Chloe is a huge animal lover, she's got "friends" all over the neighborhood, they come over ALL the time. All she has to do is go outside near this fence and call her animals and they come running. I'm thinking one day she's gonna either be a veterinarian, a farmer or maybe just an old lady with 50 cats LOL.
*Chloe petting the neighbor's dog, notice Harry perched on top of the fence post to her right :)
This young lady is the daughter of some old friends of Lenny's and mine. We had lost touch with Lyle and Lee several years ago, just busy with life and such. Well we reconnected a few months ago on facebook! You gotta love that facebook :)
We traveled to Goshen yesterday to meet them and their family (and to take Shannon's senior pictures) We had a wonderful time visiting and catching up :)
Lee, here is your sneak peek~
"Hmmm.... now where did I put my skin?"
Ok, so I couldn't come up with a funny tagline for this shot, what's yours?
1. Remove the top of the pumpkin: (if you choose to make an ugly face while doing so please be aware your mom may take your photo for all the world to see)
2. Next, pull out all the gross insides of the pumpkin (try not to gag, LOL)
3. Carve pumpkin according to directions: (this is a lengthy and time consuming process, please don't give up half way through and make your mom finish your pumpkin while you desert her for the computer, this is a family project and that is just rude) haha
4. Lastly, light your pumpkin and enjoy! (make sure you have one of those long candle lighters for this process, using a small lighter will only get your fingers burned as you reach way into the deep pumpkin, please don't ask how I know)
I wish real bees were this sweet!
From "Steel Magnolias" showing at the Twin City Players. I thought the ladies did really well, especially the lady who played the M'Lynn character, she had me in tears. If you need something to do, wanna put a little culture in your life, check them out they put on a good show!
Chloe went on her first school field trip yesterday morning (which means, picture overload!) They went to a new pumpkin farm (well new to us anyway) called Harvest Moon Acres in Gobles.
1. Here she is with her best bud Lindsey
2. Enjoying apple cider and a donut
3. Visiting the sheep
4. Visiting the bunnies
5. This was a part of the obstacle course
6. The hay maze
7. The super cool hay slide
8. Here is the slide in full view, told you it was super cool (there's a tunnel throughout underneath)
9. At the end of her tour, she got her own pumpkin
10. After warming up at home with some hot cocoa, we carved her new pumpkin
11. Gross!
12. The finished product. The mouth is cut out of the pumpkin but for some reason she keeps putting it back in!
Here's a few pictures from Taylor's volleyball game tonight. Unfortunately they had the gym set up weird and I only got her backside view the entire time LOL
Last night was Lenny's return to the high school basketball court. Unfortunately his team lost :) But, hey when you play the Harlem Ambassadors you don't really expect to win LOL.
1. Here he is with Lade Majic (lady magic). After taking him down in an embarrassing WWF move, he was at the foul line for a shot. I do have that take down on film, but I thought I'd spare Lenny the shame by not posting it here HAHA
2. Speaking of embarrassing moves, here's Michael at the foul line after being taken down by the Lady himself :)
3. Lenny in action
There's more on facebook if you are interested :)
Chloe is currently obessed with two things: Taylor Swift's "Love Story" (which she knows ALL the words to) and the two cats. One of the cats is our new kitty "Cookie" and the other is a neighboorhood cat "Harry" who comes to visit every single day. Well one day this week after school I came into the kitchen to find this scene:
Love Story was LOUDLY rockin' out on her boombox, and she had Cookie singing to Harry out the window. Harry was on top of our van (sorta hard to see here) She said Harry was "Romeo" and Cookie was "Juliet" LOL :) That girl is seriously a hoot sometimes...
P.S. for those of you who don't know that song, a. you must live under a rock or 2. you have no girls in the house :)
Remember last week when Chloe started school and I was so proud of myself for not crying? Well that didn't last long! When I picked her up the first day (last Wednesday) the teacher said she had cried some throughout the day, but Chloe was happy after school and said she loved it so I thought we were gonna be fine. Well Thursday, she didn't go because we were out of town, then it was the weekend, which brings us to today. I pulled up into the parking lot at school and she starts whining a little about not wanting to go, wanting to stay with me, etc... When it's time to go in, she then starts crying, hanging onto my leg as we walk up to the door, once inside she begins to cry loudly and panic while begging me to take her home. So after holding her for a few minutes and trying to calm her down, the teacher says whenever I'm ready she'll take over... so when I say okay, she then has to PRY chloe off from me, she was holding on for dear life, seriously the girl had me in a head lock, it was as if she was being kidnapped or something, I had never seen her like that before. So I then run out and say goodbye at the "magic window" only to hear all the way to my van, "MOMMY NO MOMMY NO MOMMY NO"
Totally broke my heart.
On my way home and then on to work, I prayed the Lord would help her (and me!)
Well 11:00 o'clock came and Lenny called me to say "Chloe had lots of fun, the teacher said after you left she calmed right down and was super good all day, plus SHE WANTS TO GO BACK TOMORROW!"
I pray she doesn't change her mind before then, I don't think I could handle another morning like that :)
We just got back from attending Robby's ARMY graduation. It was so good seeing him after 10 long weeks! I can't wait until November when he comes home for good :) (well until college anyway LOL)
Today is the big day, Chloe starts preschool :)
To be honest, I took this "first day shot" the night before LOL. For several reasons, one being I was embarrassed to be all picture takey with the other moms there, but mostly because I knew I'd be crying and it'd be pretty hard to see through the viewfinder blurred with my tears :) While we were at the school taking her fake first day picture, she went ahead and tried out her new playground:
From this morning:
Chloe did really well, didn't cry she seemed nervous and shy but I think she'll be fine! Here she is in her classroom:
I am so proud of myself I got out of there without bawling! Yeah me :)
It's official - summer has ended and school has begun!
1. Taylor is now in seventh grade, where friends and appearance are oh so important. She tried on every single item of clothing she owns trying to come up with the BEST first day outfit ever :)
I had a fabulous senior session this evening. Lindsey is the most photogenic, easy going super model around :) Here's a sneak peak of some of my initial favorites!
