practice because Jaden needed a picture of himself for the refs of the games (to ensure no cheating by switching out 20 year olds or something)

This was taken during a water break during practice.

I think the field he plays at is beautiful. It's called the Field of Dreams

Catie playing with her friends on the football equipment. I'm a mean mommy. I won't let her climb on it.

This is what Nathan does when I "force" him to come to the practices. That's my phone he's playing games on.

daddy playing with Allison