I havent heard back if we won the family photo shoot, but i'm planning on doing pictures myself anyway so i've been trying to figure out what I want us to wear. I found this dress (which is too short) at Kohls and with my coupons it was only $3! I really liked it on the hanger, but i'm not so sure about it on :( It came with the thin belt, but i'm not sure I like it with that one...Vanessa said that one looks best though

 I also need to find brown leggings... Or I could try some thick tights?

I'm planning on wearing cowboy boots, and buying Joe a cowboy shirt..you know the ones with  pearly buttons... We live in Texas, so why not ;)

I take a lot of pictures of Jack on my phone since he's the only one home all day :)

 We worked on our welcome home sign. Joe will be home so soon!

 I cleaned out my car...haha

 Jack at the park

 Ella voted for Mitt Romney. I asked her why and she said the other guy already had a turn and she wanted to give someone else a chance

 Someone told me today, oh your baby is so cute, is it a boy or a girl..really?!

 Lily loves to color

Hopefully Jack likes his real daddy more then his daddy doll! haha. I wanted to get a picture of him with it but he kept shoving it away. I think Joe is going to be home pretty soon, maybe even as early as the end of next week! However, we've been in the Army long enough to not get too excited ;) We are going to work on our welcome home daddy sign on Friday after school though just in case :)

 Beep! Beep!

 Lily making wishes on "dandy lions"

 Saturdays are really long and awful...well not all of them, but today sure was! I did laundry for 2 hours to try and pass the time. With Joes homecoming date getting closer and closer i've been trying to keep the house clean and caught up on chores..thats been hard with everyone being sick!

Monster truck Jack

Jack loves to carry around his monster trucks..he also likes to get one, leave it somewhere, then go back for another! He is a pretty good mess maker! I just walked around the house and these are the ones I found..

 Jack getting Ella!

 Ella got to go on her school field trip today to the pumpkin patch. She was pretty excited about it

 My new hair cut only looks ok if I am making this face..LOL! It looks okay from the front, and the left side looks kind of ok..but the right side is a little funky!  Man I have bad luck with hair cuts!
I dyed it tonight, but I look pretty awesome (even better then in these pictures! lol) so I'll get one tomorrow

Right side..yikes!

 Good thing I like to wear my hair like this :)

 Lilys turn

 And Jack with his fried egg pizza!

Halloween Past

I spent the last hour looking for our family halloween picture from 2007. I was getting a little worried when the only copy I could find on my computer said it could not open! Thankfully I had it on facebook. I'm sure its on my blog somewhere, but I couldn't find it..anyway i'm so thankful I had it somewhere else! So i'm putting them on here full size in case that happens again!

 

Superheroes!!

I didn't really know what to do this year, until I found the complete wonderwoman costume for .75 cents! We had supergirl and hulk hands and the spiderman hat. Not much left to find. I totally scored by finding Jacks super cute muscle costume for $2 at goodwill on my first trip! I found my shirt at the grocery store

 Bakers, Flour, and Cupcakes

Not my favorite, but we through everything together the day before so it came out pretty cute :)

I wish we would have gotten another one with my Mom in it too since she was here :(

 Wizard of Oz

Munchkin, Dorothy, Glenda, Wicked Witch

(This one is my favorite..its close though with the peterpan costumes)

PeterPan Wendy Tink and Tiger Lily

Snow White and Prince Charming

Not my best year..LOL

At least I can blame my puffiness on being 6 months pregnant

Mouse family

I have no excuse for the puffiness in this picture :)

Today was crazy. Pretty much everyday is pure craziness around here! We would have been able to sleep in a little today, but Ella was up at normal time crying about her throat. Poor girl, I know how bad it hurts! I gave her some tylenol and she laid back down. I was just happy it was already almost 6:30 and not the middle of the night! So we got up and ready, took Lily to school and then I decided it was time to try and get gas..dun dun dun! Its pretty funny, I know the car will start, I just have to sit there and look stupid for a few min, and I HATE knowing that everyone is looking at me! LOL  anyway we got gas and left really fast after I finally got my car to start :)  We went home and i'm not really sure what we did, but we took too long and we didnt leave the house until 30 min before the appointment..not a good idea when you are suppose to be their 15 min early and its on post (where everyone else in town is trying to be right at that same time)  We got there about 10 min late because one whole lane was shut down! Wish I would have known that, we would have gone a different way..I always feel bad when we are not on time! One of the nurses seemed a little grumpy that we were late, they never seem to mind making you wait forever though :) I told her about the construction and she seemed ok after that..So it turns out Ella has strep too. They gave her a shot though, no fair! I have to take 4 pills a day on an empty stomach. I'm not sure there are 4 times in a day that I HAVE an empty stomach, lol. Today I only got 2 in we were SO busy. We were at the dr from 9:30-11:30 and I was hungry! Ella never gets to go to lunch anymore since she is in school so I took her to get a happy meal on the way home. With more traffic on the way home, plus lunch hour at McD's we didnt get home until 12:30. We had to leave at 12:45 to get Lily from her school. She was sleeping SO hard when we went to get her that she stood up and then fell right over! It was pretty funny, luckily she didnt get hurt though! She smashed her finger in the backdoor last week (I think) and her teacher was worried it was getting pretty bad and said I should take her to the Dr. (really, I should just learn to do what I want and not listen to other people! LOL) I had been keeping it really clean, and then there were the 2 days I was really sick and out of it that I didnt do anything to her finger so it had gotten kind of red and swollen from not being cleaned. I cleaned it last night again (soaking in epson salt and rubbing on antibiotic cream)  So anyway I made her an appointment to get it checked out. It was with the same Dr Ella had this morning. We had to sit in a LONG line of traffic to get back on post since now all the people were coming back from lunch. I was ok with that though since we were a bit early this time. I left time for traffic and road work!  We got there about 10 min before we needed to go in and I didnt want to wait inside with Jack any longer then we had to, so we sat in the car and watched some barbie movie. Of course when it was time to go in I couldnt find my military id. I know I had it because I just used it to get on post! After 5 min searching I finally found that. We hurried inside and weren't late! The doctor pretty much told me I was doing everything I could for her and keeping it clean was good. Her nail is going to fall off, but I knew that. She said that the puss and drainage was good (gag) She also said it probably wasn't broken, but that there isn't much she could do even if it was. She said, at least it doesnt look crooked, lol. I think it if was broken, Lily would be complaining a little more.

Jack eating the only thing he got trick or treating..Cars fruit snacks!

 I told the girls to each pick 6 pieces of their candy and then we were going to dump all the candy together for sharing ..this is Lilys pick

 And Ellas

so not what mine would have looked like :)

 Ella wanted me to take her picture in her wig

 Lilys turn at the doctor! I should take a picture of her nasty finger

 Back to the the doctor again??

At least I really liked her. We've lived here 2 years and this is the first one we've seen that I like!

 Watchin a movie before we go in

 Ellas turn, she is smiling, she only cried with they swabbed her throat. And I don't blame her, I almost did too :) Whats really bad is they had to do TWO throat swabs on her! Poor Ella

 Jack sat in his stroller for a long time today

 Ella with her bat sucker she got at school. She was so sad to miss school and not get to write a thank you note to the teacher that gave it to her.