the blog I was supposed to blog before leaving for NYC

Hey we're home from NYC! It was a lot of fun, and I just have gigs and gigs of photos to go through (I filled an entire card just at the Macy's Day Parade!) But I have one last post that I should have made before leaving, that just didn't get done. So here's 11 days before we left.

314 of 365: I'm mad!
I wonder how many 'I'm mad' images there are this year - I know at least two, maybe more!


315 of 365: to be three again
I love that Olivia will cozy herself up wherever she wants.


316 of 365: to be a cat
If I come back, let me come back as a housecat


317 of 365: how do I get that out??
I ended up leaving it for now... it might end up being the only tree that I have to hire someone to remove, because I know it can't stay there.


318 of 365: gift bag one
This gift bag was at Danielles Baby Shower, and I thought it was cute.


319 of 365: gift bag two
This gift bag was coming with me from one of my Aunts to my sister in NYC.


320 of 365: seven eleven
I think I had a reason to take this image over two weeks ago, but I've since long forgotten.


321 of 365: pretty evergreens
It was late, and I took a couple images of these bushes next to Taco Bell of all places. I had others that it was obvious what was there, but I just love this image.


322 of 365: Are you Excited Tim?


323 of 365: Are you Excited Claire?


324 of 365: Are you Excited Olivia?


So we left for NYC after that. I don't even know how I'm going to pick my daily image... really I don't even know how I'm just going to go through all these images!! But we're glad to be home.

Going to bombard you with images...

...because I need to get caught. I don't just want to get caught up... I need to... because I'm leaving for vacation in five days, and I don't need images hanging over my head. So sure, my next few blogs will be long with images that don't always go with one another - but it means that next week when I'm in NYC during Thanksgiving Week (Oh yeah, Macys Day Parade folks!!) I can blog while I'm there, and not have to come home to show other images out of order. So without further adeu, I give you eleven days in a row.

303 of 365: Candy


304 of 365: Aren't you going to feed me?
Poor fat Jo


305 of 365: Stallions
Found this neat statue while taking Ellens senior pictures. Its the mascot to the school who's track we used for some of her images. Not her mascot - actually a rival school. I should feel bad for using this as my day - but I think the statue is cool.


306 of 365: Witch!
I love after Halloween sales, because you get cheap stuff to use as dress-up. This year the girls got witch hats. I was kinda dozing on the couch, and Olivia walked up to me with a dress-up dress she hadn't worn before... I put it on her, she scampered off, and Claire appeared in my face with a dress of her own. The actual outfits are old dance costumes of one of Tims cousins. Curious, I went to see what the girls were doing, and found them brewing some witches brew with their hats on. Too cute!


307 of 365: Fall
I'm going to be sad when Fall is officially over. It's my favorite season


308 of 365: never ending M&Ms
Tims dad works for Mars, which means we can have all the M&Ms we want. And we sure got a ton for Halloween. And they were good!


309 of 365: burnt
I think I burnt the chicken because I was too busy taking photos of the smoke coming up from it. The smoke was pretty cool!


310 of 365: sick
I wonder how many images there are of my couch? I slept for 20 hours straight this day. I woke up feeling fine, so whatever it was that made me feel terrible just needed sleep to go away.


311 of 365: outtake
Wendy got me this great lip gloss, so I was going to photograph just my lips to show it off... I think Olivia had just run outside and was asking me what I was doing or something, and I looked off at her... so even though this isn't the great photo I was looking for, I like it better then the rest.


312 of 365: What was that??
If you have cats - don't you hate it when they startle, and then stare into the distance. Creeps me out!


313 of 365: My Family
It was really nice out, and I wanted to try to get some family portraits of my own family. Most turned out ehh. I love this one. Since I've started doing this with other families, I've been wanting one like this for my family... I'm glad I was able to do it.

Trick or Treat... almost a month later

Okay so I have this weird obsession with wanting the girls match at Halloween. Last year, when Olivia was a pirate, Claire was a parrot. This year I searched out forever to find the perfect matchy outfit again. And what did I determine??

...

I'd rather the girls not match in favor of neither of them looking slutty. What happened to Halloween?!!? I'm all for college students and older wanting to look like sluts at Halloween. Heck, I guess I can look the other way when a high schooler does it. But my three year old?? Does a lady bug really need to be a skimpy top with a tutu?? Should Dorothy's dress really hit that high above the knee??? Really??????

So this year, the girls were both animals, and thats about where the matching ended. Olivia was a tiger, Claire a bunny, and they Trick or Treated with Aunt Hal....I mean Michael Jackson.

Now Michael Jackson kept putting her hand on Claires head, which made Karen and I wish that maybe we had dressed Claire has a Monkey (Bubbles anyone?) or worse, a little boy (I know, boo hiss, but admit it you at least chuckled)

Oh lordy I gave Claire creepy eyes in this one... not intentional mind you!





We got lots of people who though Claire was Eeyore. I guess I can see it - she's blue with floppy ears, but check out the rump people - totally a bunny!




Even Nubie got in on the dressing up. Cracked me up!


But the girls did really really well (especially given their Boo at the Zoo experience) They walked a pretty far distance, and had no real candy meltdowns. We headed back to the grandparents for some milk, pizza, and of course, lots and lots of candy. It was the first time I really got to see the girls have a major sugar buzz going. Impressive. It's just a snapshot, but the two of them hopped on sugar at the end of the night


302 of 365: Spooooooky


I have to say though, thank God that's all over, and the candy is gone and the decorations are down... I can only take Halloween for so long. Now bring on Christmas!

Those silly girls

My kids love leaves. It's unfortunate that we have no trees to produce dead leaves in the fall for them. When we go to my parents house, though, there are tons of leaves. My dad just happened to be outside raking one Sunday when we went over. I let the girls out in the yard, and then sat in the kitchen and laughed with Jacqui at the results. Those girls just made a mess of his pile! Dad was very patient with them, but after about a half hour, I did have to save him from the girls.

297 of 365: Don't just throw them ANYWHERE!!!!!








And then we have a few days of fun girls

298 of 365: those out of bath curls
Nothing beats the curls on Olivia's head when her hair is slightly damp. Just so pretty!


299 of 365: DINOSAUR!
My mom brought the girls gifts of dragons. But my girls call them dinosaurs. And get very perterbed with you if you even slightly imply that their dinosaurs just might actually be dragons.


300 of 365: towers
It never ceases to amaze me the things my kids will do to entertain themselves when I'm not paying attention. This awesome tower happened while I was watching some tv in another room.


301 of 365: volunteer
Olivia actually ASKED to take a bath! No kidding! And the princess spent over a half and hour in there!

like day and night

So I have this beanie baby. He's a seal, though a lot of people assume he's a platypus. Ty gave him the name 'fins' but we've called him Vince ever since I got him as freshman in college. I tend to own popular cars in popular colors, so Vince comes in handy when I'm trying to pick out my car. For some reason, I felt the need to prove the whole 'I go to work on one day and come home on another' point, so Vince became my subject.

295 of 365: 5pm


296 of 365: 2am